We are on Summer Break!! Our break for Narrative Medicine Rounds is from June 2008 through August 2008. We will resume Narrative Medicine Rounds in September 2008.  Thanks for your support.

 

 

May 7, 2008 May 2008 NM Rounds

Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher who has taught in the fields of poetry and spirituality for over thirty years. He has published works of poetry and creative non-fiction, and his poetry has been nominated for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. His most recent titles are Facing the Lion, Being the Lion: Finding Inner Courage Where It Lives, a book of spiritual non-fiction available from Red Wheel-Conari (2007), and Surviving Has Made Me Crazy, a book of poetry and prose available from CavanKerry Press (2007), which gathers 18 years of writing about his own journey with cancer.

At Narrative Medicine Rounds, Nepo will read largely from his latest book of poems and prose, Surviving Has Made Me Crazy. As a cancer survivor, he is committed to the usefulness of daily inner life. Through both his writing and teaching, he remains devoted to the life of inner transformation and relationship. For 18 years, Mark taught at the State University of New York at Albany. He now serves as a Program Officer for the Fetzer Institute in Kalamazoo, Michigan, a non-profit foundation devoted to fostering awareness of the power of love and forgiveness in the emerging global community. He continues to give readings, lectures, and retreats.

 

Past Rounds

April 2, 2008 April 2008 NM Rounds

SUE HALPERN has been hailed as “an uncommonly gifted and compassionate writer.” (LA Times) She is a frequent contributor to such publications as the New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York  Review of Books, Audubon and Good Housekeeping. She received a doctorate from Oxford University in 1985 and began teaching at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. She is the author of two previous books of non-fiction, Migrations to Solitude, a New York Times notable book of the year, and Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly, which is soon to be released as a feature-length documentary. She has also published two novels. A former Rhodes Scholar and Guggenheim fellow, Halpern is currently a scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College. A resident of Ripton, Vermont, she lives with her husband, Bill McKibben, and their daughter Sophie.

In Can’t Remember What I Forgot, Halpern reviews what is known by neural scientists about the causes and course of Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementias. She will discuss the experiences of persons with failing memories and what we all can do to improve or preserve our memory.  She debunks some of the more common myths surrounding Alzheimer’s diseases and normal memory loss and provides us with information about important discoveries being made in these fields.

 

March 5, 2008: March 2008 NM Rounds

Carol Gilligan is a writer best known for her 1982 book, In a Different Voice, described by Harvard University Press as “the little book that started a revolution.”  In 1996, she was named one of Time magazine’s twenty-five most influential Americans. She was born and raised in New York City. She earned her B.A. with highest honors in English Literature from Swarthmore College and her Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard, where she was a member of the faculty for thirty-four years. Her award winning research led in 1997 to the creation of Harvard’s first professorship in Gender Studies, which she held until 2001 when she returned to New York to become a University Professor at NYU. She lives with her husband in New York City and in the Berkshires. KYRA is her first novel.

Ms. Gilligan will be in introduced by: Professor Jerome Bruner

Research Professor of Psychology & Senior Research Fellow, School of Law, at New York University. Professor Bruner is an internationally renowned psychologist, influential educational philosopher, and architect of the cognitive revolution of the twentieth century. He is the author of, among many other books, Acts of Meaning and Actual Minds, Possible Worlds.

 

February 6, 2008: February 2008 NM Rounds

Jennifer Stevens Madoff, DrPH, is on the faculty of the Department of Sociomedical Sciences in the Mailman School of Public Health. She published her late husband Roger Madoff's memoir, Leukemia for Chickens, which recounts their experiences living with cancer. Her talk, Understanding Cancer in Young Adults through First Person Narrative will include a reading from Leukemia for Chickens.

 

January 2, 2008 : January 2008 NM rounds

Concurrent interactive workshops:

Reading, Seeing, and Making Poetry - Rose Bromberg - Resident poet with the Program in Narrative Medicine

Offering a Patient's Eulogy - Joseph Fennelly, M.D. - Internist, grief counselor, and Chair of the Medical Society of New Jersey's bioethics committee

Writing One's Memoir of Healing - Nicholas Steiner M.D. - Internist, survivor of melanoma, and author of memoir Unforeseen Consequences

 

September 5, 2007:
Dr. Vincent Lam, emergency medicine physician in Toronto, will read from his recent collection of short stories entitled Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures.

October 3, 2007:
Dr. Christine Montross, psychiatrist and writer, will discuss her recently published book, A Body of Work, about the experience and consequences of dissecting the cadaver in the anatomy course in medical school

November 7, 2007:

Sayantani DasGupta, MD, MPH and Marsha Hurst, PhD, editors of the newly published Stories of Illness and Healing:  Women Write Their Bodies, and several contributors will read from this unique collection of voices of women experiencing illness and will discuss these poems, stories and essays in relation to the field of narrative medicine. 

December 5, 2007:
Professor Richard E. Miller, Chair of the Department of English, Rutgers University and theorist of expressive composition, will discuss "Reading in Slow Motion" as a method of engaging readers in the co-creation of text.