The mission of the summer seminar is to bring together health care professionals with humanities scholars, creative artists, and educators in a dynamic, engaged community where they learn from each other, try out new ideas, and help shape the direction of biomedical humanities.

The goals of the summer seminar include:

• To refresh and stimulate the leaders and participants with challenging ideas and different perspectives.
• To give participants new ways of integrating humanistic perspectives and values into clinical settings and health professions education.
• To engage participants in theatre, creative writing, and other arts as compelments to their professional work.
• To create educational materials that can be used to involve the public in much needed dialogue about health care issues.

Previous Symposia include:

• 2005 Human Enhancement Technologies: Dramatic Perspectives
• 2006 Global Health Care Justice
• 2007 Leveraging Change: The Politics and Economics of Global Poverty and Health Care

Upcoming 2008 Symposium, Return to the House of God