Yale Program for Medicine, Spirituality, and Religion: "A New Pathology of Chronic Loneliness: Social Networks, World-Making and Health"

We are excited to kick-off our new season of YPMSR. Our first gathering will offer an in-person option - Boardman 114– as well as Zoom (https://yale.zoom.us/j/2035000025).

Our guests: Drs. Amar Dhand & Ian Marcus Corbin

Title: A New Pathology of Chronic Loneliness: Social networks, World-making and Health

The Time: Friday October 7^th, 12-1pm

The Place: Boardman 114, 330 Cedar Street (the door across from the shuttles, take first door on left)

Amar Dhand, MD DPhil (Oxon) is a physician social scientist at Harvard Medical school, with expertise in social networks and neurological outcomes. His goal is to understand patients in context of their social connectedness, create new methods to measure social life in patients, and apply these findings to improve clinical care.

Ian Marcus Corbin, PhD is a philosopher at Harvard Medical School, where he uses interdisciplinary methods to explore the various ways that sociality impacts human flourishing. He is writing a book on this topic for Yale University Press.