Annual David S. Svahn Humanities in Medicine Memorial Lecture
This year’s guest lecturer, Dr. Lisa Wong, will present a talk entitled “Embracing the Art of Medicine in Uncertain Times.” She plans to play her viola and discuss how music and other art forms help physicians become better at their craft.
Dr. Wong is Co-Founder and Associate Co-Director of the Arts and Humanities Initiative at Harvard Medical School. She is a pediatrician at Milton Pediatric Associates, with offices in Braintree, MA and Boston, MA, and an assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Wong is a past president and current violinist in the Longwood Symphony Orchestra, the ensemble of Boston’s medical community. Click here for additional information about Dr. Wong’s background and accomplishments: https://ghsm.hms.harvard.edu/faculty-staff/lisa-wong
This lecture series is a tribute to Dr. David S. Svahn, a revered figure in the Cooperstown medical community who dedicated his life to instilling a profound sense of compassion and human connection in generations of physicians. He devoted the entirety of his 30-year career in medicine to Bassett Medical Center. The lecture series is made possible through an endowment from Dr. Svahn’s daughter, Dr. Jennifer Svahn, and her husband, Dr. Jeffrey Nicastro.
Join us in person in the Clark Auditorium at Bassett Medical Center (1 Atwell Road, Cooperstown, NY), or virtually through a livestream, which will be available at www.bassett.org/svahn-lecture at the date and time listed above