Alongside his clinical and scholarly work, Dr. Pearson organizes and leads programs at the intersection of medicine, art, and narrative: workshops, exhibitions, public readings, and educational events that bring humanistic inquiry into clinical and academic spaces.
Physician-Writers and the Ethics of Telling Patients’ Stories (2025 – 2026): A series of symposia and workshops at the Countway Library of Medicine and Harvard Medical School, bringing together physician-writers, ethicists, editors, and patients to examine the ethical landscape of medical creative nonfiction.
Haiku as Expressive Therapy (2024 – 2026): Developed and facilitated haiku workshops for medical trainees, clinicians, and patients across MGH, McLean Hospital, and Harvard Medical School.
Visual Thinking Strategies at the MFA (2025 – 2026): Co-designed workshops bringing psychiatry residents to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts to experience and practice Visual Thinking Strategies as a clinical and educational skill.
The Art of Grieving: Creativity in the Time of Covid-19 (2024): Co-organized a month-long art exhibition at the Countway Library of Medicine featuring work by clinicians and patients responding to illness, loss, and resilience during the pandemic. The exhibition included a two-day public symposium.
Creativity in the Time of Covid-19 (2020 – 2025): Worked with a multi-institutional team on a public initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation’s “Just Futures” initiative to document instances of everyday creativity during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Clinical Impressions (2019): Created, produced, narrated, and edited a podcast in which physicians tell personal stories from their training.
(IN)VISIBILITY: Art and Narratives of Vision Loss (2019): Co-created a multisensory art installation featuring voices and narratives of patients with vision loss.
Talk With Your Hands (2016): Co-produced a short film that separates language into the multiple sensory perspectives of sign, speech and gesture.
