Anastomoses, UConn Health's literary journal, is hosting its Art as Medicine panel next week. This event intends to encourage discussion in our community about how and why to create during a career in health care. Join us for free food and a spirited conversation next Wednesday, January 10, at 5:30 PM in Patterson Hall.
What: Art as Medicine panel and dinner | three physician-artists share their stories and answer your questions
When: Wednesday, January 10, 5:30-7:00 PM
Where: Patterson Hall (in the Academic building opposite Massey)
No RSVP necessary.
For more information on the journal or to submit your own piece for publication, please visit our site�. Again, we hope that you will join us for free dinner and to hear from our three fantastic panelists, introduced below:
Dr. Lorence Gutterman
Lorence Gutterman, a former hematologist/oncologist, is a creative writer of poetry, prose and plays. He facilitates creative writing workshops for students at the Yale School of Medicine and Yale School of Nursing. He leads reflective writing (Narrative Medicine) classes for students at the Quinnipiac Netter School of Medicine. His volunteer work includes facilitating creative writers’ workshops in maximum-security prisons and helping children, through the Arts for Healing Program at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital, create poems, stories and plays. Lorence’s published book of poetry titled “Small Circles of Time” reflects on his childhood in South Dakota. He also has had several poems and creative nonfiction pieces published in literary journals. His self-care includes meditation and yoga.
Dr. Barry Zaret
Dr. Barry L. Zaret has recently published his second poetry collection, “When You Can’t Do Anymore”. The first, “Journeys”, was published in 2012. His poems have appeared in “Caduceus”, “Pharos”, “Long River Run” and the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology. Several of his poems have been put to music and have been performed in concert. In his other life, Dr. Zaret is a cardiologist who has been on the faculty of Yale University School of Medicine since 1973. He served as Chief of Cardiology at Yale University School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Medical center for 27 years. Currently he is the Robert W. Berliner Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Senior Research Scientist at Yale where he continues to see patients, teach, write and mentor. He is recognized for his pioneer research in the development of nuclear cardiology. He has written or edited five medical texts, one of which is in its fourth edition as well as several hundred scientific papers and book chapters. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology. He has received many awards for his scientific work and is a member of several honorific societies. He is an invited blogger for the Huffington Post where he writes on humanistic aspects of medicine. Dr. Zaret is also an accomplished painter whose oils appear in numerous private collections. He has exhibited in New Haven and Hartford, Connecticut as well as in the Berkshires. He and his wife Renée live in Woodbridge, CT and East Otis, MA.
Dr. David Henderson
Dr. Henderson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine, Associate Dean for Medical Student Affairs, and Associate Dean for Multicultural and Community Affairs at UConn SOM. He joined the fulltime faculty in 2003 after two decades of community-based and international practice, and service. He spent a year working as a physician volunteer in a rural hospital in Sierra Leone, West Africa. He also worked part-time as a physician volunteer at Charter Oak Terrace Community Health Center in Hartford for two years, and was instrumental in the development of a community health center in Norwich, Connecticut.
Since joining the faculty, Dr. Henderson has been a physician advisor to the Community Advisory Team of Sister Talk Hartford, a community-based research project investigating health promotion strategies in the African American community. Regionally, he has served on two different healthcare reform panels convened by the state legislature. Nationally, he has served on the Board of Directors of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM). His academic endeavors include serving as co-PI and subsequently PI on two consecutive Title VII funded HRSA grants focused on increasing the number of graduating students choosing to train and practice in underserved communities. His scholarly achievements include two biotechnology patent awards for intravenous catheter design. Literary achievements include a number of poetry publications.
Dr. Henderson was awarded a Bishop Fellowship by the STFM Foundation for the 2015/2016 academic year. Dr. Henderson devoted the fellowship experience to an exploration of strategies and policies that effectively promote health equity and multiculturalism in higher education.
For more information, contact: Dan Rappoport at rappoport@uchc.edu