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Thursday, Oct 23rd
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Pacific Time
Narrative Medicine
Location: C124
Health Humanities
Thursday, Oct 23rd
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Pacific Time
Artificial Intelligence and the Medicalization of Grief: Historical, Literary, and Ethical Perspectives
Location: A107-109
Andrew Lea, MD, DPhil
– Harvard Medical School
Sarah Hagaman, PhD
– Vanderbilt University
Jonathan Herington, PhD (he/him/his)
– University of Rochester
Health Humanities
Thursday, Oct 23rd
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Pacific Time
Composing Illness, Death, and Dying: Establishing Music as Narrative Medicine
Location: C124
Michael Certo, MD, MA, MM
– Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Health Humanities
Thursday, Oct 23rd
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Pacific Time
Echoes of the Uncanny: Evaluating Tolerance for Ambiguity and Reflective Capacity in Medical Students and Residents
Location: A103-104
Andrew Childress, PhD
– Baylor College of Medicine
Health Humanities
Thursday, Oct 23rd
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Pacific Time
Episodic and Autobiographical Memory as Cognitive Affordances of Narrative
Location: C124
Marianne Parrish Florian, PhD, MTS, MA (she/her/hers)
– UTHealth - Houston
Health Humanities
Thursday, Oct 23rd
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Pacific Time
The Ethical Tensions of Narrative Medicine: Storytelling and the Face-to-Face Encounter
Location: C124
Erik Larsen, PHD ((he/him/his))
– URSMD
Health Humanities
Thursday, Oct 23rd
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Pacific Time
"Catapulted into the land of the sick:" A Performance Autoethnography
Location: A103-104
Katherine Burke, MFA ((she/her/hers))
– Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Health Humanities
Thursday, Oct 23rd
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Pacific Time
Theater and the Role of the “Good Patient”
Location: C123
Joelle M. Robertson-Preidler, PhD, HEC-C (she/her/hers)
– McGovern Medical School, UTHealth Houston
Gretchen Case, n/a
– University of Utah
Health Humanities
Thursday, Oct 23rd
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Pacific Time
At the Interface of Sport and Bioethics
Location: B113-114
Jenny Clark Schiff, PhD, MA, MA
– Stanford
Leslie P. Francis, Ph.D., J.D.
– University of Utah
Daniel S. Goldberg, JD, PhD
– University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Alexandra Capellini, MD, MS
– Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan
Health Humanities
Thursday, Oct 23rd
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Pacific Time
Bridging culture and care through narrative design of AI systems.
Location: B110-111
Jarrel Kristan Zakhary De Matas, PhD
– University of Texas Medical Branch
Health Humanities
Thursday, Oct 23rd
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Pacific Time
TalkRx: Building Community through Live Storytelling
Location: A103-104
Pablo Romano, MD ((he/him/his))
– Columbia University
Dasha Savage, MD
– University of Pennsylvania
Jenny Tiskus, MD
– UCSF
Health Humanities
Friday, Oct 24th
7:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Pacific Time
A Refractory Gaze: The Power of Figurative Painting in Medical Advocacy
Location: Networking Hall
Jang Lee, MPH (he/him/his)
– Stanford Medicine
Health Humanities
Friday, Oct 24th
7:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Pacific Time
Legacy: A Durational Performance of Medical/Health Professional Education
Location: Networking Hall
Gretchen Case, n/a
– University of Utah
Health Humanities
Friday, Oct 24th
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Pacific Time
Bending Toward Justice: An Experiment in Queer Ethics
Location: A105
Brandon Ambrosino, n/a
– Villanova University
Health Humanities
Friday, Oct 24th
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Pacific Time
Beyond Marginalization: Rethinking Dignity, Disability, and Care in Bioethics
Location: B115-116
Jaroslaw Ludwik Mikuczewski, PhD
– Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago, and Jesuit University Ignatianum Krakow
Health Humanities
Friday, Oct 24th
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Pacific Time
From Settled Consensus to Uncertainty: Polio’s Postmodern Travels
Location: A106
Bernice L. Hausman, PhD
– Penn State College of Medicine
Heidi Y. Lawrence, PhD
– George Mason University
Douglas Diekema, MD, MPH (he/him/his)
– University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle Children’s Research Institute
Elena Conis, PhD
– University of California, Berkeley
