Summary Timetable All events are in the Pre-Clinical Teaching Building (PCTB) unless noted to be off campus (maps on p. 27). Thursday June 26th Registration Desk Hours: 4:00pm–5:30pm 4:00pm–5:30pm Opening Reception with Conference Exhibit: Greenhouse Café 5:30pm–6:30pm Reception Lightning Sessions:Mountcastle Auditorium Friday June 27th Registration Desk Hours: 8:00am–12:00pm 8:00am–8:30am Continental Breakfast & Registration: Rm 113 Silent Auction bidding continues! 8:30am–9:15am Welcome & Opening Session: East Auditorium 9:15am–10:15am Keynote Speaker: Carol Tilley, East Auditorium 10:15am–11:45am 1A Concurrent Session: 1B Concurrent Session: 1C Workshop: Giving Voice to the Comics and Public Health See One, Do One, Teach Marginalized Communication One – Brian Fies Mountcastle Auditorium East Auditorium Rm 113 11:45am–1:00pm Lunch Provided: foyer in front of West Auditorium 1:00pm–2:15pm 2A Concurrent 2B Concurrent 2C Concurrent 2D Concurrent Panel Session: Session: Session: Session: Cyborgs, Freaks A Means of From Private Lives Teaching and Geeks: Overcoming Practitioner to Public Health Through Graphic Neuroses, Depression and Reflection Mountcastle Aud. Medicine Social Death in Graphic East Auditorium West Auditorium Novels… Rm 113 2:15pm–2:30pm Coffee break: foyer in front of West Auditorium 2:30pm–4:00pm 3A Lightning Talks: 3B Lightning Talks: 3C Workshop: Medicine as Expressed by Comics as Applied to Medicine Bound: A Workshop Comics East Auditorium – Mita Mahato Mountcastle Auditorium Rm 113 4:00pm–5:00pm Keynote Speaker: James Sturm, East Auditorium 5:00pm–7:30pm Dinner on your own: off campus, recommended in the Hampden neighborhood 7:30pm Laydeez do Comics at Atomic Books: off campus, in the Hampden neighborhood Saturday June 28th Registration Desk Hours: 8:30am–11:30am 8:30am–9:00am Continental Breakfast Provided: Greenhouse Cafe Silent Auction ends: 8:50am 9:00am-10:00am Keynote Speaker: Arthur Frank, East Auditorium 10:00am–11:30am 4A Concurrent 4B Concurrent 4C Concurrent 4D Workshop: Session: Session: Session: Constructive Engagement: Illness Experience Communicating Embodiment, Strategies and Exercises Through Graphic Medicine, Past the Body and for Using Comics in a Pathography and Present Comics Therapeutic Setting Mountcastle Aud. East Auditorium West Auditorium – James Sturm, Rm 113 11:30am–12:30pm Lunch Provided: Greenhouse Cafe Silent Auction Payment 12:30pm–2:00pm 5A Concurrent Panel 5B Concurrent Session: 5C Concurrent Session: Session: Health Education and Shared Experience: Time, Research Outcomes When Accessibility Transformation and The the Intervention is a Comic West Auditorium Unknown Mountcastle Auditorium East Auditorium 2:00pm–3:00pm Keynote Speaker: Ellen Forney, Mountcastle Auditorium 3:00pm–5:00pm Comics & Medicine Marketplace: Greenhouse Café 5:00pm Dinner on your own: off campus, recommended in the Mount Vernon neighborhood Detailed Program Thursday June 26th 4:00pm–5:30pm Opening reception event with Conference Exhibit and Silent Auction Location: Greenhouse Café, Pre-Clinical Teaching Building Join us for this opening event with hors d’oeuvre and complementary drinks. Our juried exhibit will be on display. All pieces will be available for silent auctioning! Please check in at the registration desk as you arrive. 5:30pm–6:30pm Reception Lightning Talk Session, Moderated by Corinne Sandone Location: Mountcastle Auditorium, Pre-Clinical Teaching Building Spinal Vascular Malformations in Graphic Narrative Format - Lydia J. Gregg, MA, CMI, FAMI, Rafael J. Tamargo, MD, Gary P. Lees, MS, CMI & Philippe Gailloud, MD This presentation will discuss a sequential illustra- Lydia Gregg is an Instructor and Certified Medical tion created by Dorcas Padget in 1934 that depicts Illustrator in the Division of Interventional Neuro- the first known example of an adequately treated radiology and the Department of Art as Applied to spinal perimedullary arteriovenous fistula. Like a Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of graphic pathography, the sequence of elements Medicine. She develops illustrations and animations highlights the patient’s narrative. The development for publication and patient communication materials of a comic in collaboration with patients with this such as booklets, medical comics and videos. She is condition will be discussed. also Chair of this year’s conference. Using Graphic Memoir to Explore Caregiving Motivations - MK Czerwiec In this lightning talk MK Czerwiec will present the MK Czerwiec is the artist-in-residence at North- backstory of, rationale for, and images from her western Feinberg School of Medicine. She is also current project, “Working Title: The Map.” The an adjunct professor in the Department of Creative project is a prequel to a planned