2024 International Health Humanities Consortium Conference

Leonard Grant, Syracuse University and Onondaga Community Trauma Task Force

Cynthia Standley, The University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix

Room: Doris S. Norton Ballroom A
Presenter: Michael Zirulnik, Creighton University

Abigail Weisse and Jennifer Caputo-Seidler, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine

Learning objectives:

1. Compare and contrast public hospitals in the U.S. to nonprofit and for-profit hospitals in the U.S.

2. Articulate the story of one patient denied care at a nonprofit hospital due to a lack of insurance

3. Delineate the relationship between a patient's health insurance coverage, acuity of illness, and type of treatment received

4. Describe how the medical humanities influenced the genesis of Houston's public healthcare system

About Dr. Ricardo Nuila

• Addiction and Clinical Encounter: A Personalist Perspective
  • Andrew Kim, Marquette University
    
    
• Research with Vulnerable Populations in Community-Based Clinical Settings: A Bioethical Analysis of Lessons Learned in a Perinatal Substance Use Clinic
  • Emily S. Long, Sarah Holdren, University of North Carolina School of Medicine;
  • Katharine R. Meacham, Mountain Area Health Education Center, UNC School of Medicine;
  • Mary C. Kimmel, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
    
    
• “Everyone Taking Opioids Must”: Physicians’ Use of Broadening in Enacting Policies
  • Peter Joseph Torres, Arizona State University

• Martha Garcia, San Juan Bautista School of Medicine / Universidad Central del Caribe
• Luz Patricia Rave, Yeison Alejandro Sánchez, Johana Marcela Chalarca Botero, John Jairo Vargas, Alicia Krikorian, and Carolina Palacio, Universidad Pontifica Bolivariana

Masking Pain: The Loneliness of Chronic Illness

• Melody May (AKA Wilkinson), University of Waikato

The Cancer Canon, Identity, and Inclusion

• Anna Leahy, Chapman University

(in-person attendees may view the live stream in the PHSC 6th floor event space) 

1. Dissecting the Impact of Art in Medicine

Grace Kim, Srijan Bhasin, Symon Ma, Duke University School of Medicine

2. DEAFMed: Deaf Education and Awareness for Medical Students

Benedicta Olonilua, Natalie Perlov, Sidney Kimmel Medical College

3. The Healing Brushstroke: Fostering Empathy and Patient-Centered Care through Arts and Humanities

Shelly Xie, Houston Methodist Hospital

4. Reappraisal and Self-Characterization of Chronic Illness Experiences: A Literary Journal Case Study 

Taruni Tangirala, Cornell University 

5. Improving ICU Family Communication with Get-to-Know-Me Boards and ICU Diaries 

Vivian Iloabuchi, Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, Kenneth Shelton, Jonathan Ludmir, Massachusetts General Hospital

6. Grappling Isolation: How Supervised Injection Sites Support Individuals With Opioid Addictions

Tharika Thambidurai, Case Western Reserve University

7. From Scapegoating to Self-Defense: Exploring the Surge in Asian American Gun Ownership Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic

Lydia (Sin Lei) Pui, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

8. Applied Theatre Arts as a Tool to Increase Depression Literacy in Adolescents: Lessons Learned from a Mixed-Method Pilot Study

Devin N. Thomas, Bowie State University

• Faring Well in Health Encounters: A Humanities Driven Approach to Developing Cultural Humility in Undergraduate and Healthcare Education
  • Rebecca Permar, Eunice Jianping Hu, Wake Forest University
• Touch of Grey’s: Positioning Grey’s Anatomy in Health Humanities Pedagogy
  
  • Emily Waples, Adam Ellis, Hiram College
• Preliminary Outcomes of Discipline-Inclusive Undergraduate Health Pedagogy
  • Erin Sellner, Arizona State University

