Claire de Boer lives in Mount Gretna, Pa., – an historic, artistic, academic, athletic village tucked within a woodsy trail network and picturesque lake. Claire’s work home is in the Department of Humanities at the Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey. She serves as director of The Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine and Center Stage Arts in Health at the College of Medicine and its affiliated hospital, the Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. Claire’s educational background is rooted in Human Development and Family Studies from Cornell University, Ithaca, and Master’s in Global and International Education from Drexel University, Philadelphia. Her studies propelled her to lead arts and education programs in Ithaca, New York, mid-coast Maine and Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In 2011, when she found a happy home in the Department of Humanities, Claire fused her storyline into one culminating project: to found an Arts in Health organization in a large medical center. She has since developed great reverence for the magic of the performing, visual and participatory arts and their striking impact toward health and wellbeing. Her areas of focus within the field of Arts in Health include program efficiency, funding structure and research strategies. Claire is an open water swimmer, long-distance cyclist, trail runner, ensemble musician, multi-linguist and fiber-arts lover. If asked to join someone for a swim, she will never, ever decline.