Medical Humanities Summer Institute
This workshop, hosted by Kings College London in June 2016, provided an opportunity for robust conversation about issues in medical humanities research and in the development of degree programs (graduate and undergraduate).
Recent Research
Successful aging among Chinese near-centenarians and centenarians in Hong Kong: a multidimensional and interdisciplinary approach
Cheung, K S, Lau, B H Aug 27, 2015. Aging & Mental Health doi: 10.1080/13607863.2015.1078281 PMID: 26313933
Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Elder Abuse and Neglect in the Community: A Population-Based Study
Burnes, D, Pillemer, K, Caccamise, P L, Mason, A, Henderson, C R, Berman, J, Cook, A M, Shukoff, D, Brownell, P, Powell, M, Salamone, A, Lachs, M S Aug 27, 2015. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society doi: 10.1111/jgs.13601 PMID: 26312573
Physical frailty in late-life depression is associated with deficits in speed-dependent executive functions
Potter, G G, McQuoid, D R, Whitson, H E, Steffens, D C Aug 27, 2015. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry doi: 10.1002/gps.4351 PMID: 26313370
Orthostatic Blood Pressure Behavior in People with Mild Cognitive Impairment Predicts Conversion to Dementia
Hayakawa, T, McGarrigle, C A, Coen, R F, Soraghan, C J, Foran, T, Lawlor, B A, Kenny, R A Aug 27, 2015. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society doi: 10.1111/jgs.13596 PMID: 26313614
Levels of Acculturation of Chinese Older Adults in the Greater Chicago Area - The Population Study of Chinese Elderly in Chicago
Dong, X, Bergren, S M, Chang, E Aug 27, 2015. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society doi: 10.1111/jgs.13604 PMID: 26313023
Development and validation of a questionnaire assessing the perceived control in health care among older adults with care needs in the Netherlands - Springer
doi: 10.1007/s11136-015-1124-2
The potential of Family Group Conferencing for the resilience and relational autonomy of older adults
Metze, R N, Kwekkeboom, R H, Abma, T A Aug 2015. Journal of Aging Studies 34 doi: 10.1016/j.jaging.2015.04.005 PMID: 26162727
Surgical need in an ageing population: a cluster-based household survey in Nepal
Stewart, B T, Wong, E, Gupta, S, Bastola, S, Shrestha, S, Kushner, A L, Nwomeh, B C Apr 27, 2015. Lancet (London, England) 385 Suppl 2 doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60800-5 PMID: 26313099
Lower Extremity Muscular Strength and Leukocyte Telomere Length: Implications of Muscular Strength in Attenuating Age-Related Chronic Disease
Loprinzi, P D, Loenneke, J P Aug 27, 2015. Journal of Physical Activity & Health doi: 10.1123/jpah.2015-0120 PMID: 26314088
Disciplined for being human
Smith, R. September 8, 2015. The BMJ. Retrieved on 2015-09-16T15:25:26Z from http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2015/09/08/richard-smith-disciplined-for-being-human/
Announcements
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2017 Mayo Clinic Humanities in Medicine Symposium
Deadline extended to Friday, July 14, 2017. See details here.
Herschel Garfein in conversation
Garfein will be talking about his work as librettist on "Alzheimer's Stories” (with the composer Robert S. Cohen) to the Interprofessional Seminar on Aging. It’s a choral work about Alzheimer’s patients, based on personal stories posted on the website of the Susquehanna Valley Chorale, which commissioned the work.
April 18, 2017 from 5:30-7 pm
Columbia University
Mailman School of Public Health
722 West 168th Street
11th Floor conference room-(take the elevator on the left 1 floor up and conference room is on the right)
Screening and Talk: Extremis
An Oscar-nominated documentary by Dan Krauss exploring end-of-life decision-making in the ICU
WEDNESDAY, April 5th, 2017 | 5-7 pm
LOCATION: FACULTY CLUB
630 W. 168th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY
Malawi Medical Humanities Network
Inaugural Conference
University of Malawi, Aug. 25-27, 2017
Proposals due April 21
Narrative Medicine Workshop 2017
Race | Violence | Justice: The Need for Narrative
Columbia University
April 7-9, 2017
Garret FitzGerald, “Precision Medicine, Translational Research and Therapeutics”
Monday, December 5, 2016
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center
Second Floor
104 Haven Avenue
New York, NY 10032
Symposium: Racism and Public Health
Hosted by Columbia's Science, Technology, and Society Discussion Series .
CFP: Medicine and Mystery
The Victorian Popular Fiction Association just released a CFP for their June 2017 conference, Medicine and Mystery: The Dark Side of Fiction in Victorian Science .
Upcoming talk for those in the NYC area…
DU Peng, Renmin University of China
“Population Aging and Elderly Care in China and East Asia.”
November 18th, 12p
ARB Room 440, 722 W. 168th Street
Details available at: aging.columbia.edu
CHCI MedHum
2017 Summer Institute
Call for Proposals Announced
Click this link for more details
Proposals due 10/15/16
Job: Rutgers University Postdoctoral Associate (2 positions)
Applications due by January 9, 2017
Panel: Aging: Things That Matter
September 20, 2016
NYU (433 First Avenue, 2nd Floor)
2016 Penn State Medical Humanities Scholars Colloquium
August 28-September 3, 2016
Penn State College of Medicine
Applications due by June 1, 2016. Email documents to [email protected]
Summer Course “Medical Humanities - Italian Perspectives”
September 11-16, 2016
Fondazione Lanza, via Dante, 55 - Padova (Italy)
Applications due by July 20, 2016. Payment due by August 10, 2016
September 15-17, 2016
University of Seville, Spain
Proposals are due by March 15, 2016
October 6-9, 2016
Washington, D.C.
Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill
Proposals are due by March 4, 2016
2016 a2ru National Conference: ArtsRx: Creative Venture, Wellbeing and the New Humanities
November 3-5, 2016
University of Colorado, Denver
Proposals are due by May 20, 2016
January 5-8, 2017
Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania Convention Center
Proposals for Environment, Illness, Literature, Health/care Session are due by March 15, 2016. Email 300 word abstracts and one page CV to [email protected]
CFP