graphic novel, Writing at Columbia College Chicago. She has been “Taking Turns: A Careography” which will be an making comics under the pseudonym Comic Nurse illustrated oral history of an inpatient AIDS care since 2000. unit in Chicago. www.comicnurse.com Comics 4 Health Coverage: Four Panels on Why Health Insurance Matters - Meredith Li-Vollmer, PhD As health coverage became available through the to an open call for four panels on why health insur- Affordable Care Act, a small group of comics artists, ance matters. writers, and teachers launched a project to engage Meredith Li-Vollmer is a risk communication special- artists and anyone with a story to tell about the ist for Public Health – Seattle & King County where Comics 4 importance of insurance. The impetus of she specializes in improving communications with Health Coverage was to use personal narratives to diverse communities. Occasionally, she gets to write spur interest, especially among young adults —the health comics. Meredith is also a clinical assistant so-called “young invincibles”—whose participation professor at the University of Washington School of is crucial to the success of health care reform. This Public Health. session will share the comics submitted in response Comics4healthcoverage.wordpress.com Comics in Medical Training - Caitlin D. Major Comics are an effective communication and learn- illustrated scenarios have been beneficial in teaching ing tool in medical training and eLearning. They are basic and advanced life support algorithms, criteria engaging and can cover a broad range of subjects, led discharge and managing patient pathways. from defibrillator safety to decision making in an Caitlin Major is an eLearning developer and illustra- emergency situation. Comics are especially effec- tor from Brisbane, Australia. She is best known in the tive in conveying ‘soft’ or non-technical skills such comic world for her work on the webcomic Space as crisis resource management, non-verbal com- Pyrates. She has worked extensively in medical train- munication and doctor/patient communication. ing and simulation and is passionate about combin- Comics can also be effective learning tools as part ing comics and medical education. She is currently of interactive scenarios which encourage learners living in Toronto and working as a freelance medical to make decisions in various situations. These illustrator and developer. Page 2 The Use of Cartoons to Educate Middle School Children and Their Parents in West Nile Virus and Lyme Disease Cause and Prevention - Joe Sutliff For ten years I have been writing and illustrating and Lyme Disease on a regional, national and inter- posters, promotional material, books and comics national basis. for the Fairfax County Health Department on the Joe Sutliffis a cartoonist and illustrator with over 35 topics of Lyme Disease and West Nile Virus. The years of experience creating cartoons and comics. goal of these cartoons has been to educate school His drawings have appeared in magazines, news- age children and their parents on mosquito and papers and the Internet, including TIME.com, The tick control. By using humor and visual cues along Washington Post, and SCIENCE Magazine. He has with an entertaining narrative, the project has suc- authored books and comics, including the “Fight the ceeded in increasing awareness and understanding Bite” series of childrens books for the Fairfax County in prevention and identification of West Nile Virus Virginia Health Department. Male Fantasies: Gender - Specific Treatments of Illness Representations - Alison Sagara, MA This project examines the differences between the illness. This project investigates why these differ- ways that male and female comics artists repre- ences in representation might exist among male and sent illness experiences. Female graphic memoir- female memoirists and whether (or perhaps, why) ists, such as Allie Brosh and Ellen Forney, tend to these tendencies are medium-specific. situate their illness in a realistic narrative world. Alison Sagara is a doctoral student at The Ohio State Conversely, male graphic memoirists, like David B., University. Her current research encompasses areas more commonly employ magical, other-worldly of intersection among illness and disease, comics themes in recounting their experiences with studies, and narrative theory. The Use of Comics in Medical Research: Using Comics to Explain Randomization and Other Complex Concepts to Research Subjects - Alex Thomas, MD, Gary Ashwal, MA, Benjamin S. Wilfond, MD & Ellen Kuwana, MS Healthcare institutions undertake research to Alex Thomas, MD is a cartoonist, illustrator, and improve the quality of the medical care. However, board-certified pediatric allergist. Alex earned his the use