Health Humanities Grand Rounds

Upcoming Health Humanities & Bioethics Grand Rounds

Grand Rounds are usually held on the 1^st and 3^rd Thursdays of each month at noon.
Below is a list of presentations, some with links to the recording of the presentation.

Past Health Humanities & Bioethics Noon Grand Rounds

• Routine Genome Sequencing of Newborns: Who, What, When, How
  Ellen Wright Clayton, MD, JD, Professor, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Evaluation Form
  
• To Suffer What We Can’t Evade: What Is Medicine’s Role in Responding to Suffering?
  Tyler Tate MD, MA, Clinical Associate Professor, Stanford University Evaluation Form
• Interviews With Rural Physicians On Medical Ethics Experiences and Training
  Henry Skocy, Medical Student, UR School of Medicine and Dentistry Evaluation Form
• The Art of Public Health
  Anna Arabindan-Kesson, PhD., Associate Professor, Princeton University Evaluation Form
  
• When in Doubt, 'Trope' it Out
  Elizabeth Adetiba, PhD, Assistant Professor, URMC Evaluation Form
  
• Social Prescribing to Address Mental Health & Loneliness
  Chris Appleton, Founder & CEO, Art Pharmacy Evaluation Form
  
• Medical Decision Making, Ethics, and Behavioral Economics: How You Influence Your Patients
  Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby, PhD, MA, Cullen Professor of Medical Ethics,Baylor College of Medicine Evaluation Form
  
• A Matter of Materials: Toy Safety from 1950 to 2025
  Alex Parry, PhD. Assistant Professor, URMC Evaluation Form
  
• Can Medical Ethics Education Shape Competent, Resilient, and Patient-Centered Physicians?
  Angira Patel, MD, MPH, Pediatric & Fetal Cardiologist, Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago Evaluation Form
• Tangled Webs: Communication, Facts, and Knowledge in the Age of Misinformation
  Laura Whitebell, PhD Associate Professor of Writing, URMC Evaluation Form
  
• Reclaimed Hysteria in Contemporary Standup Comedy
  Sarah Hagaman, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Rochester Evaluation Form
  
• Promoting Values Considerations in Biomedical AI Development
  Mildred Cho, PhD, Professor, Stanford University Evaluation Form
  
