Consortium members had a busy spring in classrooms around the country. University of Chicago faculty Monica Malec, MD, and Michael Rossi, PhD, presented an overview of death, dying and palliative care in the context of the history of medicine in the Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine. At the University of Alabama, Birmingham, Garrett Hurst, MD and Rodney Tucker, MD presented on The Nature of Suffering to 46 students in the Biology of Aging course. Emory faculty continued their collaboration between Sociology and Palliative Medicine with multiple presentations on palliative care and hospice by Tammie Quest, MD, Lynn O’Neill, MD, and Jesse Soodalter, MD; Dr. Soodalter and Jane Lowers, PhD, presented in the Bioethics of Disability. University of Florida professor Susan Bluck, PhD, and graduate student Emily Mroz joined Emory’s Carlos Museum for a discussion with docents about how to talk with children about death and dying using museum artifacts. Highlights of the presentation are available in the Resources section.
