Speaking

Dr. Garfinkle-Crowell enjoys speaking to both professional and general audiences. She been an invited lecturer on Narrative Medicine, the medical humanities, psychotherapy, and psychiatry at multiple hospitals and national conferences. She has spoken to audiences of parents and professional caregivers about child development, sibling rivalry, and how to help children become great eaters.

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INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

”Best Practices in the Medical Humanities,” Cedars-Sinai History of Medicine Speaker Series, Los Angeles.

2022


2019

“Medical Humanities and the Art of Listening.” Guest lecturer in Positive Medicine class, NYC.


2019

Grand Rounds on the Art of Listening Program, Department of Psychiatry, Maimonedes Medical Center, Brooklyn.


2018

“How to Feed your Children: The Maternal Experience,” Series for Parents and Professional Development, The Susan Sherkow Center, NYC.


2017

Sibling Rivalry, My Nanny Circle conference, a grass-roots group focused on the training and empowerment of caregivers, organized by Alene Mathurin, NYC.


2017

”The Literary and Culinary Imaginations” for Chef David Bouley’s Series “Chef and the Doctor”, NYC.


2015

“Best Practices in Medical Humanities,” Drexel School of Medicine, Philadelphia.


2012

Annual Endowed Grand Rounds on Medical Humanities, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Hospital, Manhasset, NY.


2012

Invited Lecture on Psychodynamics of Physician-Assisted Suicide, Columbia University, NYC.


2012

“What Happened to the Case History? Expanding the ‘Evidence’ in Psychodynamic Therapy Training.” Paper. Research session, Spring Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Washington, DC.


2003

”Writing About Medicine.” Grand Rounds Speaker. Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NYC.


VOLUNTARY PRESENTATIONS


2009

Garfinkle S., Hamilton M., Wininger L., Garfinkle M., Roose S., Diagnosis of Depression vs Anxiety by Psychoanalytic Candidates. Scientific Poster. Winter Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association, NYC.

2008

“Why is Ms. Q’s Desk So Messy? Loss and Mourning after a Neurological Event.” Case Presentation. New York State Psychiatric Institute “PI-Wide” Case Confer- ence, NYC.


2004

”Does ‘Talking Cure’ Without ‘Cure’ Leave Only Talk? A Search for the Place of Cure in Psychoanalytic Theory”. Paper. Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine Conference. Gainesville, FL. 


Teaching

Dr. Garfinkle-Crowell loves to teach. She has lectured on normal child development to medical students and residents in psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

She has run seminars in clinical writing and in the Narrative Medicine program for medical students and residents at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons.

In the Academy for Medicine and the Humanities that she founded in 2012, Dr. Garfinkle-Crowell oversees popular courses, funded lecture series, and student scholarly work in topics across the medical arts and humanities. Students in her program have gone on to publish in academic and creative journals, create podcasts, performances, gallery exhibitions, businesses, and academic programs of their own in addition to their work in clinical medicine. In her role as Director, she has collaborated with cultural figures and institutions including Bill Moyers, NPR’s Ophira Eisenberg, The New York Philharmonic, The Guggenheim Museum, and Jazz at Lincoln Center.

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