Graphic Medicine: Can Comics Improve Our Health?

Time: Jan. 23, 2020, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.

Location: New Academic Building 4414BC (Accessible through Weiskotten Hall) SUNY Upstate Medical University

MK Czerwiec (Nurse and comic creator)

In this talk, nurse, cartoonist, and co-founder of the field of Graphic Medicine MK Czerwiec (Comic Nurse) visits the Consortium for Culture and Medicine to discuss how comics can help improve our health by making health education more engaging, by amplifying the perspectives of patients and families, as a tool for conducting and translating our research, and as a means by which we can explore our experiences with health, illness, disability, and caregiving.

American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation and Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) will be provided. For information on parking or to request additional accommodations, please contact Rachael Zubal-Ruggieri at 315-443-2156 or razubal@law.syr.edu by 1/17/20.

Additional supporters:

• Burton Blatt Institute’s Office of Interdisciplinary Programs and Outreach
• The Consortium for Culture and Medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University
• The College of Arts and Sciences

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Biography: Czerwiec is Artist-in-Residence at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine and a Senior Fellow of the George Washington School of Nursing Center for Health Policy & Media Engagement; co-editor, “Graphic Medicine” website

Diane Wiener, Burton Blatt Institute