Robey, Jean: - Jean Robey has been a practicing nephrologist in Arizona since 2006. She is an Arizona Flinn Scholar Class of 1992 and a graduate of the University of Arizona College Medicine in Tucson as a Dean Scholar. She attended the Medical University of South Carolina for Surgical Internship, Internal Medicine Residency, and Nephrology Fellowship. She is a professor of Narrative Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Nephrology. She mentors prospects to medicine and medical students seeking residency training. She is now section leader for the Department of Nephrology at an Internal Medicine residency program in Surprise, Arizona. She writes prose and poetry and her work has led to collaborations with multiple artists. In November 2025, her collaboration with local artist Marshall Shore @hiphistorian through an opportunity with Artist + Researcher Phoenix (ARx) will be on exhibit at the Arizona Science Center. This exhibit will be a artistic rendition of Narrative Medicine. Her hope is to bring Narrative Medicine through her stories into broader light as a coachable practice for physicians in training and to address burnout for established physicians given the inevitable burnout that comes with decades of practicing medicine with deep commitment. To the greater audience, she hopes the stories will provide insight, validation, and a kind of goalpost for intimate physician-patient encounters. "She looked at me like no one had ever listened or loved her before," wrote Dr. Robey. When not running around busy addressing medically complex problems, Dr. Robey enjoys traveling, cruising, cooking, reading, playing with her pets, and getting together with family. She and her husband Kirk have called Arizona their forever home. She is extremely proud of her family's evolution after arriving in America and of her children's future born of that opportunity.