Past Events by Year:
2024
Sunday, April 7th, 10:30 am-11:45 am
Slow Medicine and the Efficiency of Inefficiency, Version 2.0
https://oakmontsundaysymposium.org/upcoming-talks.html
Dr. Sweet will be speaking at the Oakmont Sunday Symposium, April 7, 2024,in Santa Rosa, in an event that is Free and Open to the Public. In this talk she will describe how she, along with other physicians, came to the concept of Slow Medicine, as opposed to the Fast Medicine she also uses, and how to integrate its concepts and cost-savings into our current system.
Santa Rosa, California, Berger Center
2023
Wednesday, November 1st, 7:00 pm
Victoria Sweet in discussion with Kathleen Watt
https://www.booksinc.net/event/kathleen-watt-books-inc-palo-alto
KATHLEEN WATT at Books Inc. Palo Alto
Books Inc Palo Alto
Saturday, May 27th, 10:00 am
Slow Medicine: Time and the Craft of Healing
Dr Sweet will be giving a keynote address for the Canadian Society of Physician Leaders. Details forthcoming.
Vancouver, Canada
Thursday, March 16th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Slow Medicine: Time and the Art of Healing
Dr Sweet will be part of the Seminar Series for Medical Education week at the University of Florida. https://education.med.ufl.edu/faculty-development/the-society-of-teaching-scholars/medical-education-week-2/
She will also be giving the AOA talk at the annual banquet for the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society that evening, on
"What I wish someone had told me before I started my internship!"
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
2022
Thursday, November 3rd, 12:00pm-1:00pm
Slow Medicine: Time and the Art of Healing
Cincinnati's Children'Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio
Saturday, October 1st, 9:00 am to 10:am
Slow Medicine, Time, and the Art of Healing
Dr. Sweet will be giving the opening talk at the Annual Conference of the American Association of Medicine and the Person, titled this year, Medicine: A Systemic Disease? So it will grapple with the deep problem of Medicine today, the contradiction between its amazing technological success and the frustration and sense of lack felt by doctor and patient alike.
Courtyard by Marriott, Montreal Downtown
Tuesday, April 26th, 10:00 am
The Doctor-Patient Divorce
Over the forty years of Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago, the doctor-patient relationship has been discussed several times, in the context of managed care, of ethics, of efficiency. But now for its last year, it seems time to talk about the doctor-patient divorce and ask: What happened to our relationship? What has come between us? Can it be mended? Was it ever as good for you as it was for me?
Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago
Monday, March 14th, 10:30 am - Noon
“On not providing space for the sacred in in the care of the sick”
Dr. Sweet will be giving a plenary at the tenth annual Conference on Medicine and Religion. This year's program is "Space for the Sacred in the Care of the Sick." See here for some details: http://www.medicineandreligion.com/plenary-speakers.html
In this talk Dr. Sweet will discuss her experience of the unmaking of sacred space in Medicine. She initially chose her career in Medicine as a path on which the sacred is ipso facto included as birth, death and suffering, and then watched as it, renamed "healthcare" discarded the burdens of the sacred---thoughtfulness, consideration, connection--in the interest of efficiency. Eventually she rediscovered the sacred in the medicine of Hildegard of Bingen and the work of Carl Jung, all while practicing in an atavistic hospital she calls GH---God's Hotel. And then she watched as GH itself morphed in the same way, from Medicine to Healthcare, from monastery to factory. Burnout is the inevitable result of this transformation because sacred space is as necessary for the doctor and nurse as it is for the patient.
Portland, Oregon, Oregon Health Services University
2021
Friday, April 30th, EDT: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Verdant Medicine: Hildegard’s Resonant Apothercary
Musical Ensemble Alkemie Performs Verdant Medicine: Hildegard’s Resonant Apothecary, a Livestream Performance of Music by Medieval Composer and Apothecary Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), Followed by Roundtable Conversation on Plant-based Pharmacology
On Friday, April 30th from 2-4pm EDT, specialists in medieval music Alkemie present a livestream performance of Verdant Medicine: Hildegard’s Resonant Apothecary featuring works by composer, abbess, and apothecary Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) that focus on her healing use of plants.
The musical performance will be immediately followed by a roundtable conversation with the musicians and with three noted scholars, Dr. Victoria Sweet (Rooted in the Earth, Rooted in the Sky: Hildegard of Bingen and Premodern Medicine), Dr. Alisha Rankin (Panaceia's Daughters: Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany), and Dr. Minji Lee (“Woman’s Body In-Between: The Holy and Monstrous Womb in Medieval Medicine and Religion”) and moderated by Johns Hopkins historian of medicine Dr. Mary Fissell.
Created in conjunction with Johns Hopkins Program in Arts, Humanities, & Health and supported by the Fordham Center for Medieval Studies, this musical event will include hand-made “Intersensory Program Cards” that pair Hildegard’s music, texts, and associated images with materials that audiences can literally smell, taste, touch, and hear. The cards will be mailed to audience members who register by April 22nd.
