Events

Thursday, February 16, 2012, 6 to 8:30 PM

Applying MRI/A in Fontans

by Keren Hasbani, MD, Pediatric Cardiology, Cardiac MRI and Fetal Echocardiography,

Advocate Lutheran General Children's Hospital.

Location:Advocate Lutheran General Children's Hospital, 1775 Dempster Street, Park Ridge, IL.

In Sasser Conference Room located on the 10th floor,

adjacent to the cafeteria. Bring case material on CD or Flash Drive.

Reception starts at 6:00 PM.  Presentation and case discussion immediately following.

Bring case material on CD or Flash Drive.

Complimentary 

RSVP to Deb Toff at 847-723-5578 or deb.toff@advocatehealth.com

Response art is the artwork of the caregiver. Dr. Fish provides stories of personal challenges in therapeutic work with youth from hospital, residential, day treatment, and school settings. It offers response art as a tool to contain, explore, and express the experience of treating others while caring for ourselves.

Barbara Fish, PhD, ATR-BC, is on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois and the Graduate Art Therapy Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Dr. Fish has worked with children and adolescents affected by trauma in hospital, residential, day treatment, and school settings. She specializes in program development and supervision. As an artist, therapist, and educator, she uses response art as a central resource to process and learn from her practice.

Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Time: Refreshments: 5PM–5:30PM; Program: 5:30PM–6:30PM

Location: UIC College of Nursing, 845 S. Damen, Chicago, Room 158

Parking Information: Parking garage on Taylor and Polk. Street parking available on Taylor.

Cost: $20 suggested donation, complimentary admission for students

Dr. Ansell will be discussing his book County: Life, Death and Politics at Chicago’s Public Hospital, which was reviewed in the New York Times. County covers more than 30 years of its history, beginning in the late 1970s when the author began his internship, to the "Last Rounds" when hundreds of former trainees gathered to bid the enormous, iconic, Victorian hospital building an emotional farewell when it was closed to make way for a new facility.

County is about people, from Ansell's mentors including the legendary Quentin Young, to the multitude of patients whom he and County's medical staff labored to diagnose and heal under battle-field conditions. It is a story about politics, from contentious union strikes and demonstrations to battles against "patient dumping" and public health. It depicts the cruel unfairness of a health care system that perpetuates health care inequality for poor people.

Finally, it is about an idealistic young man’s medical education in urban America, a coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of race, segregation and poverty. As an advocate of single-payer health insurance, Ansell concludes with an observation of the healthcare overhaul of 2010 as a large Band-Aid to a fundamentally flawed national system.

The memoir is available for $29.95 at the book signing following the lecture. Cash and all major credit cards accepted.

David A. Ansell, MD, MPH is Chief Medical Officer at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Previously he worked at Cook County Hospital and the Sinai Health System where he helped found the Sinai Urban Health Institute, a leading health disparity research center. He serves on the Cook County Health System Board of Directors. Dr. Ansell has written extensively about health disparities.

Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Time: Program: 4PM–5PM; Refreshments: 5PM–5:30PM

Location: Cook County Hospital, 627 S. Wood St., Chicago, 1st floor auditorium

Parking Information: Cook County Hospital parking on Wood & Polk. Enter Polk street at light. $3 parking voucher available at lecture.

Cost: Free

April is Sexual Abuse Awareness month. This program explores how to give long term support to sexual abuse victims and how art helped them on their road to healing. Jean Cozier, a sexual abuse survivor, will discuss her personal story and explain the issues of retraumatization, which keeps survivors from getting the health care they need. Walking us through the galleries, Cozier will tell the stories of the exhibited artists and the results of their healing process after utilizing art as a form of expression.

Jean Cozier is a writer, musician, and sexual abuse survivor who has worked with rape and sexual abuse survivors since 1998. She created The Awakenings Foundation in 2010 to create a safe place to showcase and support artists, writers, and musicians who use artistic expression as a means of healing and empowerment. She is also the founder of the Judith Dawn Memorial Fund for the Arts and the author of Dear Judith.

For more information, visit: www.awakeningsfoundation.net.

The Awakenings Foundation Center and Gallery contains the only known permanent collection of artworks created solely by rape and sexual abuse survivors. The mission of the foundation is to support and showcase the healing of rape and sexual abuse survivors who pursue the creative arts, and to share their stories with the public as a means of raising awareness about the problems faced by rape and sexual abuse survivors in our society.

Date: Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Time: Refreshments: 5PM–5:30PM; Program: 5:30PM–6:30PM

Location: The Awakenings Foundation, 4001 N. Ravenswood Ave., Chicago. The foundation is located on the east side of the Metra tracks (there are two Ravenswood Avenues, one on either side).

Parking Information: Off-street parking available on both sides of Ravenswood Ave.

Cost: $20 suggested donation to support The Awakenings Foundation. Complimentary admission for students.

Co-presented with the Chicago Society of History and Medicine, Hektoen Nurses & Humanities Group, and the Section of General Internal Medicine at University of Chicago

This presentation will examine the public health campaigns, conversations, and stories of HIV and AIDS in Kenya. Dr. Patricia Kay Felkins will present information from her ethnographic research, her grassroots experience with AIDS organizations, and support groups for women living with AIDS. The goal of her research is to document the language, images, and perceptions related to the virus and how people create meaning in their conversations and stories. This knowledge teaches us how to communicate more effectively with young people about HIV and AIDS.

Patricia K. Felkins, Ph.D., is the Co-Founder and Vice President of the Africa Circle of Hope Foundation, which supports programs for women and children in East Africa impacted by AIDS and poverty. She has been traveling to Africa each year since 2002 to conduct research, monitor programs, and collaborate with community leaders to develop new grassroots initiatives. Dr. Felkins has written four books on communication, organizational development, and public relations. She is currently working on a new book about the impact of nonprofits and innovative strategies for responsive and sustainable nonprofit organizations. Dr. Felkins is an associate professor in the School of Communication at Loyola University Chicago and the founding Director of the Advertising and Public Relations Program.

Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Time: Refreshments: 5PM–5:30PM; Program: 5:30PM–6:30PM

Location: University of Chicago School of Medicine, 5841 S. Maryland Ave, Chicago

Parking Information: The University of Chicago parking structure is located on Maryland Ave and Cottage Grove. For additional parking information call the Hospital Parking Office at 773-702-6257.

Cost: $20 suggested donation

Dr. Ansell will be discussing his book County: Life, Death and Politics at Chicago’s Public Hospital, which was reviewed in the New York Times. County covers more than 30 years of its history, beginning in the late 1970s when the author began his internship, to the "Last Rounds" when hundreds of former trainees gathered to bid the enormous, iconic, Victorian hospital building an emotional farewell when it was closed to make way for a new facility.

County is about people, from Ansell's mentors including the legendary Quentin Young, to the multitude of patients whom he and County's medical staff labored to diagnose and heal under battle-field conditions. It is a story about politics, from contentious union strikes and demonstrations to battles against "patient dumping" and public health. It depicts the cruel unfairness of a health care system that perpetuates health care inequality for poor people.

Finally, it is about an idealistic young man’s medical education in urban America, a coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of race, segregation and poverty. As an advocate of single-payer health insurance, Ansell concludes with an observation of the healthcare overhaul of 2010 as a large Band-Aid to a fundamentally flawed national system.

The memoir is available for $29.95 at the book signing following the lecture. Cash and all major credit cards accepted.

David A. Ansell, MD, MPH is Chief Medical Officer at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Previously he worked at Cook County Hospital and the Sinai Health System where he helped found the Sinai Urban Health Institute, a leading health disparity research center. He serves on the Cook County Health System Board of Directors. Dr. Ansell has written extensively about health disparities.

Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Time: Program: 4PM–5PM; Refreshments: 5PM–5:30PM

Location: Cook County Hospital, 627 S. Wood St., Chicago, 1st floor auditorium

Parking Information: Cook County Hospital parking on Wood & Polk. Enter Polk street at light. $3 parking voucher available at lecture.

Cost: Free

Response art is the artwork of the caregiver. Dr. Fish provides stories of personal challenges in therapeutic work with youth from hospital, residential, day treatment, and school settings. It offers response art as a tool to contain, explore, and express the experience of treating others while caring for ourselves.

Barbara Fish, PhD, ATR-BC, is on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois and the Graduate Art Therapy Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Dr. Fish has worked with children and adolescents affected by trauma in hospital, residential, day treatment, and school settings. She specializes in program development and supervision. As an artist, therapist, and educator, she uses response art as a central resource to process and learn from her practice.

Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Time: Refreshments: 5PM–5:30PM; Program: 5:30PM–6:30PM

Location: UIC College of Nursing, 845 S. Damen, Chicago, Room 158

Parking Information: Parking garage on Taylor and Polk. Street parking available on Taylor.

Cost: $20 suggested donation, complimentary admission for students

April is Sexual Abuse Awareness month. This program explores how to give long term support to sexual abuse victims and how art helped them on their road to healing. Jean Cozier, a sexual abuse survivor, will discuss her personal story and explain the issues of retraumatization, which keeps survivors from getting the health care they need. Walking us through the galleries, Cozier will tell the stories of the exhibited artists and the results of their healing process after utilizing art as a form of expression.

Jean Cozier is a writer, musician, and sexual abuse survivor who has worked with rape and sexual abuse survivors since 1998. She created The Awakenings Foundation in 2010 to create a safe place to showcase and support artists, writers, and musicians who use artistic expression as a means of healing and empowerment. She is also the founder of the Judith Dawn Memorial Fund for the Arts and the author of Dear Judith.

For more information, visit: www.awakeningsfoundation.net.

The Awakenings Foundation Center and Gallery contains the only known permanent collection of artworks created solely by rape and sexual abuse survivors. The mission of the foundation is to support and showcase the healing of rape and sexual abuse survivors who pursue the creative arts, and to share their stories with the public as a means of raising awareness about the problems faced by rape and sexual abuse survivors in our society.

Date: Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Time: Refreshments: 5PM–5:30PM; Program: 5:30PM–6:30PM

Location: The Awakenings Foundation, 4001 N. Ravenswood Ave., Chicago. The foundation is located on the east side of the Metra tracks (there are two Ravenswood Avenues, one on either side).

Parking Information: Off-street parking available on both sides of Ravenswood Ave.

Cost: $20 suggested donation to support The Awakenings Foundation. Complimentary admission for students.

Co-presented with Chicago IONS*

If you knew a play could change your life, would you see it? Hospice nurse and playwright Catherine Gallogly hopes your answer is yes. Performed with her daughter Ann Gallogly, Catherine has compiled 12 powerful stories from her experience in home hospice care that inspire, uplift, and, most importantly, heal.

Tying Up Loose Ends encourages people to ponder ways to transform the health care and hospice care system so that doctors and families know when it is time to allow patients to die with dignity rather than continue futile life saving measures. There will be a Q&A following the performance.

Date: Sunday, November 20, 2011

Time: Refreshments: 3PM–3:30PM; Play begins at 3:30PM

Location: Unity In Chicago, 1925 W. Thome Ave., Chicago

Parking Information: Complimentary parking in church lot

Cost: $15

*The Chicago Community Group of the Institute of Noetic Sciences

Several scholars have recently charged that Hitler’s ideas about race and racial struggle derived from the theories of Charles Darwin, either directly or through intermediate sources. These claims are used to discredit evolutionary theory and morally indict Darwin and his disciples. In this lecture, Richards investigates whether the claims are empirically true and whether moral logic can sustain the impugning of Darwin’s character or that of his German disciple Ernst Haeckel.

