International Health Humanities Network Membership

I'm writing a doctoral thesis on interaction in multicultural primary care consultations. The aim of the study is to provide more information on what kind of challenges diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds bring to the communicative doctor–patient relationship and how the participants manage them and contribute to creating a shared world. My principal method is conversation analysis. I work in the University of Turku, in Finland.

Retired consultant psychiatrist. Interests in psychosis; medical anthropology; science, technology, medicine and society; and narrative.

Pallavi holds the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Chaudhary Ranbir Singh University, Jind, Haryana, India. She is also a dedicated research scholar in the Department of English & Foreign Languages at Chaudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa, Haryana, India. Her research interests revolve around exploring medical narratives from the perspectives of doctors and patients. Specifically, she focuses on analyzing their memoirs as embodied texts, shedding light on the profound impact of illness on their identities within the context of evolving space and time constraints.

Medical Doctor (Federal University of Goiás), Master of Philosophy (Federal Univeristy of Goiás), Ophthalmologist (Brazilian Council of Ophthalmology), Doctor of Ophthalmology (Federal University of Minas Gerais), Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Ophthalmology (Harvard Medical School), Doctor of Bioethics (University of Brasilia). Professor of Bioethics at the Faculty of Medicine of the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil.

Médico egresado de la Universidad de la Sabana, con especialización en Bioética de la Universidad El Bosque, Magister en fisiología de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Interés en neurobiología de la conducta, empatía y desarrollo moral. Utilizo la Medicina Narrativa en la formación de identidad de médicos en áreas como la fisiología, la historia y la antropología médica. 

Manon Parry is Professor of Medical History at the VU University, Amsterdam, and Senior Lecturer in American Studies and Public History at the University of Amsterdam.

Her interests include gender and sexuality studies, disability studies, museums and monuments, and digital public history. She has developed exhibitions on a wide range of topics, including global health and human rights, disability in the American Civil War, and medicinal and recreational drug use, with project budgets ranging from $14,500 to $3 million. Her traveling exhibitions have visited more than 300 venues across Argentina, Canada, Germany, Guam, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States, and several remain on tour through 2021.

She is co-editor, with Ellen S. More and Elizabeth Fee, of Women Physicians and the Culture of Medicine (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008) , winner of the Archivists and Librarians in the Health Sciences Publication Award for Best Print Publication in 2012, and author of Broadcasting Birth Control: Mass Media and Family Planning (Rutgers University Press, 2013). She has served as a Managing Editor of the UK journal Museum & Society and was previously an International Consulting Editor for the US journal The Public Historian. See CV for further details.

Erin Partridge, PhD, ATR-BC is an artist and board certified, registered art therapist. Erin received a BFA, studying fine art, psychology and women’s studies in at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. She went onto obtain a MA in art therapy from New York University in 2008, and a PhD in art therapy from Notre Dame de Namur in 2016.

Erin’s teaching and lecturing experience includes teaching at NDNU in the art therapy department, guest lectures in art and counseling programs, mentoring undergraduate and graduate students, workshop facilitation at national and international conferences, and interviews with media about art therapy. Her clinical experience includes work in community, pediatric, forensic, and geriatric settings and she is published in the areas of art therapy, elder care, and technology. Her research interests incorporate the lived experience and focus on participatory, ethnographic, and art-based approaches. As Experiential Researcher-In-Residence with Elder Care Alliance, she is currently working on a study about social robots and older adults and investigating the use of art in workplace settings.  Her upcoming book, Art therapy with older adults: Connected and empowered comes out February 2019.

Elizabeth is currently a Graduate Student at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her major is Literature and Criticism with an academic research intrest in Health Humanitites. Elizabeth teaches Wrting and Literature at a local community college and has been employed in the medical field for more than twenty-five years, she is currently also pursuing a nursing degree. She believes that her academic research interest in Health Humanities will bridge her education between the study of Literature and Nursing. 

Nicholas Peres is Lead for Learning Technologies Research and Development at Torbay Hospital, working in innovation, education and pioneering new visual technologies that have a focus towards patient care.  He is a PhD Researcher at the University of Plymouth based within Transtechnology Research situated in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.  

His PhD work within Transtechnology is primarily aimed towards understanding and using cinematic media to represent the patient voice and perspective for medical education, but remains firmly rooted in the groups shared objective of understanding science and technology as a manifestation of a range of human desires and cultural imperatives.    

Nick’s initial research to investigate the filmic benefit of capturing patient perspectives led to the innovative PatientVR – a worldwide first use of virtual reality and immersive video for clinicians/viewers to experience what it is like to see the hospital journey through the patient’s eyes, a project which is now actively being trialled at South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust.

His continued work focuses on the power and benefit of media arts and immersive experience playback, particularly the use of film to represent a patient voice and need. This research has a particular emphasis on delivering experiences that focus on care and compassion, frequently drawing upon theories and practice that include simulation, film studies, cinema therapies, visual metaphors and media production.   

Nick has presented and spoken at a number of events, seminars and workshops in the Arts and Humanities space, which this year will include healthcare conferences such as ASPiH and Inside Government’s Raising the Quality of Hospital Standards forum.  

 Nick has previously worked in broadcast and film production, having studied a BA(hons) in Documentary Screen Production at the University of Winchester.  He continues to make and teach film making workshops and feels passionately at films empowering ability for people to tell stories. 

Elvira Perez is a research fellow at the Division of Psychiatry and applied Psychology at the University of Nottingham. She is interested in applying new video interventions such as Video Interactive Guidance (VIG) to improve communication between young patients and healthcare professionals. Currently she works assesing the efficacy of different ADHD parenting interventions, yoga in children homes, and drumming for young adults with ADHD. Se is also developing a new piece of research focused on translating parent's perspectives and experiences into relevant therapeutic interventions through discurse analysis technique