Appearances and Interviews

1/​11/​12 UMass Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library 5pm. I'll be giving a talk and reading, "Medicine and Fiction: Writing Your Way into Trouble," sponsored by the Humanities and Medicine Committee of the Lamar Soutter Library.

"The Power of Denial" This I Believe WRNI Rhode Island NPR September 5, 2007
Interview with Dan Moulthrop, host of, "The Sound of Ideas" on WCPN Public Radio May 2, 2007
4/​11/​11 MakeItBetter at Rhode Island School of Design: Symposium on Art, Design and the Future of Healthcare
Panel: RISD in Collaboration (Presented with Kelli Auerbach, MFA)

10/​23/​10 American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting, San Diego. Panel: Witness and Response: Physician-Writers/​Health/​Illness/​Justice
10/​18/​10 Visions and Voices: The USC Arts and Humanities Initiative— Truth and Consequences: Writing About Patients
9/​30-10/​2/​10 Keynote speaker. Quandaries in Healthcare Conference, Aspen CO. Topic: A Need to Confess: Writing About the Healthcare Experience
9/​24/​10 AMSA Book Discussion Webinar Series
4/​30 and 5/​1/​09 Examined Life: Writing and the Art of Medicine, University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine
October 23, 2008 Panelist First Punch/​Second Punch--No Punches Pulled--Reading and Rereading the House of God. The conference was Return to House of God--(W)rites of Passage. Cleveland, OH
4/​16/​08 College of Physicians/​Society for the Arts in Healthcare Philadelphia, PA.
2/​19/​08 Humanities Perspectives lecture. “Pulling the Hat Out of the Rabbit, or Creating Fiction Out of Medicine.” Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.
January 31, 2008 Guest Speaker, elective at Harvard Medical School, called “Narrative Ethics: Literary Texts and Moral Issues in Medicine.”
October 3, 2007 Reading at Brown University Bookstore, Providence, RI
5/​2/​07 Reading, Mac’s Backs, Cleveland Heights, OH
5/​1-5/​3/​07 Visiting Lectureship, Hiram College, Center for Literature, Medicine, and Biomedical Humanities, Hiram OH
4/​24/​07 Examined Life: Writing and the Art of Medicine, University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine
3/​28/​06 Distinguished Visitor, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.















This is a PDF file. Interview AAMC Reporter March 2008. p. 10 (1.8MB)



Recent and Selected Work

Fiction
“These edgy, heartfelt, wryly humorous stories... tell us what it’s really like to doctor, to patient, to suffer and to redeem.”
--Samuel Shem author of The House of God and Mount Misery.
The Bryant Literary Review 12; 2011: 10-130.
Eclectica Magazine
The Battered Suitcase
Hamilton Stone Review 17;2009
The Bryant Literary Review 9; 2008: 24-50
"Tattoo Highway" Volume #16: Sidekicks & Fellow Travelers
Essay
University of Toronto Medical Journal. First appeared in Ars Medica
Nonfiction
Atrium
NYU Literature, Arts and Medicine blog
This I Believe WRNI
Essay--Radio