Haleh Van Vliet is a board-certified emergency medicine physician. She completed her undergraduate studies in Neuroscience at Vanderbilt University before obtaining her medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine. Her training in emergency medicine took place at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. Dr. Van Vliet will be joining Tower Health Medical Group in Pennsylvania in June of 2020. Her interests include ethics, palliative medicine, writing, and spending time with her family. Dr. Van Vliet's practice philosophy and commitment to emergency medicine is driven by a deep seated belief in human rights, which was nurtured during her time as a FASPE fellow in medical school. She hopes to help cultivate a culture of empathy in medicine through exploration of the critical interactions between individual, population, and environment.