Narrative Medicine Rounds

Narrative Medicine Rounds, first Wednesday of each month from September to June at 5-7:00 pm in Faculty Club of CUMC.  446 P&S Building 630 West 168th Street (between Broadway and Fort Washington Avenue) New York, NY 10032.

Narrative Medicine Rounds September 3, 2008 

Location for September Rounds:  Alumni Auditorium, Black Bldg. 650 W. 168th St. (Corner Fort Washington Ave & 168th St.) NY, NY.

Portraits of Compassion:   The stories we have to tell from the book, This is Who I Am: Our Beauty in All Shapes and Sizes by Rosanne Olson

A discussion of women, body image, and compassion through the stories and images of 54 women, ages 19-95, who reveal their bodies for the camera accompanied by their very personal essays of youth, aging, sexual abuse, anorexia, Alzheimer’s disease, obesity, pregnancy and more.

Rosanne Olson is the author/photographer of “This is Who I Am—our beauty in all shapes and sizes” (Artisan Books 2008), a collection of intimate studio photographs of women. Olson is an award-winning photographer and a writer with a master’s degree in journalism.

 

 

Literature@Work/The Robert Braham Seminar

Literature@Work is a CUMC graduate-level literature seminar that meets on the first and third Wednesdays of each month from noon to 1 pm (PH 9-East, Room 105).

The Echantress of Florence   by Salman Rushdie

August 6, 2208 Please read half of the novel

August 20, 2008 Kindly finish the entire novel

Narrative Medicine Workshops

The Program in Narrative Medicine offers intensive three-day workshops for health care professionals and literary scholars engaged in narrative medicine practice. Our future workshops will be held on October  24 - 26, 2008 and spring 2009. Please advise which workshop you are interested in attending. There are a very limited number of slots available. If you are interested in attending, please click on the link above for full information about the program and a registration form. Filling out the registration form does not guarantee a slot in the workshop. We will notify you via email if you have been accepted into the workshop. Unfortunately we can not accept everyone who applies since our capacity is for 32 participants. We thank you for your interest in our program and for making it such a wonderful success.

Thank you for your interest in our Narrative Medicine Workshops. Your response as always has been overwhelming. It is because of you that we are such a success. We have already had inquiries from those who could not attend last year's conference. Unfortunately, we only have an alloted number of slots. In view of the interest, weare offering an additional Basic Narrative Medicine Workshop during spring 2009. Please check this web site for our posting of future Workshop dates.

Again, Thank you for making our program such a success!!

If you need further information or to be placed on the waiting list for future workshops kindly get in contact with me either by phone or email.

Janice Ranieri

Program Coordinator Narrative Medicine

212-305-4975

jr2621@columbia.edu