Lisa Richardson shares insights from her years of experience in the health humanities, including her involvement with projects such as the Seeds of Change art initiative, and invites us to expand our perspective on different ways of knowing, seeing, and communicating in this illuminating conversation with Sarah Kim.
Lisa also speaks to the transformative role that the arts and humanities can play in reconciliation and our understanding of medical culture. In closing, Lisa reminds us about our deep interconnectivity as humans and reads an excerpt fromEmbers: One Ojibway’s Meditations by Richard Wagamese.
About Our Guests:
Lisa Richardson is Associate Dean, Inclusion & Diversity and Interim Vice Dean, Strategy at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Lisa is also Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and practices general internal medicine at University Health Network. Her academic interests lie in the integration of critical, Indigenous, and feminist perspectives in medical education.
Sarah Kim is Assistant Professor in the Department of Family & Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, where she also serves as the Temerty Medicine Health Humanities Theme Lead. Within her medical and teaching practice, Sarah integrates the arts and humanities, mindfulness meditation, and movement education as generative components of resiliency.
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