Center for Health Ethics, Arts, & Humanities
NEWSLETTER
FALL | 2023-24 | 01
Gretchen Case, Center Director, PhD, MA
DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE
We are delighted to welcome our first Center affiliates, 11 faculty and staff from across the University of Utah. Some of these folks have been collaborating for years with the Center on teaching (from undergraduate courses to Continuing Medical Education), professional trainings, and research activities, while others have more recently connected with us and are ready to share their ideas and experiences. We ask affiliates to take a leading role in at least one Center event each academic year, so you will be seeing these names again in the coming months.
Please welcome:
Candace Chow, School of Medicine Office of Curriculum and Dept. of Internal Medicine
Hailey Haffey, Dept. of Internal Medicine
Sara Hart, College of Nursing
Sadie Hoagland, Dept. of English
Kaitlyn Judkins, Dept. of Pediatrics
M.A. Mujeeb Khan, Dept. of World Languages and Cultures
Rachna Malani, Department of Neurosurgery
Quang-Tuyen Nguyen, Dept. of Pediatrics
Brandon Patterson, Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library
Karly Pippitt, Dept. of Family and Preventive Medicine
Awais Riaz, Dept. of Neurology
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If your work overlaps with ours, please consider becoming an affiliate. The benefits to you are opportunities to connect with other like-minded scholars and to participate significantly in Center activities. The benefit to the Center is a wider and deeper group of faculty and staff upon whose expertise we can draw as we expand our work. We are reviewing applications on a rolling basis.
This fall, the Center will continue to work on ways to welcome students from across campus and encourage their intellectual curiosity. We will be sending out a survey that asks about student interests related to ethics, arts, and humanities in healthcare and health education. We hope to let students know about our current programs and find out what other resources or events they would like to see develop at the U. We would like to reach undergraduate, graduate, and professional students from all disciplines. Students do not have to be enrolled in any particular major or program to participate in this survey or in any of the Center’s activities. Please let us know if you are connected to students who would be interested in responding to this survey.
Please read on to see all of the Center’s offerings over the next three months, including our annual Health Humanities Lectureship and our Ethics Explored series, which will all address issues related to disability. Also returning is Healthcare Stories, our annual storytelling event co-sponsored with the Resiliency Center. The call for stories is now open. We hope to see you at these events!
FALL SERIES
![Jim Ferris](public://media/images/2023/JF-snow_0.png)
JIM FERRIS, PhD
The University of Toledo
2023-24 HEALTH HUMANITIES SPEAKERSHIP
Each year the Center hosts a distinguished expert in the arts and humanities as they relate to healthcare and health education.
September 27-28
Series Events:
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Ethics Explored: "Crip Poetry and Performing the Principles of Medical Ethics"
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Public Lecture: "Disability Identity in the Culture of American Individualism"
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Reading & Discussion: "Is Your Mama White?"
co-sponsored with
Disability Studies Initiative - School for Cultural and Social Transformation,
Department of English - Creative Writing Program,
Edna Anderson-Taylor Communication Institute,
OSHER Center for Integrative Health,
& SOM’s Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R)
and the Neilsen Rehabilitation Hospital
LITERATURE & HEALTHCARE DISCUSSION GROUP
This informal group is facilitated by expert faculty and meets monthly to discuss books and other texts that address health and healthcare.
2nd Wednesdays, 6-7:30pm
AUGUST 9
Book: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Facilitator: Hailey Haffey, PhD
SEPTEMBER 13
Book: Lessons in Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus
Facilitator: Rachel Borup, PhD
OCTOBER 11
Book: Blood Orange Night
by Melissa Bond
Facilitator: Sadie Hoagland, PhD
NOVEMBER 8
Book: The Doctor Stories
by William Carlos Williams
Facilitator: Hailey Haffey, PhD
ETHICS EXPLORED DISCUSSIONS
GENETICS HOT TOPICS
Informal, multidisciplinary discussions about current issues in healthcare ethics in collaboration with the Utah Center for Excellence in ELSI Research (UCEER).
