Friday, October 23, 2026

Location: Ether Dome, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA  02114

6:00 pm | Encounters in the Intensive Care Unit
Speaker: Wes Ely, MD
This talk, presented in partnership with The Hippocratic Society, is free and open to the public.

Saturday, October 24, 2026

Location: Simches Research Center - Third Floor, 
185 Cambridge St, Boston, MA 02114

9:30 am | Learning at the Bedside 
Speakers: Abraham Nussbaum, MD, and George Usmanov, PhD

Break

11:00 am  | Hands, Heart, and Mind in Action: Case-Based Session (Selected Abstracts)

1:00 pm | Lunch Break and Poster Session

2:00 pm | The Anatomy of Hope
Speaker: Daniel Sulmasy, MD

Break

3:45 pm | Caring in the Community
Speakers: Stephen Hwang, MD, and Nancy Oriol, MD

8:00 pm | The Harmony of the Heart
The Journey of Life Through the Lens of Music
A Guided Listening of Masterworks by Bach, Mozart, Schubert, and Messiaen

Location: Paine Hall, Harvard University
3 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138

Free and open to the public

Miriam Conti Vanoni, DMA, piano
Malachi Provenzano, violin

Concert Program

J. S. Bach
Sonata for Violin No. 2 — Fugue

W. A. Mozart
Violin Sonata in E Minor, K. 304

F. Schubert
Piano Sonata in A Minor, D. 784, Op. posth. 143

O. Messiaen
“Praise to the Eternity of Jesus”
from Quartet for the End of Time

Sunday, October 25, 2026

Location: Simches Research Center ‘ Third Floor,
185 Cambridge St, Boston, MA 02114

9:30 am | Hands, Heart, and Mind at the Bedside
Speakers: Siv Sjursen, RN, and Kristin Collier, MD

11:30 am | Concluding remarks and departure