Friday, April 5:

(Venue for both workshops: Dittrick Museum)
 

1:00 – 1:45 pm:
Panel Discussion – "Center for Narrative Practice: Its Mission and Plans Going Forward" - Susan Stagno, M.D., Peter Knox, Ph.D, Craig Irvine, Ph.D
 

2:00 - 3:30 pm:
Workshop - "Selling Vitamins and Supplements with Scientific Evidence: A Public History Workshop" - Amanda Mahoney, Ph.D., curator of the Dittrick Medical Museum

Amanda Mahoney, PhD completed her doctorate at the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania in 2016. Her dissertation examined the critical role of nurses at work in important clinical trials during the 1930s through 1960s. In the era before formal study protocols, nurses shouldered the responsibility of ensuring high-quality scientific data through their authority over the patient bedside. Nurses also drew on their extensive technological and social skills to implement experimental technologies such as feeding pumps in the understaffed hospitals of the mid-20th century. Dr. Mahoney has continued to explore the history of nurses and clinical technology in her postdoctoral fellowship.

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3:45 – 5:15 pm:
Workshop – "Narrative Medicine"
Craig Irvine, Ph.D., Columbia University, Academic Director of the Master of Science in Narrative Medicine program

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Craig Irvine is a founder and Academic Director of the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University, and holds his Ph.D in Philosophy from Penn State University. For more than 15 years, he has been designing and teaching cultural competency, ethics, Narrative Medicine, and Humanities and Medicine curricula for residents, medical students, physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, dentists, and other health professionals. He has over 20 years of experience researching the history of philosophy, phenomenology, and narrative ethics, and over 25 years of experience teaching ethics, humanities, the history of philosophy, logic, and narrative medicine at the graduate, undergraduate, and preparatory school levels. He has published articles in the areas of ethics, residency education, and literature and medicine and has presented at numerous national and international conferences on these and other topics. Craig received his BA in Philosophy from Saint John’s University.

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Saturday, April 6:

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9:00 – 10:30 am:
Workshop - "The Narrative of Music" (Venue: W. O. Walker Auditorium)
Eleanor Davidson, M.D., Dept. of Bioethics, CWRU and Anna J Rathbun, DMA; accompanied by Richard Nelson, Emeritus Professor of Music Theory at the Cleveland Institute of Music

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Eleanor (Nell) Davidson “grew up” in the preparatory department at Eastman School of Music.  She went on to major in music at Wellesley College but then introduced new thematic material by entering medical school at University of Michigan.  Trained as an internist and nephrologist, she later “de-differentiated” into a primary care physician, seeing patients and running the health service for Case Western Reserve University. After additional training at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Association and the Institute of the Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis,  Dr Davidson focused on the care of students who presented with anxiety and depression in the general clinic.  She was part of the pioneering group of seven schools (including CWRU, NYU, Princeton, Cornell) that established the safety and effectiveness of screening students for depression in primary care.

She stepped down as Director of the Health Service in 2017 and entered the CWRU Bioethics Masters Degree program where she discovered Narrative Medicine, studying with Dr Susan Stagno.  She has returned to studying voice and singing in two local choruses as well as Berkshire Choral International.

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Anna J. Rathbun, soprano, has performed in operas and concert works such as Mahler's Fourth Symphony, Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, and the Cleveland premiers of Robert Beaser's The Heavenly Feast and David del Tredici’s In Memory of a Summer Day. Ms. Rathbun holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music, as well as an Artist Diploma and a Master's degree in vocal performance. In 2010, she received Honorable Mention in the Heida Hermanns International Competition, and in 2006, she won first place in the Leopoldskron vocal competition in Salzburg, Austria. Her voice can be heard in collaboration with Richard King (Former Principal Horn, The Cleveland Orchestra) and Orli Shaham in the album Chamber Music for Horn, distributed by Albany Records. Ms. Rathbun served as a member of the voice faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music from 2008 to 2012.

In addition to her music degrees, Ms. Rathbun holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Harvard University. Before embarking on her musical adventures, Ms. Rathbun worked in the investment field, and after nine years in music, she returned to the investment world with the heart to help non-profit institutions achieve financial sustainability.

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Richard Nelson, Emeritus Professor of Music Theory at the Cleveland Institute of Music, served as Professor and Head of that department from 1996-2018.  In addition, Dr Nelson has an active career as a church musician, serving as assistant organist at St Paul’s Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights and also as director of its choirs for young people.

Dr Nelson received his BM and MM from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and his PhD in music theory from Eastman School of Music.  He studied harmony and solfege with Nadia Boulanger at the Conservatoire Americaine in Fontainbleau.  A specialist in eighteenth-century music, Dr Nelson is active as a theorist, accompanist, organist and harpsichordist.

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10:45 – 12:15 pm:
Workshop – “Seeing the Invisible”  (Venue: Cleveland Museum of Art)
Cyra Levenson, Deputy Director and Head of Public and Academic Engagement, Cleveland Museum of Art

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Cyra Levenson, Deputy Director and Head of Public and Academic Engagement at the Cleveland Museum of Art, oversees the interpretation of the collection, ensuring that the museum’s programs foster active, meaningful engagement with art and the surrounding community. Appointed in 2016, she most recently served as Curator of Education and Academic Outreach at the Yale Center for British Art and as Director of the Yale - Smithsonian partnership. Ms. Levenson holds a Master’s degree in Art Education from Teachers College, Columbia University and brings more than two decades of museum and art education experience to the position. She previously held positions at the Rubin Museum of Art, The Heritage School in East Harlem, and the Seattle Art Museum. She is a lecturer in American Studies at Yale University. Her research interests include creativity and cognition, visual literacy and object based teaching. Publications include, “Seeing, Connecting, Writing: Developing Creativity and Narrative Writing in Children” in Handbook of Writing, “Re-presenting Slavery: Underserved Questions in Museum Collections” in Studies in Art Education and “Haptic Blackness: The Double Life of an 18th-century Bust” in British Art Studies.