Robert J. Richards, PhD is the at the University of Chicago. He is a member of the departments of History, Philosophy, and Psychology, and director of the Fishbein Center for the History of Science. His research spans the breadth of the history and philosophy of psychology and biology with specific interests in evolutionary theory, biopsychology, ethology, and sociobiology. He is the recipient of a Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship and has written several books on the impact of evolutionary theory and on German intellectual thought, including The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought; The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe; The Meaning of Evolution: The Morphological Construction and Ideological Reconstruction of Darwin’s Theory; and Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior. He is currently co-authoring a book with Michael Ruse entitled Debating Darwin.

Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Time: Refreshments: 5PM–5:30PM; Program: 5:30PM–6:30PM

Location: 2100 W. Harrison St., Chicago, 1st floor auditorium

Parking Information: Free parking available in 2100 W. Harrison lot. Please park on the right side.

Cost: $25 - Food and refreshments provided

Worth is too often based on what a person can produce. Illness challenges those definitions and often brings people and their loved ones into a new understanding of what it means to be in the presence of the great "I AM." This art show gives expression to the value of being through painting, sculpture, photography, and creative writing. Join us for a guided tour of this new installation with Kari Lindholm-Johnson at the Swedish Covenant Hospital.

Rev. Kari Lindholm-Johnson has served as a Chaplain at Swedish Covenant Hospital since February of 2008 and is delighted to work at a place and in a department where creativity is encouraged in patient care. She is the curator to A Testimony to Being.

Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Time: 5:15PM - 6PM

Location: Swedish Covenant Hospital, 5140 N. California Ave., Chicago

Parking Information: $4 for parking garage. Metered and off-street parking also available.

Cost: Free of charge, RSVP mandatory due to limited space (20 people)

Magic makes the impossible seem possible. Many Chicago hospitals use magic therapeutically as a welcome message of hope for many patients and their families. Magician Sean Masterson will discuss the literary and historical roots of magic related to healing and demonstrate how a moment of astonishment is created. He will teach participants a few of his tricks that are easily transferable to interactions we might have with patients. These tricks have an emphasis on engaging people and bringing them together without them realizing it is happening. We will also invite a nurse/caregiver to reflect on how magic therapy impacts the patients at participating hospitals.

Sean Masterson has been performing magic in hospitals through Starlight Children's Foundation. He currently performs at six hospitals, including Lutheran General, Rush, University of Illinois, and Hope Children's Hospital. Masterson has been entertaining Chicago audiences with his up-close magic for the last 20 years. Combining his passions for magic and theater, Sean has produced several theatrical magic shows like Conjuring Time and Magic Tales, which both received enthusiastic reviews in the Chicago Tribune.

Date: Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Time: Refreshments: 5PM–5:30PM; Program: 5:30PM–7PM

Location: Lutheran General Hospital, 1775 Dempster St., Park Ridge

                Special Functions Dining Room, 10th floor, west side

Parking Information: $2 parking in the Center for Advanced Care garage for the first two hours. $1 for every additional hour. Free parking in the lot on the north side of Dempster, off of Luther Lane. Walk 1 block or take the free shuttle bus. For more info call the hospital's Parking Services at 847-723-8889. See map

Cost: $20 suggested donation and complimentary admission to students

This lecture offers a new conceptual lens for viewing ways in which cultural competency and other features of physician-patient communication may be taught using narrative skill training. The discussion covers a brief background of the pedagogy of literature and medicine and how narrative is used to teach students to better understand illness from the patients' points of view through an understanding of story components. This training contributes to the development of a patient-centered approach to physician-patient communication where empathy, humanism, and cross-cultural competency must be demonstrated.

Susan Arjmand, MD received her medical school training at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and completed her residency in family medicine at West Suburban Hospital in Oak Park, Ill. She has taught medical students and residents at Rush Medical College, Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Stroger Hospital of Cook County, Loyola Stritch School of Medicine, and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Arjmand completed a fellowship in faculty development at Stroger Hospital of Cook County in the Department of Family Medicine and received her MHPE (Master's in Health Professions Education) from the University of Illinois Department of Medical Education in 2010.
Dr. Arjmand's research interest is the use of literature and reflective writing in medical education. She is a member of the Illinois Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, and the Association of Bioethics and the Humanities. Her writing has appeared in JAMA, Academic Medicine and the Journal of Family Medicine.

Date: Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Time: Refreshments: 5PM–5:30PM; Program: 5:30PM–6:30PM

Location: UIC College of Medicine, Moss Auditorium, Room 1020, 909 South Wolcott Avenue, Chicago

Parking Information: $7 for Parking Lot B2 directly across the street from the Moss Auditorium. Off-street parking is also available. For more information, call Campus Parking at (312) 413-5800.

Cost: $20 suggested donation

Gasul Club of Pediatric Cardiology and Hektoen Institute of Medicine

Invite you to a special Gasul Club meeting

Wayne Franklin, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Medical Director Adult CHD Center, Baylor Heart Center, Houston Tx
will present on Pulmonary Hypertension

Date: Thursday, September 1st, 6pm - 8 pm
Reception starts at 6 pm. Presentation and case discussion immediately following.

Location: Rush University

1725 W. Harrison Street, Searle Conference Center, 5th floor, Billings/Herrick Conference Rooms in the Professional Building, Elevator II, Chicago.

Bring case material on CD or Flash Drive
Complimentary

This program is co-sponsored by Actelion

If you plan to attend, please RSVP to Michaeleen Wallig
Tel: 312-942-6800
Michaeleen_wallig@rush.edu

Parking Information: Parking lot entrance is 1625 West Harrison Street. Enter Professional Building from 4 floor of parking lot. Parking stickers will be provided. Click here for map.

Roads to Wellness: a Journey to Southern France along the pilgrimage routes of St. James

June 23 to July 3rd, 2011

A longing for wellbeing and wholeness dominates our lives, and few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest as travel and encounters with the arts. In this spirit of self-care and discovery, the Hektoen's Nurses and the Humanities Program is delighted to present its 2nd art and healing trip to France.

Information: Rachel Baker - rachel.baker@hektoen.org

312.768.6030

Download brochure and application

Read articles written by participants of June 2009 trip to Paris:

• A pilgrim’s poems from the heart, Hektoen International, 2009
• Journaling – enhancing the arts experience while traveling, Hektoen International, 2009
• Art and healing pilgrimage to France: the art of re-imagining, Hektoen International, 2009

Lovesickness:  Romantic Love in Art and Medicine

A lecture presented by the Hektoen Institute Society of Medical History & Humanities in partnership with Section of General Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine Residency Program and (UCHOMP) University of Chicago History of Medicine Project

Romantic love has been the theme of endless descant in all the arts. Its pronounced mental and bodily manifestations could not have failed to attract the attention of medical professionals, who earnestly asked: "Is it a disease?'" Using pictorial, literary, as well as medical references,  Dr. Gonzalez-Crussi aims to offer only a brief glimpse of the various ways in which medical experts have approached the problem of passionate love, historically and down to the present time. Yet, a simple answer may not be forthcoming.

Dr. Frank Gonzalez-Crussi is Professor Emeritus of Pathology, Northwestern University. Since 2001, he retired from his post as Head of Laboratories at Children's Memorial Hospital of Chicago. His career contributions have been both, medical and literary. In the medical field, he wrote over 200 articles published in peer-reviewed journals of his specialty; he became Chief Editor of Pediatric Pathology for a time; and authored two books on the pathology of specific types of pediatric tumors. In the literary field, he has written 16 books, (5 in his native Spanish), most in the essay genre, that earned widespread praise from critics in this country and abroad. Translations of his work exist in seven languages. Dr. Gonzalez-Crussi has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a first prize for nonfiction from the Society for Midland Authors in 1985 and a Fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (2000-2001). His latest book is "Carrying the Heart" (Kaplan Publishing, 2009).

Date: Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Time: 5 to 5:30 PM - Reception - 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM - Presentation

Location: University of Chicago, Internal Medicine Residency Conference Room(Room A700)
5841 S. Maryland Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637

Parking Information: The University of Chicago Hospitals' parking structure is located between Maryland and Cottage Grove @ 59th Street. Please contact the Hospitals' Parking Office at (773) 702-6257 if you require additional information.

For map and directions, dowload this PDF

Cost: $20

RSVP in advance to Lila Moore - lila.moore@hektoen.org

Tel: 312-768-6028

Consider the Conversation

Film screening and panel discussion

Presented by Hektoen Institute Nurses & Humanities group in partnership with The Chicago End-of-Life Care Coalition.

Following the painful loss of his mother, Mike Bernhagen shared the story of her death with a good friend, Terry Kaldhusdal over a campfire during their annual father/child camping trip. Time and life events soon convinced them to combine their unique talents to produce a documentary film that will help transform the end-of-life discussion in this country.

Consider the Conversation explores how 21st century Americans are living the end of their lives through interviews with patients, family members, doctors, nurses, social workers, clergy and national experts from around the country. These voices teach us that preparation is the key to preventing unnecessary physical and emotional suffering at the end-of-life.
Join us for a film viewing and discussion to promote National Healthcare Decisions Day, a time when health care organizations provide education about advance directives, healthcare powers of attorney, and end-of-life treatment choices. Patients, families, nurses, doctors, students, and medical staff are invited to listen to and share stories that will bring us closer to better care at the end of life.

The film will be followed by a panel discussion to discuss audience experiences, barriers, and solutions to improving care at the end of our lives.

Panelists:

• Loretta Downs, MA is President of the Chicago End-of-Life Care Coalition and a community member of the Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center ethics committee. She has been a hospice volunteer and family caregiver for over 25 years. She speaks and writes about supporting positive experiences at the end of life.
• Dale Susan Edmonds, MDiv is the creator of www.Talk-Early-Talk-Often.com, providing resources and education for people with aging parents about how to have the conversations needed all along the journey. Rev. Dale has been an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ for 27 years. She is currently a Hospice Chaplain with Family Centered Hospice.
• Jacqueline Cameron, MDiv, MD is an Episcopal priest and a physician specializing in hospice and palliative medicine. She is an Attending Physician with Horizon Hospice and Palliative Care and is based at St. Joseph's Hospital in Chicago. She is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion, Health and Human Values at Rush University Medical Center.
• Geraldine Gorman, RN, PhD is an assistant professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She also practices with Midwest Hospice and Palliative Care Center.
  

Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Time: 5 to 7:30 PM (Registration and light refreshments 5 to 5:30–Program 5:30 to 7:30 PM)

Location: UIC College of Medicine, Moss auditorium (Room 1020)

909 S. Wolcott St. Chicago, IL

Cost: Free of charge but donations are welcome

RSVP in advance to Lila Moore - lila.moore@hektoen.org

Tel: 312-768-6028

For more information about the film see www.considertheconversation.org
Find out more about the Chicago End-of-life Care Coalition at www.cecc.info

A lecture by Peter O'Donnell, MD. Oncologist and Instructor of Medicine, The University of Chicago.

