MedConference 2025
The Art and Science of Care
The Soul of Care: An Experience of Caregiving
October 3, 2025
Speaker: Professor Arthur Kleinman
Caregiving: The Heart of the Patient-Clinician Relationship
October 4, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Keri Brenner
Love, Transform, Evolve: The Caregiver's Lens
October 4, 2025
Speaker: Cynthia Iorio
The Advantages and Dangers of AI and Care
October 4, 2025
Speaker: Prof Arthur Kleinman
How AI Could Support Good Care
October 4, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Alessandra Pedrocchi
Genetically Programmed Premature Aging of Gait: Lessons Learned From the Study of SCA27B Ataxia
October 4, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Bernard Brais
The Care of Disability
October 4, 2025
Speaker: Francesca Catapano
Rehabilitation With Art: Music Therapy
October 4, 2025
Speaker: Marie-Jeanne Beauchamp
Healing Through Art: Drama Therapy
October 4, 2025
Speaker: Isabel Andrade
Re-Discovering the Human Through Visual Art
October 4, 2025
Speaker: Ivanka Galadza
Seeing Deeply: The Role of Art in Physician Flourishing
October 5, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Margaret S. Chisolm
Western Medicine Cannot Survive Abandoning the Anatomical-Clinical Method
October 5, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Mauro Ceroni
Medical Education: The Adventure of a Friendship
October 5, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Fabio Catani
MedConference 2024
Creative Care: Making Space for the Unexpected
The Person as a Patient
A personal story of being a patient with a challenging diagnosis
October 4, 2024
Speaker: Amanda
The Doctor as a Person
About wellness, compassion, and the sacred role of healing
October 5, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Mary Brandt
Encountering the Patient
Creative midwifery and strength-based nursing care
October 5, 2024
Speakers:
Bryn McNamee-Tweed, CNM, MSN
Emanuela Ciarlelli, BScN, MScN
From Pain to Purpose
More than a cure: a personal path to healing
October 5, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Tamara Gafoor, pediatrician
Humans and Machines
How the polio epidemic in 1950 revolutionized modern medical care
October 5, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Hannah Wunsch
Creative Care in Low-Income Settings
October 5, 2024
Speakers:
Dr. Dominique Corti
Dr. Filippo Ciantia
Why do I Go to Work?
A journey across the COVID pandemic and beyond
October 6, 2024
Speakers:
Nicola Tasca, RN
Dr. Cristiano Ferrario, oncologist
Creativity in Care
Finding creative freedom in medicine
October 6, 2024
Speakers: Dr. Eloise Ballou, psychiatrist and psychotherapist