For more information and tickets for Verdant Medicine: Hildegard’s Resonant Apothecary,
Johns Hopkins Program in Arts Humanities and Health: Zoom
2020
Wednesday, November 18th, 5:30 Central Standard Time
Slow Medicine, Ethics and the Case of Mrs. C.
Dr. Sweet will be giving the 2020 Medical Humanities Lectureship on November 18th and November 19th.
See below for details: https://www.victoriasweet.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Victoria-Sweet-11-18-19-2020-1.pdf
University of Utah, Zoom Meeting
Tuesday, September 22nd, 12:00 pm
Westminster Town Hall Forum: Slow Medicine, the Way to Healing with Victoria Sweet
Dr. Sweet will be interviewed by Cathy Wurzer from Minnesota Public Radio in a wide-ranging discussion of medicine, healthcare, what's wrong and how we can fix it. Please join us.
This will be broadcast: http://www.westminsterforum.org/forum/slow-medicine-the-way-to-healing/
Virtual from Minnesota
Sunday, September 20th, Noon
Westminster Forum: Online Discussion with Victoria Sweet
This should be a wonderful experience: https://www.georgefamilyfoundation.org/about/focus-areas/integrative-health-and-healing
All are invited. I'll be interviewed by Cathy Wurzer about Slow Medicine, Covid, and anything else people have to ask. Should be interesting.
Online and Minneapolis
Wednesday, February 5th, Noon
Dr. Sweet as AOA Visiting Professor, UC Davis
Dr. Sweet will be giving the AOA lecture at UC Davis, on 'Slow Medicine and Our Sixth Sense." Free and Open to the Public: Medical Education Building, Rm. 2222.
UC Davis
2019
Tuesday, December 10th, 5:00 pm-6:30 pm
Pilgrimage as a Way of Living—Phil’s Camino: A Documentary with Dr. Sweet’s commentary
Dr. Sweet will be discussing a remarkable documentary on the Camino, pilgrimage, health and disease. Free and open to the public.
https://calendar.ucsf.edu/event/phils_camino_documentary_screening_with_victoria_sweet_md#.XcL-CS2ZOqA
San Francisco, California, Herbst Theater
Friday, October 25th, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Dr. Sweet speaking in Monterey on Healthcare, Medical Care, and Profit
Dr. Sweet will be giving the afternoon Keynote at the Monterey Bay Economic Partnership, an interesting all-day conference.
Tickets can be purchased here: https://mbep.biz/2019-state-of-the-region/
Monterey, California, Hyatt Regency
Monday, October 7th, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Slow Medicine, The Way to Healing: Talk and Conversation
Dr. Sweet will be speaking on Slow Medicine and Fast Healthcare at the Institute on Aging, in San Francisco. She'll be signing books afterwards, and looks forward to seeing you there.
For further information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/slow-medicine-the-way-to-healing-an-evening-with-victoria-sweet-md-tickets-70966365309
San Francisco, Institute on Aging
Tuesday, September 24th, 6:00 pm-7:00 pm
In Conversation with Dr. Shaili Jain about her new book
Should be interesting. For tickets, see here:
https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2019-09-24/unspeakable-mind-stories-trauma-and-healing-frontlines-ptsd-science
San Francisco, California, The Commonwealth Club
Tuesday, September 10th, TBA
“Conscience in Medicine,” A Talk at Duke University by Victoria Sweet
TBA
TBA
Tuesday, September 3rd, 9:00 am
First Lecture at UC San Diego Medical School
Dr. Sweet will be giving The First Lecture to the incoming new medical students at UCSD.
San Diego, California
Saturday, May 25th, 10:30 am-12:00 pm
“Pilgrimage as a Way of Being and Becoming,” A talk and Q and A by Dr. S.
Looking forward to giving this talk. Free and open to the public. For more information: https://www.evensi.us/1000-presentation-dr-sweet-st-francis-lutheran-church/305974757
St. Francis Lutheran Church, San Francisco
Friday, March 22nd, 4:00 pm -5:15 pm
In conversation with Sandeep Jauhar about his new book, Heart, A History
Free and Open to the Public, this should be a very interesting conversation. I find Dr. Jauhar's new book fascinating, lovely to read, approachable, and provocative.
San Francisco
Monday, March 18th - Wednesday, March 20th
Second Book Tour in Germany (Bavaria) in March
Dr. Sweet will be giving several book presentations of Slow Medicine in its German translation, Slow Medicine: Medizin mit Seele. There will be a presentation of Slow Medicine in English, with a translator, and then Dr. Sweet will read a number of important passages in German. All are open to the public.
Monday, March 18, in Straubing, Germany, at 7:30 pm
Tuesday, March 19, in Weiden, Germany, at 7:30 pm.
Wednesday, March 20, in Regensburg, Germany.