Presented by the Hektoen Institute Society of Medical History & Humanities

Until the 1990s, some have argued that the history of medicine was "the history of the placebo effect." Many "medicines" were given for ages with little idea about how or why they work. Kings and presidents were treated with bread pills, drops of colored water, powders of hickory ashes, and pigeon dung—remedies touted as the best available medicines. It wasn't until World War II that "the placebo effect" became widely recognized as having possible therapeutic importance. This led to an explosion of research over the past 60 years about the role—and the magnitude and clinical relevance—of placebo effects in clinical practice. In this lecture, Dr. O'Donnell will re-examine the history of medicine as told through a recounting of the history of placebos. He will discuss the salient studies which describe the potentially far-reaching nature of placebo effects as well as the controversies regarding their importance in medicine. By the conclusion of this lecture, attendees will understand how placebos have functioned as a staple of clinical research and changed the history of how medical research is performed.

Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Time: 5 to 5:30 PM - Reception

5:30 PM to 6:30 PM - Presentation

Location: Cook County Hospital Campus

                627 S. Wood, Chicago - 1st Floor Auditorium

Cost: $20.00 - Please pay at door

RSVP in advance to Julie Schnidman - julie.schnidman@hektoen.org

Tel: 312-768-6020

A lecture by Hareth Raddawi, MD, FACP, Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine

Presented by Chicago Society for The History of Medicine and The Humanities

In this presentation, Dr. Raddawi will trace the life and works of Moses Maimonides (1135-1204), one of human civilization's greatest minds, from his origin in Cordova in Arab Andalusia, to his move to Fes, Morocco all the way to his final stay in Fustat, Egypt. In Egypt, Maimonides became a royal Physician in the court of the Islamic ruler Sultan Salah Al-Din and a leader in the Jewish community. His major books of medicine and philosophy were written in Arabic, while his theological work, the Mishnah Torah, remains a major source of Jewish theology and law to this day. Attendees of this lecture will come to understand Moses Maimonides as an outstanding physician and scholar, a superb clinician and a prolific writer who made everlasting contributions to medicine, philosophy and the humanities.

Hareth Raddawi, MD, FACP, was born along the Euphrates river in Mesopotamia. Dr. Raddawi left the Middle East after earning his Medical Degree. He arrived in Chicago in 1981 to seek postgraduate training and began a residency in Internal Medicine at Cook County Hospital where he eventually became a Chief Medical Resident. Dr. Raddawi completed a fellowship in Gastroenterology in Chicago then went on to do a fellowship in biliary/pancreatic intervention at the Medical college of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. He has been in private practice in the southwest suburbs of Chicago since 1989 and also holds a teaching faculty appointment as a clinical professor at UIC. Dr. Raddawi is an active member of the Chicago Medical Society, a member of the board of trustees of the National Arab American Medical Association and a member of the Islamic Medical Association of North America.

Date: Tuesday, November 9

5:00 - 5:30 pm, reception - 5:30 - 6:30 pm, lecture

Location: 2100 W. Harrison, Chicago, IL - First Floor Auditorium

Parking: Free parking in 2100 W. Harrison parking lot.

Cost: $20.00 - Food and refreshments will be provided.

RSVP to Julie Schnidman - julie.schnidman@hektoen.org

312-768-6020

A theatre workshop for healthcare practitioners

Presented by the Hektoen Institute Nurses & the Humanities program and the Goodman Theatre

In the world of healthcare, the teams we work with change on a daily basis, regardless of where we practice. Within this high-stress setting, how can we form meaningful relationships and perform successfully with our ever-changing colleagues? In the world of theater, actors use the theatrical concept of "ensemble" to quickly form relationships with the audience and fellow actors. For this inaugural workshop, the Goodman staff will help move participants from the idea of a team as standard and static group toward this theatrical concept of "ensemble."

Through acting exercises geared at open communication and team-building, workshop attendees will explore the dynamics of teamwork in the health care field. As an ensemble, participants will learn how theatrical techniques and journaling can be applied to their daily work to provide comfort and healing for the people who suffer and those who care for them.  This workshop is open to practicing physicians, nurses, healthcare administrators, medical and nursing students.

Date: Saturday, Oct. 16

Time: 10 am to 2 PM.  Lunch will be provided

Location:  The Goodman Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn, Chicago, IL

Parking: passes for the Theatre District Garage (across the street from the theatre) will be provided. Street parking in front of the building may also be available.

Cost: $20.00 - Please pay at door.

RSVP in advance to Julie Schnidman - julie.schnidman@hektoen.org. Please include your affiliation in RSVP.

312-768-6020

Learn more about our program on the Goodman Theatre website here.

A workshop led by Marge Nykaza,

Founder and Director of Harmony, Hope & Healing

Presented by the Hektoen Institute Nurses & the Humanities program

The Voice as an Instrument of Healing
Through songs, stories and discussion, Marge invites nurses and other health care providers to explore the resonation, phonation and articulation of the human voice as an instrument for healing. Provided with percussion instruments to add to the musical atmosphere, participants will have the opportunity to get in touch with their voice and vibrations through various simple and fun musical exercises. Marge will share her personal insights as a singer, voice teacher and pastoral musician as well as speak about her experiences studying Cross-Cultural Healing at the Open Ear Center. Through this interactive session, individuals will gain a greater awareness of the voice as a healing instrument and learn about its potential in the healing process.

Marge Nykaza, MPS CCMHP, is the founder and executive director of Harmony, Hope & Healing, a creative music program offering dignity and spiritual healing to the homeless and underserved. As a professional singer, pastoral musician and educator, she shares her gift and love of music with many communities throughout the Chicago area and abroad. A graduate of Eastern Illinois University in music education, Marge continued her vocal studies at De Paul University and completed a master's degree in Pastoral Studies from Loyola University in 2000. In 2007, she was certified as a cross-cultural music healing practitioner (CCMHP). Presently, she is pursuing a Doctorate of Ministry at the Graduate Theological Foundation.

Time: 5 to 7 PM.  Snacks and refreshments and snacks will be provided

Location:  Cathedral Shelter, 1668 W. Ogden Ave. , Chicago, IL

Parking: Street parking available on Paulina and Monroe. There is also a parking garage located on the corner of Jackson and Paulina

Cost: $20.00 - Please pay at door.

RSVP in advance to Julie Schnidman - julie.schnidman@hektoen.org

312-768-6020

A lecture by James L. Franklin, MD, President of the Chicago Society for The History of Medicine And The Humanities

Presented by Chicago Society for The History of Medicine and The Humanities

The phenomenon of the castrati enters the history of Western music in the latter half of the 16th century, becoming a dominant factor in Italian music through most of the 17th and 18th centuries, and then gradually fading during the 19th century. To understand who the castrati were and locate their place in Western culture, Dr. Franklin will explore the anthropology of human castration and describe when it was first employed in the service of vocal art. This presentation will highlight subjects germane to the field of medicine, including how these operations were performed and what their biological and psychological consequences were. Supplemented by music recordings, the program will conclude with a summary of the modern acoustical analysis of the human voice and describe the attempts to electronically recreate the voice of the castrato.

Dr. James L. Franklin is a native of the Chicago area. He attended the University of Chicago for his undergraduate studies and earned his medical degree from Northwestern University Medical School. Dr. Franklin received his training in Internal Medicine at Northwestern University Medical Center and his training in Gastroenterology at the University of Chicago. He is a member of the faculty at Rush University Medical School, where he practiced and taught Gastroenterology for over thirty years. Dr. Franklin is a devoted amateur musician and pianist with interests in musicology and music history. He has written a number of papers on musicians and various other aspects of medical history.

Date: Tuesday, September 14th

5:00 - 5:30 pm, reception - 5:30 - 6:30 pm, lecture

Location:  2100 W. Harrison, Chicago, IL

First Floor Auditorium

Parking: Free parking in 2100 W. Harrison parking lot.

Cost: $20.00 - Catered dinner and refreshments will be provided.

RSVP to Julie Schnidman - julie.schnidman@hektoen.org

312-768-6020

Gasul Club of Pediatric Cardiology Quarterly Meeting

Robert Lichtenberg, MD

Heart Care Centers of Illinois - Berwyn

will present "On Beyond Fifty for the Guch"

Date: Wednesday, Aug. 25, 6pm - 8 pm

Dinner at 6 pm. Presentation and case discussion immediately following.

Bring your interested cases

Sponsored by Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine

2160 S. First Ave. Room 160

Maywood, IL 60153

Complimentary admission

RSVP: Joanne Ritz at 708-327-9103 or jritz@lumc.edu

A workshop led by LuEllen Joy Giera, Multi-media Artist and Founder of Planet Collage

Presented by the Hektoen Institute Nurses & the Humanities program in partnership with Swedish Covenant Hospital.

Please note this workshop has been rescheduled for Wednesday, July 21st.

Program description:

Join award-winning multi-media artist LuEllen Joy Giera for a sketching class in the Healing Gardens of Swedish Covenant Hospital. This class is specifically geared towards nurses and other healthcare professionals. Through an interactive demonstration, participants will learn how to utilize the art of sketching as both a meditative exercise and an outlet for creative expression. LuEllen will guide participants on how to use drawing to express their frustrations, joy, their individual experiences and the stories of their patients. This workshop can be enjoyed by individuals from a broad range of artistic backgrounds. LuEllen believes that everyone has artistic potential and is always teaching, encouraging, and mentoring others to find their individual strengths and passions.

Biography of LuEllen Joy Giera:

LuEllen Joy Giera creates works in collage, pastels, photography, pen & ink, watercolor and acrylics. LuEllen uses her photography in collages and as studies. She has shown her work in solo and group shows in museums, galleries and virtual galleries. She has created commissioned work for private collections throughout the United States, Mexico and Europe. She founded Planet Collage in 2005 and is cofounder of the Midwest Collage Society. Visit her website at www.planetcollage.com

Time: 5:00-7:00 PM

Location: Swedish Covenant Hospital, Healing Gardens, 5145 N. California Ave, Chicago, IL 60625

Cost: $15.00

Because space is limited, pre-registration is required.

Please mail a $15 check payable to Hektoen Institute to hold your reservation. Mail to Julie Schnidman, Hektoen Institute, 2240 W. Ogden, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60612.

Information: Julie Schnidman at 312-768-6020 or julie.schnidman@hektoen.org

A lecture by Seymour Diamond, M.D., Director Emeritus and Founder of the Diamond Headache Clinic, and Adjunct Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science.

Presented by Chicago Society for The History of Medicine And The Humanities

Dr. Diamond traces the history of the headache, an ailment that acquired recognition as early as 4000 BC in ancient Mesopotamia, by the Sumarians.  Egyptologists discovered a compilation of medical texts, dating to 1550 BC, with reference to headache and its suggested treatment.  References to headache are found in the writings of Hippocrates.  During the first century AD, in the Roman empire, Aretaeus of Capodocia attempted to classify headache into distinct types. This task at classification has been repeated throughout the centuries to the latest published in 1997.  The treatment of headache has long been speculated and recorded. From the Bible to the Talmud, and the illuminated manuscripts of monks in the Middle Ages, headache treatment has been a favorite subject. Literature is replete with early and discarded theories and therapies. The miraculous evolution of headache can be attributed to the pioneering work of Harold G. Wolff during the 1930s and has significantly flourished since that time.  Headache has progressed medically from a condition or a symptom that was grouped with epilepsy and considered insignificant. Human history has proven this concept wrong.

