Neil Prose MD

Dr. Neil Prose is Professor of Pediatrics, Dermatology and Global Health at Duke University. He has a passion for teaching, a deep commitment to empathic communication between health care providers and patients, and an intense interest in working with people from different countries and cultural backgrounds. Dr. Prose has given seminars and lectures on communication skills to residents and fellows in numerous specialties, and to physicians and nurses in medical centers around the U.S. He is the author of numerous articles on this topic and developed a national curriculum in doctor-patient communication for residents in neurosurgery in the United States. More recently, Dr. Prose has completed work on “Keepers of the House,” a documentary film and curriculum that documents the deep human relationships between housekeepers at Duke Hospital, and patients and their families. In addition, Dr. Prose has consulted on developing curricula in doctor-patient communication in medical schools and clinics in South Africa, Botswana, and Kenya . He helped to create a curriculum in respectful maternity car for midwives and health extension workers in Ethiopia, and for midwifery students in Chilean Patagonia.