Sneha Mantri, MD, MS
Director, Program in Medical Humanities
Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine
Associate Professor of Neurology
Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center
Duke University School of Medicine
sneha.mantri@duke.edu
Sneha Mantri is director of the Trent Center's Program in Medical Humanities. Dr. Mantri is a neurologist who cares for patients with Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders. She is interested in the imaginative formation of health professionals, particularly the use of creative writing to improve physician understanding of patient experience, to mitigate physician burnout, and to improve academic-community partnership. As such, she directs the medical school's Armstrong Humanities Scholars Program and was selected as a Macy Faculty Scholar (cohort 2024-2026) to expand interprofessional programs in health humanities and ethics across Duke's health professional programs. As a clinical movement disorders specialist, she is also involved in patient-physician communication initiatives sponsored by the Michael J. Fox Foundation, the Parkinson's Foundation, and the American Academy of Neurology. She was a founding editor of The Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, a former writer for Synapsis, and is currently working on a historical novel on the eugenics movement of the early 20th century.