Maine Humanities Council | Lit & Med, Press

Recognition:

Helen & Martin Schwartz Prize for Excellence in Public Programming by the Federation of State Humanities Councils, 2003.
Named as a Patient Quality Initiative by the Maine Hospital Association (2002)

Press:

Print / National:

ADVANCE for Nurse Practitioners, July 2004
Journal of Hospital Librarianship, v4(2), June 1, 2004.
Dermanities (on-line journal), December 2004
Academic Medicine: Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, October, 2003
Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, March 2003
Humanities Magazine, (National Endowment for the Humanities Magazine), Fall 2002
Christian Science Monitor, January 29, 2001

Print / Regional:

Illinois:

Chicago Tribune, “Book club good medicine for patients, physicians”
By Barbara Brotman. May 1, 2007, Tribune staff reporter

Maine:

The Ellsworth American "Medicine, Literature Are Fused: Maine Coast Memorial Hospital Reads!" Written by Jennifer Osborn, Thursday, 12 January 2006
Portland Press Herald, February 11, 2005
Maine Hospital Association, "In the Public Interest: Quality Initiatives in Maine Hospitals" 2003
The Maine Times, June 14, 2001
The Times Record (Brunswick), February 7, 2001
Maine Biz, January 22, 2001
Bar Harbor Times, December 21, 2000
Maine Hospital Association Newsletter, Winter, 2000
Maine Medical Association Bulletin, September, 2000
Eastern Maine Medical Center Eagle, Fall 2000
Bangor Daily News, April 8-9, 2000
Maine Sunday Telegram, August 23, 1998
Bangor Daily News, August 6, 1998
Eastern Maine Medical Eagle, Spring 1997
Bangor Daily News, December 20, 1996

Radio and Television / Regional

Maine:

The Maine Public Broadcasting Network’s Tom Porter interviewed Literature & Medicine Program Officer Lizz Sinclair when the Literature & Medicine anthology, Imagine What It’s Like, was published by the University of Hawai’i Press in the summer of 2008. Here, with permission from MPBN, is a re-broadcast of the interview.
Maine Public Radio, (Spring, 2006). Feature story about the Literature & Medicine program featuring MidCoast Hosptial, Brunswick ME; Jeanne Barron, reporter.
WABI TV, local CBS Affiliate (Bangor, ME), Interview with Lit & Med participant Geoff Gratwick, MD and Program Officer Lizz Sinclair by Assistant News Director Jon Small for community news program, November 2005
WCSH TV, local NBC Affiliate (Portland, ME), Segment on the project by health reporter Diane Atwood, June 2001
WDME (Dover-Foxcroft, ME), part of "Health Beat", January 10, 2001
Maine Public Radio, November 6 & 7, 2000

Presentations:

National:

Federation of State Humanities Councils, National Humanities Conference; 2006. "Evaluation of Humanities Programs — A New Approach" Louisville, KY., November 2006
Society for the Arts in Healthcare, "Voice & Vision: Charting the Course of Arts, Health and Medicine", 15th Annual International Conference, Chicago, IL April 26-29 2006.
New Hampshire Medical Society Annual Scientific Convention, "Drawing from the Humanities to Compose a new Professionalism in Medicine", Kennebunkport, Maine, September 30, 2005
Society for the Arts in Health Care, "The State of the Arts in Healthcare: Building Community, Embracing Diversity." Washington D.C., April 21-24, 2004
North Atlantic Health Sciences Libraries Annual Conference, MA, October, 2003 (Poster Session)
"The Healing Continuum: Medical Humanities and the Good Doctor." 4th Annual Medical Humanities Conference, NYU, October 2003 (Poster Session)
American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting, October 2003
National Society of Clinical Rheumatologists, May 2001
Society of Teachers of Family Medicine's 20th Annual Conference on Families and Health, San Diego, California, March 1-5, 2000
Federation of State Humanities Councils, October 1, 1999

Regional:

Maine Nursing Conference, Bar Harbor, ME, Fall, 2002
Maine Geriatric Conference, Bar Harbor, ME, June 9, 2000
Maine Public Health Association Annual Conference, October 18, 1999
Maine Medical Assessment Foundation's Annual Meeting, October 8, 1999
Muskie Institute Public Health Masters Program, Fall, 1999

Grand Rounds

Connecticut:

University of Connecticut Medical Center, Farmington CT, March 2007

Maine:

Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME, Spring 2002
Aroostook Medical Center, Houlton, ME, November 2000
Cary Medical Center, Caribou, ME, November 2000
St. Mary's Regional Medical Center, Lewiston ME, October 2000
Down East Community Hospital, Machias, ME, Fall, 2000
Redington-Fairview Hospital, Skowhegan, ME, Fall 1999
Penobscot Bay Medical Center, Rockport, ME, Fall 1998
Mt. Desert Island Hospital, Bar Harbor, ME, Fall 1998

Minnesota:

Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, November 2001

Vermont:

"What Can Literature do for Psychiatry?" Vermont State Hospital, Waterbury, Vt.

For more information, please contact:

Literature & Medicine
Maine Humanities Council
674 Brighton Avenue, Portland, ME 04102

Phone: (207) 773-5051
Fax: (207) 773-2416

Victoria Bonebakker
Associate Director and Program Director for Literature & Medicine
vbonebak@mainehumanities.org

Lizz Sinclair
Program Officer & Program Coordinator
lizz@mainehumanities.org

updated August, 2008