For health equity, transformation happens as students share their perspectives of curriculum content from their own identities and experiences. It happens when they are challenged by others’ perspectives and attempt to understand how others can experience the same content differently. The arts can create a powerful form of sharing beyond routine conversations or discussions, which is critical for honest dialogue on difficult topics concerning race and identity. 

The Collegium Institute and PRRUCS presents a Medical Humanities Special Event with Dr. Marshall Chin of the University of Chicago, who will be delivering a lecture on improving health equity through medical improv. He has incorporated improv workshops  into the first year curriculum at UChicago. He will then proceed with a 1-hour workshop with everyone. 

Marshall H. Chin, M.D., M.P.H., Richard Parrillo Family Distinguished Service Professor of Healthcare Ethics at the University of Chicago, is a practicing general internist and health services researcher who has dedicated his career to advancing health equity through interventions at individual, organizational, community, and policy levels. Through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Advancing Health Equity: Leading Care, Payment, and Systems Transformation program, Dr. Chin collaborates with teams of state Medicaid agencies, Medicaid managed care organizations, frontline healthcare delivery organizations, and community-based organizations to implement payment reforms to support and incentivize care transformations that advance health equity within an anti-racist framework. He also co-chairs the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network Health Equity Advisory Team.

This event is co-sponsored by the Health Humanities & Medical Arts Program at Villanova University and the John Templeton Foundation's In Lumine Network Grant.

Date: Thursday, November 21, 7:00-9:00 PM

Location: Houston Hall, University of Pennsylvania (specific room will be shared via email after registration closes)

Registration Deadline: Friday, November 15th!

Please direct any questions to Esther Lee (elee@collegiuminstitute.org).

This event is primarily for those affiliated with the Winged Ox Forum, Medical Humanities Fellowship (Society, Alumni, Faculty), Medical Humanities Council at Penn, and Health Humanities & Medical Arts Program (Villanova University). All others interested will be notified on Monday, November 18th space permitting.