Archive: Media
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Dr. Toni-Lee Sangastiano’s Paintings on Display in the Permanent Collection Gallery of the Robert A. Facchina Italian American Museum of Washington DC (IAMDC)
On September 25, 2021, The Robert A. Facchina Italian American Museum of Washington DC (IAMDC) hosted a reception for IAMDC artists. Dr. Toni-Lee Sangastiano’s paintings are on display in the permanent collection gallery of the museum and this collection celebrates the contributions of Italian and Italian-American artists throughout DC from the birth of our nation’s capital into the present.
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“Now We Can All Hear You…”, Dr. Hunter Groninger Writes about Palliative Care Tele-Education for the Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis on PallCHASE
Dr. Hunter Groninger describes his experience of pivoting from traditional in-person teaching to the virtual world, in the context of his teaching of primary palliative care skills to local clinicians providing humanitarian medical aid to the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
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An Evening with Acclaimed Writer Sofi Oksanen
Virtual reading and conversation with one of the most awarded literary authors in Scandinavia, Finnish-Estonian novelist and playwright , Sofi Oksanen. Moderated by Lannan Center Director, Aminatta Forna.
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Infectious Historians Podcast, Episode #78: Covid in Iowa with Emily Mendenhall
Emily Mendenhall joins Merle Eisenberg and Lee Mordechai to discuss Covid in her hometown in northwest Iowa.
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Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan Featured in the The Library of Congress Magazine’s “Stories From A Pandemic”
The September-October 2021 issue of The Library of Congress Magazine presents “Stories From A Pandemic”, a first-of-its-kind collection of audio diaries newly acquired by the Library that reveals how the pandemic also transformed the way health-care workers view their mission as healers. Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan recounts how she had to change the way she treated patients while fearing for her own life, and cautions, “if we don’t take heed, we could be in this situation again sooner rather than later.”
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COVID, Quickly, Episode 14: “Best Masks, Explaining Mask Anger, Biden’s New Plan”, Scientific American Tackled Emily Mendenhall’s Research
In this episode of Scientific American’s podcast series “COVID, Quickly”, senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman explore Emily Mendenhall’s research on mask rejection in Okoboji, Iowa.
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ASHA Voices Podcast: Confronting Health Care Disparities, featuring Dr. Davetrina Seles Gadson, Dr. Christopher King, and Dr. Deliya Wesley
In the ASHA Voices podcast, Georgetown Dr. Davetrina Seles Gadson, Dr. Christopher King and Dr. Deliya Wesley explain how the COVID-19 pandemic has been drawing public attention to disparities in care that have always existed, and they shared how clinicians can confront these inequities.
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“How COVID, Inequality and Politics Make a Vicious Syndemic”, Emily Mendenhall and Clarence C. Gravlee in Scientific American
Emily Mendenhall and Clarence C. Gravlee analyze the conditions that made COVID a syndemic in the US.
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Always Take Notes Podcast, Episode 115: Aminatta Forna
Aminatta Forna speaks with the Always Take Notes hosts, Simon Akam and Rachel Lloyd, about her early work at the BBC, the similarities between creative non-fiction and fiction and her decision to take up a post at Georgetown University.
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Third Culture Africans Podcast: Aminatta Forna, Changing the Narrative on Identity, Grief, and Appropriation
Aminatta Forna talks with Zeze Oriaikhi-Sao about about the impact words can have on people, why she thinks appropriation can cause great damage to the literary and arts world, and why the elevation of victimhood does nothing for actual progress.
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