Rachel Conrad Bracken, Northeast Ohio Medical University

Phillip Barrish, University of Texas at Austin

Marty Fink, Toronto Metropolitan University

Joseph Stramondo, San Diego State University

Bernice L. Hausman, Penn State College of Medicine

Christopher D. E. Willoughby, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Sarah E. Rubin, Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine

Catherine Belling, Northwestern U Feinberg School of Medicine

Neva Kirk-Sanchez, Gauri Agarwal, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine; Hope Torrents, Art Matters with Hope, LLC 

(may view live stream from PHSC 6th floor event space)

• Exploring Bioethics through Xenotransplantation Narratives: Social Isolation and Discrimination in Pig-Heart Boy and We Ate the Children Last (NO recording)
  • Jerika Sanderson, University of Waterloo
• Popular Primetime Medical Dramas Narratives about Sickle Cell Disease (SCD): Entertainment Education as Tool to Inform the Public about SCD
  • DaKysha Moore, NC A&T State University; Elijah O. Onsomu, Winston-Salem State University

Links to videos presented:

1. Museum HIV testing
2. Student dance

About:

Eric Avery MD, Emeritus Associate Professor of Medical Humanities, Institute for Bioethics and Health Humanities, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

This is a visual narrative by Eric Avery, an artist who became a physician. Over fifty years he explored the liminal space between art and medicine, expanded the boundaries of printmaking, and tried to answer the question, Can Art Save Lives?

Although encouraged by an art professor to become a physician, upon entering medical school he was told that he could not be an artist and a physician (see conference bio or www.docart.com). Serendipitously, while a medical student, medical humanities programs had begun to emerge in the United States.

In 1967, the first medical humanities program in the United States was started by Al Vastyan, a former chaplain at UTMB, at the new medical school in Hershey, Pennsylvania. It included both literature and visual art. In 1973, the second program to develop was the Institute for Medical Huminites (IMH) at UTMB where Eric Avery was a medical student.

During this time, Edmund Pellegrino M D. (1920-2013), an early promoter of medical humanism, chaired the Institute on Human Values in Medicine. It had initiated a series of dialogue groups examining the intersection of the humanities and medicine. (1) In 1976, while Dr. Avery was in his psychiatry residency, he was invited to participate in one of these groups, the Visual Arts and Medicine Dialog Group. (2)

Al Vastyan, a member of the group, invited him to Hershey to explore his hypothesis that the relationship between art and medicine is space. The result was “Hands Healing: A Photographic Essay.” Literally, it visually explored the space of surgical healing when over 10 hours, a severed hand was reattached. (3)

This presentation is organized around spaces within which Dr. Avery has worked while making art alongside his clinical practice. These include work with refugees in Somalia (World Vision) (4); with refugees on the Texas Mexico Border (Amnesty International USA); and with people with HIV/AIDS (UTMB, IMH).

Trying to merge the sensibilities of visual art and medical practice (5), he created clinical art spaces in art museums and galleries (6). While working in public health and primary prevention spaces, he created artists books, and installations using educational wallpaper. While working in spaces of trauma and recovery, he helped originate use of lived cloth in papermaking and art therapy. (7)

After retirement from his clinical practice in 2012, he continues making socially engaged prints about the migrant crisis around him on the Texas-Mexico Border. Reflecting on the relationship between art and medicine, he wants us to ask ourselves: what is art for and what do artists do? If Art Can Save lives, are Dr. Avery’s prints art medicine? If not save lives, can they heal others as they have him in their creation?

1)    Edmund Pellegrino, Visual Awareness: The Visual Arts and the Clinician’s Craft, foreword in The Visual Arts and Medical Education, (Southern Illinois University Press, 1983) ix-xi

2)    Geri Berg, editor, ibid, 1983

3)    Eric Avery, Hands Healing: A Photographic Essay, ibid, pg 10-26.

