HEAL presents:
The First Annual Memorial Concert
In Memory of the late Musician in Residence, Zora Mihailovich
In Honor of Zora Mihailovich, we will enjoy performances by students, staff and faculty.
Lunch + Learn: Dr. Ericka Johnson
HEAL presents: Lunch and Learn
Torments of a Terrifying Gland:
How Medical Humanities Can Improve Prostate Care
A conversation with Dr. Ericka Johnson
Professor of Gender and Society, Linköping University, Sweden
Biography:
The author of A Cultural Biography of the Prostate (MIT, 2021), Dr. Erika Johnson’s interdisciplinary research combines the best of social studies of science, medical sociology, and feminist science studies. Her latest work examines medical technologies and the multiple ways in which artifacts express and highlight the cultural values that shape our lives.
The Hysteria Project
HEAL
presents Art and Medicine
Wednesday, May 10th, 2023
12:00 PM | McKibben 249
A conversation with Artist Rachael Jablo and Artist and Residence Ted Meyer
The Hysteria Project is a one-on-one storytelling project dealing with menstruation, reproductive, and pelvic disorders, illustrated by individual portraits of participants’ reproductive organs based on their stories. These life-size, intimate works start in a traditional darkroom where I use lace instead of negatives to make color prints that I cut up and collage onto a gold leaf background. The exhibited works are mounted in gilded laser-cut plexiglass frames.
The process of actively listening to people tell the narrative of their bodies, sometimes for the first time, is as vital as the actual artworks. This is listening as activism.
The online archive of stories and artwork is searchable by symptom, diagnosis, and keyword. People with gynecological disorders can thus read stories and see that they are not alone in their experiences. Moreover, doctors and future medical practitioners can learn from our lived experience and become better, more compassionate caregivers.
Lunch & Learn: Darby Saxby
HEAL presents: Lunch and Learn
Transition to Parenthood as a Window for Biopsychosocial Health in Adulthood
A conversation with Dr. Darby Saxbe
Biography:
Dr. Saxbe has devoted the past decade to studying how the journey into parenthood affects health and relationships for both parents and their children. In this talk, she will present some of her recent studies on parenting – with a focus on fathers – and how new parents undergo changes to their physical and mental health. She will highlight new research on the fathering brain, showing the brain structure changes in men followed from the prenatal into the postpartum period, and that these structural changes are associated with hormones and adjustment to parenthood. She will also emphasize the importance of this program of research for clinical intervention and public policy.
Paradoxical Paradise
HEAL
presents Art and Medicine
Wednesday, February 8th, 2023
A conversation with Artist Dylan Mortimer, Artist and Residence Ted Meyer, and
Dr. Mark L. Barr, M.D. Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery,
Co-Director, USC Transplant Institute, Director, Cardiothoracic Surgery Medical Student Clerkship
Lunch will be provided for RSVP’d guests