This bi-annual concert series features members of our community. Students, faculty, and staff perform their favorite piece of music on instruments ranging from piano and guitar to flute.
To register to perform please email Aleax Olivera
Ripple Effect
The Ripple Effect
Motivated by the racial reckoning of summer 2020, the Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine launched the Ripple Effect Competition to support actions, programs or projects that meaningfully improve the experience of racially and ethnically diverse coworkers, patients and learners.
Psychiatry and Behavioral Health – BRAM: specially trained facilitators work with employees and their school-age children to create art to learn cultural competency and resilience.
Family and Community Medicine – Kienle DEI award program: monthly award for an employee who has demonstrated active Inclusion practice. The recipient also chooses a Hidden Hero to showcase; someone who has also demonstrated active Inclusion practice, but perhaps not in a way that called attention.
Medicine – Changemakers: Partnering with the film department at Penn State main campus and a Sankofa African American Theater company, this team is creating a series of short films depicting actual incidents of exclusion or disrespect experienced by our employees, to be used as talking points for DEI training by our Office for Diversity.
Anesthesiology and Sim Center – The 100 Voice Project: Create a repository of stories from employees of actual incidents of inclusion. Research component.
The following are on hold due to Covid-19 restrictions:
Child Life – monthly parent lunches from ethnic restaurants with educational material about the country and food.
Surgery – FEAST: Monthly shared culturally diverse meals with storytelling about the culture for groups of healthcare providers and trainees.
The Practice of Art
Guided tours of the Susquehanna Art Museum open to ALL Penn State Hershey Medical Center faculty, staff, and students plus-one.
Provided by The Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine.
This customized program led by the museum’s Director of Exhibitions for health care providers, hospital staff and their significant others are based on researched strategies for augmenting ongoing clinical training and alleviating professional burn-out. The benefits of monthly visits to the Susquehanna Art Museum include: customized tours of museum that relate the artwork to relevant clinical and non-clinical scenarios, participating health care providers, staff, faculty and significant others enjoy interdepartmental and interdisciplinary social exchange, and opportunities for spouses/family members to have a cultural experience in Midtown Harrisburg.
Join us for a guided tour. Upcoming dates to be announced.
Please email Aleax Olivera for more information or to register to attend.
In the Key of D Concert Series
Concerts by regional, national and international performers provided by The Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine offered at no cost to all PSH and COM students, employees and their families
Join us for an evening of great music
Mark Your Calendars and Plan to Attend
Community Concert
October 16, 2024 at 5:30 p.m.
Featuring: HMC/COM Community
Join us for a concert featuring members of our community. Students, faculty, and staff will perform their favorite piece of music on instruments ranging from piano and guitar to flute. You can expect to hear a wide range of genres.
If you are interested in performing at this Community Concert, email aolivera@pennstatehealth.psu.edu
and provide information about the music you would like to share.
For more information and to register to attend email Aleax Olivera: aolivera@pennstatehealth.psu.edu.
Piano Performance by
Yuzhang Li
October 24, 2024 at 5:30—6:30 p.m.
Lecture Room D
Yuzhang Li is a 25-year-old Ph.D. candidate in Piano Performance at the Royal Academy of Music in London where she also won a spot as a Tillett Trust Artist. She grew up in China, winning China’s National Scholarship to study music. She’s participated in and frequently won piano competitions in China, Europe, and the U.S. (Cliburn, Vendome, and Hilton Head).
For more information and to register to attend email Aleax Olivera: aolivera@pennstatehealth.psu.edu.