4)    Christopher Whipple, Parched Land of the Dying, Life Magazine, April 1981 pg 36-46

5)    Joanne Trautmann, William Carlos Williams and the Poetry of Medicine, Ethics in Science & Medicine, Vol 2, 1975 pp36-46   

6)    Eric Avery, Art as Medicine /Medicine as Art, in Dear Print Fan, A Festschrift for Marjorie B. Cohn, Craigen Bowden, Dackerman, S, Mansfield E, editors, Harvard University Art Museums (2001) 2-9

7)    Eric Avery foreword in Drew Matott, Gretchen Miller, editors The Art and Art Therapy of Papermaking (Routledge 2024) xx-xxii

• Social, Emotional and Community Health: Narratives of Contagion and Loneliness
  • Sophie Bradley, LeHigh University
    
    
• Spaces of Care as Breeding Ground of Human Connection
  • Shrishti Dey, Aratrika Das, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indore
    
• Exploring mechanisms for the effectiveness of the VA My Life, My Story narrative medicine program in the emergency department
  • Mackensie Yore, UCLA/VA National Clinician Scholars Program; Whitney Arnold, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine; Kristina M Cordasco, VA Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation & Policy (CSHIIP) ↔

• Developing a Medical History Tour at an Academic Medical Center
  • Christy Audeh, Mayo Clinic
    
    
• Afternoon at the Museum: Psychosocial Wellbeing and Intergenerational Connectedness among LGBT Older Adults 
  • Xiaochen Zhong, Nathaniel Jenkins, Chloe Cheng, Peter Ureste, Tammy Duong, University of California, San Francisco

Courtney Tyler, Texas Tech University
Rina Little, Texas Tech University
Jonathan Little, Alverno College

Participate in-person from PHSC 106A

Joy Doll, Creighton University; Rachel Heinz, Health Center Association of Nebraska

• Kwentuhan and Community: A Mental Health Project for Filipino Nurses in Houston
  • Patricia Guzman, Isabel Kilroy, University of Texas Health Science at Houston
    
    
• Making House Calls to George Floyd’s Childhood Home: A Narrative Intervention for Social Care in Health Professions Education
  • Woods Nash, University of Houston Fertitta Family College of Medicine
    
    
• The Black Body and its Many Histories: Corroborating Black Health and the Death of Medgar Evers
  • Alex Hack, University of Southern California

Matthew Reznicek, University of Minnesota

Lydia Cooper, Seattle University

Brooke Kowalke, Creighton University 

Isabella Cuan, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

(may view livestream in PHSC 604)

Samantha Chipman, Emory University 
Melanie Gregg, Wilson College
Paul Root Wolpe, Emory University
Stephanie Larson, Cleveland Clinic and The University of New Mexico 

• Accessibility in Health Professions Education: Diversity and Inclusion in Historical Context
  • Andrew Hogan, Creighton University
• Where I’m From: Lessons from a Medical School Humanities in Medicine Course on Healthcare Inequities and Social Justice
  • Kathleen Van Buren, Mayo Clinic; Tolulope Kehinde, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Nicole Nfonoyim-Hara, Writer
• The Evolution of Holism in Medical School Requirements and its Impact on the Views of an “Ideal” Medical Student
  • Samuel Suh, Johns Hopkins University; Kamna Balhara, Johns Hopkins Medicine

• Honoring Madness: Serious Mental Illness as Neurodiversity
  • Julia Knopes, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
    
    
• Collaborative Research with and for Indigenous communities in the Beaufort Delta Region, Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada: Journeying toward liberatory, transformative mental health outcomes
  
  • Mallory Minerson, University of Alberta
    
    
• When the Chatting Cure Won't Shut Up: Silence and the Limits of AI Therapy
  • Liz Bowen, SUNY Upstate Medical University

• Fragments of a Child: An Anatomical Review of Childhood Trauma
  • Rimla Khan
    
    
• Illustrated Illness Narratives 
  • Chelsea Hicks, Columbia University
    
    
• Staghorns and Scottie Dogs: Animals, Plants, and Common Objects as Radiographic Signs 
  • Steven Scaglione, University of Michigan Health System; Michael Scaglione, University of Pennsylvania