Seymour Diamond, M.D. is the Director Emeritus and Founder of the Diamond Headache Clinic, Chicago, Illinois. The Diamond Headache Clinic has been in existence for over 36 years and is the oldest and largest private facility dedicated to the diagnosis and management of headache. In 1980, Dr. Diamond established the Diamond Inpatient Headache Unit, which is now located at Saint Joseph Hospital, Chicago. He is also Adjunct Professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, as well as Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine of The Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Illinois; and, Lecturer in the Department of Family Medicine (Neurology), Loyola University Chicago/Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois. Dr. Diamond currently serves as the Executive Chairperson of the National Headache Foundation which he co-founded in 1970. He received his medical degree from the Chicago Medical School. In November 2002, Dr. Diamond received the President’s Award from The Chicago Medical School Alumni Association, of which he previously served on the Board of Governors. In addition, he was honored as the first recipient of the Migraine Trust Lectureship in London. In 1999, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Headache Society. Dr. Diamond has lectured extensively throughout the Unites States, Europe and Asia. He served as editor for 31 publications and authored or co-authored over 73 books, including Diagnosing and Managing Migraine, 7th edition (2009) and Headache Through the Ages (with Mary A. Franklin; 2005).

Time: 5:00 - 5:30 pm, reception - 5:30 - 6:30 pm, lecture

Location:  2100 W. Harrison
(former Hektoen Institute location)
Auditorium, 1st floor

Cost: Complimentary

RSVP to Julie Schnidman - julie.schnidman@hektoen.org

312-768-6020

A lecture by Charles M. Shapiro, MD

Presented by Hektoen Society of Medical History & Humanities

Dr. Shapiro discusses the various factors that led to the rise and fall of the hospital. The Michael Reese Hospital is the third Jewish hospital in the city of Chicago. The first hospital was erected in 1867 on LaSalle Street and was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. Buying land around 29th and Ellis Avenue, the second hospital, known as Michael Reese, was built in 1881. Funds for its erection came from bequests in the will of Michael Reese. The governing board realized the need for a larger institution, and in 1907 a new 240 bed hospital arose on the site. Major funding came from the extended Michael Reese family. The governing board soon realized the need for research, and a separate pavilion arose to facilitate this research. Other buildings were erected to contain each emerging medical discipline, and eventually the area became a medical campus. By the 1960's, Michael Reese was the largest medical facility in the Midwest.

*Illustration of Michael Reese Hospital by Dr. George Farah

Charles M. Shapiro is a native of Chicago. He graduated from the University of Chicago School of Medicine in 1954, and received his post-graduate training (Internal Medicine and Hematology) at Michael Reese Hospital from 1954-1958. After a two year stint at Martin Army Hospital, United States Army Medical Corps, he was appointed to the staff at Michael Reese in 1960, where he remained throughout his professional career. He retired in 2008. Involved in teaching, research, both clinical and basic, he is an author of over forty publications. He served as a consultant in hematology and oncology for a myriad of community hospitals. In 1980, he was a Consultant for the United States Government's GEMNAC project. In 1989, he was awarded the Marion Clinical Laureate of the American College of Physicians.

Time: 5:00 - 5:30 pm, light refreshments- 5:30 - 6:30 pm, lecture

Location: Cook County Hospital Campus

Old Hektoen Auditorium, 1st floor, 627 S. Wood, Chicago

Parking: Cook County Hospital Parking on Wood & Polk St. Enter Polk at the light.

$3.00 voucher available at the lecture.

Cost: Complimentary

RSVP to Julie Schnidman- julie.schnidman@hektoen.org

312-768-6020

A workshop led Dr. Helga Noice, and Dr. Tony Noice, Professors of Psychology and Drama at Elmhurst College.

Presented by the Hektoen Institute Nurses & the Humanities program

Program description:

This interactive program geared to healthcare providers demonstrates how the cognitive properties involved in acting help boost memory, comprehension, creativity, and problem-solving in older adults.  Attendees will participate in acting and memorization exercises. They will learn how to apply these principles to promote healthy cognitive aging and reduce risk factors for dementia.

More about the intervention:

For over 20 years, Helga and Tony Noice have been investigating the cognitive processes of professional actors: how they rapidly learn lengthy verbal material and retrieve it in real time with apparent ease. Their research, which combines theory and application, has resulted in a unique evidence-based theatrical intervention that has been successfully performed in area retirement homes and hospital senior centers.

A typical intervention involves the recruitment of three groups: an experimental group (that studies theatre), an alternate intervention group that studies Visual Arts or Music (to control for non-content-specific effects) and a no-treatment control group. All participants, who are randomly assigned to one of the three conditions, are pre- and post-tested on both cognitive and affective measures. The cognitive measures are: Word List Memory (immediate & delayed), Category Fluency, Digit Span Forward and Backward, East Boston Story Recall Task, (immediate and delayed), and Means-end Problem Solving. The affective measures are self-esteem and personal growth. All these tests are widely used in gerontological assessments and have been shown to have discriminant and construct validity. The experimental and the alternate intervention control groups receive 4 weeks of training (2 sessions per week). In over a dozen different venues, the theatre group has significantly outperformed both the no-treatment and alternate intervention control groups.

Biographies of Helga and Tony Noice:

Helga Noice is a professor of psychology at Elmhurst College; she earned her Ph.D. in Cognition at Rutgers University. Tony Noice, her husband, is a professor of theatre at Elmhurst College, and earned his Ph.D. at Wayne State University. Helga and Tony Noices' work has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Pew Charitable Trust, Schweizer Nationalfond, Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The latter has supported the Noices' research since 1999, with 3 consecutive grants. In addition to the many peer-reviewed articles in professional journals, this intervention has been featured on over 25 national and international media outlets, including the NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams, PBS-TV, ABC-TV, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and the Times of London.

Continuing education credit available (1.5 INA contact hours)

Time: 5:30 to 6:00 pm, refreshments

6:00 to 7:30 pm, presentation

Location: Lewis University Oak Brook Campus, College of Nursing and Health Professions

2122 York Road (on the northwest corner of York and 22nd Street).   First floor of the office building.

Cost: $15.00 (complimentary to students).

RSVP to Julie Schnidman - julie.schnidman@hektoen.org

312-768-6020

Presented by the Hektoen Institute Nurses & the Humanities Society and North Park University School of Nursing

Program led by Margaret Pasquesi, MA, CM-Th and Tony Pedersen, CM-Th

Program Description: According to several national surveys,* when people are asked what they fear most about dying, the three main responses are: dying alone, being unable to breathe and/or dying in pain. As with other physical or emotional symptoms, these concerns (when not properly addressed and relieved) can exacerbate distress at the end of life. This program will examine one method of symptom management at life’s end—music-thanatology. This approach works by tailoring live music at a patient’s bedside in response to the patient’s phenomenology. Music-thanatologists have a unique opportunity to see patients in the last hours or even minutes of their lives. By observing patient vital signs before and after a music vigil, music-thanatologists record the relationship between prescriptive music interventions and changes in patient physiology. This methodology gives evidence to the hypothesis that music used prescriptively at the end of life, provided actively by trained music-thanatologists, can alleviate pain and other distressing symptoms, help the family to cope, and ease the patient’s transition out of this life. Background information on music-thanatology, the prescriptive use of music and the music vigil setting will be included for those unfamiliar with this palliative healthcare modality.

*National Institute of Health “State of the Science in End-of-Life Care” Conference, Bethesda, MD, 2004.

MARGARET PASQUESI, MA, CM-Th
Margaret Pasquesi is a certified music-thanatologist who has worked for Midwest Palliative & Hospice CareCenter since 2003. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in music and a master’s in interdisciplinary arts. She completed the two-year, intensive formation process at the Chalice of Repose Project School of Music-Thanatology in 2002. In addition to her work as a music-thanatologist, Margaret has performed a wide variety of musical styles, from alternative rock to serving as a cantor in the Roman Catholic tradition. One of her great joys is assisting families from various religious and spiritual backgrounds in creating meaningful rituals around oft-neglected rites of passage. Margaret is also co-editor of the Journal of the Music-Thanatology Association International.

TONY PEDERSON, CM-Th
A certified music-thanatologist with fourteen years of experience in the field, Tony Pederson has worked for Midwest Palliative & Hospice CareCenter since 2003. He is a 1996 graduate of the Chalice of Repose Project’s School of Music-Thanatology. He studied psychology, philosophy and religion, and received a bachelor’s degree from Northeastern Illinois University. Starting in 1993, Tony worked for six years in an Alzheimer’s unit in Missoula, Montana, where he saw firsthand the benefits of using music prescriptively for individuals with a terminal illness. Tony currently serves as the website coordinator for the Music-Thanatology Association International.

Location: North Park University School of Nursing - 3225 W. Foster Ave - Chicago

Program located in the Isaacson Chapel in Nyvall Hall (the seminary building).

For direction and map view: http://www.northpark.edu/About/Locations/North-Park-Campus-Map.aspx

Parking: Free parking in the lots at the corner of Foster and Kedzie

Time: 5:30 to 6:00 pm, refreshments

6:00 to 7:00 pm, program

Cost: $15.00 (complimentary to students).

A lecture by F. Gonzalez-Crussi, M.D. F.R.C.P (C), Emeritus Professor of Pathology

Presented by Hektoen Society of Medical History & Humanities

Procedures intending to cleanse the interior of the organism occupy a very prominent place in the history of medicine. This has been so from the remotest antiquity down to the present time. Using the multi-pronged approach that has characterized his essay writing, Dr. Gonzalez-Crussi traces a sketch of the historical evolution of this medical concept. Aided by references to medicine, history, philosophy, art—and not shunning humor—he illustrates the vast place that the purge has had in the collective imagination and speculates on its possible psychological significance.

Dr. Frank Gonzalez-Crussi is currently Professor Emeritus of Pathology, Northwestern University. Since 2001, he retired from his post as Head of Laboratories at Children’s Memorial Hospital of Chicago. His career contributions have been both, medical and literary. In the medical field, he wrote over 200 articles published in peer-reviewed journals of his specialty; he became Chief Editor of Pediatric Pathology for a time; and authored two books on the pathology of specific types of pediatric tumors. In the literary field, he has written 16 books, (5 in his native Spanish), most in the essay genre, that earned widespread praise from critics in this country and abroad. Translations of his work exist in seven languages. Dr. Gonzalez-Crussi has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a first prize for nonfiction from the Society for Midland Authors in 1985 and a Fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (2000-2001). His latest book is “Carrying the Heart” (Kaplan Publishing, 2009).

Time: 5:00 - 5:30 pm, reception - 5:30 - 6:30 pm, lecture

Location:  Cook County Hospital Campus
Old Hektoen Auditorium, 1st floor, 627 S. Wood, Chicago

Cost: Complimentary - RSVP: Phyllis Wheeler at  312.768.6031

Parking: Cook County Hospital Parking on Wood & Polk St. Enter Polk at the light.

$3.00 voucher available at the lecture.

