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Upcoming Events

"Online Otolaryngology Personal Statement Workshop"
The American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Credentials & Membership Committee
Monday, July 13, 2026 7:00 - 8:00 CDT
Cost: Free
https://landing.entnet.org/personal-statement-workshop

"A Fullness of Unceratain Significance" - West Suburban-Milwaukee Branch of the AAUW - New Berlin Public Library - October 3, 2026

Selected Past Events

"Where It Hurts" The Rewards of Reflective Storytelling - Book launch and reading - University Seminars at Columbia University - The Faculty House, 64 Morningside Drive, NYC - March 2026

"Narrative Medicine: The Hero's Journey and Living our Stories - A Live Storytelling Session" - 2026 Symposium on Aging, St. John's on the Lake - Milwaukee, WI - March 2026

At the Intersection of Writing and Healing: Writers in Narrative Medicine" - Panel presentation at #AWP26 - Association of Writers and Writing Programs - Baltimore - March 2026

"Narrative Medicine and the Surgeon: When the Scalpel is Not Enough" - The Enrico G. Bartolucci, M.D. Lectureship - UT Southwestern Department of Surgery - Dallas, TX - October 8, 2025

"Narrative Medicine and the Surgeon: When the Scalpel is not Enough" - Grand Rounds - University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery - Madison, WI - September 17, 2025

Plenary Speaker - "Hold on a sec. I gotta write this down..." Midwest Physician Writers Retreat - Madison, WI - April 25-27, 2025

Panel of Wisconsin Physician Authors - Annual Health & Harmony Event - Wisconsin Medical Society - The Edgewater Hotel, Madison, WI - April 11, 2025

White Coat Ceremony Keynote Address - The Medical College of Wisconsin - August 2, 2024

"Narrative Medicine and the Surgeon," The C.T. Lee Lectureship on Humanistic Compassionate Care. Yale University Division of Otolaryngology - May 10, 2024

"Exploring Narrative, Writing a Book, and Letting Go of the Knife," University of Alabama - Birmingham Department of Otolaryngology Grand Rounds (Online) - December 12, 2023

"Exploring Narrative, Writing a Book, and Letting Go of the Knife," Emory University Department of Otolaryngology Grand Rounds (Online) - November 9, 2023

Keynote speaker, "A Window into our Shared Humanity: A Surgeon’s Stories of Tracheostomy Care," 7th International Tracheostomy Symposium, The Global Tracheostomy Collaborative - Baltimore, MD - October 20, 2023

"A Fireside Chat, Book Reading, and Conversation about Narrative Medicine," New York Head and Neck Society President's Dinner - New York Water Club - NYC - May 11, 2022

Surgical Grand Rounds and a Writing Workshop - Creighton University Bergen Mercy Medical Center - Omaha, NE - April 8, 2022

"Surgical Humanities" General Surgery Grand Rounds - Medical College of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, WI - March 30, 2022

"A Fullness of Uncertain Significance: A Rush Alumnus Writes a Book About Being a Surgeon" - Rush Surgical Society Annual Meeting (online) - March 16, 2022

"A Fullness of Uncertain Significance: The Surgical Humanities" Johns Hopkins Department of Otolaryngology Grand Rounds (online) - March 14, 2022

"Reflections of a Senior Surgeon," Otolaryngology Grand Rounds, Montefiore Medical Center - Albert Einstein College of Medicine (online) - February 18, 2022

"A Fullness of Uncertain Significance: A Book Discussion and Narrative Exploration," 15th Annual Medical Humanities Lecture - Medical College of Wisconsin (online) - November 16, 2021