Workshops & Seminars

The Dimensions program frequently hosts on-campus seminar speakers and interactive hands-on workshops. Topics for these events range from issues in healthcare economics to cultural competence in healthcare.

Seminars are held throughout the week, while workshops are often held on the weekend or over block break. Seminars are open to the greater Cornell community. Workshops require an RSVP, as space is limited and meals are generally provided.

Past seminars and workshops include:

• Still Life Drawing, drawing workshop for students interesting in practicing their skills learning the still life vanitas tradition who were unable to take the Drawing: Anatomy and the Body course during 2006/2007.
  
  
• "Measuring Phalluses, Separating Twins, and Speaking to the Dead: What History Tells us About Today's Creeping Norms", campus seminar on the socialization and medicalization of people born with socially-challenging bodies such as intersexism, dwarfism, and conjoinment.
  
  
• Medical Student Alumni Dinner, dinner for pre-med students with Cornell alumni currently attending MD and DO programs.
  
  
• "Talking to Teens: How to Interview Adolescents in the Clinical Setting" workshop by Dr. Anne Busha. Learn about and practice modeling tools for interviewing adolescents in the clinic.
  
  

• "The God Gene", lecture by Dr. Dean Hamer, National Institutes of Health, based on his most recent book looking at how faith may be hardwired into our genetic makeup.
  
  

• "From Women's Studies, to Midwife, to Osteopathic Physician", Dr. Noelle Lee will visit with several Cornell groups regarding her unique education and healthcare experiences.
  
  

• "HPV: What Should we Know?", lecture by Dr. Sharon Bertroche, Cedar Rapids family physician. Dr. Bertroche will discuss current STD statistics and overview the HPV vaccine.
  
  

• "What is Sports Medicine? A TEAM Perspective", symposium moderated by Dr. Larry Dorr '63 and featuring University of Iowa's Coach Kirk Ferentz, Dr. Ned Amendola, Paul Federici, and Brian Ferentz.
  
  

• "Language of Medicine", workshop providing an overview of the fundamentals of medical terminology.
  
  

• "Neurological Preventive Healthcare - Bench to Bedside Strategies," seminar provided by Dr. Richard Kraig '71 Professor of Neuroscience, University of Chicago.
  
  

• "Current Trends in Health Insurance - Will You Have Any in 20 Years?", seminar provided by Dr. Tricia Johnson, Assistant Professor at Rush University Medical Center Department of Health Systems Management.
  
  

• "Epidemiologists: Focus on Influenza Pandemic", discussion with Cornell alumni regarding epidemiology and public health as a career with a focus on avian flu.
  
  

• "Prescriptions for Your Future", Cornell Healthcare Alumni Panel and break-out workshop.
  
  

• "In Matters of Importance, It's Style that Counts", seminar with Dr. Mary Retzer, '65.
  
  

• Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich helped launch Dimensions, May 2005.

Workshop Evaluation form

Have a seminar speaker or workshop suggestion? Contact Bobbi, x4350.