Bavaria, Germany
Tuesday, February 26th, 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Slow Medicine and the Efficiency of Inefficiency: Grand Rounds
CME GRAND ROUNDS at Kaiser Richmond, 901 Nevin Avenue, Conference Room 1
Kaiser Hospital, Richmond, California
Thursday, February 14th - Tuesday, February 19th, February 14-February18
German Book Tour in February
14.02.19 Book presentation/reading in the City Library of Lörrach, Germany, 8pm-9pm followed by book signing. Free and open to the public.
16.02.19 Book presentation/reading in Bad Wildbad, König Karlsforum, 5pm-6pm, followed by book signing. Free and open to the public.
17.02.19 Book presentation/reading in Munich, at the Augustinium, 4pm-5pm, followed by book signing.
Lorrach, Freiburg, Bad Wildbad, Munich
Thursday, January 3rd
Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing has been published in German
Dr. Sweet is excited to announce that she will be doing a book tour in Germany for Slow Medicine, details tba.
Herder Publishing
2018
Tuesday, December 4th, 8:00 am - 9:00 am
Slow is the New Fast
Dr. Sweet will be giving Grand Rounds, details TBA.
Benioff Childrens' Hospital, Oakland, California
Thursday, November 15th, 7:00 pm-8:00 pm
Slow Medicine, the Way to Healing
Dr. Sweet will discuss her recent book, Slow Medicine, the Way to Healing, followed by Q and A and a book signing. All are invited. Register here: https://www.lllcf.org/program/sweet-thursday-presents-victoria-sweet/
Lafayette Library, Community Hall, Lafayette, California
Wednesday, November 14th, 7:00 pm
Slow Medicine and the Art of Healing
Oakland, California TBA
Thursday, November 1st, 6:00 pm-8:00pm
The Slow Road to Healing
Dr. Sweet will be giving a Keynote Talk to East Tennessee State University, followed by a book signing. The event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/slow-road-to-healing-by-dr-victoria-sweet-tickets-49723189398
Johnson City, Tennessee, Carnegie Hotel
Wednesday, October 24th, 9:30 am to 11 am
Slow Medicine and the Art of Healing
Dr. Sweet will be speaking to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) as part of their Baldwin Series. This is a free and public talk: at the ACGME headquarters at 401 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago IL and all are invited.
Chicago, Illinois
Friday, October 19th, 2:45pm to 4:15 pm followed by a book signing
Panel at Bioneers with Rupa Marya on Health and Healing in the 21st Century
For further details see here: https://nationalbioneersconference2018.sched.com/event/ErPp
Marin Center, San Rafael, Showcase Theatre
Thursday, October 18th, 12:30 pm-1:30 pm
Grand Rounds at Kaiser Oakland
Dr. Sweet will discuss how Spending Time is not only Better for the Patient and the Doctor, but it also Saves Money! The Triple Aim! at Medical Ground Rounds. Kaiser Oakland, 3600 Broadway Ave, Conference Room on the lower level of the Specialty Medical Offices.
Oakland, California, Kaiser Hospital
Thursday, October 4th, 5pm
The John P. Annual Award Lectureship in Humanities and Medicine
Dr. Sweet will discuss "Slow Medicine: The Lost Art of Healing" and its implications for where we are today in medicine and healthcare followed by an open discussion and Q and A. Free and Open to the Public. https://twitter.com/@yalemedhum
Yale University
Wednesday, October 3rd, 8 am
The Annual Louis Mohollen Humanities Lectureship
Dr. Sweet will be giving Medical Grand Rounds at Abington Hospital; she will be speaking on Slow Medicine: Spending Time Saves Money, followed by a discussion of current issues in medicine and healthcare.
Abington, Pennsylvania, Frobese Conference Center
Monday, September 24th, 6 pm
Left Bank Dinner and Discussion
We'll start at 6 pm, with dinner at 6:30 pm, and Dr. Sweet will give an introduction and then open the discussion on health and wellness, medicine and healthcare.
Larkspur, California
Wednesday, August 29th
Calistoga, California
Wednesday, August 15th, 8 AM
Slow Medicine: Spending Time Saves Money: Medical Grand Rounds
Dr. Sweet will give Medical Grand Rounds at Stanford University Hospital on how spending time saves money in healthcare, and not spending time, costs money. Stanford Hospital Campus, LKSC Berg Hall, 8:am. Details: https://medicinecalendars.stanford.edu/event/medicine-grand-rounds-slow-medicine-spending-time-saves-money/?instance_id=21699
Stanford, California
Wednesday, July 11th, 7 pm, seating starts at 6:30 pm
Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing
Dr. Sweet will discuss her new book, Slow Medicine, the Way to Healing. Free and Open to the Public. Comments and Questions to follow. https://sanjose.carpediem.cd/events/7292681-author-talk-victoria-sweet-at-los-gatos-library/
Los Gatos Library, Los Gatos, California
Saturday, June 23rd, 10:30 am
A Roundtable on the Garden and Healing at the University of Polinzano, in Italy
This should be an amazing meeting: Alice Waters, Carlo Petrini, Sefan Mancuso, and Victoria Sweet: http://www.mondodelgusto.it/eventi/11523/coltivare-custodire-rivoluzione-dell-orto-unisg-pollenzo-azienda-ceretto-per-sostenibilita-ambientale
Pollenzo, Italy
Friday, June 22nd, 11 am
Slow Medicine: Spending Time Saves Money
To help celebrate Italy's Complexity Festival, and in conjunction with Carlo Petrini (by video), Giorgio Bert, Fabrizio Bendetti, Marco Bobbio and Gian Piero Quaglino, Dr. Sweet will reflect on the essence of vitality, viriditas, and the relationship of well being to complexity. http://www.dedalo97festivaldellacomplessita.it/edizione-2018/mappa-degli-eventi.html
Teatro Giacosa, Ivrea, Italy
Tuesday, June 12th, 6:45 pm
Public Lecture
Dr. Sweet will give a public lecture in Geneva, Switzerland.
