Dr. Mgbechi Erondu of Stanford Medicine will be speaking at Iowa's Fall 2024 Medicine and Humanities Celebration on Monday, Sept. 23, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Medical Educational Research Facility (MERF) Auditorium. This is the second in a series of events striving to highlight the powerful relationship between great literature and great medicine, with the first being Dr. Liana Meffert's Humanities in Medicine lecture last Fall.

Speaker Info:

Mgbechi Erondu, MD, MFA, graduated from Princeton University with a BA in Anthropology and completed a year-long fellowship in Botswana conducting HIV/AIDS research before matriculating at the Carver College of Medicine. During medical school, she also earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Distinction in Humanities, and the 2016 Plughaupt Prize for Fiction. Her work has been published in McSweeney’s and The Examined Life Journal. Dr. Erondu is currently a double board-certified Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Surgery, and Pain Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She will be discussing how a strong humanities background empowered her career as a physician-writer from undergrad to medical school to residency to academic medicine.

To register for this opportunity to learn from Dr. Erondu and find yourself immersed in interdisciplinary applications of medicine and humanities, please click the link provided.  Free refreshments will be provided to all who attend.