Please join us on Zoom for the 20th Annual J. Worth Estes Lecture: “To Protect the Mother and the Baby: Black Infant Mortality in Historical Perspective,” May 2nd, 2023 at 7:00 p.m.
Join historian of medicine Wangui Muigai, Ph.D., as she traces the origins of one of the most enduring health disparities in America: the racial gap in infant survival.
What happens when five nurse clinicians/PhD students come together in community to apply nursing theoretical constructs to the art of wellbeing? An immersive, nature-oriented, meditational labyrinth drawing attention restoration theory into practice and play. Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing PhD students Wendy Arena, Elizabeth DelSignore, Caitlin Healy, Elizabeth Terhune, and Amelia Toye invite you to step into the experience.
Location: Lamar Soutter Library, UMass Chan Medical School, first floor
Dates: April 24th and April 25th
The Library Service Point will be closed for the Patriots' Day holiday on Monday, April 17, 2023.
UMass Chan/UMMHC ID badge access only to access the library (24/7). At this time the library is not open to members of the public.
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 from 12-1 pm on Zoom.
Join Lisa Palmer, Institutional Repository Librarian to learn how to deposit your preprints, articles, posters, data, and other research products into UMass Chan’s institutional repository, eScholarship@UMassChan, to receive a DOI and share your research with the world.
The April Unsolved Pathologies Coffee House will be on Thursday, April 20, 2023, at 6:15 p.m. in the Lamar Soutter Library. Join us at 6:00 p.m. for coffee, tea, and snacks and at 6:15 p.m. for stories about the successes and challenges in the care and treatment of patients with high-risk breast cancer. For more information and an optional RSVP, see this Google form.
Take a break from studying and working and go to MedMoth!
MedMoth is a live storytelling event for all members of the UMass Chan communities and is based on "The Moth" podcast.
April 26th, 6:30 p.m.
ASC Multi-Purpose Room (Cafeteria)
Come listen to stories and enjoy light refreshments.
The next R Café gathering will take place on Friday, April 14 from 1-2 pm on Zoom. Registration is now open.
You are invited to join the Lamar Soutter Library, Diversity & Inclusion Office, and Crista Johnson-Agbakwu, MD, Executive Director of the UMass Chan Medical School Collaborative in Health Equity, for her talk on:
“Advancing Maternal Health Equity Among Migrant Communities”
Thursday April 6th, 1-2 p.m. in the ASC Cube & also via Zoom
This event is planned in conjunction with a National Library of Medicine traveling exhibit that is hosted in the Lamar Soutter Library until April 22nd.
Wednesday, May 3, 6:30-8:00 p.m., Zoom Event
Our new Artist-in-Residence Series exhibit, "Community: Student Photographs," is on display now through April 21st.
The pieces in the exhibit were created by UMass Chan students and curated by members of the UMass Chan Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS). GHHS is a national organization dedicated to supporting humanism within the practice of medicine. The UMass Chan chapter of GHHS created a photography competition to collect art from UMass Chan community members as a way of exploring the various definitions of community.