• Bluejays and Footballs: Vernacular Abortion Knowledge in 1950s Baltimore
  Mary Fissell, PhD, Johns Hopkins University Evaluation Form
• A Ladder of Hope: The Religious Capacity to Aspire under Medical Authoritarianism in North China
  Ray Qu, PhD, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Rochester Evaluation Form
• Becoming an Ethical Historian: Lessons from and for the History of Medicine 
  Courtney E. Thompson, PhD, Associate Professor, Mississippi State University Evaluation Form
• Medical AI at the Metroplex: How Films Have Shaped Expectations About Technologically Assisted Physicians, 1925-2025
  Jay Clayton, PhD Vanderbilt University Evaluation Form
• From Bloodletting to WebMD: Lessons on Medical MisInformation from the Middle Ages
  Caleb Prus, MSt, MS4, UR SMD. Evaluation Form
• AI in Medicine: Legal and Ethical Issues
  I. Glenn Cohen, JD, Professor and Deputy Dean Harvard Law School Evaluation Form
• Layers in Communication - Recognition and Handling
  Pål Gulbrandsen, MD, PhD, Professor, University of Oslo and Akershus University Hospital, Norway. Evaluation Form
• Moral Distress and Mattering: Developing a Moral Community Framework
  Beth Epstein, PhD, RN, Professor, School of Nursing, University of Virginia. Evaluation Form
• Addressing Health Disparities in Pediatric Eye Care:  A Call to Action
  Megan Collins, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins Center for School Health. Evaluation Form
• Dear Grandma, Thank You for the Cut Fruit: Reflections on Family, Food and Health Through Narrative Medicine
  Geena Choo, Year-Out Medical Student, University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry. Evaluation Form
• Cultivating a Writing Life: Reflections From a Senior Family Physician
  Colleen Fogarty, MD, MSc, Chair, Department of Family Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center. Evaluation Form
• Transforming Post-Traumatic Stress Through Theatre
  Amy Erikson, Creator & Director of Visceral, and Nancy Smith-Watson, Program Director of Feast of Crispian. Evaluation Form
• Using Visual Arts to Enhance Healthcare Training and Opportunities
  Brooke DiGiovanni Evans, EdM, Director of Visual Arts Education, Bringham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard University Medical School. Evaluation Form
• Entanglements of Madness and Recovery in ‘Mad’ Narratives
  Anu Ahmed, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Rochester. Evaluation Form
• “Poetry as the Parallel Chart”
  Maya Sorini, MS, Medical Students, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine. Evaluation Form
• “On The Fence: Using Photography to Explore Queer, Transgender, Arab Identity”
  Sabrina Sayegh, Medical Student, University of Rochester - This seminar is not eligible for continuing education credit
• “A Strange New Art: How Visual Culture Has Defined Plastic Surgery”
  Christine Slobogin, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Humanities & Bioethics, University of Rochester. Evaluation Form.
• “How Creative Arts Give Shape, Meaning, and Healing Power to Shame Experiences in Healthcare”
  Will Bynum, MD, Program Director of Family Medicine Residency, Duke University
• “Learning From the Past”
  Wendy Gonaver, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Health Humanities & Bioethics, University of Rochester
• “Exploring the Influence of Hospital Soundscapes on Wellness”
  Bronwen McVeigh, MS, Musicology Student, University of Rochester Eastman School of Music
• “Cradle to Grave: Death Rituals Across Ages and US Cultures”
  Erin Denney-Koelsch, MD, Associate Professor of Palliative Care, University of Rochester
• “Study and Practice: The Medicine of Music Creation”
  Amanda Chow, Medical Student, University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry
• "We Are What We Listen To: The impact of music on individual and social health"
  Patricia Caicedo, Soprano/musicologist
  This seminar is not eligible for CME
• “The Aesthetics of Kindness: An Artist Talk & Workshop”
  Presented by: Heather Layton, Associate Professor of Art in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Rochester. Evaluation Form
• “Picturing Complexity: Landscape Webs”
  Presented by: Sarah Sutton, current exhibition at Penn State University HUB-Robeson Galleries titled “Sticky Mirror”. Evaluation Form
• “Short Stories on Gun Violence & Conversations They Inspire”
  Presented by: Rachel Hall, English Professor, SUNY Geneseo. Evaluation Form
• “Making Space for Story: Pandemic Narratives of New Mexican LGBTQ+ Older Adults”
  Presented by: Allison Ogawa, 4^th year Medical Student, University of Rochester. Evaluation Form
• “Drawing on and from healthcare”
  Presented by: Kriota Willberg, MFA-IA, LMT, a massage therapist, former health science educator, oncology massage educator, occasional anatomical illustrator & cartoonist. Evaluation Form
• "The Medium of Madness", Artistic portrayals of 'madness' by those with mental illness.
  Presented By: Davy Ran, MSc MPH, artist, writer, and 4th year medical student. Evaluation Form
• "Kaionnì:ke Karì:ware: On Wampum and the Paths of Healing",
  Presented By:Rohsennase Dalton LaBarge
  "Kinetic Light", Alice Sheppard, Founder and Artistic Director of Kinetic Light
• "The Reel Mind Film Festival"
  Ruth Cowing, Co-Founder and Programming Director of the Reel Mind Film Series 
  Larry Guttmacher, Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychiatry and Health Humanities, one of the founders of the Reel
  Mind Film Festival
  Sonia Hadchiti, Lebanon. Co-Director of Reel Mind Film Festival
• "Exploring the Lived Experiences of Adolescents/Young Adults with Sickle Cell DiseaseExploring the Lived Experiences of Adolescents/Young Adults with Sickle Cell Disease"
  Sara Peterson, SMD Class of '22
• "Unpacking the Willard Suitcases"
• "Assessing & Affirming Individual Responses to Music in Therapy Groups"
  Presented by Betsey King, PhD, MT-BC
  Associate Professor of Music Therapy and Graduate Program Director at Nazareth College
• "The Mindful Art Pause"
  Presented by Susan Daiss, MA, MDiv, Senior Associate, Health Humanities
  Patricia Luck, MBChB(MD), MPhil PallMed, MSc MedHum, Assistant Professor, Health Humanities
  Gaelen McCormick, MA, Program Manager, Eastman Performing Arts Medicine
