16–17 March 2026, St Bartholomew Hospital (Barts), West Smithfield, London, EC1A 7BE and Guildhall Art Gallery, Guildhall Yard, London EC2V 5AE
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Muse Meets Medicine invites students, clinicians, artists, patients and educators to pause and explore what it means to be fully human in healthcare. Join us for a two-day celebration where art and medicine meet – not as opposites, but as partners in healing, learning and thriving.
Participants will have an opportunity to engage in creative practices and interdisciplinary dialogues that reveal vital connections between the humanities, medicine and the sciences. Through these art-based encounters, attendees will experience benefits that enhance clinical reasoning, empathy, communication, observation and critical thinking.
Through creative enquiry, conversation and collaboration, we open spaces for imagination, reflection and connection – attending to the human dimension often squeezed by systems that prize speed and certainty. Participants will be able to select workshops to focus on wellbeing, enhancing clinical practice, and/or enriching educational practice.
Together we ask:
What nourishes our capacity to care?
How might creativity help us see, treat and heal differently?
What does flourishing look and feel like?
Expect installations, performances, reflective workshops and shared moments of meaning-making that remind us that care is, at heart, a creative act. Join us as we co-create a flourishing space – relational, meaningful, compassionate and shadow-aware – where the muse meets medicine and new possibilities for humanising healthcare are generated.
Please be aware that some workshops involve settings or materials that include anatomical and pathological specimens.
Booking information
Tickets are £54.88 for both days. Student tickets are £11.55. Ticket includes access to all workshops and talks, refreshments on both days, a lunch voucher for 21West cafe (value £10), dinner on 16 March in the Great Hall, and free entry to the Transformations concert on 17 March. Delegates are asked to source their own accommodation if required.
Book through Eventbrite using this link (registration now closed)
This event is supported by Barts Charity and the Della Fish Foundation.
Organising committee: Dr Giampaolo Martinelli (Barts Hospital), Prof. Louise Younie (Queen Mary University of London), Dr Giskin Day (Imperial College London), and Prof. Christine Bentley (Missouri Southern State University), Megan Tjasink (Barts Hospital & Queen Mary University of London)
Faculty: Megan Tjasink (Barts Hospital & Queen Mary University of London), Director Brooke DiGiovanni Evans (Brigham & Women's Hospital), Dr Joel Katz (Dana Farber Cancer Institute), Prof. Elmira Bagherzadeh and Dr Victoria Rhodes (Missouri Southern State University)
Dr Giampaolo Martinelli
Consultant Cardiothoracic anaesthetist and intensive care
Barts Health London
Dr Giskin Day is a Principal Teaching Fellow at Imperial College London. She is course director for the BSc in Humanities, Philosophy in Law.
Dr Louise Younie is a Professor of Medical Education at Queen Mary University of London and lead for @Flourishing Spaces
Dr Christine Bentley
Professor of Art History @ Missouri Southern State University
Gallery Director @ Cragin Art Gallery
Elmira Bagherzadeh
Professor of Digital Design @ Missouri Southern State University
Megan Tjasink is Principal Art Psychotherapist @ Barts Health NHS Trust and a Doctoral Clinical Research Fellow @Queen Mary University of London
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