Geneva, Switzerland
Tuesday, June 12th, 8:am
Medical Grand Rounds, Geneva: The Slow Medicine Movement: Saving Money by Spending Time
Dr. Sweet will discuss the Slow Medicine Movement, and how its principles can provide the best care and save money at the same time.
Open to the public.
Hopital Universite Geneve
Sunday, May 20th, 8:15 am-8:55 am
Keynote Presentation: Slow Medicine: The Key to Post-ICU Syndrome?
ATS 2018, International Conference. More info here.
San Diego, California, UCSD
Tuesday, May 1st
Luncheon Talk: Slow Medicine, Fast Medicine, and Healthcare
Details to Follow.
Denver, Colorado, Institute of Life and Care
Tuesday, April 17th, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Do Doctors Have the Right to Practice Medicine in their Patients’ Best Interest?
Event, 4-5 pm. Followed by a reception, 5-6 pm. Free and Open to the public. Lecture at 4pm, Book Signing at 5pm. HSW 300, Auditorium, 513 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco.
San Francisco, CA. UCSF BioMedical Ethics Grand Rounds
Friday, April 6th, 8:30 am
Keynote Presentation: Slow Medicine, Nursing, and Nightingale.
28th Annual Medical-Surgical Nursing Conference
Burlingame, California
Tuesday, April 3rd, 12:00pm-1pm
The Slow Medicine Movement: How to Become Efficient by Being Inefficient
Dr. Sweet will give Grand Rounds at Alta Bates Hospital, Oakland, California.
Alta Bates Hospital
Thursday, March 29th, 7:00 pm-8:00 pm
A Book Talk and Discussion of Slow Medicine at Larkspur Library
Free and Open to the Public. See here for details.
Marin, California. Larkspur Library
Wednesday, March 7th
Slow Medicine, The Way to Healing. A Talk
San Francisco, CA. Metropolitan Club
Tuesday, February 20th, 11:00 am
Slow Medicine, The Way to Healing
Free and Open to the Public. Dr. Sweet will talk about and read from her new book, "Slow Medicine, the Way to Healing" followed by Q and A. There will be books for sale.
San Francisco, CA. Calvin Presbyterian Church
Thursday, January 25th, 7:00 pm
Slow Medicine, Victoria Sweet at the Napa Library
Napa County Library, Napa, CA. Bookseller: Napa Bookmine
Napa, CA.
Wednesday, January 17th, 11:30 AM-1 PM
A Literary Luncheon with Dr. Sweet.
Orinda Books, 276 Village Square, Orinda, CA 94563
Orinda, CA
2017
Wednesday, December 6 – 7:00 PM,
Mill Valley Public Library, Mill Valley, CA. Lecture Open to the Public, “Someplace to Go.”
Thursday, December 14
Burlingame Public Library, Burlingame, CA, Bookseller: Books Inc.
Wednesday, November 15 – 1:00 PM
Google, Google Authors’ Talk, Mountain View, CA.
Bookseller: Books will be purchased through Google’s own vendor.
Thursday, November 16 – 7:00 PM
Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA
Friday, November 17 – 7:00 PM
West Portal Books, San Francisco, CA.
Thursday, November 30 – 12:00 PM
Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, CA
Saturday, December 2
Strength Through Stories Conference, Oregon Health & Science University, Keynote Presentation, Portland, OR
Sunday, December 3 – 7:30 PM
Powell’s City of Books, Portland, OR
Wednesday, November 1 – 6:30 PM
The Commonwealth Club, “A Celebration of Oliver Sacks”, San Francisco, CA
Tickets can be purchased here:
https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2017-11-01/celebrating-life-and-work-oliver-sacks
Saturday, November 4 – 3:00 PM
Wisconsin Book Festival, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, DeLuca Forum, Reading, Q&A, Signing, Madison, WI
Tuesday, November 7, at 6:30 pm, a Book Club on God’s Hotel and Slow Medicine
Wednesday Medicine Grand Rounds at 7:30 AM,
University of California, San Diego. Grand Rounds. For details:
Wednesday, November 8, Dr. Sweet will give a Book Reading at 7:30 PM, free and open to the public.
