Dear colleagues,
As part of the Center of Innovation and e-Health (CieH-UFMCD), in collaboration with the University of Bucharest and the international association Students for Health Humanities, our medical and health humanities team has the pleasure of inviting you to participate in Zooming in and Zooming Out: Visual Art as a Lens into Bias and the Structural Determinants of Health workshopheld by our special lecturer Dr. Kamna Balhara, MD (co-director), Johns Hopkins Medicine, USA.
About the theme
This interactive workshop will use visual arts-based pedagogies to allow participants to identify, explore, and deconstruct how bias might influence patient care and clinical decision-making, while understanding the broader context of social and structural determinants of health. This talk will use museum-based pedagogies most often used in health professions education, including Visual Thinking Strategies.
About the lecturer
Dr. Kamna Balhara, MD (co-director) is an emergency physician and Associate Professor in the department of Emergency Medicine (EM) at Johns Hopkins Medicine and Assistant Professor in the department of Medicine, Science, and Humanities in the Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Balhara is also an Associate Director of the EM Residency Program at Johns Hopkins and founding co-director of the Health Humanities at Hopkins Emergency Medicine (H3EM) initiative. An innovator in the health humanities, she has implemented humanities-based curricula for medical students, residents, and faculty from across specialties in national and international settings. She also directs a longitudinal interdisciplinary institution-wide health equity and humanities distinction track for residents. She was selected as a Harvard Macy Institute Art Museum-Based Health Professions Education Fellow and has authored multiple publications on humanities, social determinants of health, disparities in healthcare access, and inclusive recruiting practices for healthcare trainees. Her work has been funded by the Josiah Macy Foundation, the Foundational Role of Arts and Humanities in Medical Education (FRAHME) committee of the AAMC, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and she has developed freely available online curricular resources, such as www.sharetools.org. She is an elected member of the steering committee of the Health Humanities Consortium and chair of the Medical Humanities Section of the American College of Emergency Physicians.
The content will be exclusively presented in English!!
When and Where?
📅 Date: Monday, 27th of November
⏰ Time: 18:00 – 20:00
📌 Place: Conference Room, Center of Innovation and e-Health, 20 Pitar Moș Street, Ground Floor – Bucharest
🔗 Registration: https://forms.gle/jcrRTt4ipzXj77RCA
—The number of participants is limited to 45, and acceptance is tied to the order in which participants register—
📞 Contact info:
Medical Humanities Assistant: Stud. Mounzer Boustani
Telesemiology Assistant: Stud. Andrei Arpinte
Medical Humanities Coordinator: Gabriela Florea, MD, PhDc
Email: medhum@umfcd.ro / Tel: 0725359175
Remember to share this event with friends and colleagues!
#MedicalHealthHumanities
Special remark: We owe this event to the collaboration with Students for Health Humanities (SHH), without whom we would not have had the opportunity to host our distinguished guest lecturer, Dr. Kamna Balhara.
*Event organized as part of the CNFIS-FDI-2023-F-0709 project*
