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All views expressed are those of the person speaking and not their employer. You're listening to the nocturnous conversations.

I'm Emily Silverman.

When was the last time you thought about how you move your body?

How do you sit?

How do you stand?

How do you walk?

How do you interact with others?

And what kind of information is transmitted in those movements?

Today's guest is here to talk all about this.

Her name is Nina Shenzhov-Zepern, and she's a Massachusetts native who grew up training

pre-professionally for a career in ballet.

She earned her bachelor's in chemistry at Harvard, where she also served as the director of the Harvard Ballet Company, and carried

her passion for movement into medical school at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. At NYU,

she spearheaded multiple projects, including the Ten Tensions Project, which lives at the

intersection of medicine, dance, and other humanistic disciplines. Currently, she's a resident in

pediatrics at Stanford. I was blown away by Nina, by her intelligence, her creativity,

and the skill with which she executed the Ten Tensions Project, which was a super

interdisciplinary project, where she basically identified these 10 tensions that exist in medicine

and used to dance and photography to create an image and a description for each one.

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