Warwick’s, La Jolla, CA
Tuesday, October 24 – 7:00 PM
Rakestraw Books, Danville, CA
Thursday, October 26 – 7:00 PM
St. Louis County Library Medical Arts Series, St. Louis County Library Headquarters, St. Louis, MO
Saturday, October 28 – 7:00 PM
Bird in Hand at The Ivy Bookshop, Baltimore, MD
Sunday, October 29 – 1:00 PM
Politics & Prose, Washington, DC
Monday, October 30 – 11:30 AM
Yale, New Haven, CT. Connecticut Community Mental Health Center
Monday, October 30 – 5:00 PM
Yale University Lecture, New Haven, CT
Sunday, October 22 – 2:00 PM
Mrs. Dalloway’s, Berkeley, CA
Monday, October 23 – 7:00 PM
Bookshop Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
OCTOBER 17, 2017 (10/17/17)
SLOW MEDICINE: THE WAY TO HEALING will be published.
For a sense of it, click here
Tuesday, October 17 – 7:30 PM
Kepler’s Books, Menlo Park, CA, for tickets
Wednesday, October 18 – 7:30 PM
Off-site at The Bindery, Bookseller: The Booksmith
October 4, 2017, 8 am, Medicine Grand Rounds at California Pacific Medical Center. Dr. Sweet spoke on “Slow Medicine and the Efficiency of Inefficiiency” in the Enright Room, 2333 Buchanan Street, Lobby Level, San Francisco. Was free and open to the public.
September 6, 2017, Napa Valley. Dr. Sweet spoke on “Practicing Slow, Thinking Slow, Being Slow,” at a private conference put on by The Experience Lab of advisoryboard.com.
May 25, 2017, at 7:30 pm, Green Apple Bookstore on Ninth Avenue. Dr. Sweet will be in conversation with Kerry Egan about Kerry’s new book, On Living. Free and Open to the Public: http://www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-kerry-egan
April 1, 2017, 11:am, San Francisco. Dr. Sweet spoke on “Slow Medicine for the Woman in the White Coat,” at the 102nd Annual meeting of the American Medical Women’s Association. For details, see https://www.amwa-doc.org/amwa102/
March 29, 2017. Dr. Sweet spoke in Tucson, Arizona. She will give two talks for The Cindy Wool Memorial Seminar on Humanism in Medicine; on Slow Medicine at Grand Rounds at the University of Arizona Duval Auditorium, and a second talk on God’s Hotel that evening. For details, see https://jfsa.org/jewish-federation-of-southern-arizona-calendar/cindy-wool.
2016
December 15, 2016. Guggenheim Museum, New York, TBA. Dr. Sweet will give a TED style talk at STIR: https://experiencelab.advisory.com/stir/. The tentative title is: “Slow Medicine: Saving Money by Spending Time.”
November 17, 2016. Book Passages, San Francisco. Dr. Sweet will be in conversation with author Leah Kaminsky about her next novel, The Waiting Room. http://www.bookpassage.com/event/leah-kaminsky-waiting-room-san-francisco
November 15, 2016, UCSF, Toland Hall, 8:am-9:30 am. Dr. Sweet will appear as the discussant for Dr. Lloyd’s Sederer’s presentation at the UCSF Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds. Open to the public.
May 15, 2016. Sacred Heart University, Connecticut. Dr. Sweet will be awarded at Honorary Doctorate at the college’s commencement ceremony. http://www.sacredheart.edu/aboutshu/news/newsstories/2016/april/50th-commencement-speakers-and-honorary-degree-recipients-announced.html
April 18, 2016, Dr. Sweet gave two talks, both at St. Boniface’s Hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The first on “Compassion, Time, and Inefficiency,” as part of Compassion Grand Rounds, at noon; the second on Hildegard of Bingen and Medieval Lessons for Modern Medicine,” at 7 pm. Both are free and open to the public. See here: http://www.chcm-ccsm.ca/two-public-lectures-on-a-radical-and-compassionate-alternative-to-modern-healthcare/
March 21, 2016, 12 to 1 pm, UCLA, with a bag lunch beforehand. Free and Open to the Public. UCLA, Dr. Sweet spoke about God’s Hotel and its implied ethics of spending enough time with the patient to get the right diagnosis and the right treatment, which is not always medical. For details, see: https://www.uclahealth.org/Ethics-Center/Pages/ethics-center-lectures.aspx
March 17, 2016, 5:30 pm, in the Holly Auditorium of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Dr. Sweet gave the The Ewing Halsell Distinguished Lecture. Free and Open to the Public. For details, see: https://news.uthscsa.edu/ewing-halsell-distinguished-lecture-victoria-sweet-m-d-ph-d/
February 10, 7:30 pm, San Francisco. Dr. Sweet was on a panel discussing “New (Old) Paradigms in Medicine.” Free and open to the public. For details: http://shapingsf.org/public-talks/index.html
February 6, 2016 Berkeley Public Library, Authors’ Festival.