(in-person attendees may view live stream in PHSC 604)

• A Communal Romance: How Women Writers Transform the Narrative Arc of Healing
  • Wendy Nielsen, Montclair State University
    
    
• Addressing Mental Health Through Narrative Medicine for Patients with Juvenile Dermatomyositis and Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
  • Aviya Lanis, Seattle Children's Hospital; Courtney Wells, University of Wisconsin; Elizabeth Dorn, University of Washington; Natalie Rosenwasser, Seattle Children's Hospital; Juliane Gust, Seattle Children's Hospital; Christian Lood, University of Washington; Susan Shenoi, Seattle Children's Hospital
    
    
• “Story-ing” of Bipolar Disorder: Metaphors of socio-emotional health in Indian memoirs of psychiatric patients
  • Sree Lekshmi, Aratrika Das, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore

Elizabeth Barr, NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH)

Jeffrey Reznick, National Library of Medicine (NLM)

• Shame and Stigma in Medical Education: Through the Lens of Photo/Tiny Stories
  • Patricia Luck, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
    
    
• Stories of Bereavement: Examining Medical Students’ Reflections on Loss and Grief
  • Nicholas Freeman, University of California, Irvine; Johanna Shapiro, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine; Yasaman Lorkalantari, Alexis Nguyen, Nancy Dang, University of California, Irvine
    
    
• Restorative Recreation – a Medical Humanities Course Exploring Intersections between Nature Prescription, Avocation, and Creation Care to Human and Ecosystem Health
  • Patrick Swanson, Creighton University

• Co-Constructing Equity-based Narratives with Patients and Families
  • Andrew Childress, Baylor College of Medicine; Woods Nash, Tillman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine
    
    
• Qualitative Insight into Patient & Staff Experiences of Cross-Institution Cancer Care
  • Amanda Courtright-Lim, Jon Tilburt, Mayo Clinic
    
    
• Speech act as scientific method: the making of “biological sex” in legislation about transgender people
  • Elizabeth Dietz, National Human Genome Research Institute

(view live stream in PHSC 604)

Andrea Charise, University of Toronto Scarborough
Dirk J. Rodricks, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada
Gloria Umogbai, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Nehal El-Hadi, University of Toronto

Kate Brown, Sai Srihita Dommata, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• An examination of an ethic of care for pediatric home-based hospice & palliative care
  • Julie Aultman, Brianna M. Bish, Max F. Gilliland, Northeast Ohio Medical University; Sarah Friebert, Daniel H. Grossoehme, Akron Children's Hospital 
    
    
• What Can the Health Humanities Contribute to Our Societal Understanding of and Response to the Deaths of Despair Crisis?
  • Daniel George, Penn State College of Medicine
    
• Health Humanities Prescriptions for Grief
  • Katie Xu, Case Western Reserve University, Robin McCrary, Syracuse University

(in-person only - will be recorded)

Eric Avery and David Paar

(in person attendees may view in PHSC 604)

Rebecca Garden, SUNY Upstate Medical University

Thomas Hehlmann, University of Bremen, Germany

Janet Weston, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

Allan Arturo Gonzalez Estrada, Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica

Lise Saffran, College of Health Sciences, University of Missouri 

Amanda M. Caleb, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine

Stephanie Larson, Case Western Reserve University

12:15: Artist + Researcher (ARx) Program talk 
Program Director: Cynthia Standley
ARx Team: Artist: Mary Lucking, Researcher: Anne Titelbaum

Sign-up by Tuesday, April 9: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/805084FA8AD2DAAFF2-48696198-hhcmentorship#/

Shapir Rosenberg, Alison Hartman

1. Outside the Frame: Developing medical students’ metacognitive abilities through museum-based education

Kain Kim, Emory University School of Medicine

2. Reflejos: Artistic Reflections of Healthcare Providers

Jennifer Caputo-Seidler, University of South Florida

3. Shared Wisdom: Documenting and Preserving the Oral History of Retired and Retiring Healthcare Practitioners

Ian McCoog, Jordan Salvato, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine

