Tyler Jorgensen, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
M.D.
Long School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Residency, Emergency Medicine
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Fellowship, Hospice & Palliative Medicine
Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin
About
Tyler Jorgensen, M.D., is a practicing palliative medicine physician with a special interest in medical humanities, including narrative medicine and music medicine interventions for patients with serious illness.
He has developed a record player intervention for inpatients, ATX-VINyL, at Dell Seton Medical Center, and co-authored An ENDEARing Approach to Sharing Music with Patients at the Bedside in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. His works of creative nonfiction have appeared in The Intima and The Examined Life Journal, and his podcast My Medical Mixtape explores the challenges of being a human in health care.
Jorgensen practiced community emergency medicine for a decade in Austin, Texas, serving in various medical director roles, before pursuing fellowship training in hospice and palliative medicine.
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American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
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Music & Health Research Institute
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Travis County Medical Society
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Gold Humanism Honor Society
Long School of Medicine, 2008 -
Alpha Omega Alpha
Long School of Medicine, 2008