Literature in Medicine Conference

Examined Life: Writing and the Art of Medicine 2010: Featured Presenters and Call for Presentations

We're very excited to welcome our featured presenters to the 2010 conference at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine in Iowa City. They are Lan Samantha Chang, MFA, fiction writer and director of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop; Sayantani DasGupta, MD, memoirist and core faculty of the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University; and Nick Flynn, MFA, poet.

Please visit the website at http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/osac/examinedlife/bio.htm to find out more about them.

We've just released the Call for Presentations, available from our website at http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/osac/examinedlife/. Click on the Call for Presentations tab at the top of the page. We're interested in any presentations that explore the intersections between creative or reflective writing and medicine-to get an idea of the breadth and range of past successful submissions, visit the archive page and the previous years' programs listed there.

The deadline for submissions is Monday, December 7, 2009. Registration will open in January.