Laura Bishop, M.D.

Louisville Lectures Director

Laura Bishop, M.D.

Dr. Bishop is an Associate Professor at the University of Louisville where she practices as a Med-Peds Hospitalist alternating between University of Louisville Hospital caring for adults and Norton Children's Hospital caring for children. In both of these roles, she enjoys working in a collaborative, interdisciplinary team that includes multiple levels of learners. 

She is passionate about medical education at the graduate and undergraduate levels. She is active in the undergraduate medical school as a facilitator for problem-based learning groups, mentor in the Humanism in Medicine course, created/piloted clinician-pathologist dyad teaching in the Disease & Therapeutics MS-2 course in female reproductive and GI/ hepatobiliary pathology blocks. She relishes her position as the Associate Program Director for the Med-Peds program, helping coach residents toward their individual career goals. 

In her graduate medical education work, she has expanded clinical learning surrounding substance use disorders as well as crafting opportunities to learn about less-often taught topics like communication, bias, business of medicine and transitions of care. She is a co-founder of the open-access medical education platform, Louisville Lectures and now serves as the Executive Director.

Clinically, her research interests include healthcare equity for patients + medical education equity for learners, managing microaggressions and bridging transitions to/from the hospital in patients with substance use disorders.

Her other interests include nail art, pinball modifications and tournaments, trying everything at Trader Joe’s, planning Walt Disney World vacations, keeping her pool from turning into a pit of algae, cooking and entertaining. She and her husband own a comic book and board game store and board game website.