Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health (via Zoom)

Date: 

Friday, April 30, 2021, 10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

Online Only

Attend this event via Zoom (advance registration required)

“Heal, Discover, Profit: Cultures of Cancer in the Contemporary US"

Speaker:

Daniel Dohan, Visiting Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

"The Inherent Enemy: The Institutionalization of Racial and Socio-Economic Discrimination in Cancer Care"

Speaker:

Iman Roushdy, Inpatient Care Coordinator, Lung Transplant Department, Emory University Hospital.

Contact:

Sadeq Rahimi
Sadeq_Rahimi@hms.harvard.edu

This seminar is cosponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

This event is online only. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar.

Remote Access Information:

To join by computer:

https://harvard.zoom.us/j/94483132564

Please note: This event requires a password to attend. Please email Dr. Sadeq Rahimi (sadeq_rahimi@hms.harvard.edu) with a brief introduction of yourself to receive the meeting password. This meeting will be recorded.

Speaker Bios:

Daniel Dohan, PhD: My training is in sociology (medicine and culture) and health policy. In my scholarship, I use mixed-methods social scientific approaches to examine the culture of medicine. My work includes applications on patient care and clinical research in a variety of fields, basic social science research on culture, and development of training and teaching resources. I lead or co-lead three significant research projects. I am PI of an NIA Director’s Pioneer award in Behavioral and Social Research Leaders in Alzheimer’s Disease and Its Related Dementias (NIA BSR LEADR) entitled “Next-Gen ethnography to understand decision-making among diverse populations impacted by Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD).”  I am MPI (with professor of surgery and health services researcher Emily Finlayson, MD) of a study that is using ethnographic methods to examine the culture change required insurgical clinics to improve older adults’ preparation for surgery. Third, I am MPI (with professor of neurology and philosopher Winston Chiong, MD, PhD) of a neuroethics study that is examining the social implications of novel neurotechnologies that autonomously stimulate the brain.

Iman Roushdy-Hammady, PhD, RN, OCN is a clinical oncology nurse, and recently accepted a position as an Inpatient Care Coordinator in the Lung Transplant Department at Emory University Hospital, Atlanta.  She earned a joint doctorate degree in anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University, a nursing degree from Georgia State University, and a master’s in social science and a bachelor degree in economics from the American University in Cairo. Her ethnographic research has focused on genetic factors in susceptibility to environmental exposure to asbestos like carcinogens, reproductive health in ethnic minorities, and the social and behavioral determinants of health disparities in minority groups.