Past Events
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Nov 04, 2009:
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Oct 07, 2009:
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Sep 02, 2009:
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Jun 03, 2009:
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May 06, 2009:
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May 04, 2009:
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Apr 01, 2009:
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Feb 04, 2009:
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Jan 07, 2009:
Date:
Nov 04, 2009 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location:
The Faculty Club of CUMC: 446 P&S Building 630 West 168th Street (between Broadway and Fort Washington Avenue)
Speaker(s):
Harlan Coben
Event Description
The New York Times bestselling author reads from Hold Tight, which examines family, adolescent suicide, and a child’s right to privacy over a parent’s right to know. Dan Brown calls Coben “the modern master of the hook and twist – luring you in on the first page only to shock you on the last.”
Narrative Medicine Rounds are lectures or readings presented by scholars, clinicians, or writers engaged in work at the interface between narrative and health care. Rounds are usually held on the first Wednesday of each month from 5 to 7 pm in the Columbia University Medical Center Faculty Club, followed by a reception. Rounds are free and open to the public. Students, staff, faculty, patients, friends, and interested others are warmly welcome to join us.
Date:
Oct 07, 2009 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location:
The Faculty Club of CUMC: 446 P&S Building 630 West 168th Street (between Broadway and Fort Washington Avenue)
Speaker(s):
Sandeep Jauhar
Event Description
Now a practicing cardiologist, Jauhar will read from his memoir Intern: A Doctor’s Initiation. Vincent Lam has called the book “A vivid portrait of the culture of a New York City hospital, with its demanding hierarchy and sometimes indifferent cruelty." (New York Times)
Narrative Medicine Rounds are lectures or readings presented by scholars, clinicians, or writers engaged in work at the interface between narrative and health care. Rounds are usually held on the first Wednesday of each month from 5 to 7 pm in the Columbia University Medical Center Faculty Club, followed by a reception. Rounds are free and open to the public. Students, staff, faculty, patients, friends, and interested others are warmly welcome to join us.
Date:
Sep 02, 2009 5:00 PM
Location:
Room 446 - College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University Medical Center
Speaker(s):
G. Thomas Couser
Event Description
G. Thomas Couser, Professor of English and the founding director of the Disability Studies program at Hofstra University, will speak on what disability studies has to offer medical education. Among his books are Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing and Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing, and Signifying Bodies: Disability in Contemporary Life Writing. He is currently writing a book about contemporary American “patriography,” memoirs of fathers by sons and daughters, and a memoir of his own father.
Narrative Medicine Rounds are lectures or readings presented by scholars, clinicians, or writers engaged in work at the interface between narrative and health care. Rounds are held on the first Wednesday of each month from 5 to 7 pm in the Columbia University Medical Center Faculty Club, followed by a reception. Rounds are free and open to the ublic. Students, staff, faculty, patients, friends, and interested others are warmly welcome to join us. This event is brought to you by the Program in Narrative Medicine with the generous help of MBS Vox/Commonhealth.
The Faculty Club of CUMC
446 Physicians & Surgeons Building
630 W. 168th Street
(Between Broadway & Fort Washington Ave.) NY, NY
Rounds begin at 5:00 pm, followed by refreshments.
Local Map
http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/about/docs/NYP-CUMC_map.pdf
Date:
Jun 03, 2009 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Location:
Columbia University Medical Center
Armand Hammer Bldg.
701 W. 168th St
Room 401
Speaker(s):
Oliver Sacks
Event Description
Dr. Oliver Sacks, neurologist and author of such books as Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, A Leg to Stand On and Musicophilia, gives the final Narrative Medicine Rounds for 2008-2009. Dubbed the “poet laureate of medicine” by the New York Times, Dr. Sacks will speak on the topic of his next book: hallucinations and the life of the visual brain.From motor cars and chess sets, to people in fanciful headdress and even images of Kermit the Frog, visual hallucinations in people going blind are not born of memory, but are new inventions of the visual brain.
Narrative Medicine Rounds are lectures or readings presented by scholars, clinicians, or writers engaged in work at the interface between narrative and health care. Rounds are held on the first Wednesday of each month from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Columbia University Medical Center Faculty Club, followed by a reception. Rounds are free and open to the public. Students, staff, faculty, patients, friends, and interested others are warmly welcome to join us.
