The Medical Humanities & the Arts Program (MedMuse) is the home for the arts and humanities at the medical school, with programs that support diversity and integrate the arts and humanities into medical education, scholarly endeavors, and the practice of medicine.
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Art Across Boundaries
FEATURING SHOLEH ASGARY
May 3 5:30PM HYBRID EVENT
The Wende Museum is proud to support Stanford School of Medicine in presenting a new, collaborative guest speaker series entitled “Art Across Boundaries" which examines the overlap between visual arts and science and how the two areas can inspire and enrich each other. Join us for a conversation with Sholeh Asgary.
Sholeh Asgary (b. 1982, Iran) is an interdisciplinary artist who researches how the auditory characteristics of a location reveal its underlying conditions and our relationship to place—echoing the near-perpetual movement across borders that characterized Asgary’s formative years.
Film Screening and Panel Discussion on Asian Elder Care, Umeonki
May 8, 2024 | 5:30 pm PT
Location:Stanford Health Library | Free and open to the public
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The documentary captures poignant stories from Japanese American Families as they grow and age from the turmoil of internment to their last days at the Umenoki Gardens Senior home which was founded on the grounds of the Southern Alameda County Buddhist Church in Union City.
A panel on "Caring for Asian Elders" will be held immediately after the screening. Confirmed panelists include:
- Naoko Fuji (Social Justic Advocate and Attorney, Umenoki Volunteer)
- PJ Hirabayashi (Founder of Taiko Peace, President of Kodo Arts Sphere America (KASA), Co-Founder, Creatives for Compassionate Communities)
- Yoshiko Matsumoto, PhD (Yamato Ichihashi Professor in Japanese History and Civilization, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and, by courtesy, of Linguistics
- Matt Mesias, MD (Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Stanford Senior Care)
- Kenneth Szeto (Self-Help for the Elderly)
“In this biomedical revolution, we need the humanities now more than ever.”
-Lloyd B. Minor, MD, Dean, Stanford University School of Medicine
http://www.stanforddaily.com/2014/04/06/the-humanities-and-medicine/
Program News
01/29/2024 Perfect scores and painting with patients: Meet the 2024 Churchill Scholars
Toomer noted Shi’s “unique ability to harmonize the sciences with art.” She invited Shi to be an artist-researcher for Portrait Project, a Medicine and the Muse project she co-leads. As part of the project, Shi creates art pieces with Stanford Hospital in-patients at their bedside.
12/05/2023 Can art aid in healing? Portrait Project is using AI, traditional art to find out
Smith and other researchers with Stanford Medicine are helping patients use AI image-generation software as part of a unique study. The goal of the Portrait Project, created by the Stanford Medicine and the Muse program, is to quantify how creating art aids patients in their recovery.
11/05/2023 Healing through storytelling
Author and teacher Laurel Braitman, PhD, shares how writing can help medical professionals cope with loss and grief.
9/12/2023 Leaders discuss AI, equity, aging and cancer at first Big Ideas in Medicine conference
Physicians, researchers and other pacesetters describe some of the most promising pursuits in the medical field. In cancer, for instance: ‘Let’s kill the first cell, not the last cell.’
9/10/23 Healthcare Isn't 'Broken' — It's Fragmented
— How do we dig ourselves out? by Ilana Yurkiewicz, MD
7/27/2023 Storytelling: The Oldest Medical Technology
— Laurel Braitman, PhD, on how creative writing can help clinicians
Rally by the Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine department.
We at Medicine & the Muse join Stanford Medicine and its departments in denouncing the societal and structural racism that leads to violence against Black Americans. This systemic racism also leads to widespread health inequalities: a higher death rate from COVID-19, misconceptions about pain perception, and for Black women, a much higher breast cancer death rate. The list goes on. We at Medicine & the Muse stand for inclusion, diversity, respect, and justice. We stand with our Black friends, colleagues, patients, students, trainees, and others who are suffering.
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Writing Medicine: Weekly reflective writing session for healthcare workers and their loved ones
A virtual space for healthcare workers and the people who love them to write, reflect and share.
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10AM – 11AM PST