January 26, 2016, University of Chicago, Medical Grand Rounds, Fast Medicine, Slow Medicine, and the Efficiency of Inefficiency.
January 15, 2016. San Francisco, Kaiser Hospital, 2425 Geary Blvd. Grand Rounds. Slow Medicine and the Efficiency of Inefficiency. 12:30-1:30 pm,
2015
October 31, Monterey, 11 am. American College of Physicians. Dr. Sweet gave a keynote address on Slow Medicine and the Efficiency of Inefficiency.
October 7, Esalen, 11 am. Dr. Sweet spoke on “The Woman in the White Coat.”
September 29, 2015, Mount Berry, Georgia, Berry College, 7:30 pm. Dr. Sweet gave the Conson Wilson Lecture. http://www.berry.edu/newsdetail/?nid=51539618052
September 8, 2015. University of California Medical School, La Jolla, California. Dr. Sweet gave The First Lecture for the incoming medical students at 1:30 pm. The title was Fast Medicine, Slow Medicine and Medical School.
June 4-6, 2015, Budapest, Hungary. Dr. Sweet debated a medical futurist on Apps. vs. Doctors for Brain Bar Budapest: her talks was Dr. Virtual and Dr Personal: Finding the Right Place for Technology in Medicine.” She also gave a TEDx talk in Budapest and Isven Hotel, that is, God’s Hotel was published in Hungarian. For the video, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc2MqZR5x80
May 20th, 2015, 8:am: Portland, Oregon. Providence Portland Medical Center. Amphitheatre, Grand Rounds, Open to the Public. Dr. Sweet gave the annual Lipshutz lecture.
May 19, 2015, 8am: Portland, Oregon: Providence St. Vincent, Souther Auditorium, Grand Rounds, free and open to the public. Dr. Sweet spoke on Slow Medicine and the Efficiency of Inefficiency,
May 5th, UCSF, 5pm-7pm, Tolan Hall. Dr. Sweet spoke on: “The Best of Both Worlds: Putting Fast Medicine and Slow Medicine Together.”
May 16th, Rocky Vista University, Denver, Colorado. Commencement speaker, May 16th, 10:am. http://www.rvu.edu/PDFs/PR_Commencement%20Speaker_Sweet%202015.pdf
April 10, 2015,6pm-10pm, San Diego, Bastyr University, Dr. Sweet spoke about God’s Hotel, Slow Medicine, and how to have our cake and eat it, too. There was a lunchtime talk on Viriditas and Pilgrimage, and a second presentation on Slow Medicine in the evening. htttp://bastyr.thankyou4caring.org/founders/event-founders-dinner-landing-page
April 21, 12:30-1:30 pm, Denver, Colorado. The Institute for Life and Care had its second Annual Luncheon and Symposium at the Westin, downtown Denver. The theme is; Reclaiming Soul from Stress, and Dr. Sweet was on the panel and Q and A, to talk in part about Do-Nothing Medicine. http://www.lifeandcare.org
March 14, 2015, 6pm-9pm, Walnut Creek Library, 1644 N. Broadway, Walnut Creek. Book Signing, Reception and Silent Auction, a fundraising event for the library:
March 10,2015, 10: 30 am. Omni Hotel, San Diego, at the Lown Institute meeting on Right Care, Dr. Sweet and Dr. Grace Damman conducted a workshop on “Overmedicalizing Dying, Underspiritualizing Death and—Could Death be Enjoyable?” http://conference.lowninstitute.org Dr. Sweet also spoke on The Principles of RightCareAction Week.
February 25, 2015, 3:30 pm-5 pm, San Francisco. UCSF, Laurel Heights campus, Room 274. Dr. Sweet spoke about putting Slow Medicine and Fast Medicine together in practical ways, such as a Slow Medicine Clinic or a Concierge Practice for the Sick Poor. DAHSM%20Sweet%202%2025%2015
January 26, 2015. Berkeley, CA. Dr. Sweet spoke at a gathering of MD PHDs on medicine, writing, and doctoring.
2014
December 9, San Francisco. Dr. Sweet spoke about God’s Hotel and some of its lessons, 11 am-1pm. Free and open to the public. http://calvarypresbyterian.org/event/senior-adults-8/ at Calvary Presbyterian Church, 2215 Fillmore St. in San Francisco.
Decmber 4, Palo Alto, Channing House, 7pm-8:30pm. Dr. Sweet spoke on Slow Medicine and the Efficiency of Inefficency.
November 19-22. Sussex, England. Dr. Sweet gave two talks at the University of Sussex for Medicine and the Humanities.
November 6, 2014, Stanford, California, 7:30 pm Bishop Auditorium. Dr. Sweet spoke on “Hildegard of Bingen: Medieval Lessons for Modern Medicine,” free and open to the public. There will be a reception beforehand and book signing afterwards, time permitting.Hildegard Poster high-res
November 5, 2014, Noon.Stanford California. Dr. Sweet gave a workshop on Fast Medicine and Slow Medicine over the longue duree.