A yoga workshop for caregivers led by Michael McColly

Presented by Hektoen Nurses and the Humanities

When: Saturday, November 21, 2009, 4-6 pm
Where: Namaskar Yoga, 3946 N Southport Ave. (corner of Southport and Irving Pk Road)
www.namaskaryoga.com

Cost: $20 per person, payable in advance.
Space is limited. So pre-register by sending your check payable to Hektoen Institute and mail to Rachel Baker at Hektoen Institute, 2240 W. Ogden, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60612

This workshop introduces participants to some of the profound insights in neurobiology, provides exercises to integrate them into their practice, and offers suggestions on applying them into daily life. Via the breath, stillness, focusing techniques, asana, visualization, journaling, and metaphorical language, we explore the subtle realms of perception, memory, imagination, emotion, and interpersonal communication. This workshop provides a special emphasis for health care providers: nurses, doctors, and social workers for application in their own lives as well as those of their patients.

Michael McColly has been blending yoga philosophy into his teachings of creative writing for the past decade, offering workshops for activists, medical students, writers, art therapists, and yoga practitioners. He holds degrees in Religious Studies and Creative Writing and has been teaching Yoga for over 14 years. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Ascent, and The Sun and his last book, "The After-Death Room," was a Lambda Award winner for Spiritual Writing in 2007. His work blending yoga, activism and creativity has been featured in Yoga Journal, The Chicago Tribune, Ascent, and Indianapolis Public Television. He teaches creative writing in the graduate Program at Northwestern and offers an innovative course on yoga and creative writing each spring at Columbia College. He is also a senior teacher at Yoga Now Studio in Chicago.   See more of his work at www.michaelmccolly.com and on his blog on creativity and yoga: www.michaelmccolly.vox.com

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• This 8th annual conference "Strapped: youth confronting the HIV/AIDS epidemic" is hosted by Chicagoland Youth Against AIDS, (CYAA).
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A lecture by Mrs. Marcia Schenck and Dr. Robert Schenck, Emeritus Associate Professor, and Director, Section of Hand Surgery, in the Department of Plastic Surgery, Rush University Medical Center.

Presented by Hektoen Society of Medical History & Humanities

When: Tuesday, Nov. 3rd.

5:00 - 5:30 pm, reception - 5:30 - 6:30 pm, lecture

Where:  Cook County Hospital Campus
Old Hektoen Auditorium, 1st floor, 627 S. Wood, Chicago

Complimentary - RSVP: Phyllis Wheeler at  312.768.6031

For nine months, Dr. Robert Schenck and his wife, Marcia Whitney-Schenck, lived in three African countries where they discovered cultures vastly different from their own. Hand surgeon Dr. Schenck’s work took him from small rural hospitals in Cameroon and Congo to a large teaching hospital in Uganda. Marcia experienced the challenges of teaching English to both sixth-grade students and French- speaking health professionals. In this presentation, they will chronicle their journey with anecdotes, observations, and photographs. They will share with you the cultural milieu, the needs, and hope of Africa for the future. Did they change Africans? Better to ask, how were they changed by Africa?

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Presented by Hektoen Nurses & the Humanities and UIC School of Nursing

In partnership with the Illinois Humanities Council and the Graduate Student Organization of UIC College of Nursing

Reading by the contributors of the anthology "A Call to Nursing" edited by Geraldine Gorman, RN, PhD and Paula Sergi, BSN, MFA. In this far-reaching anthology, nurses speak about the joys and challenges of their chosen careers. Reflecting on their experiences as nurses, a host of talented writers draw from different experiences to speak openly and compassionately about their decision to become nurses and, in some instances, to leave the profession.

Guest author and poet Jeanne Bryner, RN, will read her selection and discuss the importance of the humanities to the nursing profession.

Date: Monday, October 19, 2009

Time: 5:30 - 6:30 pm -  Reception immediately following.

Location: UIC College of Nursing, 3rd Floor Lounge

Cost: $15.00 - Complimentary to nursing students.

RSVP: Rachel Baker at  312.768.6030 or rachel.baker@hektoen.org

Gasul Club of Pediatric Cardiology Quarterly Meeting

Special lecture sponsored by Rush Center for Congential and Structural Heart Disease and The PICS Foundation:

"Healing the Healer"

Presented by Charles Kleinman, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Columbia University, New York.

Time: Lecture starts at 5:30 pm, complimentary dinner to follow.

Location: Rush University Medical Center, Searle Conference Center - Brainard Room 542

Enter Searle Conference Center from the 4th floor of the parking garage located at 1625 West Harrison Street, using elevator II to get to the 5th floor.

Free Parking provided.

No charge - RSVP: Phyllis Wheeler at 312.768.6031

A lecture by Burton Andersen, M.D. Professor of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago.

Presented by Hektoen Society of Medical History & Humanities

When: Tuesday, Sept. 8

5:00 - 5:30 pm, reception - 5:30 - 6:30 pm, lecture

Where:  Cook County Hospital Campus
Old Hektoen Auditorium, 1st floor, 627 S. Wood, Chicago

Complimentary - RSVP: Phyllis Wheeler at  312.768.6031

This talk will compare the oldest recorded medical literature, the work of the Sumerian/Akkadian physicians from Mesopotamia (2100 – 1050 BCE) with the earliest organized Greek medicine, the Hippocratic corpus (460 – 350 BCE). Later Greek and Greco-Roman physicians like Soranus, and Galen will not be considered.

Modern physicians have a much greater knowledge and appreciation of the accomplishments of Hippocrates and those physicians who belonged to his school than the earlier Mesopotamian physicians. This is in part due to the fact that the ancient Mesopotamian literature has only been available for study for the past 125 years. Also the great accomplishments of ancient Greeks in other areas such as literature, government, and science, have given them an aura of intellectual superiority which many assume must have carried over to their physicians.

This talk should prove the following:

1. The ancient Sumerian/Akkadian physicians were far more skilled and detailed in physical diagnosis than Hippocratic physicians.
2. The Sumerian/Akkadian physicians had a text book of medicine that was organized into disease categories and syndromes that are generally recognizable by modern physicians. Hippocratic physicians did not.
3. The use of medicines by the Sumerian/Akkadian physician is far closer to the modern use of medicines than that of the Hippocratic physicians.
4. The Hippocratic physicians, however, were far more skilled in the art of surgery and the invention of surgical instruments to facilitate treatment
   

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A series of lectures and workshops with Phil Cousineau

Presented by Hektoen Nurses and the Humanities in partnership with the Chicago Community Group of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (CHI-IONS).

When: Friday, 9/18/09 - 7-9 pm

Saturday, 9/19/09 - 1-5 pm

Sunday, 9/20/09 - 4:30-7 pm

Where: All three programs take place at Unity in Chicago, 1925 W. Thome Avenue in the Sanctuary and the Sunshine Gallery, 2nd level. Located 1 block south of Devon Ave., and 1 block west of Ridge Ave., on the city's north side. Free Parking in the rear of the Church.

Cost: Friday and Sunday programs: recommended donation of $10, ($5 for students.)
Saturday workshop: $35 - All three programs: $45
Payment at the door (cash, check and credit cards accepted).
Registration via email at: chicagoions@gmail.com

STOKING THE CREATIVE FIRES
Presentation/Discussion and Book signing – Friday, 9/18/09 – 7 to 9 PM
What are you on fire about now?” Where does your fiery urge to create come from? What do you do to rekindle the inner flame of creativity when it is nearly extinguished by despair or fear? And what are you doing to pass on the torch of your inspiration? These questions are at the heart of one of the greatest human mysteries of all – creativity. This presentation explores the history of creativity, from painting and writing to photography, movies, and business, its use in psychological practice, its role in community life, the cultivation of work habits, the use of dreams and role of mentors, the dreaded creative block, the myth of genius, and the spiritual side of art. The goal will be to demystify the creative process by revealing how every project is a long and winding road that can be completed -- if we keep moving with tenacity, humility, and heart.

STOKING THE CREATIVE FIRES: WORKSHOP
Saturday, 9/19/09 – 1 to 5 PM
As Aristotle wrote twenty-five hundred years ago, "One learns to play the harp by playing." The emphasis will be the exploration of "The Creative Wheel," a mandala-like circle that reflects the nine different stages of creativity. We will ask: Where are you on the creative journey? Where are you stuck? Where do you want to be? What are you willing to do to take the next step and then the step after that in order to complete your project? This approach emphasizes actual practices and exercises that enable us to sustain a creative life in virtually any chosen field, from arts to business, medicine, teaching and counseling. To help provide tools for finding your true voice and deepening your work, we will practice writing, sketching, active imagination, and observation exercises.

THE LONG CONVERSATION - Exploring the Global Spirit
Film screenings and discussion – Sunday, 9/20/09 – 4:30 to 7 PM (reception at 4:30 preceding program)
During medieval times whenever people spoke about timeless issues — birth, death, love, hate, the search for meaning — it was considered to be a participation in "the long conversation," the discussion of things that have always mattered. In this innovative presentation Phil Cousineau will screen four short excerpts from "Global Spirit," the series he is hosting on LINK TV, to catalyze discussion with the group. Each clip will feature a short behind-the-scenes description of how the theme and guests are chosen, and how the programs are followed up with on-line discussion, all in the spirit of keeping alive "the long conversation." Mr. Cousineau will also explore how this series is a vital example of how the "new media" is fostering community and global out-reach.

The four film excerpts include:

• "The Spiritual Quest" - with Karen Armstrong, author of The Battle for God and Robert Thurman, the first Westerner to be ordained a Buddhist monk.
• "The Search for Ecstasy" - with Andrew Harvey, Rumi scholar and author of The Divine Feminine, and Sobonfu Somé, African spiritual teacher and author of Intimacy.
• “Music, Sound and Silence" - with Joanne Shenandoah, Onondaga singer and composer, winner of four Grammy awards, and Rev. Alan Jones, former Dean of Grace Cathedral and author of Soulmaking.
• "Earth Wisdom" - a show filmed at the Gathering of Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations, with Oren Lyons, leader of the Five Nations.

PHIL COUSINEAU is an award-winning writer and filmmaker, teacher and editor, travel leader and storyteller. An expert in creativity and mythology, he has published more than 25 books, including Stoking the Creative Fires, The Olympic Odyssey, Once and Future Myths, and The Art of Pilgrimage. Among his 20 documentary film screenwriting credits are The Hero’s Journey: Joseph Campbell on his Life and Work, Ecological Design, and A Seat at the Table: Struggling for American Indian Religious Freedom. Currently, Cousineau is the host of the national television series, "Global Spirit," on Link TV. Visit him at www.philcousineau.net

An exhibition presenting work by students and faculty of the Department of Biomedical Visualization at the University of Illinois at Chicago. http://www.ahs.uic.edu/bhis/programs/bvis.php

This exhibition is co-sponsored by UIC Graduate College, the Hektoen Institute of Medicine and the Illinois Arts Council.

Location:  International Museum of Surgical Science - 1524 N. Lake Shore Drive - Chicago, IL 60610

Time: Tuesday through Sunday, 10 am to 4 pm

Opening reception: Friday, August 7, 5-8 PM. Complimentary.

