MCL GRAND ROUNDS - 11:30AM PTChallenging Allergies: The Search for a Magic Bullet for Pediatric Food AllergiesFood allergies have been on the rise over the past twenty years, and they have become an important area of medical research and pharmaceutical development. In this talk, Dr. Fisher will disc

Provider-patient interaction guidelines are designed to render clinical encounters communicable, to maximize the exchange of clear and useful knowledge. Building on Frantz Fanon and Black feminist writers, this talk explores how attempts to impose communicability can produce incommunicability, portraying patients— particularly from Black, Latinx, and Native American populations—as unable to effectively grasp providers’ words or translate them into recommended behaviors. It centers on how COVID-19 clinical and public health communication relied on a unilinear, hierarchically ordered model that clashed with a widespread patientcentered, individualistic version, engendering resistance from conservative whites.

MCL GRAND ROUNDS - 11:30AM PTAlexandra VinsonAssistant Professor of Learning Health Sciences, University of MichiganDr. Alexandra H. Vinson, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan. Her research explores the dynamic relationship between the medical profe

MCL GRAND ROUNDS - 10AM PTSahra GibbonProfessor of Medical Anthropology, International Studies, and Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan.Dr. Sahra Gibbon is a medical anthropologist whose work examines the interface between science, society and biomedicine, with over 10 years experience o

MCL PI Dan Dohan will be presenting a talk for the Center for Ethnographic Research (CER) at the University of California, Berkeley.Date & Time: September 19, 2024 4:00-5:30PMSponsors: Center for Ethnographic Research, Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, Berkeley Public Health, Department of Sociol

MCL GRAND ROUNDS - 10AM PTScott StoningtonAssociate Professor, Anthropology, International Studies, and Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan.Scott Stonington is a medical and cultural anthropologist, and an internal medicine physician. His research broadly addresses the globalization of b

Jarmin Yeh, PhD, MPH, MSSW, is an Associate Professor in the Institute for Health & Aging, Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, in the School of Nursing at UCSF. Their research broadly investigates social justice issues that impact the quality of life of community-dwelling older adults, peopl

Oliver Rollins is an Assistant Professor of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington. He uses qualitative research methods to explore how practices of race, racism, and other systemic inequities impact the making and use of neuroscientific technologies and knowledges. Rollins’s book,

Dr. Shawna Hudson is Vice Chancellor for Dissemination and Implementation Science for Rutgers Health and Senior Associate Dean for Population Health Research at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She is also founding director of the school’s Center Advancing Research and Evaluation for Pati