Annika Mengwall has spent her high school years volunteering in her local Emergency Medical Service, driving ambulances and providing critical patient care as an EMT. She also teaches lifesaving techniques as a Basic Life Support Instructor for the American Heart Association. Off duty, she creates interdisciplinary artwork – currently developing a comic promoting bystander CPR which she presented at the 2023 Graphic Medicine conference in Toronto. She will be a first-year at Yale University this fall, where she plans to study art and prepare for medical school. In this episode of the Graphic M ..read more

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This information is in the emails you received from the organizers. But here is a quick summary. This page will be updated as needed during the conference. Check back for questions.  Getting to the conference: TUS Campus map: https://tus.ie/estates/athlone/campus-maps/ *The Graphic Medicine Conference takes place in 2 locations (The MAIN BUILDING and THE ENGINEERING BUILDING). *Bus Shuttle for Weds 17th and Thurs 18th is available, but with limited capacity. This bus will make 1 pickup in front of the Sheraton Hotel in Athlone at 8:15 am on those mornings. The bus holds 50 passengers and ..read more

How making comics helped me mourn my father’s death and reflect on his life Medical Mentions Book Reviews X – Comic Strip Edition #1 ..read more

Coming to Ireland for the conference? Please note that the final conference program is posted! The programme is downloadable and printable. Printed copies of the programme will not be available on site, though there will be copies posted through out the conference.  It is important that delegates familiarise themselves with the programme. Speakers are required to be on time at the locations of their sessions.  Full program (and abstract book) are available here. Also, check out another great news story about the conference. See you in Athlone! New reviews on the site: Offhand ..read more

Graphic Medicine Conference Coverage in The Irish Times! View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) “Birding My Way Through Chemo” – Illustration by Andy Rementer, Text by George Rementer, New York Times Opinion, June 15, 2024   Medical Mentions Book Reviews IX The Human Development Institute (HDI) at the University of Kentucky is honored and excited to announce that it has received funding from the WITH Foundation for a new initiative called the Graphic Medicine Resource Lab. The project, which will be directed and coordinated by Laura Bu ..read more

WE ARE SO CLOSE! Please help us reach our matching grant before the 2024 conference in Ireland! Please donate here.   The Graphic Medicine International Collective (GMIC) is thrilled to announce the 2024 shortlists for the GMIC Awards for outstanding health-related comic projects completed and/or published in 2023! This award is made possible by a generous matching grant in Honor of Nancy and Herbert Wolf, and is intended to honor and carry on their legacy of service and care. You can read more about Nancy and Herbert here. This is a MATCHING grant, so donations to support these awards ar ..read more

Medical Mentions is a group of graphic works. The graphic works reviewed here are books whose primary topics are not medical, and yet they cover a medical topic with some depth at some point in the work. The rest of the work might be fictional or nonfictional, while the medical portion is often technical and five pages or more. The reviewer will usually neither recommend nor discourage reading the work, except when the rest of the work is deemed outstanding or terrible, respectively. Typically, six graphic works will be part of the review with one paragraph for each. Prior Medical Mentio ..read more

  Are you planning to come to the GMIC 2024 Conference in Athlone, Ireland?  If so, be sure to register for the Conference Dinner!  This adventure includes the Viking Boat tour of the River Shannon and Dinner at the Glasson Lake house. The entertainment is a troupe of Irish Dancers who will be engaging delegates to participate. All inclusive price of €80 includes transport back from the venue to town centre (Athlone) – Sheraton car park. Departure on the boat ride is from the Athlone Castle  (5 min walk from Sheraton and Radisson) Our hosts report that this dinner really i ..read more

We heard from Susan Tupper, the lead on a research team who developed three graphic medicine stories for healthcare provider education to challenge stigma related to chronic pain and substance use. They worked with Arcana Creative (https://arcanacreative.ca/) for the story development and artwork. Their team included two patient partners, two Indigenous Knowledge Keepers, two healthcare providers and researchers from medicine, anthropology, sociology, and Indigenous studies. More information and links to the full stories can be found on our community partner webpage, SaskPain (https://www.sask ..read more