The Columbia Narrative Medicine Journalism Workshop is hosting its first open dialogue of the year on medical journalism issues with Pam Belluck, award-winning New York Times writer and author, Tuesday, January 16 at 7:00 PM.

Belluck is a health and science writer at the New York Times, whose honors include sharing a Pulitzer Prize and winning the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting. She is the author of Island Practice, a book about an unusual doctor.

Belluck will be interviewed by workshop director, journalist and author Stephen Fried, and members of the workshop alumni group.

To register, fill out this form. The workshop assistant, Meg Gladieux (mkgladieux@gmail.com) will send you a Zoom link before the session, as well as a short list of Belluck’s stories that are likely to be discussed, the day before the session.

Previous speakers in this medical journalism dialogue series have included Dr. Helen Ouyang, Dr. Danielle Ofri, Dr. Dhruv Khullar, Dr. Robert Wachter and Dr. Daniella Lamas.

Since the inception of the Narrative Medicine Journalism Workshop in 2020, its members—who previously had little or no experience writing for the lay press—have published pieces they developed in the group setting in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Vox.com, the Washington Post, the New York Daily News, Nautilus magazine, Ms. magazine, the Seattle Times, Backpacker (where one workshop member was helped to develop a regular medical column), and others.  The workshop is part of Columbia’s Narrative Medicine StudioLab, which is sponsored by the Division of Narrative Medicine of the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics, under the direction of founder and chair Rita Charon.

The workshop receives funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

For more information on the Narrative Medicine Journalism Workshop contact stephenfried@comcast.net.

If you have any logistical questions about the session, reach out to workshop assistant Meg Gladieux (mkgladieux@gmail.com).