International Health Humanities Network Membership
Steffgen Kistmacher
https://www.linkedin.com/in/physiotherapeut/
Max Kleijberg
I am a doctoral student at medical university Karolinska Instituet in Stockholm, Sweden.
My doctoral project is an Action Research project that aims to develop a "Death Education" program that brings together school children and elderly people to discuss topics related to dying, death and bereavement in an informal way. This may normalize death as a topic that can openly be discussed, increase intergenerational meetings, and increase wellbeing for both the school children and elderly people. The arts will be used to facilitate these meetings. To this end I will work together with artists from different backgrounds.
I have a design background and in my work I have focussed on improving experiences of health and care with an interdisciplary approach. I have a Bachelor of Engineering from The Hague University, in the Netherlands and a Master of Fine Arts from Konstfack, university of arts crafts and design in Sweden.
My doctoral project is part of research program DöBra, which overarching aim is to diminish avoidable suffering related to dying, death and bereavement from a public health perspective.
www.döbra.se
www.maxkleijberg.com
Anita Klujber
Educational background:
University of Pécs, Hungary: MA Hungarian, Russian, and English Philology (Literature and Linguistics); Secondary School Teacher;
University of Cambridge, Trinity College, UK: M.Phil. in European Literature; Ph. D. in Comparative Literature;
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy;
Teaching experience: University of Essex, 2006-2015 (Lecturer in Literature).
Research interests:
Applied literature, bibliotherapy, and transformative education for personal development and healing. Using literature and myth to practise mindfulness and stimulate the imagination.
I have developed a new branch of applied literature, the skills-focused, mythopoetic approach that uses reflective hermeneutics to develop and strengthen a wide range of mental orientations that contribute to equanimity and promote health and well-being.
The research focuses on the question of how we can harness the power of imaginative writing (including myth and all genres of literature) to aid the development of negative capability, sense of coherence, mindfulness, psychological hardiness, resilience, self-efficacy, empathy, and other salutogenic mental-emotional attitudes. This approach complements and extends the common theme-centred branches of applied literature. As distinct from common bibliotherapeutic approaches that use the referential aspects of literary texts (the story, the characters, the descriptions, etc.) to promote psychological development and transformation, the skills-focused approach is concerned with guiding the reader through the mindscape of the focused text in order to facilitate reflection, mental-emotional expansion, or transformation through the hermeneutic process itself. The safe and inspiring context of imaginative writing is used to condition the mind to exercise certain creative skills and attitudes that are more difficult to develop in real-life contexts. The regular practice of reading challenging literary texts with a metacognitive awareness of the interpretation process itself can advance one's level of mindfulness and it can also increase the mind's ability to transform itself and its perceptions.
I wish to implement and test this approach in a wide range of contexts (mainly in education and healthcare) and with different age groups and professions. Currently, I am tailoring the approach to the needs of psychodynamic counsellors.
Kaisu Koski
Kaisu Koski is a Finnish artist and researcher, based in the Netherlands. She graduated from the Faculty of Art and Design in the University of Lapland and the Amsterdam School of the Arts, receiving training in media and performance art. In 2007 Kaisu earned her doctoral degree by defending her dissertation on interactive performances in the University of Lapland. Her art practice is intertwined with academic research, focusing on the dialogue between art and medicine, and the methodology of arts-based research. She currently conducts her three-year postdoctoral research project, funded by the Academy of Finland, in cooperation with Leiden University. This project explores the various representations of the body in medical education.
www.kaisukoski.com
Nelya Koteyko
Reader in Applied Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London
Sofie Kragh-Müller
Danish writer and from 2013 founder of an creative writing school for people who suffers from mental illness (www.forfatterskolenps.dk).
I am as a artist in residence at Aarhus University (School of Culture and Society - Department of Anthropology) and National Gallery of Denmark (https://www.smk.dk/en/section/visit-smk/) working with creative writing and discussing art as part of a project for young people with Mental Illness.
Also I am working with people with Substance Disorder and Mental Illnes at Mental Health Center Sct. Hans (https://www.psykiatri-regionh.dk/centre-og-social-tilbud/Psykiatriske-centre/Psykiatrisk-Center-Sct.-Hans/English/Sider/default.aspx)
My focus is on the non-intended effects rising from creative writing and the arts and the synergy between sectors in the field.
Narayana Krishnappa
I am a Professor Head, Department of Pharmacology at SSIMS & RC, T Begur, Bengaluru, SSAHE University. I am also a International Board Certified Lifestyle Medicine Speciialist. I am also incharge of Medical Humanities division at SSIMS & RC, T Begur, Bengaluru
Anthony Krupp
graduate student of music therapy at University of Miami, which focuses on the Neurological Music Therapy of Michael Thaut et al.
former scholar of the history of ideas, including the history of childhood and history of psychology
interested in mind-brain discussions, definitions of human/humanities, theories of evidence in music therapy
Sarah Kucharski
Sarah E. Kucharski is a consultant, public speaker and advocate fostering the patient voice in medicine through design thinking for innovation and social media. Her special interests include patient engagement, the patient experience, the doctor-patient relationship, the patient-caregiver relationship, chronic illness, clinical trials and health literacy. She has a B.A. in journalism, a M.A. in liberal studies and a certificate from Columbia University's Narrative Medicine program.
She also is CEO/Chairman and Founder of FMD Chat, a nonprofit medical organization, and Coordinator of ePatient Programs for Medicine X at Stanford University. As FMD Chat's leader, she oversees the organization's mission and financial objectives; fundraising; publicity and media relations; domestic and international partnerships; volunteer recruitment and development. For Medicine X, she manages the health care and emerging technology conference's ePatient scholarship program and has served on the ePatient Advisory Board since 2012.
Her speaking engagements have included MedCity News' ENGAGE conference in Washington, D.C. (panelist); Doctors 2.0 & You, a healthcare and social media conference in Paris, France (individual presenter and panelist); BC Kidney Days in Vancouver, Canada (individual presenter); Medicine X 2012, 2013, 2014 (individual presenter, panelist and moderator). She also has partnered with medical school faculty at Stanford and UC Irvine to speak to med school students about the ePatient experience and facilitated design-thinking sessions with cardiac health providers at Bon Secours Richmond. Her additional conference and workshop participation includes HealthCamp DC (2012); Partnership With Patients (2012); HealthCamp Kansas City (2012); ScienceOnline (2013); Rare Disease Day at the National Institutes of Health (2013, 2014); Eli Lilly's Patients at the Center of Clinical Trials Workshop (2013); Healthcare Quality Conference H2T Humanizing Healthcare Technologies (2014).
Her work has been recognized with a 2014 RARE Champion of Hope Nomination for Collaborations in Advocacy; Health Advocate Award nominations from Wego Health; state newspaper and international blog articles; scholarships in 2013 and 2014 to participate in Congressional lobbying on behalf of the rare disease community; and a 2011 scholarship to Medicine 2.0 at Stanford University.
Also, Kucharski is an award-winning writer and managing editor of Smoky Mountain Living, a nationally-published, regional lifestyle magazine covering Western North Carolina, East Tennessee, North Georgia, and Southwest Virginia. She is responsible for the magazine's overall editorial concept and content in addition to business operations including freelancer relations, marketing, sponsorships, and social media.
monica lalanda
I am an emergency medicine doctor. Born and bred in spain, then I moved to the UK after graduating as a doctor for some specialist training in emergency medicine. After spending 16 years over there I returned to spain.
I am a also medical illustrator trying to develop the world of comics in medical education in spanish