This interdisciplinary symposium presents a broad look at narrative medicine, with opening and closing keynote lectures, and a theatre plenary session. Break-out sessions and workshops, led by faculty, staff, and students at Wake Forest University, Forsyth Hospital, and UNC Chapel Hill, will fall under three categories: narrative in clinical practice, curriculum and teaching, and honing practices of listening, observation, and storytelling. Also featured is a poster gallery that will remain open throughout the day: “Show & Tell: Journeys Through Medicine.”
 
Sponsored by the Wake Forest University Humanities Institute and made possible in part by major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
 
Opening Keynote:
Rafael Campo
American Poet, Doctor, and Author
Associate Professor of Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
 
Closing Keynote:
Linda Friedlaender
Pioneer of “The Observational Skills Workshop”
Senior Curator of Education
British Art Center
Yale University

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