"Practicing Theory, Theorizing Practice: Physician Scholars in the Social Sciences and Humanities"

MD/PhD Social Science and Humanities Conference

San Francisco, CA (May 14-15, 2005)

APSA is pleased to support this conference being organized by MD/PhD students at UCSF. Please direct any questions / comments regarding this conference to mdphdconference@yahoo.com

Social science and humanities physician scholars are increasingly influential in medicine in the United States; they have become leaders in diverse institutions, from the National Institutes of Health to the World Health Organization, local public health departments to Universities.  However, because jointly-trained scholars have taken many paths, they are often isolated in diverse professional worlds with no formal opportunities to collaborate.

This spring, we are proud to be hosting a nation-wide gathering for social science and humanities MD/PhD students and graduates in San Francisco, California.   Our conference will be a forum for the presentation and discussion of research projects as well as a spring-board for further alliances between MD/PhDs across the country.

We welcome students, faculty, and graduates from all disciplines -- from economics to art. Our goal is to bring together motivated, curious, and innovative individuals who have carved a path in what is not always easy terrain. By bridging the gap between medical science and patient care through our interests in the humanities and social sciences, we seek to improve the well-being of our patients and the climate of medicine as well as to work towards a more equitable society.

It has been ten years since MD/PhDs in the social sciences and humanities last held a nationwide conference.  For this conference, we have created a format that maximizes opportunities to interact and collaborate, to form a community of thinkers that has long been lacking.

Special Thanks To: All the funding institutions who have given us generous support, the programs that have put energy and funding into our training, as well as Clair Dunne, Niranjan Karnik, John Tercier, Tom Denberg, Jana Toutolmin, Art Weiss, Dorothy Porter and everyone else who has supported the integration of medicine with social sciences and humanities.

Location:

University of California, San Francisco: Parnassus Campus

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Program and General Questions:

Planning Committee: mdphdconference@yahoo.com

Logistical Issues or Questions:

Claire Dunne: dunnec@dahsm.ucsf.edu, (415) 476-7234

Saturday, May 14, 2005

08:15 AM – 08:45 AM

Registration and light breakfast
Toland Hall, UC Hall Room #142, 533 Parnassus.

09:00 AM – 09:10 AM

Welcome, Conference Planning Committee (Toland Hall)

09:10 AM – 10:10 AM

Keynote Address: "The Future of Social Medicine in the Age of the Genome" (Toland Hall)

Leon Eisenberg, M.D.

Presley Professor of Social Medicine

Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus

Chair of Social Medicine, 1980-1991

Harvard University

10:20 AM – 11:30 AM

Break-out Session I: Research Presentations (Medical Sciences Building, 513 Parnassus)
[A] International Medicine, Infectious Disease, and Philosophical Ethics

Winston Chiong, University of California San Francisco / New York University

Bjorn Westgard, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ted Bailey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

[B] Seeing Death

John Tercier, University of California San Francisco

Christina Gillis, University of California Berkeley

Elizabeth Dungan, University of California Berkeley
[C] Race, Medical Education and Identity

Richard Garcia, Providence St. Joseph’s Medical Center

Clair Wendland, MSU / UMass.
[D] Historical and Anthropological Approaches to Health and Capitalism in the U.S.

Sally Romano, Yale University

Helena Hansen, Yale University

Lunch (Toland Hall)

"Introduction to Poetry and Medicine"

Cary Nelson

Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Center for Writing, English, and Criticism and Interpretive Theory

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

"Poetry Reading"

Rafael Campo, M.D.

Guggenheim Fellow

Pushcart Prize Winner

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard University

Break-out Session II: Clinical Cases, Theory and Practice (Medical Sciences Building)

[A] Psychiatric Illness and Social-Transference

Niranjan Karnik, M.D., Ph.D. Psychiatry Stanford University

[B] Academic Training and the Medical Team

Scott Stonington, MD/PhD Student, University of California San Francisco

[C] Emerging Prion Diseases and Social Studies of Science

Maya Ponte, MD/PhD Candidate, University of California San Francisco

[D] Practicing / Studying Global Health

Ippolytos Kalofonos, MD/PhD Student, University of California San Francisco

[E] Migrant Health and Symbolic Violence

Seth M. Holmes, MD/PhD Candidate, University of California San Francisco

[F] Heroic and Desperate Medicine

John Tercier, M.D., Ph.D., University of California San Francisco

03:20 PM – 04:20 PM

Keynote Address: "On Cultural Studies of Medicine:  The Trouble with 'Culture'" (First Floor Conference Room, Millberry Union, 500 Parnassus)

Paula A Treichler, Ph.D.

Professor of Medicine

Criticism and Interpretive Theory, and Gender and Women's Studies

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

04:30 PM – 06:30 PM

Career Panel (Millberry Union)
Diane Gottheil, Ph.D. (Moderator)

Former Program Director

Medical Scholars Program

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Vinh-Kim Nguyen, M.D., Ph.D.

HIV Medicine and Social Studies of Medicine

McGill University

Vernon Rosario, M.D., Ph.D.

Psychiatry and History

University of California Los Angeles
Jodi Halpern, M.D., Ph.D.

Public Health and Philosophy

University of California Berkeley
Allen Fremont, M.D., Ph.D.

Medicine and Sociology

RAND Health
Tom Denberg, M.D., Ph.D.

Medicine and Cultural/Medical Anthropology

University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

06:30 PM – 06:45 PM

Closing Remarks, Conference Planning Committee (Millberry Union)

06:45 PM – 07:30 PM

Reception and Survey (Millberry Union)

07:30 PM

Dinner (Millberry Union)

Informal Breakfast with Speakers and Participants

Crepes on Cole is 5 short blocks West of UCSF on the corner of Parnassus St and Cole St. (each person will be responsible for their own breakfast)

Breakfast Discussion: The Future of Joint Degree Training

Crepes on Cole

Financial Support: We would like to thank the following for their financial support of the MD/PhD Social Science and Humanities Conference

National Institutes of Health

National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research

University of California, San Francisco

Medical Scientist Training Program

Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine

School of Medicine

Graduate Division

Institute for Health Policy Studies

Center for Health and Community

University of California, Berkeley

Office for History of Science and Technology

Program in Medicine, Law and the Humanities

Stanford University

Department of Psychiatry

University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign

Medical Scholars Program

American Physician Scientists Association

Ippolytos Kalofonos, MD/PhD Student, UC San Francisco/Berkeley

Maya Ponte, MD/PhD Candidate, UC San Francisco/Berkeley

Niranjan Karnik, M.D., Ph.D., Resident, Stanford University

Seth Holmes, MD/PhD Candidate, UC San Francisco/Berkeley

ScScott Stonington, MD/PhD Student, UC San Francisco/Berkeley