2013 Brighton Conference | Graphic Medicine

Brighton and Sussex Medical School

in collaboration with

Brighton and Sussex University Hospital Trust,

the Wellcome Trust,

and Graphic Medicine present

This interdisciplinary conference was intended to appeal to a wide audience, including healthcare professionals, comics creators, students, academic scholars, comics enthusiasts, and various stakeholder groups. The meeting consisted of a mix of peer reviewed academic papers, lectures and workshops.There will also be an exhibition and stalls for participants’ work.

CONFERENCE COLLECTIVE MEMORY

Muna Al-Jawad, Organizer of the 2013 and Comics & Medicine conference, Brighton.

I am a physician who looks after older people, as part of a multidisciplinary team in a hospital in Brighton, UK. I also have a superhero alter ego: Old Person Whisperer. I create comics as part of my practitioner research. I also help students and other healthcare professionals understand their practice through comics. I am interested in education, medical culture and resistance. My best article published so far is a comic about comics as research in the journal of medical humanities (2015). I (sometimes) tweet as @OPWhisperer.