Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine

Judges for the 2019 Hippocrates international Open Prize and Health Professional Prize were UK journalist and broadcaster Kate Adie CBE, DL,  American-Mexican poet and author Jennifer Clement, International President of PEN International and  physician Professor Dame Jane Dacre who is immediate past president of the UK Royal College of Physicians in London and a Professor of Medical Education. New Zealand poet Elizabeth Smither was judge for the 2019 international Hippocrates Young Poet Prize for Poetry and Medicine. Entries were free for young poets (aged 14-18) from anywhere in the world. 

The winners were announced on behalf of the judges by UK journalist and broadcaster Kate Adie CBE, DL in Newcastle on Friday 17th May.