Health Humanities
Friday, Oct 24th
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Pacific Time
The Legacy of Eugenics
Location: C120-122
Alisa Zezetko, MD, MBA
– ECU Health Medical Center
Inmaculada de Melo-Martin, PhD
– Weill Cornell Medicine--Cornell University
Ana Iltis, PhD
– Wake Forest University
Health Humanities
Friday, Oct 24th
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Pacific Time
AI: End of Life Care
Location: B112
Health Humanities
Friday, Oct 24th
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Pacific Time
Health Humanities and the Public
Location: Oregon Ballroom 203
Health Humanities
Friday, Oct 24th
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Pacific Time
Moral Injury and Moral Agency
Location: B119
Health Humanities
Friday, Oct 24th
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Pacific Time
At the Origin of the Antivax Movement: Fiction as a Means to Renew Public Dialogue
Location: Oregon Ballroom 203
Paola Nicolas, PhD, MBE, HEC-C
– Montefiore Einstein Center for Bioethics
Health Humanities
Friday, Oct 24th
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Pacific Time
Breast Cancer Risk and Hormone Replacement Therapy: A Study of Rhetorical Uncertainty across Technical, Public, and Personal Spheres of Argumentation
Location: Oregon Ballroom 203
Kelly Pender, PhD
– Virginia Tech
Health Humanities
Friday, Oct 24th
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Pacific Time
Dearly (Un)Departed: Why the Digital Resurrection of Children is Uniquely Morally Complex
Location: B112
Johnna Wellesley, PhD
– Weill Cornell Medicine
Health Humanities
Friday, Oct 24th
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Pacific Time
Empathy is not a Multiple-Choice Test: Critiquing the Claim that AI can Provide Greater Empathy than Healthcare Providers
Location: B112
Devora Shapiro, PhD (she/her/hers)
– Ohio Univ - College of Medicine
Health Humanities
Friday, Oct 24th
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Pacific Time
Examining Moral Injury Among Gaza’s Healthcare Workers
Location: B119
Basel M. Tarab, n/a
– Harvard Medical School
Health Humanities
Friday, Oct 24th
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Pacific Time
National Bioethics Commissions: What their history reveals about their disappearance
Location: Oregon Ballroom 203
Amanda M. Buster (she/her/hers)
– Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics
Health Humanities
Friday, Oct 24th
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Pacific Time
Predicting Death: Multi-Level Ethical Implications of Utilizing Mortality Prediction Algorithms in End-of-Life Care
Location: B112
Anita Ho, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers)
– UBC/UCSF/CommonSpirit Health
Health Humanities
Friday, Oct 24th
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Pacific Time
Tolerance for Ambiguity: a practical tool kit for medical educators and healthcare spaces
Location: A106
Tana Jean Welch, PhD (she/her/hers)
– Florida State University College of Medicine
Danielle Wilfand (she/her/hers)
– Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Samantha A. Chipman, BA, MA (she/her/hers)
– Emory University
Jennifer A. Umezinwa, MA, Phd (Fall 2025) (she/her/hers)
– Morgan State University
Health Humanities
Friday, Oct 24th
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Pacific Time
Medical Artificial Intelligence in Film
Location: C120-122
Sonora Grimsted, MDiv (she/her/hers)
– Vanderbilt University
Health Humanities
Friday, Oct 24th
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Pacific Time
Narrative Medicine’s Literary Studies: Towards Structural Reading
Location: C120-122
Matty Hemming, PhD (she/her/hers)
– Rice University
Health Humanities
Friday, Oct 24th
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Pacific Time
Cross-Disiplinary Approaches to Death and Dying
Location: B112
Health Humanities
Friday, Oct 24th
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Pacific Time
A Fate Worse Than?: Pain, Dependency, and Death in American Culture
Location: B112
Megan Crowley-Matoka, PhD
– Northwestern University
Health Humanities
Friday, Oct 24th
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Pacific Time
A Narrative Exploration of the Impacts of Climate Change on the Health of the Unhoused Population in Washtenaw County, MI
Location: Oregon Ballroom 203
Samira Mehta, n/a
– University of Michigan Medical School
Health Humanities
Friday, Oct 24th
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Pacific Time
Dialogues on Mental Health Records
Location: Oregon Ballroom 203
Elizabeth Stauber, n/a
– University of Texas at Austin
Health Humanities
Friday, Oct 24th