For more information call the museum at 312.642.6502

The College of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago houses the western hemisphere’s second oldest program in medical illustration. Started in 1921 by Tom Jones, also the founder of the Association for Medical Illustration, this biomedical visualization program offers the prospective medical artist training in medicine, art, and science, subjects that usually remain the central focus of their profession. In accordance with Vesalius’ approach of observation, dissection, and visual learning, the biomedical artist serves as a visual communicator of biological processes.

Redefining the Medical Artist is a presentation of works by the students, faculty, and staff of the University of Illinois Biomedical Visualization program. The show hopes not only to increase public and professional awareness of this discipline in its many dimensions, but to serve as a platform for networking, sharing research ideas and results, and creating new partnerships within the biomedical and scientific community. By seeing and understanding what the field has to offer, we hope to communicate to the viewer what it is we really do and are capable of achieving for medical progress; in other words, we hope to not only dispel myths about our specialty, but introduce the public to the scope of our abilities. In the tradition of Vesalius’s drawings, we’d like to increase your understanding of our field through images of our work.

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Gasul Club of Pediatric Cardiology Quarterly Meeting

Time: 6:00 PM to 6:45 PM Reception - 6:45 PM - 8:00 PM Meeting

Location: Children's Memorial Hospital, 700 W Fullerton, Nellie Black Building, Chicago, IL
(building across from main hospital) Room NAB 125-127

Dr. Michael Tsifansky,
Pediatric Cardiac Intensivist
Lutheran General Children's Hospital/Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Presents on Cardiopulmonary Interactions for the Cardiologist

Program moderated by Peter Koenig, MD, FASE
Fellowship Director, Pediatric Cardiologist,
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine

Bring your interesting cases!

No charge - RSVP: Phyllis Wheeler at 312.768.6031

Parking garage located at 2316 N. Lincoln Ave (between Fullerton and Belden).
We have arranged for complimentary parking. Bring your receipt card with you. Dr. Koenig will give you a sticker to hand to the attendant when you leave.

A lecture by McGuire Gibson, PhD, Professor of Mesopotamian Archeology, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.

Presented by Hektoen Society of Medical History & Humanities.

Time: 5:00 - 5:30 pm, reception - 5:30-6:30 pm, lecture

Location: Cook County Hospital Campus
Old Hektoen Auditorium, 1st floor, 627 S. Wood, Chicago

Complimentary Admission - RSVP: Phyllis Wheeler at 312.768.6031

Starting from the excavation of part of the Temple of Gula at Nippur in Iraq, Dr. Gibson will discuss other temples to this Goddess of Healing, as well as objects that elucidate her role in both healing and disease. Dr. Gibson will feature small, crude figurines of people, indicating their illnesses, as well as dogs, which were associated with the goddess. But he will also draw upon stone monuments, mislabeled "boundary stones" in early studies. These stones have long inscriptions related to the transfer of large tracts of land from kings to grantees. In the inscriptions and in representations on the stones, Gula is a guarantor of the transfer and a force that can bring disease to anyone who tries to negate or deny the transfer. Finally, Dr. Gibson will discuss the role of the two kinds of medical practitioners. How did their diagnoses and treatments relate to magical and religious practices?

Presented by Hektoen Society of Medical History & Humanities

Time: 5:30-6:15 pm, reception - 6:15-7:15 pm, lecture

Location: Hektoen Institute, 2100 W. Harrison, Chicago

Cost: $15.00 - RSVP: Phyllis Wheeler at 312.948.2520

A lecture by Andrew Griffin, M.D., Co-Director Pediatric Cardiology, University of Illinois Campus at Chicago and Director of The Heart Institute at Advocate Hope Children's Hospital.

This presentation will focus on the interface between ethics, economics and health care using the evolution of care for those with congenital heart disease as a way to explore the promises and possibilities that our successes (and failures) now afford us. Issues we will try to frame in the context of American political and philosophic thought include:

1. Is health care a right ?
2. If so, how does a society go about deciding on how much health care is just?
3. How do we as a society decide to ask one age group or segment to support another?
4. What exactly are the obligations of health care professionals, and from whence do those obligations arise?
5. When we refer to the obligations of societies with respect to health care, how do we think of obligations across national boundaries?

To place our broad ranging discussions in a clinical context of real cases, Dr. Griffin will talk about three specific children with congenital heart diseases.

In this presentation, Dr. Griffin will review how our approach to such issues has evolved in the US, and how it has evolved over time in western civilization.

Presented by Hektoen Nurses & the Humanities Program and UIC School of Medicine, Dept. of Medical Education.

In Partnership with the Illinois Humanities Council.

Date: April 23, 2009

Reception: 3:30 to 4:00 pm

Presentation: 4:00 to 5:00 pm

Location: University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Medicine - Moss Auditorium, Room 1020.

Complimentary admission

By Lois LaCivita Nixon, PhD, MLit, MAT, MPH; Professor and Course Director, Medical Ethics and Medical Humanities; College of Medicine, University of South Florida.

"For there will be the arts and some will call them soft data whereas in fact they are the hard data
by which our lives are lived." - John Stone, MD

Medicine, formerly characterized by objectivity and paternalism, has been infused in recent decades with and transformed by new forces that can be revealed by selections from Medical Humanities.
In this presentation we will consider the contributions made by emerging voices of patients and health professionals whose subjective voices have become more commonplace. New words in new narrative forms have burst forth to provide vital, and previously omitted insights that are important--and often medically useful--for end-of-life care. An examination of examples from the Medical Humanities illustrates how these stories or narratives differ from and contribute to the materials found in the traditional medical text.

Presented by UIC School of Medicine, Dept. of Medical Education in partnership with Hektoen's Nurses & Humanities Program.

Date: April 22, 2009

Time: 12:30 - 1:30 pm

Pizza and refreshments will be served.

Complimentary admission

Location: University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Medicine.

808 S. Wood, 9th floor, Room 988.

By Lois LaCivita Nixon, PhD, MLitt, MAT, MPH; Course Director, Medical Ethics and Medical Humanities; College of Medicine, University of South Florida.

In Medical Humanities courses students examine fiction, essays, history, art, poetry, and film to consider more fully the elusive qualities that characterize and define not just the patient, but also the health professional and the society they share. These tools focus on medical settings and circumstances, aspects of the human journey, and challenging social dilemmas.

Whether in the form of fiction or case study, narrative or story plays a prominent role in Medicine. Just as we depend on the written word for meaning, we depend, increasingly, on film for information about our society, ourselves, our ethical dilemmas. Film serves as a legitimate and powerful tool for probing difficult issues in local, national, and global contexts. In this presentation we will consider social justice issues in global settings as represented in short clips from the following films:
- Dirty Pretty Things
- Babel
- The Color of Paradise
- Osama
- Tsotsi
- Antonia’s Line
- City of God

Gasul Club of Pediatric Cardiology Quarterly Meeting

Time: 6:00-6:45 pm, reception - 6:45 - 8 pm, presentation.

Location: Hektoen Institute, 2100 W. Harrison, Chicago

No charge - RSVP: Phyllis Wheeler at 312.948.2520

"Sudden Cardiac Death In Young Athletes" presented by Christine Lawless, MD, MBA, FACC, FACSM, ABCL, CAQSM
President - Sports Cardiology Consultants LLC - Medical Director - CME Enterprise

Program moderated by

Marc Levine, MD
Professor Pediatrics-Cardiology, Loyola University Medical Center

Philip Liebson, M.D., Rush University Medical Center. Presented by Hektoen Society of Medical History & Humanities.

Time: 5:30-6:15 pm, reception - 6:15-7:15 pm, lecture

Location: Hektoen Institute, 2100 W. Harrison, Chicago

Cost: $15.00 - RSVP: Phyllis Wheeler at 312.948.2520

Hans Zinsser was a professor of bacteriology and immunology at Columbia, Stanford and Harvard Universities in the first part of the 20th century. His poetic imagination flourished along with a scientific curiosity that led him to epidemiologic investigations of rickettsial diseases in many parts of the world, specifically with typhus fever. In Rats, Lice, and History, a lively, scientifically accurate book that was published in 1935 he popularized the influence of this disease throughout history. His bacteriologic investigations led him to important contributions of antigen-antibody reaction, investigations into the cause of rheumatic fever and to the measurements of viral sizes.

Toward the end of his life, when he knew he was dying of lymphocytic leukemia, he wrote an autobiography using the initials R.S, the anonymous initials he used in his poems published in the Atlantic Monthly. In a memorial service at Harvard Medical School after his death in 1940, Dr. John F. Enders described him as a “great teacher, distinguished investigator” and also “a poet of great emotional intensity”. This lecture will deal with his approach to life and the how he was influential in medicine in the early twentieth century, a time when scientific investigation of infectious disease and its epidemiology was still in its infancy, yet a period when immense contributions were made to the understanding of the epidemiology of disease.

An interactive presentation by Artist Nancy Gershman presented by Nurses & the Humanities.

Time: 5:00-6:30 pm, reception immediately following.

Place:Hektoen Institute, 2100 W. Harrison, Chicago

Cost: $15.00 - RSVP: Rachel Baker at 312.948.2522

Chicago artist Nancy Gershman is a member of a burgeoning new therapeutic category called The Prescriptive Arts. By digitally altering personal photographs, Gershman has developed a methodology that heals emotional pain through prescriptive works of photomontage. Each individually-created “healing dreamscape” is designed to reframe the past and present by humanizing our fragments of memory, honestly and with a positive outlook. Contemplating their own mythologies, individuals can nurse their souls privately, or open dialog publicly. Utilizing humor, irony, and symbolism, the Dreamscape also prompts eloquence in the form of oral history and writings which facilitate healing in their own right.

For our program on March 25th, Gershman will recreate the process of building a Healing Dreamscape for a nurse coming to term with loss and bereavement. Culminating with the unveiling of the Dreamscape, Gershman will discuss how such wishful reality can be particularly transformative for those in the nursing profession.

Check Nancy Gershman's website at: Art For Your Sake.

Suzanne Poirier, PhD, is Professor Emerita of literature and medical education at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) College of Medicine. Presented by Hektoen Society of Medical History & Humanities.

Time: 5:30-6:15 pm, reception - 6:15-7:15 pm, lecture

Place:Hektoen Institute, 2100 W. Harrison, Chicago

Cost: $15.00 - RSVP: Phyllis Wheeler at 312.948.2520

Since the publication of Intern by Doctor X in 1965, over forty book-length memoirs that deal entirely with one or more years of medicinal education have been published. Taken together, these accounts present a surprisingly unified critique of the hazards and rewards of being a medical student or resident. The memoirs abound in explicit information about issues as information (over)load, working conditions, quality of teaching, physical and mental health, confidence and self-doubt—all issues that have been documented repeatedly over the years in journals of medical education. Three other themes, however, recur implicitly throughout the memoirs and indicate more complex dynamics that affect the professional development of medical students. These themes--power, vulnerability, and relationships--reveal concerns that receive little attention in medical curricula. The technologies and practice of medicine has changed over the half-century that these memoirs document, but the writers’ concern about the process of their transformation into physicians has not. These memoirs suggest why so little has changed.

Sketching workshop for caregivers presented by Nurses & the Humanities.

Time: 5:00-7:00 pm.

