April 6, 2022 – Mentoring and Editing in Poetry 🗓March 7, 2022
Mentoring and Editing in Poetry: An Hour of Reading and Conversation between Tolu Oloruntoba and Jim Johnstone […]
Comics for science translation lecture Tuesday Feb 22nd 🗓February 21, 2022
Interested in how to expand the impact of your scientific findings to a larger audience? Wondering how to communicate your research to policymakers, patients, and beyond? […]
Health Humanities event: the poetry of psychosis 🗓October 25, 2021
The Poetics of Psychosis: Join us with poet Khashayar Mohammadi, drawing on his experiences with psychosis, and poet-physician Bahar Orang, drawing on her psychiatry training, for an integrated discussion on poetry and medicine as they relate to medical cultures and discourses of psychosis. […]
ARTS AS RESEARCH-LEARNING ARTS-BASED METHODS 🗓October 15, 2021
Arts-based research (ABR) is the use of artistic practice, such as theatre or photography, as a means to collect, analyze, and communicate research (Leavy, 2015). […]
Art is Patient: exploring visual arts + relationships in health care 🗓October 11, 2021
The course introduces learners to a series of fresh steps to see art objects. Through facilitated looking, talking and mark-making, it offers an enlightening way of meeting and understanding the people we work with. […]
Health Humanities POETRY event with Hsien Seow and Shazia Hafiz Ramji 🗓September 20, 2021
The Canadian Association for Health Humanities and the League of Canadian Poets are partnering to deliver a series of monthly rounds focused on health, arts and humanities. These live sessions will feature both artists and professionals in the Health Humanities field for a multi-faceted conversation about topics related to healthcare, art, healing, and humanities. […]
Sinai Health – Psychiatry Grand Round June 25, 2021 🗓June 16, 2021
Sinai Health - Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds - Buddhist & Western psychological models of the self and their uses in psychotherapy. […]
History of Medicine Event – June 17 (Toronto Western Hospital) 🗓June 9, 2021
I’m excited to announce an upcoming history of medicine event, organized by the Health History Interest Group in collaboration with the Art of Medicine program within the HoPingKong Centre, UHN. […]
Temerty Medicine Talks – June 18, 2021 🗓June 1, 2021
After more than a year of adjusting to life during a pandemic, it can often feel like our individual and collective anxiety levels are spinning out of control. Yet, is worry always harmful? […]
Race, Medicine and Healthcare: Indian Hospitals in 20th Century Canada 🗓March 11, 2021
As Canada embarked on national healthcare programs such as Medicare it also maintained a system of racially segregated hospitals for Indigenous people. Poorly funded and badly managed, ‘Indian hospitals’ isolated Indigenous people from modern care. This history exposes some of the twentieth-century roots of racism in healthcare. […]