Stanford Medical Student Authors

Winter Writers Forum and Workshop

Please join us Thursday, February 16th at 5:00 pm in the Clark Center Auditorium to celebrate the publication of two books by Stanford medical students. Shannon Moffett's book, The Three Pound Enigma: The Human Brain and the Quest to Unlock Its Mysteries, and Joshua Spanogle's medical thriller, Isolation Ward, will be featured. Both students received Stanford Arts and Humanities Medical Scholars grants. Also featured at the event will be David Watts MD, NPR commentator and author of Bedside Manners: One Doctor's Reflections on the Oddly Intimate Encounters Between Patient and Healer. Sharon Bray PhD, professional writer and workshop leader (A Healing Journey: Writing Together Through Breast Cancer), will announce the launch of the writers workshop series scheduled to begin Tuesday, February 28 at 7:00 pm in the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics conference room.

For further information on the February 16th Forum, contact Dona Tversky dtversky@stanford.edu . For information and to sign up for the workshop series contact Paula Bailey - pbailey@stanford.edu .

This event is supported by a grant from the Drs. Ben and A. Jess Shenson Funds and sponsored by the Arts, Humanities and Medicine Program, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics.

Posted on January 24, 2006 12:55 AM

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