October 23, 2014. Lago Maggiore, Italy. As part of the Slow Medicine Italia meeting, Dr. Sweet gave a talk at a panel on Slow Medicine: “A Model for Slow Medicine.”
October 16, 6:30 pm, Visalia, California. Dr. Sweet spoke about “Slow Medicine and the Efficiency of inefficiency” at the” Norman Sharrer Symposium. The public is warmly invited. For further information, see http://search.visaliatimesdelta.com/localevents/event//13415-Norman-Sharrer-Symposium
October 2, San Francisco Public Library, Sunset: Dr. Sweet spoke on her book, God’s Hotel, from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm. The public is invited. See http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1018224001
June 18, 2014. Hershey, Pennsylvania. Dr. Sweet spoke at the Leading Age Annual Meeting.
May 21, 2014. Economic Roundtable of San Francisco. Open to the Public. Dr. Sweet will present on “Slow Medicine and the Efficiency of Inefficiency.” 8:00am. See here for details: http://www.meetup.com/ERT-SF/ at 1 Embarcadero Center, 19th floor.
May 16, 2014, University of Nevada, School of Medicine, Dr. Sweet was the Distinguished Speaker for the Class of 2014’s Hooding Ceremony at 1pm; she spoke on “The Hood and the Oath.”
April 26, 2014, Loma Linda University, Dr. Sweet gave two lectures. The first on the “Hildegard of Bingen and the Greening of Pre-Modern Medicine” at 11:30-1:00 pm Damazo Amphitheater, open to the public. And the second, “Reflections on God’s Hotel” was at 3:30-5:00 pm | Damazo Amphitheater, also open to the public. http://www.llu.edu/central/bioethics/index.page
March 5 and 6, 2014, University of Oregon, Eugene Campus and Portland Campus, Dr. Sweet gave the Annual Tzedek Lectures: http://ohc.uoregon.edu/W_2014-Sweet.html
God’s Hotel was selected by San Francisco for its On the Same Page program for January and February. Dr. Sweet spoke about it at the San Francisco Public Library on February 25 : http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=2000663701
February 6, 2014, 9:am, Georgetown, Texas, Dr. Sweet gave the opening keynote address, “Slow Medicine, Fast Medicine: Putting them both together,” for Southwestern University’s two-day long Brown Symposium, on Healing: The Art and Science of Medicine. For more information, see http://www.southwestern.edu/academics/brownsymposium/
January 30, 2014, 7pm. Larkspur Library, Marin, Dr. Sweet discussed her book, God’s Hotel. Free and open to the public.
January 22, 2014, 12:30 pm, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, at Calvin College’s January Series. For more information: http://www.calvin.edu/january/2014/Sweet.htm
January 10, 2014, 10 am in the San Francisco Public Library, God’s Hotel is the book selected by San Francisco for its On the Same Page program for January and February.
2013
December 4, 2013, 5:30 pm at University of Massachusetts Medical School, Dr. Sweet spoke about God’s Hotel followed by a reception and book signing.
November 13, 2013, 12:30-1:30 pm, University of Virginia, Dr. Sweet delivered the Zula Mae Baber Bice Memorial Lecture on Slow Medicine, Fast Medicine: Taking a Different Perspective.
November 5, 2013, Santa Clara University, Dr. Sweet spoke in the library, 4-5:30 pm followed by a reception and book signing.
October 21, 2013, 8:30 a.m., Vancouver, Canada, Dr. Sweet gave the opening keynote for the 10th annual meeting of the Society for Integrative Oncology.
October 12, 2013, 1pm-2pm, Nashville, TN., Dr. Sweet spoke on Slow Medicine, Fast Medicine at the 25th annual Southern Festival of Books, and the talk was broadcast on CPSAN 2..
October 1, 8 am. Oakland, CA. Dr. Sweet gave Grand Rounds at Oakland Children’s Hospital; great group of people, and made a terrific audience.
September 24, 6 pm, San Francisco, Dr. Sweet appeared along with other winners and finalists of the NCBI Awards at the Mechanics Institute in San Francisco.
June 6, 5pm-8pm: Dr. Sweet accepted the Gold Medal for Non-Fiction for the 82nd Annual California Book Awards at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco
June 6, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Dr. Sweet gave Grand Rounds Harvard’s Mt. Auburn Hospital, 8 am, Grand.
May 30th, 7pm. Dr. Sweet spoke at Rakestraw Books in Danville.
May 29th, 8 am., Dr. Sweet gave Grand Rounds at Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco.
May 17th, Metropolitan Club, San Francisco, at 12: 30pm. Dr. Sweet spoke about her book and its reception.
May 19th, 1pm, Koret Auditorium, SF Main Library, The Northern California Book Awards: God’s Hotel won the award for Creative Non-Fiction.
Dr. Sweet spoke at Bastyr University in Seattle on May 6 and May 7, 2013.
