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Events at the Intersection of Creativity and Medicine

Here are some events compiled by our newest editor – Richard Wu, who will be curating events and opportunities for this website. Want to submit your event to be featured? Email doctorswhocreate@gmail.com Events: The Pro-Social Play: International Conference on Storytelling and Well-Being Across Media Borders conference will

Upcoming Opportunities at the Intersection of Art and Medicine

Our newest editor, Richard Wu, will be compiling opportunities and events that might interest the Doctors Who Create community. Here are some interesting opportunities and deadlines coming up – keep checking our site for more!  Want to submit your opportunity to be featured? Email doctorswhocreate@gmail.com Opportunities: The Robert H. Moser Essay Contest

First Gold Humanism Summit

The Gold Foundation will be hosting its first Gold Humanism Summit from October 27-30, 2019 in Orlando, Florida, and the summit will be a special opportunity to come together with fellow champions of humanistic care. More information will be posted at: https://www.gold-foundation.org/events/international-gold-humanism-summit/

Submit to a new online literary journal

The Center for Healthcare Narratives, housed within the MedStar Institute for Quality & Safety (MIQS), has recently launched Please See Me, a new online literary journal.  The journal features health- and healthcare-related stories in the form of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and digital media. Publishing work written by patients, family members,

Nursing and Health Care History Conference

The 36th Annual Nursing and Health Care History Conference will be September 19-21, 2019 at the Sheraton Downtown Dallas Hotel in Dallas, TX. More information can be found here: https://www.aahn.org/future-conferences

Present at the Examined Life Conference

The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine will host its 13th annual 3-day Examined Life Conference from October 24-26, 2019. The conference will focus on the links between medicine and the arts. Presentation registration ends on April 30, 2019, and more information

Abstract deadline: 2019 International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine

The 2019 International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine, which is taking place May 17 at the Centre for Life in Newcastle in the UK), is accepting abstracts for poster presentations. The submission deadline is April 15, 2019 at 12:00 midnight GMT, and there is more information on their website here: http://www.hippocrates-poetry.org/poetry-and-medicine-events-2/10th-hippocrates-conference/index.html