JACKSONVILLE, FL— The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens announces the Mayo Clinic Humanities in Medicine Symposium 2015, New View: Transforming Perceptions in Healthcare Through the Humanities. The Symposium will be held November 15 (at Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida) and November 16 (at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens).  

 The Symposium will be presented in three tracks, looking at the Practice, Research, and Educational aspects of the arts and humanities in healthcare. Each track will be examined through the lenses of diversity and inclusion that support our culturally-diverse communities of patients, providers, and caregivers. The Symposium will showcase innovative and unique arts in healthcare programs and explore vital themes, emerging, research, and innovation in the field.

Among the keynote speakers are Richard Blanco, United States Inaugural Poet; Sue Austin, Artistic Director & Co-Founder of Freewheeling; and Hope McMath, Director of the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens.

This course is intended for attendees from across the spectrum of arts in healthcare, including arts and health practitioners, expressive arts therapists, physicians, nurses, social workers, healthcare providers, artists, arts directors, arts institutions, veterans’ services, health and human service agencies, researchers, administrators, educators, students, family and professional caregivers.

Additional information is available online at https://ce.mayo.edu/node/4346.

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