Carmelina Price

Carmen has dedicated career to healthcare since 1980. After serving as a staff nurse on an orthopedic-neurological surgical unit, she chose to return to school to complete a B.A in Women’s Studies at Hunter College - CUNY. While there took a positon at the Hunter College Center on AIDS Drugs and Community Health (now the Hunter College Center on Community and Urban Health). Finding a passion for enabling health education in underserved populations, she became a Health Educator for Women In Need (WIN) a private, not- for-profit shelter organization for women where she developed a peer educator HIV/AIDS curriculum, and conducted workshops for women living in shelters.

Broadening her interest in the field of HIV/AIDS she led training and program development technical assistance efforts for community-based organizations that served people with HIV/AIDS. She completed her M.Ed. in 2006 in Adult Education and Distance Learning. She completed her M.S in the Program in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University in 2019 and now co-teaches the course “Practicum: Facilitating Narrative Medicine” in the program. She maintains a full-time position as the Director of NYU Langone Academy Programs, the corporate training and development department at NYU Langone Health where she also facilitates Narrative Medicine workshops for nurses, residents and Fellows at NYU Langone Health.