This panel will be a lively, informal discussion around art, education and the impact images have on the way we understand our bodies and our pathologies.

Ms. Woong will be sharing about her art works on scoliosis "Ways to tie trees", "Trying to straighten a branch" and "Rules for photographing a scoliotic patient", juxtaposing the ways scoliosis patients are documented for medical archives versus her own personal experiences as a patient. Dr. Fu would contribute to the discussion with observed ways medical illustrations and imaging can change our self-perceptions, and body politics as a consequence of how our bodies are seen and documented. Dr. Chen be sharing about a life drawing class held at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University where she brought students to the Tufts School of Medicine Anatomy Lab to work with cadavers. The conversation will extend to the ways and processes in which art and medicine can intersect and areas of learning from both disciplines, as well as the challenges in relaying medical information and narratives to the wider public, or which the arts can serve as a space to enrich, evolve, and educate.

Target Audience: Anyone with an interest in medical imagine, arts, medical humanities, narratives, and storytelling.

Maximum number of participants: Open to all.