• "Creativity, Community & Belonging"
  Presented by Sarah Kinard, Creative Wellness Opportunities, Mental Health Association
• "Psychiatry's Bridge Art Gallery: An Innovation for Mental Health Turns Ten Years Old"
  Presented by Eric Caine, MD; Amanda Lai, BA; and Caroline Nestro, PhD, MS, RN
• "Invisible in Life, Invisible in Death: A History of Living and Dying in Three Monroe County Social Welfare Institutions"
  Presented by Ryan Thibodeau, PhD, Professor of Psychology at St. John Fisher College
• "Wall/Therapy"
  Presented by Erich Lehman
• "Community Earth Altars"
  Presented by Jeanette Jemison (Mohawk, Snipe Clan), program director of the Friends of Ganondagan
  For more information, go to Healing Through the Arts and Humanities: Healing Through Earth Altars.
• "Building Trust: Environmental Services Employees and Patient Care"
  Panelists: Jeff Brooks, Ernest Ellerby, Terri Fields, Barbara Henry and Mannix Scott
• "The Road to Abolition in Child Welfare Policy: Historical Views"
  Presented by Mical Raz, MD, PhD, MSHP, Charles E. and Dale L. Phelps Professor in Public Policy and Health, Associate Professor of History and Medicine
• "Anatomy Remodeled: Historical Anatomical Models Enlivening Modern Dissection"
  Presented by Deborah Yu, Y4 Medical Student, UR SM&D
• "A Mind Diseased: Phenomenology of Psychopathology in Shakespeare"
  Presented by Matthew Dernbach, Y4 Medical Student, UR SMD
• "Overview of Health Insurance and Reform Efforts"
  Presented by Samuel Ogie, MBA, Director of Health Sciences Programs, UR Simon School of Business
• "In Their Own Words: A Narrative Medicine Approach to the Transgender Transition Memoir"
  Presented by Allison Shen, Medical Student, SMD
  Video recording of presentation (URMC login required to view)
• "It Takes a Village: A Multidisciplinary Trauma-Informed Care Curriculum for Medical Students"
  Presented by Michelle Shankar, Medical Student, SMD
  Video recording of presentation (URMC login required to view)
• "Narratives of Pain: Exploring the Medical and Personal Implications of Kerala’s Palliative Care"
  Presented by Ramya Sampath, Medical Student, SMD
  Video recording of presentation (URMC login required to view)
• "Intersections of Art Analysis and Medical Diagnosis"
  Presented by Siobhan Conaty, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Art History, LaSalle University
  Video recording of presentation (URMC login required to view)
• "Dissecting Anatomy Lab: Anatomical Gift Giving in Medical Education" - Sept 2018
  Presented by Kathryn Crofton, Medical Student, School of Medicine & Dentistry
  Video recording of presentation (URMC login required to view)
• "Underground Medicine: North Vietnam's Wartime Medicine 1946-1975" - May 2018
  Presented by William Archibald, Y4 Medical Student, UR School of Medicine & Dentistry
  Video recording of presentation (URMC login required to view)
• "Socioeconomic Mobility & Healthcare: A Discussion of Current Trends and Healthcare Interventions to Increase Mobility" - March 2018
  Presented by Howard Lanney, Y4 Medical Student, UR School of Medicine & Dentistry
  Video recording of presentation (URMC login required to view)
• "Homeless Voices: Stories from the Streets of New York City" - Feb 2018
  Presented by Bethanne Bartscherer, Y2 Medical Student, UR School of Medicine & Dentistry
  Video recording of presentation (URMC login required to view)
• "Models for Change: How the World does Health Care" - Jan 2018
  Presented by Richard Dees, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Philosophy and Medical Humanities & Bioethics
  Video recording of presentation (URMC login required to view)
• "Social Justice and Health Care: Some Philosophical Considerations" - Nov 2017
  Presented by William FitzPatrick, Ph.D., Gideon Webster Burbank Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, Department of Philosophy
  Video recording of presentation (URMC login required to view)
• "Health Policy During the Trump Administration" - Oct 2017
  Presented by Theodore M. Brown, Ph.D., Professor of History and Phelps Professor of Public Health & Policy
  Video recording of presentation (URMC login required to view)
• "Overview of Health Insurance and Reform Efforts" - Sept 2017
  Presented by Samuel Ogie, MBA, Director, Health Sciences Programs, Simon School of Business, UR
  Video recording of presentation (URMC login required to view)
• "Constructing a Curriculum: The Architectural History of the American Medical School" - May 2017
  presented by Nicholas Hogan, Medical Student, UR School of Medicine & Dentistry
  Video recording of presentation (URMC login required to view)
• "Of the Student, By the Student, For the Student:  A Palliative Care Curriculum Based in Experiential Learning and Self-Reflection" - April 2017
  presented by Stephen Miranda, Medical Student, UR School of Medicine & Dentistry
  Video recording of presentation (URMC login required to view)
• "Exposing the Cadaver:  Dissection Photography, Abjection, and the Identity of the American Medical Student 1876 - 1926" - March 2017
  presented by Brandon Zimmerman, Graduate Student, Photographic Preservation and Collections Management, University of Rochester and George Eastman Museum
  Video recording of presentation (URMC login required to view)
• "Anatomy Remodeled:  Historical Anatomical Models Enlivening Modern Dissection" - Feb 2017
  presented by Deborah Yu, Medical Student, URSMD
  Video recording of presentation (URMC login required to view)
• "Creating a Community Based Advocacy Course" - Dec 2016
  presented by Howard Lanney, Medical Student, UR School of Medicine & Dentistry
  Video recording of presentation (URMC login required to view)
• "Dead Bodies in Medical Education: A history of the science and art of anatomy from Hippocrates to the Visible Human Project" - Nov 2016
  presented by Stephanie Brown Clark, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Medical Humanities & Bioethics; Director, Division of Medical Humanities & Bioethics
  Video recording of presentation (URMC login required to view)
• "Got Mortality?  Courageous Conversations in a Death-Denying Culture" - Oct 2016
  presented by Michael Brennan, FNP, St. Joseph's Neighborhood Center
  Video recording of presentation (URMC login required to view)