Full schedule below. Highlights include:
- 9:30 a.m. - Dr. John Hansen-Flaschen, the former chief of pulmonary and critical care at the University of Pennsylvania, will share how he has used photography to help him find meaning in medicine and enrich his life as a physician. Learn more
- 1:00 p.m. - Megan Voeller, who heads the health and humanities program at Jefferson, will be joined by medical students and other cast members who will share excerpts from and reflections on their original theater performance, Tangles in Time. Learn More
- 3:45 p.m. - Dr. Naomi Rosenberg, the assistant director of narrative medicine at Temple and an attending in our Emergency Department, will interview Dr. Amy Goldberg, Chair of the Department of Surgery at Temple and lifelong trauma surgeon as well as Dr. Steven Rosenberg, Chief of Surgery at the National Cancer Institute. “A Life in Medicine."
- Hour-long workshops at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m will give participants an opportunity to learn more and experience narrative medicine in various forms: reflective writing, poetry, dance, photography, drawing, improv theater, fiction writing and reimagining the patient chart.
Complete schedule:
8-8:30 a.m. Breakfast/Registration
8:45 a.m. Introduction/Beginning Activities
9:30 a.m. Presentation Dr. John Hansen-Flaschen
10:30 a.m. Workshop Series 1
12 p.m. Lunch – catered by Tierra Colombiana
1 p.m. Presentation "Tangles in Time"
2:30 p.m. Workshop Series 2
3:30 p.m. Discussion
3:45 p.m. Finale. Goldberg/Rosenberg and Rosenberg, “A Life in Medicine.”
$5 admission. More information and to register: https://www.lksomnarrativemedicine.org/