4. Read All About It: The Implementation of a Book Club in a Medical Workplace Setting

Neelufar Raja, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine; Natalie J. Park, Yi Peng Wang, Matthew J. Kim, Jonathan M. Lewis, Indu Voruganti Maddali, Quoc-Anh Ho, Quynh-Thu Le, Kathleen C. Horst, Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine 

5. Social Isolation in LVAD Caregivers: Finding Ways the Health Humanities Can Help
Rita Dexter, Baylor College of Medicine

6. Critical Approaches to Religion and Spirituality: Essential for Undergraduate Health Humanities?
Erin Prophet, University of Florida

7. The “Medical Gaze” and Its Role in the Development of Medical Trainees
Nicholas Ogrinc, Case Western Reserve University

8. Fostering Wellness and Sustainability through Walk, Bike, and Carpool to School Week 2023
Alison Stiller, Creighton University - Phoenix Regional Campus

9. Are we Ever Really Recovered?, Gianna Paniagua, Columbia University

• Centering the Humanities in the Health Humanities Classroom
  • Jess Libow, Haverford College
    
    
• Teaching (with) health narratives across the undergraduate curriculum: Expanding on syllabi
  • Kristine Munoz, University of Iowa; Daena Goldsmith, Lewis and Clark College
    
    
• Community College Health Humanities Education: Creating Immersive Pedagogy and Developing Sustainable Community-Academic Partnerships
  • Christine Marks, Justin T. Brown, LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York 

Lois Hendrickson, Emily Beck, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

In-person only, will not be recorded

• HIV Out Loud: Narratives from South Texas 
  • Rachel Pearson, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio; Joshua Carrasco, UCSF intern/HIV Out Loud, Yolanda Crous, UT Health San Antonio/HIV Out Loud, Kimberly Nguyen, UT Health San Antonio/HIV Out Loud

• Health Professionals as Border Control Officers in Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying
  • Phillip Barrish, University of Texas-Austin

• Controlling Foot and Mouth Disease at the Mexico-United States Border in the mid-20th Century
  • Rebecca Kaplan, Oklahoma State University

• Overcoming Fear: Examples from Polio Epidemics
  • Brittany Acors, University of Virginia

• Graphic Pandemic Diaries: Imagining a Way Out of Isolation
  • Victoria Lupascu, University of Montréal 

• “We Were Warned, but We Didn’t Listen:” Event 201, the Outbreak Narrative, and Community Engagement
  • Stefan Krecsy, University of Toronto

Kirsten Ostherr, Rice University

Eivind Engebretsen, University of Oslo & Circle U. European University Alliance

Sanjoy Bhattacharya, University of Leeds, UK

Rebecca Garden, SUNY Upstate Medical University

• SoundRx - A Vocal Loop Performance
  • Lindsay Irwin, VCU School of Medicine
    
    
• Walking with Dryads: A Sonic Journey
  • Liz Baxmeyer, California Northstate University College of Health Sciences

Craig Klugman, DePaul University

Anna-leila Williams, Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac

University

Erin Gentry Lamb, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Sarah Berry, Rhodes College

PatriciaLuck, University of Rochester School of Medicine

Rita Dexter, Baylor College of Medicine 

Sean Eli McCormick, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine ;

Anna Maria Marcu, DePaul University

Jamming for Health: An Emancipatory Research Approach for Engaging Equity-Deserving Communities in Game-based Storytelling

• Sandra Danilovic, Wilfrid Laurier University

Close Listening in The Community: Narrative Power and Oral Health Justice

• Michelle Moncrieffe Foreman, University of Maryland, Sheryl Syme, University of Maryland School of Dentistry

Collaborative Knowledge Building: Engaging Virtual Chronic Illness Communities in Research about Them

