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
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, 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
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 -
MARK YOUR CALENDARS NOW!
HEALTHCARE STORIES:
PROMISE
2023-24 COWAN-MAYDEN LECTURESHIP
KEISHA RAY, PhD
FACULTY NEWS
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.
Sarah was selected and trained as an official spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
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 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'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.
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 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.