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H.E.A.L.T.H.
Healthcare Education & Learning Through Humanities
A free conference for health professions educators and learners
Bethesda, MD
May 30, 2025
Continuing Medical Education/Continuing Education (CME/CE) credits offered
Join us for a day-long opportunity for health professions educators to explore how they can bring the arts and humanities to life!
Join us for a day-long opportunity for health professions educators to explore how they can bring the arts and humanities to life!
Featuring plenary talks, experiential workshops by leading experts, ongoing innovations in the arts and humanities in health professions education, and opportunities to meet like-minded educators, learners, and clinicians
Continuing Medical Education/Continuing (CME/CE) credits offered
Schedule Overview
Schedule Overview
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Registration, coffee, and opening musical performances
Opening Address featuring Lisa Howley, “Fundamental Role of Arts and Humanities in Medical Education”
Plenary featuring Seema Reza
Mini-Experience Workshops, including "Writing as Healing", "Movement as Medicine", "Visual Thinking Strategies for Enhanced Clinical Skills", and "History of Medicine"
Art-based connections and networking at lunch (provided)
"Pecha Kucha" featuring new and exciting ideas in arts and humanities in health professions education
Mini experience workshops, including "Music as Medicine", "Medical Improv", and "Mask Making"
E-posters showcasing innovations in the arts and humanities in health professions education featured and displayed throughout the day
MedHeart Consortium
MedHeart Consortium
Kamna Balhara
Kamna Balhara
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Co-Director Health Humanities at Hopkins EM,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Humanities interests: Visual art and museum-based education, literature, narrative medicine, and history of medicine, especially as applied to health equity
Jessica Bunin
Jessica Bunin
Associate Dean for Community and Educational Culture
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD
Humanities interests: Music, poetry, cooking, and baking
Elizabeth Greene
Elizabeth Greene
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD
Humanities interests: How health care providers' skills in empathy, communication, and critical thinking, and how humanities impact health care provider wellness.
Gayle (Hava) Haischer-Rollo
Gayle (Hava) Haischer-Rollo
Assistant Dean of Faculty Development
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD
Humanities interests: Writing, music, improv and faculty development
Jeanmarie (Gigi) Rey
Jeanmarie (Gigi) Rey
Assistant Dean of Community
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD
Humanities interests: Music, interprofessional education, and using visual arts to promote reflection and clinical reasoning
Elyse Pierre
Elyse Pierre
Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD
Humanities interests: Music, reflective writing/narrative storytelling, culinary arts, and gardening
Adam Saperstein
Adam Saperstein
Vice Chair for Education, Dept. of Family Medicine
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD
Humanities interests: Medical Improvisation, Metacognition, and Reflective Practice
Seth Schobel
Seth Schobel
Associate Professor and Scientific Director - SC2i
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD
Humanities interests: Intersection between bioinformatics, AI/ML, and art in scientific research and human health
This conference is funded by a grant through the Uniformed Services University (USU) Interprofessional Education Fund.
USU Faculty and Students who are interested in learning more about future Interprofessional Education Fund opportunities, can click here.
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