The Health and Humanities Pop-Up Institute convened scholars from the Humanities Institute, and the Dell Medical School, and the greater UT Austin community to conduct an interdisciplinary exploration of the impact of humanistic approaches to medicine on patients and healthcare workers. The Institute was organized around three fields of inquiry:
(i) Narrative Medicine/Narratives of Medicine - how effective care, including communication of illness and disease in ways that impact the success of treatment, requires the ability to tell and recognize stories and narratives;
(ii) Humanistic Approaches to Equity and Diversity - how humanities training can further medical inquiry into health disparities, increase cultural competency, and integrate non-Western and biomedical practices of care; and,
(iii) Community Practice - how the medical humanities can foster partnerships with community organizations in order to develop a more caring society, including increased support for healthcare workers.
In order to foster a sustainable, coordinated medical humanities program at UT, the Pop-Up Institute aimed to address the need to measure the objective health outcomes of humanistic approaches to medicine with regard to patients, patient communities, and the medical community itself.
Pauline Strong, Pop-Up Institute Leader
Director, Humanities Institute; Professor, Department of Anthropology, Center for Women's and Gender Studies, College of Liberal Arts
Clare Callahan, Pop-Up Institute Coordinator
Program Coordinator, Humanities Institute; Lecturer, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
Tony Hilfer Professor of American and British Literature, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
Director, Health Disparities; Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health, Dell Medical School
Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
Assistant Professor, Department of Women's Health, Dell Medical School
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV)
Professor and Associate Dean for Health Affairs, Steve Hicks School of Social Work; Co-Director of the Institute for Collaborative Health Research and Practice
Associate Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
Regents Centennial Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts; Executive Directory of Project 2021
Associate Dean of Comprehensive Care; Professor, Department of Surgery & Perioperative Care, Dell Medical School
Adjunct Professor, School of Architecture, Plan II, and Dell Medical School
Chief of the Learning Health System; Clinical Affairs, Dell Medical School
Research Project Manager, Health Disparities; Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Population Health, Dell Medical School
Imelda Vetter, Pop-Up Institute Librarian
Health Sciences Librarian, Department of Medical Education, Dell Medical Schoo
Grace C. Barron, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Psychiatry, Dell Medical School
Director of the Creativity for Resilience Program, Dell Medical School
Nicholaus Christian, M.D.
Resident Physician, Dell Medical School
Andrew Dell'Antonio, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies
Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Butler School of Music
Tracie Harrison, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Nursing
David Heckler, Ph.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education
Pediatric Psychologist, Dell Children's Medical Center
Director of Internalizing Program at the Texas Child Study Center
Elizabeth Lewis, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work
Project Leader at the Texas Center for Disability Studies
Brad Love, Ph.D.
Associate Director of Health Communication
Center for Health Communications, Moody College of Communication
Michael Mackert, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Advertising & Public Relations, Population Health
Director of Center for Health Communications
Michael Parent, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education
Richard Peters, M.D.
Chief Technology Innovation Officer
Dell Medical School
Robin Richardson
Project Manager for Health Product Innovation
Dell Medical School
Suzanne Seriff, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
Anthropology and the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, College of Liberal Arts
Sara Simons, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Department of Theater and Dance
Keri Stephens, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Communication Studies, Center for Health Communications, Moody College of Communication
Rebecca Teng, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Women's Health, Dell Medical School
Marisa Toups, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Psychiatry, Dell Medical School
Madison Weigand
Health Product Innovation Team Associate
Dell Medical School
LuAnn Wilkerson, Ed.D
Associate Dean
Evaluation & Faculty Development, Dell Medical School
Professor
Medical Education, Dell Medical School
Director, Interprofessional Education
Clinical Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy
The keyword discussions are an attempt to build a common vocabulary to identify key points of tension in various disciplinary perspectives on Health and Humanities. In investigating keywords, we are influenced by the cultural critic Raymond Williams' keywords project, which is discussed comprehensively on this website.
During the Pop Up Institute, individual participants provided definitions and the group engaged in discussions around the various perspectives through which one could define the words.
Health
Narrative
Health Justice
Resilience
Community
Empathy
Value/Values
Patient/Relationship-Centered Care
The Humanities Institute maintains the Pop Up Institute website with a summary of the schedule, events, and speakers for each institute. Visit it here.
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