• Kelly Moes, Curtin University

• Healing the Relationship between the Healthcare System and the Elderly Community Through Humanities (workshop)
  • Madeline Blatt, Hana Roushdy, Hannah Lennon, Estefana Bcharah, Olga Davis, Arizona State University
    
    
• Use of an Activity Placemat to Enhance Elder Care in a Hospital Setting: Impact on Medical Student Volunteer’s Knowledge, Attitudes, and Skills
  • Cynthia Standley, Kevin Vo, Rachel Russell, Jahnavi Shriram, Taaha Adamji, James Kelbert, Nimit Agarwal, Anita Rasheed, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix

(may view livestream in PHSC 604)

Rocio Pichon-Riviere, University of California, Irvine

All are welcome to this informal gathering to learn about opportunities for participation and mingle with committee members. For virtual participants, connect with committee heads through information at the links below. Refreshments will be provided.

• Arts & Health Equity – Siobhan M. Conaty

• Awards – Julia Knopes, Kamna Balhara, and Phillip Barrish

• Curriculum & Assessment – Rosemary Weatherston and Rachel Bracken

• Conference Planning & Support – Erin Gentry Lamb

• Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) – Sarah Berry

• Humanities and Arts in Health Professions Education (HAHPE) – Bernice Hausmann

6 to 8 p.m. Student/Early Career Professionals Social

(get drink/food tickets from registration desk)

6-8 p.m. Local Social hosted by Arizona State University. 

• Happy Birthday Kelly Wisely
  • Melody May, University of Waikato
    
    
• Climate Change and the Humility of the Pandemic 
  • Priya Amin, Harvard Medical School
• Rhythm of Waves
  • Nakaweesi Katongole, University of California San Diego

Jessica Hume, Patrick Lynch, Olivia Remmert, Callie Clark, Bellarmine University

• The Right to Choose, or the Choice to Treat?: The Role of Physician Organizations in the Abortion Debate
  • Vishu Chandrasekhar, Case Western Reserve University

• Adapting to IVF: Performing Dignity and Horror in Two Reproductive Medicine Remakes
  • Catherine Belling, Northwestern University

• Reproductive Counterstories in Shout Your Abortion and Birth Monopoly
  • Aryn Bartley, Lane Community College

(in-person only: PHSC 106A)

• Making Public History: Oral Histories of COVID-19 and Rochester’s African American and Black Communities
  • Laura Stamm, University of Rochester
    
    
• “Knowing” vs. “Understanding”: Multiverse Traffic to a Public Health Diary 
  • Luxin Yin, Rachel Rubino, The Ohio State University
    
    
• Long COVID Among Healthcare Professionals
  • Maisey Schuler, Pauline Strong, Humanities Institute, University of Texas at Austin

• The Arts and Spirituality in Street Medicine 
  • Kelly Ann Nelson, MarinHealth Medical Center
    
    
• Decolonizing Health/Care in Feminist Senegalese Urban Arts: Presence, Accessibility and the Common
  • Julie Van Dam, University of Southern California
    
    
• From Normative Practices to Second Stimuli: Dismantling Ableist Paradigms of Professionalism Using the Arts
  • Ryan Weber, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine

1. Tangled in the Web: Personal Experiences with Internet Use and Mental Health among Young Adults
   Tanushri Pinjala, Polygence Research Academy
   
   
2. Obstetrics Forceps: The Tools to Interrogate Interventionist Obstetrics
   Vishu Chandrasekhar, Case Western Reserve University
   
   
3. Autism Beyond the Spectrum: Exploring How Autistic Individuals Engage with the Medical Model of Autism
   Charlotte Jakes, Guy's, King's and St Thomas' School of Medicine, King's College London
   
   
4. Living Multiple: Enhancing Understanding of the Plural Community, Julia Knopes, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
   
