Emily Silverman – The Power of the Voice: Storytelling, Medicine, and The Nocturnists
The Healing Voices Lecture Series

Reception to follow.

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“Dedicated to bringing out humanity in today’s complex, impersonal world of health care.”–San Francisco Examiner

“40 Under 40 in Podcasting.”–Podcast Magazine

Emily Silverman is an internal medicine physician at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the creator and host of the acclaimed medical storytelling live show The Nocturnists. In an intimate talk, she will discuss the origin of the Nocturnists podcast and how storytelling provides an avenue to physician self-care and re-centers the dialogic work at the heart of healing encounters, followed by an exploration of topics featured in her recently completed series, Shame in Medicine: The Lost Forest, and a Q&A.

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Sayantani DasGupta – Telling Stories in Medicine
Monday, September 12, 2022, at 12 p.m.
Mayer Auditorium, Health Sciences Campus
For more info, click HERE.

Michele Harper – Radical Truths: The Power of Storytelling to Dismantle Racism in Medicine
Wednesday, November 9, 2022, at 12 p.m. 
Mayer Auditorium, Health Sciences Campus 
For more info, click HERE.

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.