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Pacific Time
Revisiting the Bioethical Challenges of Normothermic Regional Perfusion (NRP) and changing landscape of life and death
Location: B112
Blessing Temitope Adewuyi, MA, MSC (she/her/hers)
– University of Georgia
Health Humanities
Friday, Oct 24th
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Pacific Time
The Incomplete Medicalization of Orthorexia Nervosa in an Age of Healthism
Location: Oregon Ballroom 203
Lorenah E. Vásquez, MSHS (she/her)
– UT Medical Branch
Health Humanities
Friday, Oct 24th
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Pacific Time
When to Say “No”? Reproductive Justice, Disability Ethics, and Obstetric Violence
Location: C125-126
Anna Fasman, n/a
– University of Michigan Medical School
Health Humanities
Friday, Oct 24th
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Pacific Time
Human Anatomy in History and the Arts
Location: B119
Health Humanities
Friday, Oct 24th
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Pacific Time
Discovery and Distress: Medical Student’s Reflection on Anatomy through Graphic Medicine
Location: B119
Elizabeth J. Vojvoda, B.S.
– Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Health Humanities
Friday, Oct 24th
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Pacific Time
The Placenta Illustrated: Visual Erasure and the Ethics of Medical Representation
Location: B119
Tarushi Sharma, n/a
– Feinberg Medical School
Health Humanities
Friday, Oct 24th
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Pacific Time
Bioethics After God: An Exploration of Weak Bioethics and Strong Bioethics
Location: A105
Joseph C. Parker, MD, PHD
– East Carolina University
Ana Iltis, PhD
– Wake Forest University
Mark Cherry, PhD
– St. Edward's University
Health Humanities
Friday, Oct 24th
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Pacific Time
Bioethics Beyond the Prose: Creating Music and Verse to Make a Point
Location: A107-109
Molly Sinderbrand, n/a (she/her/hers)
– University of Pennsylvania
Health Humanities
Saturday, Oct 25th
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Pacific Time
Health Humanities and Professional Development
Location: C123
Health Humanities
Saturday, Oct 25th
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Pacific Time
A Shared Repository: Integrating Narrative Literature in Clinical Ethics Education
Location: C123
Georgia Loutrianakis, PhD
– Wellstar Health System
Health Humanities
Saturday, Oct 25th
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Pacific Time
Autism, the Intact Mind, and The Telepathy Tapes
Location: B117-118
Amy Lutz, n/a
– University of Pennsylvania
Health Humanities
Saturday, Oct 25th
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Pacific Time
Educators' Insights on High-Quality Health Humanities Programs in Baccalaureate, Graduate, and Health Professions Education
Location: C123
Sean Eli McCormick, MA (he/him/his)
– Case Western Reserve University
Health Humanities
Saturday, Oct 25th
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Pacific Time
Re-writing the Final Chapter: The origins of advance directives and end-of-life care in the 1960s
Location: A103-104
Amanda M. Buster (she/her/hers)
– Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics
Health Humanities
Saturday, Oct 25th
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Pacific Time
Survivor, Previvor, Preventer: How Narrative Shapes Experiences and Decisions Around Cancer and Mastectomy
Location: B112
Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD, HEC-C (he/him/his)
– Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Meidicine
Cara E. Texler, MD, MPH (she/her/hers)
– The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Nationwide Children's Hospital
Nanette Elster, JD, MPH (she/her/hers)
– Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Meidicine
Joanna Rudnick, MA
– Storied Studios
Health Humanities
Saturday, Oct 25th
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Pacific Time
Plenary: Confessions of a Long-Term Lab Rat
Location: B113-116
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Health Humanities
Saturday, Oct 25th
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Pacific Time
Visuals and stories: Privacy, consent and anonymity in medical publications
Location: B117-118
Christine Slobogin, MA, PhD
– University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Lainie F. Ross, MD, PhD (she/her/hers)
– University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Trisha K. Paul, MD
– St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Edmund Grant Howe, III, MD, JD
– University of the Health Sciences (USUHS)
Health Humanities