UT Health Sciences News: How Future Healers Stay Human

Long before she became a medical student, Emily Lu learned to understand people by drawing their faces.

Growing up near Nashville after immigrating with her family from China, she found portrait drawing a way to form connections that transcended language or cultural barriers.

"There was something about drawing someone's face that made me feel like I was understanding them on some level or getting closer to them," she says. "I've been doing it ever since."

As she begins her second year of medical school at the UT Health Science Center, art now provides a different role in her life.

Read more on the UT Health Sciences News website.