“Blast from the Past and Blast in the Present”: Essays and Insights

LAU Byblos Campus, Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury Health Sciences Center - Case Method Room, 5th floor, room 5510 & LAU Medical Center-Rizk Hospital, Auditorium D, 5th Floor & Online

The Continuing Medical Education Office at the LAU Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine invites you to attend the inaugural session of the Medical Humanities Series:

“Blast from the Past and Blast in the Present”: Essays and Insights

The inaugural session of the medical humanities lecture series of the LAU Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine will introduce the discipline of Humanities in Medicine, and will spotlight authors who are members of the medical-school community. Among these authors are students and alumni who were winners of the LAU-Hektoen International essay competition, and faculty whose work has recently been published in a special issue of the journal Life Writing. Sleiman El Hajj, Assistant Professor of Creative and Journalistic Writing in the School of Arts and Sciences, will also share his expertise on Illness Writing during the session.  As one component of the newly established “Humanities Thread” in the curriculum of the school of medicine, several installments of the medical humanities lecture series will be presented throughout the year, on topics ranging from the history of medicine to the relationship between medicine and the arts.  

Speakers:

From the LAU Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine:

• Nancy Chedid, MD - Clinical Assistant Professor, Director of Student Affairs
• Jinane El Khoury Okais, MD - Clinical Assistant Professor, Residency Program Director, Department of Dermatology
• Maryline Alhajj - Med III Student

From the LAU School of Arts and Sciences:

• Sleiman El Hajj, PhD - Assistant Professor of Creative and Journalistic Writing, Department of Communication, Arts and Languages

From the American University of Beirut Medical Center:

• Najat Fadlallah, MD - LAU Alumna and Resident in the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

To access the WebEx session, please click here. (You can access this session 30 min before the start time)

Event number:  2375 197 0443
Event password: 1234

One CME/CPD credit will be granted to medical doctors for attending this lecture. Attendance via WebEx will be recorded by the CME Office.

All are welcome to attend.