Hodges Symposium 2023
Hodges Symposium 2023 - Of What Use is History?
Featured Panel:
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan
Lakshmi Krishnan is an internal medicine physician, cultural historian of medicine, and Founding Director of the Medical Humanities Initiative at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. A nationally recognized scholar of diagnosis, she is writing a book on diagnostic and detective practices for Johns Hopkins University Press.
Dr. Jacob Steere-Williams
Jacob Steere-Williams is an Associate Professor and Director of Medical Humanities at the College of Charleston. He is also the Associate Editor of the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. His teaching and research focus on historical and contemporary debates over disease, public health, and race.
Dr. Edward Shorter
Edward Shorter has held the Jason A. Hannah professorship in the History of Medicine at the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine since 1991. In 1996 he was also cross-appointed as a Professor of Psychiatry for his contributions as a historian of that specialty.
Dr. Joanna Krongold
Joanna Krongold is the Gerstein Distinguished Junior Scholar at the University of Toronto’s Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wilson Centre and the Temerty Faculty of Medicine’s Office of Inclusion and Diversity. Her work examines historical and contemporary antisemitism in health professions education.
ABOUT THE BRIAN D. HODGES SYMPOSIUM
The Brian D. Hodges Symposium celebrates Dr. Brian D. Hodges’ continuing contributions to health professions education research. Dr. Hodges, Director of the Wilson Centre from 2003-2011, is currently the Executive Vice-President of Education at the University Health Network and a Scientist at The Wilson Centre.
By bringing together the community of health professions education researchers, educators, scholars and students, we aim to motivate attendees to think beyond the boundaries of their current work and look for points of intersection with the research of others. The symposium provides a rare opportunity for in-depth discussion of the theory and practice of education. Attendees will enjoy invited presentations from global leaders in health professions education and the next generation of education scientists and scholars.
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