Narrative Medicine Lunch & Learn

Spring 2023 Schedule

Narrative Medicine: Lunch & Learn is a monthly workshop – free and open to all WFU students, faculty, staff, and community members – that introduces participants to Narrative Medicine and its core principles of close reading and reflective writing. Sponsored by the WFU Humanities Institute’s Story, Health, & Healing Initiative, made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Facilitators: Aimee Mepham, MFA, Associate Director of the Wake Forest University Humanities Institute and Ethan Stonerook, PA-C, MPAS, Assistant Professor, WF School of Medicine, Department of PA Studies.
Lunch will be provided.

In-Person Sessions will take place from 12:00-1:15pm on the following Wednesdays at Wake Downtown (455 Vine Street), Room 1617: 

Click here to register for one or all of the following sessions:

February 1st
Reading: “The Base Note” by Meg Senuta (creative nonfiction)

March 1st
Reading: “Casimir Pulaski Day” by Sufjan Stevens (song)
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April 5th
Readings: “Graphic, In Case” by Vernita Hall and “Internet Support Group” by Chelsea B. DesAutels (poems)

May 3rd
Reading: “The Night Sky” by Adrienne Pilon (creative nonfiction)

Online/Zoom Sessions will take place from 12:00-1:15pm on the following Thursdays:

Thursday, February 2nd
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://wakeforest-university.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYuduCvpz4pGtNkR5tfRmOEqsvmzhRkBrMS

Thursday, March 2nd
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https://wakeforest-university.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJclcOGhqTIoHdE25vkzzha8BRHefjIixVjA

Thursday, April 6th
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https://wakeforest-university.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtd-urqDIiH9bb1VVEQ8FqmJ8-aDN2hSDE

Thursday, May 4th
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https://wakeforest-university.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEsdumsqjkjGtGt-3X05UQsbR7RMbLZVCdP