Yes And!...: Can Improv Help Us Navigate Uncertain Times?
Tony Galanos & Dan Sipp
Wednesday, February 4, 12:00-1:00pm
Duke South 3031
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When your entire profession feels like a sick patient and there’s no protocol to follow, how do you respond? Less of a lecture and more of an invitation, Dr. Tony Galanos and Dan Sipp will invite clinicians to name and address their “anticipatory” grief and improv scenarios that might help us learn to swim in new waters. Audience participation is highly encouraged! Students, house staff and all interdisciplinary colleagues are encouraged to attend.
Tony Galanos, MD, MA came to Duke in 1989 to do a Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine and stayed, starting the Geriatric Medicine Consult Service at Duke University Hospital and then the Palliative Care Service in 1998 at Duke as well. He has been devoted to relieving suffering, finding out what matters to patients and their families, and caring for our own coworkers. Towards these goals, Dr. Galanos has done debriefs around difficult deaths for over a decade, and is committed to systematizing debriefs for clinicians on the front lines. He has a dedicated research interest in personal and professional grief and its contribution to burnout, relatively unexplored topics, and has developed a cadre of young doctors who share this interest. Tony or "Dr G," as he is known, lectures and teaches frequently in the School of Medicine and the Department of Medicine.
Daniel Sipp is a North Carolina native with over 35 years of professional experience as a performer, director and educator. He studied improvisational theater in Chicago with some of the leading names in the field and taught for the ImprovOlympic before heading up his own training center in Raleigh, NC. He is now the Standardized Patient Training Coordinator for Duke University School of Medicine.
Dan has been collaborating with the creators of Medical Improv, Katie Watson and Dr. Belinda Fu, since 2013. He is now a trainer for their national Train the Trainer workshops. He has been teaching Medical Improv workshops for students and practitioners in the Duke University Health System since 2016. He also co-founded the Medical Improv Collaborative, a national organization of health care trainers integrating theater exercises into the medical humanities