- Disability & Healthcare -
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
AUGUST
9th, WEDNESDAY
- 6-7:30PM, LITERATURE & HEALTHCARE DISCUSSION GROUP (virtual)
Book: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Facilitator: Hailey Haffey, PhD
Zoom link
Mtg ID: 936 0997 1018
Passcode: email for code
CME: 221056
30th, WEDNESDAY
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NOON-1PM, ETHICS EXPLORED DISCUSSION - Genetics Hot Topics: Disability in Healthcare (virtual)
Audrey Yap, PhD, University of Victoria
“Disability Justice and Transformative Justice”
Zoom link
Mtg ID: 946 6536 0003
Passcode: email for code
CME: 242019
SEPTEMBER
13th, WEDNESDAY
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6-7:30PM, LITERATURE & HEALTHCARE DISCUSSION GROUP (virtual)
Book: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Facilitator: Rachel Borup, PhD
Zoom link
Mtg ID: 923 6968 5755
Passcode: email for code
CME: 256056
22nd, FRIDAY
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Noon-1PM, ART ALOUD! (hybrid)
Room: EHSEB (2110-2120) Alumni Hall
Zoom link
Mtg ID: 935 7402 0932
Passcode: email for code
27th-28th
2023-24 HEALTH HUMANITIES SPEAKER
Jim Ferris, PhD, The University of Toledo
27th, WEDNESDAY
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5:30-7PM, ETHICS EXPLORED DISCUSSION - Genetics Hot Topics: Disability in Healthcare (virtual)
"Crip Poetry and Performing the Principles of Medical Ethics"
Room: RAB 117 (Research Admin. Bldg) -south of the EHSEB, east of the University Guest House
Zoom link
Mtg ID: 928 7883 7587
Passcode: email for code
CME: 270019
28th, THURSDAY
- 10-11AM, PUBLIC LECTURE (hybrid)
"Disability Identity in the Culture of American Individualism"
Room: Tanner Jewel Box
Zoom link
Mtg ID: 997 1567 4114
Passcode: email for code
CME: 271019
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3-4PM, READING & DISCUSSION (in-person)
"Is Your Mama White?"
Room: LNCO 2910 (Languages & Comm. Bldg) - near the north side, 2nd floor entrance
OCTOBER
11th, WEDNESDAY
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6-7:30PM, LITERATURE & HEALTHCARE DISCUSSION GROUP (virtual)
Book: Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness by Melissa Bond
Facilitator: Sadie Hoagland, PhD
Zoom link
Mtg ID: 930 9755 0766
Passcode: email for code
CME: 284056
25th, WEDNESDAY
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5:30-7PM, ETHICS EXPLORED DISCUSSION - Genetics Hot Topics: Disability in Healthcare (virtual)
Teresa Blankmeyer Burke, PhD, Gallaudet University
Zoom link
Mtg ID: 964 1254 8282
Passcode: email for code
CME: 298019
NOVEMBER
8th, WEDNESDAY
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6-7:30PM, LITERATURE & HEALTHCARE DISCUSSION GROUP (virtual)
Book: Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness by Melissa Bond
Facilitator: Sadie Hoagland, PhD
Zoom link
Mtg ID: 993 7746 2139
Passcode: email for code
CME: 312056
29th, WEDNESDAY
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5:30-7PM, ETHICS EXPLORED DISCUSSION - Genetics Hot Topics: Disability in Healthcare (hybrid)
Gretchen Case, PhD, MA, University of Utah
“Living with Disabilities in Rural Utah”
Room: EHSEB 2600
Zoom link
Mtg ID: 959 4441 8981
Passcode: email for code
CME: 333019
MARK YOUR CALENDARS NOW!
HEALTHCARE STORIES:
PROMISE
2023-24 COWAN-MAYDEN LECTURESHIP
KEISHA RAY, PhD
FACULTY NEWS
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Peggy Battin
Puzzles About Art, a book that Peggy co-authored with John Fisher, Ron Moore, and Anita Silvers, has recently appeared in Korean and is now being translated into Arabic and simplified Chinese.
![Carrie Torr](/sites/g/files/zrelqx386/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/media/images/2023/sarahb-faculty.jpg?h=5837169a&itok=ihgEAKyj)
Sarah Bernstein
Sarah was selected and trained as an official spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
![Gretchen Case](/sites/g/files/zrelqx386/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/media/images/2023/GCase%20headshot%202023.jpeg?h=4f20124f&itok=PDESMNCq)
Gretchen Case
Along with fellow faculty and Center affiliates Candace Chow, Quang-Tuyen Nguyen, and Karly Pippit, Gretchen has presented interrUpting bias trainings to units and organizations across campus.
![Madison Kilbride](/sites/g/files/zrelqx386/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/media/images/2022/madison-kilbride_small.jpg?h=a3d6b744&itok=oDODrUt4)
Madison Kilbride
Madison has completed recruiting and collecting quantitative survey data on her project, “Evaluating the Risks and Benefits of the Next Generation of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Tests.”
![Susan Sample](/sites/g/files/zrelqx386/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/media/images/2023/susan-sample-4.jpg?h=6b76c506&itok=dVyH27oY)
Susan Sample
Susan's full-length poetry collection, Trapped in the Bone-House, has been accepted for publication by the Main Street Rag Publishing Company, NC, and will be forthcoming in January 2024.
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James Tabery
On August 5, Jim's opinion piece, "A Revolution Is Coming to Medicine. Who Will It Leave Out?", ran in the New York Times in anticipation of his new book, Tyranny of the Gene: Personalized Medicine and Its Threat to Public Health, which was released August 15th through Knopf.
![Carrie Torr](/sites/g/files/zrelqx386/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/media/images/2022/carrie-torr-00969259-PH.jpg?h=d72ff27f&itok=9jTBpZCv)
Carrie Torr
Carrie recently completed the national Health Ethics Consultant Certification (HEC-C), which is a national credential earned based on expertise, competence, and skillset in clinical ethics consultation.