International Health Humanities Network Membership

Cheryl L. McLean

MA from London, Ontario, Canada  is an Independent Scholar, Educator, Publisher and Executive Editor of The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP and books,"Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice Inquiries for Hope and Change" (2010) and "Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change" (2011) Associate Editor, Dr. Robert Kelly, University of Calgary, Detselig Enterprises Inc. and the soon to be released resource book "Creative Arts in Humane Medicine", Brush Education, Edmonton,  distributed by University of Toronto Press. 

Ms. McLean has published The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP  for over six years working with an interdisciplinary Advisory Board made up of leaders in medicine and health, education,social sciences business and the arts. Arts and medicine has been an important theme in  IJCAIP Journal and in her related books.

Cheryl McLean has a background in social science, health education and arts research and ethnodrama (live performance based on research) (BA, Social Science, University of Western Ontario, London, MA ,Faculty of Fine Art, Concordia University, Montreal). While working at The University of Western Ontario, London,  Ms. McLean was invited to study Magazine Publishing at the Graduate School of Journalism.  A college and university educator, Cheryl McLean  has taught  "Creative Responses to Death and Bereavement" at The University of Western Ontario, London.  As a community educator she facilitates Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Research workshops and seminars based on the CAIP Research Series at The Windermere Manor London, a personal creative arts, narrative and performance exploration designed for professionals across disciplines (educators,  physicians, nurses and mental health professionals, palliative care, dietetics).   

She has research interests in ethnodrama and health and is also a trained actor and writer.  While active in graduate research at Concordia University, Montreal,  she studied Stanislavski influenced drama approaches under the mentorship of Dr. Muriel Gold, formerly the Artistic Director of the Saidye Bronfman Theatre.  She wrote the play script and performed the "ethnodrama" "Remember Me for Birds" based on data gathered in research and true stories (a number of her clients were Holocaust survivors) and toured the research performance raising awareness about aging, mental health and autonomy in keynote solo presentations for national conferences, universities and medical schools in Canada and the U.S. 

Cheryl McLean continues to publish new research in the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice profiling  international leaders across disciplines.
She was recently invited by The American Medical Students' Association, Medical Humanities Scholars' Program, to facilitate the webinar, Perceptions of Physicians in Literature and the Arts:  Arts Alive and Thriving in Medical Education and speaks widely  about "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Research"  in keynote addresses  raising awareness about the vital role the arts have to play in interdisciplinary research for health, hope and change.  Contact:  ijcaip@gmail.com