Saturday 6 May 2017
Harvard Medical School
Tosteson Medical Education
Center (TMEC)
Amphitheater, 2nd floor
260 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
Boston MFA: 5 May 06.30 pm: Poetry and Training the Eye
2017 Symposium Faculty includes:
Neal Baer, Discussant and Hippocrates Judge, writer and producer of Emmy award-winning US television show ER; Fran Bigman, Speaker, Keio University; Ken Browne, Film Director; Rafael Campo, Chair, Harvard Arts and Humanities Initiative, USA; Lisa New, Speaker, Harvard; Ryan Davis, Speaker, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Jorie Graham, Reader and Hippocrates Judge, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard; Anne Hudson Jones, Speaker, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston; Ryoko Hamaguchi, Speaker, Harvard Medical School; Stephen Harvey, Speaker, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Michael Hulse, Speaker and Chair, Hippocrates Initiative Co-Chair, University of Warwick, UK; David Shumway Jones, Discussant, Harvard Medical School; Joel Katz, Discussant, Harvard Medical School; Jackie Kay, Judge, Scottish National Poet and Newcastle University, UK; Adrie Kusserow, Speaker, Saint Michael's College, Vermont; Owen Lewis, Judge and Discussant, Columbia University, New York City; Lisa New, Speaker, Harvard; Angela O’Donnell, Speaker, Fordham University; Danielle Ofri, Speaker, NYU School of Medicine; Nicole Piemonte, Speaker, Creighton University, School of Medicine and St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center; Maya Catherine Popa, Hippocrates Judge, New York City; Michael Salcman, Speaker, Osher Institute, Towson University; Johnathan Sataloff, Speaker, Harvard Medical School; Susan Sample, Discussant, Huntsman Cancer Institute and Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, University of Utah; Nora Segar, Discussant, Northwestern University; Audrey Shafer, Speaker, Stanford University School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health; Donald Singer, Chair, Hippocrates Initiative Co-Chair, Fellowship Of Postgraduate Medicine, London, UK; Vidya Viswanathan, Speaker, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania; Ivana Viani, Speaker, Harvard Medical School
DRAFT PROGRAMME
07.30 Continental Breakfast and Registration
07.50 Welcome and Introduction
SESSION 1 : LITERARY PERSPECTIVES ON MEDICINE AND HEALING
Co-chairs| Rafael Campo, Michael Hulse
08.00
The Power of Poetry: From Petrarch to the
Present | Anne Hudson Jones
08.20
Abortion in 1960s and 1970s American Poetry | Fran Bigman
08.40
Issues in identifying and assessing a corpus of medical poetry | Michael Hulse
09.00
Plenary discussion | Literary perspectives on medicine and
healing
Panel: Fran Bigman, Anne Hudson Jones, Michael Hulse, and Rafael Campo
09.20
Coffee
and posters
SESSION 2: POETRY, METAPHOR, AND PATIENT EXPERIENCE
Co-chairs | Elisa New, Donald Singer
09.40
The Brain as a Metaphor Making Machine | Michael Salcman
10.00
Visualizing
and Verbalizing Illness: a Window into the Full Patient Experience
Ryoko Hamaguchi, Johnathan Sataloff, and Lisa New
10.20
Poetic Re-narration and
Chemotherapy: Infusing Purpose and Meaning into the End of Life
Susan Sample
10.40
Elegy
& Healing: The Poetics of Grief | Angela O’Donnell
11.00
Plenary
discussion: Poetry, metaphor and patient
experience
Panel: Elisa New, Angela O’Donnell, Johnathan Sataloff, Nora Segar, and Donald Singer
SESSION 3: TOWARDS A POETRY OF GLOBAL HEALTH
Co-Chairs Rafael Campo, Donald Singer
11.20
Refugee
Poetics: Analogizing the Loss of Health and Homeland | Ryan Davis
11.40
The Case For
Ethnographic Poetry: Medical Anthropology and the Suffering of Refugees
Adrie Kusserow:
12.00
Roundtable: Towards a poetry of global health
Panel: Adrie Kusserow, Ivana Viani, Ryan Davis, and Maya Catherine Popa
12.20
Lunch
and posters
SESSION 4: WHY DOCTORS WRITE
Co-chairs: Neal Baer and Ken Browne
13.10
Why Should We Keep Creativity Alive in
Medicine? | Vidya Viswanathan
13.30
Poetry
and the Medical Student: How Reading and Writing Poetry Enriches Medical Education
Ivana Viani
13.50
Screening
of Film Excerpt: “Why
Doctors Write” presented by Ken Browne
14.00
Plenary Debate: Why Doctors Write
Panel: Neal Baer, Ken Browne, Michael Hulse, Lisa New, Rob Weatherford
SESSION 5: POETRY AND MEDICAL TRAINING
Co-chairs: Amy Ship and Andrea Schwartz
14.30
Why Doctors Need Poetry | Danielle Ofri
14.50
Becoming
a Healer: Using Poetry to Teach the Lived
Experiences of Illness, Suffering, and Loss Nicole Piemonte: Creighton University and
St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center
15.10
Pegasus Physician Writers and Medicine
& the Muse: Promoting Poetry at
Stanford Medicine
Audrey Shafer
15.30
Sonnets for Specialists: Poetry in Medical Education | Stephen Harvey
15.50 Plenary
Debate: Poetry and Medical Training
Panel: Stephen Harvey; Bonnie Salomon, Andrea Schwartz, Audrey Shafer, Sheila Quinn and Amy Ship
16.10
Coffee
and posters
16.30
KEYNOTE READING
Jorie Graham
17.00
HIPPOCRATES PRIZE AWARDS CEREMONY
Comments on behalf of the
judges | Jackie Kay
Hippocrates Young Poets
Awards
Introduced by judge Maya Catherine Popa
FPM Hippocrates Health
Professional Awards
Introduced by judge Owen Lewis
FPM Hippocrates Open Awards
Introduced by judge Jorie Graham
18.20
Launch
of 2017 Hippocrates Prize Anthology
18.30
Post-Awards Reception with light refreshments