Date:
May 06, 2009 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Location:
Columbia University Medical Center Faculty Club
P&S Building, 630 West 168th Street
(between Broadway and Fort Washington Avenue)
4th floor, Room 446
Event Description
Priscilla Wald, Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Duke University, reads from Contagious: Cultures, Carriers and the Outbreak Narrative, which Dr. Rita Charon has called “a magnificent book, notable for its prose, its expansiveness, its courage and its creativity.”
Narrative Medicine Rounds are lectures or readings presented by scholars, clinicians, or writers engaged in work at the interface between narrative and health care. Rounds are held on the first Wednesday of each month from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Columbia University Medical Center Faculty Club, followed by a reception. Rounds are free and open to the public. Students, staff, faculty, patients, friends, and interested others are warmly welcome to join us.
Date:
May 04, 2009 1:00 AM
Location:
Columbia University Medical Center Faculty Club
P&S Building, 630 West 168th Street
(between Broadway and Fort Washington Avenue)
4th floor, Room 446
Speaker(s):
Nellie Hermann
Event Description
Nellie Hermann will read from The Cure for Grief, “a subtle, elegiac coming-of-age novel about catastrophe, grief and the persistence of everyday life. ...A gorgeously readable meditation on mourning and survival. Profound, poetic and original" (Kirkus Reviews).
Narrative Medicine Rounds are lectures or readings presented by scholars, clinicians, or writers engaged in work at the interface between narrative and health care. Rounds are held on the first Wednesday of each month from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Columbia University Medical Center Faculty Club, followed by a reception. Rounds are free and open to the public. Students, staff, faculty, patients, friends, and interested others are warmly welcome to join us.
Date:
Apr 01, 2009 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Location:
Columbia University Medical Center Faculty Club
P&S Building, 630 West 168th Street
(between Broadway and Fort Washington Avenue)
4th floor, Room 446
Speaker(s):
Julie Salamon
Event Description
Julie Salamon reads from Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus, Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God and Diversity on Steroids, a “fascinating portrait of a Brooklyn, N.Y. hospital... much more than white coats and beeping consoles—it’s 21st century America in a microcosm” (Salon).
Narrative Medicine Rounds are lectures or readings presented by scholars, clinicians, or writers engaged in work at the interface between narrative and health care. Rounds are held on the first Wednesday of each month from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Columbia University Medical Center Faculty Club, followed by a reception. Rounds are free and open to the public. Students, staff, faculty, patients, friends, and interested others are warmly welcome to join us.
Date:
Feb 04, 2009 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Location:
Columbia University Medical Center Faculty Club
P&S Building, 630 West 168th Street (between Broadway and Fort Washington Avenue)
4th floor, Room 446
Speaker(s):
Perri Klass
Event Description
Perri Klass, pediatrician and author of classic medical memoirs A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years as a Medical Student and Baby Doctor: A Pediatrician’s Training, will read from her new novel The Mercy Rule. Chris Bohjalian said, “Few writers write as beautifully or authentically about parenting.”
Narrative Medicine Rounds are lectures or readings presented by scholars, clinicians, or writers engaged in work at the interface between narrative and health care. Rounds are held on the first Wednesday of each month from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Columbia University Medical Center Faculty Club, followed by a reception. Rounds are free and open to the public. Students, staff, faculty, patients, friends, and interested others are warmly welcome to join us.
Date:
Jan 07, 2009 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Location:
Columbia University Medical Center Faculty Club
P&S Building, 630 West 168th Street (between Broadway and Fort Washington Avenue)
4th floor, Room 446
Speaker(s):
Michael Greenberg
Event Description
Michael Greenberg, a columnist for London's "Times Literary Supplement," reads from his new memoir Hurry Down Sunshine. In the words of Oliver Sacks: “Lucid, realistic, compassionate, illuminating, Hurry Down Sunshine may provide a sort of guide for those who have to negotiate the dark regions of the soul.”
Narrative Medicine Rounds are lectures or readings presented by scholars, clinicians, or writers engaged in work at the interface between narrative and health care. Rounds are held on the first Wednesday of each month from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Columbia University Medical Center Faculty Club, followed by a reception. Rounds are free and open to the public. Students, staff, faculty, patients, friends, and interested others are warmly welcome to join us.
