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Hospitals, Healthcare, and the Medical Humanities
Medical Humanities Consortium 10th Annual Meeting
May 15-16, 2012
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
4401 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA
Program
Tuesday, May 15
5:15
Opening Reception & Welcome
Lisa S. Parker, PhD, Meeting Co-Chair
Center for Bioethics & Health Law, University of Pittsburgh
6:30
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC—Mission,
Identity, and Design
Andrew H. Urbach, MD
Medical Director of External Affairs, Children’s Hospital of
Pittsburgh of UPMC, and Professor of Pediatrics, University of
Pittsburgh School of Medicine
6:45
Commencement of Guided Hospital Tours
Wednesday, May 16
8:00
Continental Breakfast
8:30
Welcome and Conference Overview
Valerie B. Satkoske, PhD, Meeting Co-Chair
Center for Bioethics & Health Law, University of Pittsburgh, and
Wheeling Hospital, Wheeling, WV
Christopher Gessner
President, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
President, Children's Community Pediatrics
8:45-10:15 Plenary Panel: Constructing the New Children’s Hospital—
Art, Architecture, and Attention to the Senses
Hospital Design and Impact on Patient Care
Andrew H. Urbach, MD
Medical Director of External Affairs, Children’s Hospital of
Pittsburgh of UPMC, and Professor of Pediatrics, University of
Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Emotional Support of Patients and Families
Elizabeth Lewis, MHA
Family Forum Co-chair, and Director, Family Service and
Resources,Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Music Therapy
Deborah Benkovitz, LSW, MSW, MT-BC
Music Therapist, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, and
Adjunct Professor of Music Therapy, Duquesne University
Child Life
Colleen A. O'Connor, MS CCLS
Child Life Specialist, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Distraction Therapy in Radiology
Kathleen Kapsin, RT (R) (M) MS
Administrative Director, Pediatric Radiology Department,
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
10:30-11:45
Concurrent Session A
A.1 Focusing on Architecture: Structuring Clinical Space
Practicing Architecture: Richard E. Schmidt and the Modern Hospital
Robert A. Glover, Graduate Student, History Department,
Northern Illinois University
The Effect of Clinic Architecture on Teamwork, Communication and
Workflow
Wagner Schorr-Ratzlaff, MD
Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical
Campus
Four Evidence-Based Guidelines to Support Coordination in Surgical
Suites
Peter Scupelli, Arch, M.Des, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University
Nursing Homes: Soul-destroying Spaces or Nurturing Places?
Rhonda L. Soricelli, MD
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Family, Community & Preventive
Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine
A.2
Constructing Bodies, Disease, and Clinical Relationships
Physical and Metaphorical Structure in Childbirth
Mary Glenn Cooper, MD
Graduate, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Body Environments: External and Internal Landscapes of the Hospital
Emilie S. Passow, PhD
Director, Certificate Program in Medical Humanities, Drexel
University
Life in Hospital: Lister, Henley, and Victorian Hospitalism
Atia Sattar, Doctoral Student, Comparative Literature, The
Pennsylvania State University
11:45-1:00 Lunch & Consortium Members Meeting
Elizabeth A. Dolan, PhD
Associate Professor of English, and Director, Health, Medicine,
and Society Program at Lehigh University
1:00-2:15
B.1
Concurrent Session B
Carrying Medical Humanities from College into Residency
From the Classroom to the Clinic: Establishing Community--Academic
Partnerships to Enhance Undergraduate Education in Medical
Humanities
Elizabeth A. Dolan, PhD
Associate Professor of English, and Director, Health, Medicine,
and Society Program at Lehigh University
A Longitudinal Resident Book Group, By Choice
Michael P. Madwed, MD
Family Physician at Group Health Cooperative
Kate Estlin, MD, Julia Shaver, MD, Sibyl Siegfried, MD and
Lynne Sullivan, MD
Third-year Residents at the Group Health Family Medicine
Residency
B.2
Constructing Clinical Identities
Effects of Health and Society in Golden Age Spanish Texts
Katherine Leibel, Student, Dickinson College
Building Cultural Understanding: The Role of the Curandera (Woman
Healer) in Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolpho Anaya
Agnes A. Cardoni, PhD
Assistant Professor, English Department, Marywood University
(Re)Constructing the Surgeon’s Identity – A Need for a New Perspective
Aviva Katz, MD, FACS, FAAP
Pediatric Surgeon, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC,
and Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh
School of Medicine
2:30-3:45
Concurrent Session C
C.1
Art in Clinic and Curriculum
Contemporary Art in Medicine: The Cleveland Clinic Art Collection
Jennifer H. Finkel, PhD
Curator, Art Program, Arts & Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic
Respecting Patient as Person: Integrating Creative Arts into Clinician
Awareness
Helen D. Blank, PhD
Director of Clinical Counseling for Vital Decisions, LLC, and
Bioethics Advisor, Healthcare Foundation Center for Humanism
in Medicine, New Jersey Medical School—UMDNJ-Newark
Devising Healthy Communities: An arts-based curricular innovation at
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Martin Kohn, PhD
Director of the Program in Medical Humanities, Center for Ethics,
Humanities and Spiritual Care, Cleveland Clinic, and
Associate Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College
of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
Katherine Burke, MFA
Adjunct Faculty, Kent State University School of Theatre and
Dance
C.2
Language and Narrative—Creating Clinical Homes and
Patient Identities
The Clinic as a Rhetorical Space: Building a Home for Patients and
Providers with Language
John Joseph Rief, Doctoral Student, Department of
Communication, University of Pittsburgh
Friendly Fire and Collateral Damage: The Language of the Clinic
Abraham Fuks, MD, CM
Professor of Medicine, McGill University
Humane Evaluation for Weight Loss Surgery: The Unrealized Power of
Candidate Narrative in Improving Selection Process and Outcomes
Amy M. VanDyke, MSW, LSW
Doctoral Student and Clinical Ethics Fellow, Center for
Healthcare Ethics, Duquesne University
3:45-5:00
Plenary Performance—Talking You In
A musical storytelling performance based in a neonatal ICU
With storyteller Dan Yashinsky, Toronto-based storyteller, and the
author of Suddenly They Heard Footsteps – Storytelling for the Twentyfirst Century, and Brian Katz, Canadian guitarist/composer