Dr. Sweet gave the annual Lamb Lecture on Faith and Science: “A Doctor, A Saint, and A Pilgrimage,” at Villanova University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 18th, 4:30.
Dr. Sweet gave the annual Louius Mohollen lectureship, at Abington Memorial Hospital, Abington, Pennsylvania on April 17th at 8 am.
Keynote for the National Conference for Physician-Scholars in the Social Sciences and Humanities, April 13th, at 4:30, at UCSF.
Commonwealth Club Panel: “Improving Ethics and the Practice of Medicine,” was on March 28. You can hear the podcast here: http://tunein.com/topic/?
Reno, Nevada: February 25th. Keynote at the University of Nevada’s Cultural Considerations in Health Care Conference.
Oakland, California: February 21, 4pm. Dr. Sweet gave the annual Picchi Lecture at Samuel Merritt University. Further information: samuelmerritt
San Francisco: February 13, 2013, 6:30 pm-8 pm, Drawn from Dr. Sweet’s recent book this talk concerned Hildegard of Bingen’s medicine and her idea of viriditas, or greening power, as well as the history of the hospital and hospitality and the almshouse, with some history of Laguna Honda Hospital, in particular. Bay Area History of Medicine Society.
San Francisco, January 22, 5:30pm-7:30 pm, at the American Institute of Architecture. Dr. Sweet discussed the new and the old Laguna Honda Hospital and some of its lessons. Free and open to the public. Register here: http://www.aiasf.org/event/2013/01/22/victoria-sweet-author-of-gods-hotel-2-hsws/
Walnut Creek, : January 24th, Books on Review, A benefit for Stanford scholarships. Dr. Sweet read from GOD’S HOTEL and along with other Stanford authors, discussing writing. Open to the public with registration here: http://alumni.stanford.
Berkeley, California: January 7, 7:30 pm. The Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar Street at Arch, Berkeley. Free and open to the public: https://sites.google.com/a/hillsideclub.org/hillsideclub/upcoming-events
2012
Novato, California: December 13, 6 :30 pm. Kaiser Hospital, San Rafael. A talk by Dr. Sweet about healthcare followed by a panel with Dr. Clay Angel of Kaiser, San Rafael.
Ross, California, December 6, 9:30 am: Dr. Sweet will speak about “God’s Hotel and the Efficiency of Inefficiency.” This is a brunch and benefit for Ross School in Marin. All are invited: http://www.paperlesspost.com/events/2643605-e2b353de/replies/54789882-7db9da87?preconfirmed_token=25383786-f90d3eee#paper/front/0
Stanford University, November 28th, 5:30 pm. Cultures, Minds and Medicines Seminar, Department of Anthropology, Main Quad – Building 50, Room 51A (Colloquium Room). Dr. Sweet spoke about how she came to God’s Hotel; how she arrived at Slow Medicine and an understanding of Hildegard of Bingen’s concept of viriditas; the efficiency of inefficiency and the inefficiency of efficiency. Another great audience. https://www.stanford.edu/dept/anthropology/cgi-bin/web/?q=node/1241
On October 10, 6 pm, Dr. Sweet moderated the Swiss-Net discussion of skin diseases, past and present.
On October 9, noon, Dr. Sweet gave the Patterson Lecture at UCSF, on mental health and the medical profession, Aiming for Imperfection and open to the public. See here: https://insideguide.ucsf.edu/sites/insideguide.ucsf.edu/files/PDF/PatPattersonLecture2012.pdf
Speaker along with Kay Ryan, Poet Laureate 2009, sponsored by Granta, the British Literary Journal of New Writing, to launch its Medicine Issue: https://www.facebook.com/events/448491151862123/
Grand Rounds at Weill-Cornell Medical College in New York, was on Thursday, September 6, 2012, Noon. The talk was: “The Efficiency of Inefficiency: Three Stories
God’s Hotel came out on Thursday, April 26, 2012.
There was a FABULOUS Book Launch Party, Saturday, April 28th, 2012 at the Cliff Hotel n San Francisco.
Michael Krasny’s Forum on April 25th, KQED, 88.5, between 10-11 a.m., call-in.
A great Book Launch at Booksmith in San Francisco, April 27th, at 7:30pm.
Book Passages in Corte Madera, Sunday, April 29th at 1 pm.
Interview on the Kojo Nnamdi Show in Washington DC, May 1, 1 pm.
Politics and Prose, Washington DC, May 1 at 7 pm.
Bookshop West Portal in San Francisco, on May 3.
Books Inc in Berkeley, on Monday, May 7, 7:00 pm.
Kepler’s Bookstore in Menlo Park, on Tuesday, May 8, 7:00 pm.
West Coast Live, the live, syndicated San Francisco radio show, 10:am Saturday morning, May 12.
Bookshop Santa Cruz, at 7:00 pm, Thursday, May 17th.
Authors@Google in Mountain View on May 31;
Radio interview with KPFA’s Cover to Cover, on June 4th.
The Metropolitan Club in San Francisco, on Thursday, June 28th, 2012.
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