Location: Garfield Park Conservatory, 300 N. Central Park, Chicago

Group will meet in the Community Room.

Cost: $15.00 - RSVP: Rachel Baker at 312.948.2522

Immerse yourselves in the amazing environment of the Garfield Park Conservatory and experience it in a new way: through observation and drawing. When we observe something with the intent to draw it, we study it more carefully and see things we may have missed in passing. The Conservatory is a very nice fit for this activity due to its quiet, almost meditative atmosphere. Every child draws pictures, but most of us give it up unless we consider ourselves to be artists. By reacquainting ourselves with this activity, we face a new creative challenge and discover how we observe and interpret our environment.

Workshop conducted by Steve Musgrave, painter, illustrator, digital artist. His work has been commissioned by the Chicago Tribune, Sports Illustrated, the Chicago Cubs, and more recently for Chicago's Department of Public Art.

Carole A. Travis-Henikoff, Independent Scholar, author of "Dinner With A Cannibal/ The Complete History of Mankind's Oldest Taboo." Presented by Hektoen Society of Medical History & Humanities.

Time: 5:30-6:15 pm, reception - 6:15-7:15 pm, lecture

Location:Hektoen Institute, 2100 W. Harrison, Chicago

Cost: $15.00 - RSVP: Phyllis Wheeler at 312.948.2520

Cultures from around the world have practiced close to a dozen different kinds of cannibalism.
Medicinal (iatric), cannibalism was, and still is, practiced with the belief that human flesh cures illnesses, improve the diner's health and /or works towards stamina and sexual prowess. Iatric cannibalism within Western societies is uniquely fascinating. Research shows that no European medical or apothecary journal ever saw fit to identify the ingestion of prescribed medicines made from human cadavers as being acts of cannibalism. Nevertheless, human flesh or fluids consumed by other humans constitute acts of cannibalism.

In this presentation I will explore medicinal cannibalism practiced in Europe and then take you around the world to show cannibalism's ancient beginnings and the similarities of thought found in dark forests as well as "sophisticated" societies.

Book signing after the lecture

"Dinner with a Cannibal: The Complete History of Mankind's Oldest Taboo" will be for sale for $25.00 (cash or check only).

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Gasul Club of Pediatric Cardiology Quarterly Meeting

Time: 6:00-6:45 pm, reception - 6:45 - 8 pm, presentation.

Peter Koenig, MD from Children's Memorial Hospital will moderate.

Ira DuBrow, MD will present his experience at the Beijing Children Hospital.

Location: Hektoen Institute, 2100 W. Harrison, Chicago

No charge - RSVP: Phyllis Wheeler at 312.948.2520

Presented by Hektoen of Medicine Nurses & the Humanities. Workshop led by Marcia Wunderlich, Board Certified Music Therapist.

Time: 5:00-7:00 pm.

Location: Rainbow Hospice, 444 N. Northwest Highway, Park Ridge, Conference Room 145 A - Free Parking -

Cost: $15.00 (includes buffet dinner) - Complimentary to students with ID.

RSVP: Rachel Baker at 312.948.2520

Join us for an evening of merriment and song. Learn about and experience the therapeutic value of making a joyful noise. Bring your voice and enthusiasm. De-Stress. Leave energized and ready to start the Holidays. We will practice holiday songs from various faith and culture traditions. The workshop will also include a presentation of a few singing techniques. Dinner will be provided.

Clara Orban, Ph.D. Professor, French and Italian, DePaul University. Presented by Hektoen Society of Medical History & Humanities.

Time: 5:30-6:15 pm, reception - 6:15-7:15 pm, lecture

Location: Hektoen Institute, 2100 W. Harrison, Chicago

Cost: $15.00 - RSVP: Phyllis Wheeler at 312.948.2520

In virtually unprecedented fashion, AIDS became the subject of art. Poetry, prose, memoirs and plays chronicled this disease, which especially devastated the arts community. Filmic treatments of AIDS often also forced viewers to examine their attitudes towards gay men, in particular. Of all the arts, cinema and to some extent television brought AIDS into the public consciousness.

In this exploration of AIDS on screen, Orban will discuss independent and Hollywood mainstream productions, as well as how films from other cultures dealt with this topic. How AIDS appears in artistic media can illuminate how society understands the disease.

Sandy Sufian, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, UIC College of Medicine, Dept. of Medical Education.

**Note that exceptionally, this lecture falls on a Wednesday.

Time: 5:30-6:15 pm, reception - 6:15-7:15 pm, lecture

Location:Hektoen Institute, 2100 W. Harrison, Chicago

Cost: $15.00 - RSVP: Phyllis Wheeler at 312.948.2520

This presentation explores and compares body images in Hebrew and Arabic political cartoons during one of the most contentious times in Palestine, the 1936 Arab Revolt. The speaker argues that analyzing the images of the body in these political cartoons allows us to better understand their sub-textual messages. Drawing upon the "scientific" theories of physiognomy and phrenology--accepted theories during the late 19th and early 20th centuries--Sufian explains the choices of the respective cartoonists and the value of looking at representations of the body for learning about the cultural and political history of Palestine.

Presented by Hektoen Nurses & the Humanities Program and the Pain Society.

Session conducted by Todd Hochberg, documentary photographer.

Date: Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008, 5 to 7 pm.

Location: Hektoen Institute, Thursday, Nov 6

Cost: $15.00; complimentary to nursing students - RSVP: Rachel Baker at 312.948.2522

Moments Held: Legacy Work is a video and photography presentation that shares the experiences of Bob, a cancer patient, creating legacy materials through the documentary form. In Hochberg’s view legacy work is best when it incorporates in addition to the richness of oral histories, a personal emotional and spiritual assessment of one’s place during a time of life transition. Considering the importance of "meaning-making" when one's assumptive world is shattered by serious illness, impending death or loss, the telling of one’s story may possess great therapeutic benefit. Some may intuitively have the need to give it voice but know not where to begin. As Bob put it, “We’ve all been given journals to write in… the pages are blank… we wouldn’t have done this on our own.”

As storytellers, photographs are powerful aids to narrative when words are sometimes insufficient to the task. Video documentation offers additional opportunities for sharing a narrative. The Images and Video may ultimately serve as touchstones for feelings and memories pertaining to significant loving relationships and precious experiences; over time their use may contribute to emotional healing. In collaboration with the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Patient and Family Support Services over the last year of Bob’s life, the intent of this project was to support coping strategies of patients and their families struggling with cancer and at end-of-life.
The work also involved Bob’s wife and two young children who shine ever brightly in the film. Bob engaged easily with the process saying of the project, “I like this alot... it comes from my heart... we just wouldn't have had this time, the kids and everything... it was very rewarding... we got to see each other in a different light... [When] I pass away, they do have something instead of nothing... I thought I was leaving them nothing.”
When Bob died, his wife Adriana chose to screen this film at the funeral service.

Learn more at www.momentsheld.org

"I try to cherish every day now. Every day I just don't know what is going to be when I wake up. What will that day bring?" - Bob

Presented by Hektoen Nurses & the Humanities Program in partnership with the Illinois Humanities Council.

Performance Text is a genre with roots in communications, sociology and ethnography. With its emphasis on intervention and calling the audience to action, it has unique and creative application for healthcare education and practice.

Please join students from the College of Nursing at UIC as they share their writings and explore how the story can become the catalyst for change. The impetus for this program came from a seminar offered in the summer of 2008, entitled: Humanities and Narrative Writing for Healthcare. Geraldine Gorman, RN, PhD and Carrol Smith, RN, PhD, will moderate, UIC School of Nursing.

Time: 5:00 to 6:00 pm presentation - 6:00 to 6:30 pm, reception

Location: Hektoen Institute, 2100 W. Harrison, Chicago

Nadav Davidovitch, MD, MPH, PhD, Division of Public Health, Ben Gurion University, Israel.

Presented by Hektoen Society of Medical History & Humanities, Dept. of Medicine, John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County and UIC College of Medicine, Department of Medical Education.

Time : 4:00 pm, reception; 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm, presentation

Location: Hektoen Auditorium, 1st Fl, Cook County Hospital Campus, 627 South Wood St, Chicago

Cost: No charge - RSVP: Phyllis Wheeler at 312.948.2520

In December 1921, in the Arab village of Duwaimeh near Hebron, an epidemic of smallpox broke out following variolation of the population. This practice of variolation included taking material from the blister of a sick person and purposely inoculating another healthy individual. It was carried out mainly by local healers and was a common practice among the local population at the time. This presentation reviews the history of smallpox in Palestine during the British Mandate, focusing on the smallpox outbreak in Duwaimeh and the interrelationship between the local population and British Mandate authorities in the course of dealing with the epidemic. Among all the colonial powers around the world, public health and addressing outbreaks of contagious diseases were among key issues of concern in the handling of local administration for both colonial regimes and the medical community. These aspects will be analyzed by examining how various parties reacted to the outbreak in the context of their different understandings of the disease and its possible prevention. It is also an opportunity to reconstruct the Palestinian rural context that existed in Palestine at the turn of the 20th century and almost disappeared after the establishment of Israel.

"I try to cherish every day now. Every day I just don't know what is going to be when I wake up. What will that day bring?" - Bob

Lydia Usha, M.D. Assistant Professor, Section of Medical Oncology, Director, Rush Inherited Susceptibility to Cancer (RISC) Center, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center. Presented by Hektoen Society of Medical History & Humanities.

Time: 5:30-6:15 pm, reception - 6:15-7:15 pm, lecture

Location: Hektoen Institute, 2100 W. Harrison, Chicago

Cost: $15.00 - RSVP: Phyllis Wheeler at 312.948.2520

The phrase “creative thinking” has become a buzz word in the 21st century. However, it is often unclear what this term implies, and more importantly, what are the “know-how’s” of creative thinking. In this presentation, Dr. Usha will be discussing the nature of creative thinking, stages of creative process, and some techniques of creative thinking using examples from the history of medicine and biological sciences. The lecture includes masterpieces of art, cartoons, story-telling, aphorisms, and creative thinking puzzles.

Dr. Usha is a medical oncologist in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at Rush and the Director of Rush Inherited Susceptibility to Cancer Clinic. She has been interested in the subject for about 10 years and has given lectures and facilitated creative thinking workshops at Rush and the UIC.

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Gasul Club of Pediatric Cardiology Quarterly Meeting

Please bring your interesting cases for discussion
and for presentation

Sunthorn Muangmingsuk, MD, Moderator

Time: 6:00-6:45 pm, reception - 6:45 - 8 pm, presentation.

Location: Hektoen Institute, 2100 W. Harrison, Chicago

No charge - RSVP: Phyllis Wheeler at 312.948.2520

Art tour for caregivers presented by Hektoen Nurses & the Humanities Program.

Time: 5:15-7:15 pm

Location: The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan Ave. Tour meets in museum Michigan Ave. lobby at 5 PM.

