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May Narrative Medicine Rounds with Kayhan Irani

Headshot of O"Rourke next to book cover.

For our last Rounds of this academic year we welcome Kayhan Irani, Emmy-award winning writer, performer, and Theater of the Oppressed trainer. Irani will be in conversation with Silvia Amesty, a family medicine physician; they will discuss Irani's work and the work of Theater of the Oppressed in general, and Irani will lead the audience in a more immersive experience to take us deeper into the work. Irani was one of ten U.S. artists named by President Obama's White House as a 2016 White House Champion of Change for her storytelling work. She creates storytelling spaces to build community, offer healing, and to re-connect participants to their innate creative power. She works internationally and in the U.S. with community organizations, social service providers, educational providers, and government agencies to expand what's possible when we deepen our relationships through story. She is currently building There is a Portal, an immersive digital experience, pedagogy, and refugee leadership development model that asks, how can remembering together create networks of belonging?

Narrative Medicine Rounds are monthly rounds on the first Wednesday of the month during the academic year hosted by the Division of Narrative Medicine in the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. A recording of our Virtual Narrative Medicine rounds will be made available following the live session on the Narrative Medicine YouTube channel, and you can watch other recent Rounds events there. You can also listen to a podcast of past Rounds on iTunes.