   
5. Mixed Methodologies for Researching and Teaching about Health and Illness
   Sara Press, Harvard University
   
6. Undergraduate student reflections of the Out of Darkness storytelling project on bipolar disorder stigma
   Hallie Rodney, McMaster University/Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Shira Taylor, York University/SExT: Sex Education by Theatre
   
   
7. The Knowledge Donor Program: Innovation in Healthcare Education
   Kayla Gray, Dignity Health - St. Joseph’s Hospital & Medical Center  

• Social and Economic Impacts on a Schoolwide Social Emotional Learning and Mental Health Support Program Implemented After the COVID-19 Shutdown
  • Karen Schlag, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston; Elizabeth Torres, Jackson W. Gasperecz, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Shannon Guillot-Wright, UTHealth Houston
    
    
• How GALs [guardians ad litem] can Implement Cultural Stories in Family Court in the US
  • Eileen Anderson, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
    
    
• Subsidiarity, Proportionality, and Preparing PreK-12 Schools to Heal after Community Trauma
  • Leonard Grant, Syracuse University

Lisa New: Poetry in America; Verse Video Education; Center for Public Humanities, Arizona State University

• Seeing the Narrative Work in Physical Therapy Practice
  • Stefanie Johnson, AdventHealth University
    
    
• Narrative interventions in medical charting: audience, narrative, and stigma
  • Lindsey Grubbs, Isabelle Toler, Danielle Wilfand, Akshaya Ramakrishnan, Case Western Reserve University
    
    
• Exploring mechanisms for the effectiveness of the VA My Life, My Story narrative medicine program in the emergency department
  • Mackensie Yore, UCLA/VA National Clinician Scholars Program; Whitney Arnold, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine; Kristina M. Cordasco, VA Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation & Policy (CSHIIP) 

Melanie Gregg, Wilson College

Sarah Berry, Health Humanities Consortium/Rhodes College

Pamela Brett-MacLean, University of Alberta

Amanda Caleb, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine

Samantha Chipman, Emory University

Hailey Haffey, University of Utah and Wilson College

Sarah Press, Harvard University

• Visual Storytelling in Communication and Advocacy of Research for Health
  • Shelly Xie, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)
    
    
• “Thrive! Healthy People | Healthy Planet”: A gently provocative health center-based exhibition
  • Diana Hoover, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point; Sara L. Warber, University of Michigan School of Medicine; Katherine Irvine, Senior Researcher in Environment, Wellbeing and Behaviour; Elaine Sims, University of Michigan Health, Michigan Medicine

Soohyun Cho, Michigan State University
Natalie Phillips, Michigan State University
Simona Sarafinovska, Washington University in St. Louis
Sarah Senk, California State University Maritime Academy
Kristin Urquiza, independent scholar
Kaitlyn Sluder, Sydney Logsdon, Marine Avequin, Gracie Rudolfi, Natalie Liliensiek, Neha Navathe, Jacob Okulewicz, Quynh Tong, Lorraine Inman, Carina Abbasov, Michigan State University

Emcee: Rachel Bracken, Northeastern Ohio Medical University

Featured reader: Natalie Diaz, Arizona State University 

Natalie Diaz was born on the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe (Akimel O’odham). Diaz is the author of Postcolonial Love Poem, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, finalist for the National Book Award, Forward Prize in Poetry, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and winner of a Publishing Triangle Award. Her first book, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was winner of an American Book Award. She is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, a Lannan Literary Foundation Fellow, a Native Arts and Culture Foundation Fellow, and a former Princeton University Hodder Fellow. She was awarded the Princeton Holmes National Poetry Prize and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the United States Artists, where she is an alumnus of the Ford Fellowship. Diaz is Founding Director of the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands and the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University, where she is a Professor in the English MFA program. In 2021, Diaz was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and was a finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Diaz resides in Phoenix, Arizona, but is currently living in Brooklyn as a Mellon Foundation Research Residency Fellowship and a Senior Fellow at The New School Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy. She is the 2024 Yale Rosenkranz Writer in Residence.