Michele Harper – Radical Truths: The Power of Storytelling to Dismantle Racism in Medicine

Date: Wednesday, November 9, 2022 at 12:00pm

Location: Mayer Auditorium

Type: Lecture, Conversation, Diversity

Genre: Literary Arts, Science & Technology, Dei

Michele Harper – Radical Truths: The Power of Storytelling to Dismantle Racism in Medicine
The Healing Voices Lecture Series

Reception and book signing to follow.

ADMISSION: 
Admission is free.

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DESCRIPTION: 
Michele Harper has over a decade of experience as a medical professional, most notably as the chief resident at Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx and as an attending emergency department physician at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia. As an emergency room physician, Harper experiences firsthand the repercussions of systemic racism in medicine, and her best-selling and critically acclaimed first book, The Beauty in Breaking, which was selected as one of the New York Times’ “100 Notable Books of 2020” and longlisted for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, describes and exemplifies the power of seeing and telling, of bearing witness and speaking the truth. In a conversation with Sabrina Derrington, director of the Center for Pediatric Bioethics at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Harper will examine the trauma and brokenness that racism causes for patients and providers alike, and the power of stories to transform trauma and dismantle racism.

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Emily Silverman – The Power of the Voice: Storytelling, Medicine, and The Nocturnists 
Thursday, February 16, 2023, at 12 p.m. 
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Presented by USC Visions and Voices. Organized by Pamela Schaff (Medical Education, Family Medicine, and Pediatrics), Ron Ben-Ari (Internal Medicine and Medical Education), Sabrina Derrington (Pediatrics), and Erika Wright (Medical Education and English). Co-sponsored by Keck School of Medicine’s HEAL (Humanities, Ethics, Art, and the Law) Program, the USC Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics, and the CHLA Center for Bioethics. 


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