Abraham Nussbaum, MD, MTS is a physician and writer in Denver, Colorado whose work has been published in The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. He is a professor of psychiatry and assistant dean of graduate medical education at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where he directs the Mind and Behavior course for all first-year medical students. He works clinically at Denver Health, an academic safety-net system, on its adult inpatient psychiatry units, where he cares for adults experiencing mental health crises. Administratively, he is Denver Health’s Chief Education Officer, providing strategic vision, daily direction, and administrative oversight for clinical education programs, which educate over 2,000 students and 1,000 resident physicians annually. He has written several psychiatric textbooks, an academic memoir, and his most recent book, Progress Notes: One Year In The Future of Medicine, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2024. He is working on his next book, One Snake For Medicine, as a Visiting Scholar at the Duke Divinity School.