Cost: $15.00 (payable in advance)

Tour is limited to 20 participants. RSVP is required and payment must be sent in advance to hold your reservation. Mail check (payable to Hektoen Institute), to Rachel Baker, Hektoen Institute, 2100 W. Harrison, Chicago, IL 60612

RSVP: Rachel Baker at 312.948.2522

Engage your senses and increase your responsiveness to visual cues. Through facilitated exercises in the galleries of the Art Institute of Chicago, this session offers an opportunity to enhance your skills in visual analysis and communication as they relate to nursing practice. We will explore a variety of nursing-related concerns such as body language and interpersonal relationships, and managing change in living systems, among others. By the end of the evening, you will be looking at art and your nursing practice in a new way. No previous art history knowledge is necessary and, in fact, it should be left at the door! The tour is led by Sarah Alvarez, Art Institute, Education Dept.

Alice Dreger, Ph.D., Guggenheim Fellow and Professor of Clinical Medical Humanities & Bioethics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University. Presented by Hektoen Society of Medical History & Humanities.

Time: 5:30-6:15 pm, reception - 6:15-7:15 pm, lecture

Location: Hektoen Institute, 2100 W. Harrison, Chicago

Cost: $15.00 - RSVP: Phyllis Wheeler at 312.948.2520

This lecture considers the history of a variety of medical "normalizing" treatments--including genitoplasties for disorders of sex development and transsexualism, conjoined twin separations, cleft lip repairs, growth hormone injections for short stature, and Botox for wrinkles--in order to address the central question: What are doctors for? The lecture centers around an argument in favor of a noble conception of the medical profession that considers what is really good for patients, for doctors, and for democracy.

Midwest AIDS Training & Education Partners (MATEP) 12th Annual HIV/AIDS Treatment Update Symposium:
Report from the 2008 World AIDS Conference in Mexico City, Mexico.

Jointly sponsored by the Hektoen Institute of Medicine, UIC College of Medicine, and MATEC (Midwest AIDS Training & Education Center).

CME accredited - CE for Dentists, Nurses, and Pharmacists may be available.

Time: 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm: Registration and dinner
6:00 pm to 9:30 pm: Scientific Session

Location: At the Ritz-Carlton Hotel – Ballroom, 160 E. Pearson Street at Water Tower Place, Chicago, IL

No charge, but registration is required at 312-850-3741 or on http://www.matep.org

The Hektoen Institute of Medicine's Nurses and the Humanities in collaboration with the Rehabilitation Institute Nursing Academy is delighted to present a study and travel opportunity in Paris, France and several nearby significant sites such as Versailles, Chartres, Auvers-sur-Oise (Van Gogh village), and Taize. Please note that CEUs have been applied for.

"The Art of Travel," De Botton has said that our lives are dominated by a search for happiness and that few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest- in all its ardor and paradoxes-than our travels. During this "journey" we will have the opportunity to get "caught up" and to practice the arts of attention, gazing, and listening; engage in activities to renew ourselves each day; meander toward the center of the places we visit and linger a while; engage in the rituals of journaling and letter writing as well as reading selected classic materials related to the sites; practice gratitude and praise singing; savor our dining experiences and, best of all, enjoy the company of one another!

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A lecture by Elliot Weisenberg, MD, Department of Pathology, Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center. Presented by Hektoen Society of Medical History & Humanities.

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A panel discussion moderated by Mary Ann McDermott, RN, EdD, Professor Emeritus, Niehoff School of Nursing, Loyola University Chicago; with Ted Rubenstein, MFA, PsyD, VP of Creative Arts Therapy & Clinical Director, ITA, Drama Therapist; Nancy Gershman, Artist & Founder of Art For Your Sake; Christine Sterkel, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Rush University Hospitals and Psychoanalyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.

Morris Fishbein Lecture by Robert D. Johnston, PhD., Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago. Presented by Hektoen Society of Medical History & Humanities.

A panel discussion moderated by Carolyn Smeltzer, RN, Ph.D.
With Doris Popovich, RN, MA and Joan Cantwell, RN, MA ("21 Peaceful Nurses, Essays on a Spiritually Guided Practice"), Nancy Zimmerman Burke, APN, MSN, BC ("Making Choices, Taking Chances: Nurse Leaders Tell Their Stories") and Fran Vlasses, RN, Ph.D. ("Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives: The Stories of Nurses")

Topics to be addressed:

• History of story telling, its impact and use in the healthcare environment
• Story of the birth of these books that highlights the stories of nurses
• Our responsibility for story telling and as story tellers
• Challenges to stories as A Body of Work
• What is the future of storytelling in healthcare

***please note that the panel discussion starts at 5:30 pm sharp.  A reception and a book signing take place at 6:45 pm.

In partnership with Illinois Humanities Council.

A lecture by Elizabeth Steinhauer, MD, Staff Psychiatrist, Student Counseling & Resource Service, University of Chicago. Presented by Hektoen Society of Medical History & Humanities. Prior to the lecture: "Therapeutic Photomontage: Wishful Reality for Countering Loss" Art Talk & Exhibition in Hektoen lobby by digital artist Nancy Gershman, Artist & Founder of Art For Your Sake -

A lecture by Mindy Schwartz, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago. Presented by Hektoen Society of Medical History & Humanities.

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Workshop co-presented by the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and the Hektoen Institute's Nurses & the Humanities program.

A fun, interactive workshop focusing on positive communication skills and conflict resolution using improvisational theatre exercises. This workshop begins by helping participants understand how conflict develops and teaches skills to deal with it in new ways. The program focuses on areas such as voice and articulation, awareness of self and others, the use of "I" statements, and understanding assertive vs. passive or aggressive behavior. It will also explore techniques to reduce stress and enhance self-control. Come dressed to move. Workshop led by Jennifer Viets, Director of ArtsConnect. Ms. Viets is a teaching artist committed to issue-based programming. She is on the faculty of Northwestern Medical School where she directs ArtsConnect - a course for medical students on using the arts with children and adults in hospital settings.

*** Please note special location: Rehabilitation Institute, 345 E. Superior Street. Group meets at 5:15 pm in first floor lobby in front of Chagall tapestry - Workshop starts at 5:45 pm. Cost: $15.00 (include a buffet dinner). Discounted parking available for $10.00 at 321 E. Erie Parking.

A lecture by Robert D. Martin, PhD, A. Watson Armour III, Curator of Biological Anthropology, Dept. of Anthropology, The Field Museum, Chicago. Presented by Hektoen Society of Medical History & Humanities.

A lecture by B. Herold Griffith, M.D., Emeritus Professor of Surgery & Emeritus Chief of the Section of Plastic Surgery, Northwestern University. Presented by Hektoen Society of Medical History & Humanities.

A lecture by Prudence Gourguechon, M.D., President Elect, American Psychoanalytic Association. Presented by Hektoen Society of Medical History & Humanities.

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By Virginia Keatley, RN, DNSc., Assistant Professor of Nursing at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Dr. Keatley will give a brief overview of 4 schools of philosophy--Plato's idealism, Aristotle's realism, James' pragmatism, and Kierkegaard's existentialism and discuss how we and our patients live and work using a philosophical foundation. Selections from the Art Institute of Chicago will be viewed to explore the possible philosophical foundations of the artists as an assist to the participants in identifying their own philosophical perspective and the effect that has on one's practice of nursing.

***Note special location: Group meets in the Michigan Ave. lobby of the Art Institute. An opportunity to continue the dialogue over wine and cheese across the street at the University Club of Chicago will conclude the evening.

a presentation by Karen Egenes, RN, PhD, Niehoff School of Nursing, Loyola University Chicago.

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Students from the College of Nursing at UIC will share selected readings from their creative nonfiction & poetry. With their clear vision and inquisitive voices, they provide a mirror for our reflection on the nursing profession.  Moderated by Geraldine Gorman, RN, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, UIC, School of Nursing. This program is presented in partnership with Illinois Humanities Council.

a presentation by Mary Ann McDermott, RN, EdD, Professor Emeritus, Niehoff School of Nursing, Loyola University Chicago.  Co-presented by the Society of Medical History & Humanities.

A presentation by by F. Lynn Meshberger, M.D., Private Practice, Gynecology. Presented by the Society of Medical History & Humanities.

The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and The Hektoen Institute’s Nurses & the Humanities present an interactive workshop for nurses and healthcare professionals on the healing power of music and sound. Led by Margaret Nykaza

Since the beginning of time music has been a creative and healing element in human development and existence.  Recognizing the potential of this healing tool, Marge Nykaza will share her insights into the work of Harmony, Hope & Healing, a music program which serves the marginalized in Chicago. Participants will also learn about her work at the Open Ear Center in Seattle where she has studied Cross-Cultural Healing Music in Healthcare and Education for the past three years. There will be an invitation to experience the power of music, sound and energy through breathing, humming, toning and singing exercises as well as an opportunity to play percussion instruments. The ultimate goal of this experience is to create balance, release stress and enhance the healing process…. Harmony Hope & Healing! This interactive workshop promises to be energizing and informative for both patient and caregiver

The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and the Hektoen Institute’s Nurses & the Humanities present a multidisciplinary art experience for nurses and other health care professionals. The evening will begin with a guided tour of the tapestry Job, the last creative effort of the Russian artist Marc Chagall. Following light refreshments, the members of ArtsConnect will actively engage participants to jump start their creativity through music, movement and improvisational drama. This highly interactive evening will provide nurses and other caregivers with arts-centered opportunities to help themselves and their patients regain the basic needs of belonging, choice, self-respect and fun. Participants will also learn about the role Arts & Medicine departments are playing in medical facilities across the country and how to foster advocacy for arts programming in their own settings. Wear comfortable clothes and shoes.

Where: The Rehabilitation Institute, 345 E. Superior Street, 1st floor
Cost: $15.00
Discounted parking on Erie will be available at $10.00   
****Due to the nature of this program, space will be limited to the first 25 registrants. 

a presentation by Geraldine Gorman, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, UIC College of Nursing and Michael McColly, Author, and Yoga Instructor.

The act of writing is intimately connected with knowledge of the body. The relationship is a reciprocal one: we write through the body. In order to do so, we require its cooperation—proper coordination of movement, a settling of the mind, an ability to bracket the commotion ever at the periphery of our contours. The flip side of this collaborative arrangement is equally true, if less perfectly understood. On occasion, the body writes through us. In times of imbalance and high stress, when our attention wavers from the demands of our flesh, the body demands our refocus. How that occurs is highly individualized. What remains universal is our need to restore balance. In this presentation we will offer, by way of our own journeys through health and illness, an approach which melds the expression of the body to that of the written word, movement and meditation. Michael McColly is a Yoga instructor and author. Geraldine Gorman is a Public Health educator, hospice nurse and writer. Join us for discussion and exploration.

Where: Hektoen Institute, 2100 W. Harrison Street
Cost: $15.00

Sacred Spaces/Sacred Places, a study and travel opportunity in Italy.

Where: Rome, Italy

a panel discussion part of the “Understanding Pain” lecture series, co-presented by the Hektoen Institute and the International Museum of Surgical Science (IMSS).  Moderator, Mary Ann McDermott.  Panelists:  Robert King (founder and past president of the Chicago School of Massage Therapy), Ted Rubenstein, PsyD (VP of Expressive Arts Therapy/Clinical Director and Drama Therapist at the Institute of Therapy Through The Arts in Chicago, and David Bilstrom, MD (Acupuncturist and Medical Director of the Complementary Medicine Center for Advocate/Good Samaritan Health and Wellness Center).

Where: IMSS, 1524 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago.