5th National Conference for Physician-Scholars in the Social Sciences and Humanities
5th National Conference for Physician-Scholars in the Social
Sciences and Humanities Presents:
VITAL
SIGNS: The State of the Art and Science of Medicine and Society
April
12-14, 2013
San
Francisco, CA
Dear colleagues,
In April 2013, MD/PhD graduates and trainees in the
social sciences and humanities will gather in San Francisco for our 5th
biennial meeting, continuing to build on foundations laid by the 2011
conference in Chicago, the 2009 conference at the University of Pennsylvania,
the 2007 conference at the University of Chicago, and the 2005 conference at
UCSF.
Our regular program of speakers, research presentations,
career panel, and workshops will span Saturday to Sunday, April 13/14. Please
stay tuned to emails and our website for updates.
We are very excited to announce our Keynote Speakers:
Jonathan
Metzl, MD, MA, PhD
Vanderbilt
University
Director,
Center for Medicine, Health, and Society
Frederick
B. Rentschler II Chair of Sociology and Medicine, Health, and Society
Author:
Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing
Gender in the Era of Wonder
Drugs (2003 Duke)
The
Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
(2009 Beacon)
Victoria
Sweet, MD, MA, PhD
UCSF
School of Medicine, Associate Clinical Professor
Author:
God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
(2012 Penguin)
Claire
Wendland, MD, PhD
University
of Wisconsin - Madison
Assistant
Professor, Anthropology
Assistant
Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Assistant
Professor, Medical History and Bioethics
Author:
A Heart for the Work: Journeys Through an African Medical School (2010 Chicago)
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ADDITIONALLY, we are very excited to announce that we are
partnering with Helena Hanson, MD, PhD (NYU, Psychiatry, Anthropology) and
Jonathan
Metzl to present a one day symposium on inequality and
health. In
March 2012, Dr. Hanson and Dr. Metzl hosted an exciting
symposium at New York University on new and continuing conversations around
race, class, and health, calling for increased need for Structural Competency
in
medical training and care. We are very excited to partner with them to
host a West Coast version of this summit:
STRUCTURAL
COMPETENCY II:
New
Medicine for the Institutional Inequalities that Make us Sick
California
Conversations
Friday
April 12, 2013
We are so thrilled to kick off the weekend with this
symposium that will be free and open to the wider UCSF community and public,
building more alliances with our colleagues throughout medicine, the academy,
and the communities we serve.
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Additional information and updates about the conference,
including registration information and abstract submission, will be posted to
our blog. Stay tuned and check back frequently!
See in you in San Francisco!
Best Regards,
Dana Greenfield, Molly Hales, Nadia Gaber, & Shannon
Satterwhite
Conference Organizers
UCSF Program in Medical Anthropology