Events

Gasul Club of Pediatric Cardiology Quarterly Meeting

Time: 6pm - 8 pm

Refreshments at 6 pm. 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 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

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

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

Through songs, stories and discussion, Marge Nykaza invites participants to explore

The Voice as an Instrument of Healing

The exploration will begin with two statements:
1. "The voice is the most living of all sounds" (Inayat Khan from his book, Music)
2. "Belief + Intention + Sound = Healing" (Pat Moffitt Cook from the Open Ear Center.)

Resources that have influenced Marge's work as a singer, voice teacher, pastoral musician and director of Harmony, Hope & Healing will be provided and information will be shared about the Open Ear Center where she studied Cross-Cultural Healing Music in Healthcare and Education.

The workshop also includes an investigation into the vocal mechanism in regards to resonation, phonation and articulation of sound for healing; and participants will have the opportunity to get in touch with their voice and vibrations through breathing, toning and singing exercises. Percussion instruments and chimes will be available to enhance the musical experience. The goal of this informative and interactive session will be to obtain a great awareness of the voice as a healing instrument and its potential in the healing process.

Marge Nykaza, M.P.S. 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 extended her vocal studies at De Paul University and completed a Masters Degree in Pastoral Studies from Loyola University in 2000. In 2007, she was certified as a Cross-Cultural Music Healing Practitioner. Presently, she is pursuing a Doctorate of Ministry at Graduate Theological Foundation.

Time: 5 to 7 PM.  Refreshments will be provided

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

Cost: $15.00

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

312-768-6020

A lecture by Hareth Raddawi, MD

Presented by Chicago Society for The History of Medicine and The 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

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

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

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

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

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 lecture by Hareth Raddawi, MD

Presented by Chicago Society for The History of Medicine and The 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

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

Through songs, stories and discussion, Marge Nykaza invites participants to explore

The Voice as an Instrument of Healing

The exploration will begin with two statements:
1. "The voice is the most living of all sounds" (Inayat Khan from his book, Music)
2. "Belief + Intention + Sound = Healing" (Pat Moffitt Cook from the Open Ear Center.)

Resources that have influenced Marge's work as a singer, voice teacher, pastoral musician and director of Harmony, Hope & Healing will be provided and information will be shared about the Open Ear Center where she studied Cross-Cultural Healing Music in Healthcare and Education.

The workshop also includes an investigation into the vocal mechanism in regards to resonation, phonation and articulation of sound for healing; and participants will have the opportunity to get in touch with their voice and vibrations through breathing, toning and singing exercises. Percussion instruments and chimes will be available to enhance the musical experience. The goal of this informative and interactive session will be to obtain a great awareness of the voice as a healing instrument and its potential in the healing process.

Marge Nykaza, M.P.S. 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 extended her vocal studies at De Paul University and completed a Masters Degree in Pastoral Studies from Loyola University in 2000. In 2007, she was certified as a Cross-Cultural Music Healing Practitioner. Presently, she is pursuing a Doctorate of Ministry at Graduate Theological Foundation

Time: 5 to 7 PM - Refreshments will be provided

Location: Cathedral Shelter

1668 W. Ogden Ave., Chicago, IL

Cost: $15.00

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

312-768-6020

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

June 23rd, 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.

Download 2011 brochure

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

312.768.6030

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

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.