ANOTHER FANTASTIC ARTS RESIDENCY

I have been working as a graphic medicine cartoonist/illustrator for the Center to Advance Palliative Care. It's part of the nonprofit Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. It has been a very gratifying experience. I also became their Artist-In-Residence last year. My residency will finish at the end of December 2024. My work with CAPC has been to illustrate their online clinical education/training. It has been a fascinating process.

Page excerpt from a CAPC educational unit.My drawing.

Page excerpt from a description of CAPC .My drawing.

Palliative Care teams work to help patients with intense, chronic, and/or terminal illnesses, to relieve or reduce their symptoms. Some people think palliative care and hospice are the same thing, but they are not. Hospice is for patients who have been diagnosed with a terminal illness and the prognosis includes a potential date of their death. But palliative physicians help both hospice and other patients. I think we can all imagine that taking care of these patients must be an intense and emotional experience for the patient, caregiver, and palliative care clinicians!

This area has supported a lot of artistic growth for me, since I am drawing patients and clinicians having all sorts of very intense conversations about illness, pain, and maybe death. What a fantastic opportunity for me!

Page excerpt from a CAPC educational unit.My drawing.

And now, I get to share with you that the CAPC Marketing and Communications team has announced that CAPC won four 2024 MarCom Awards! Here's their website description of the Web-Based Training. I'm also going to take a moment to brag and share a link that also include my name in the credits about the project. And here's a description of CAPC's blog, just to give you a more dynamic sense of their work.

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