20th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Communication, Medicine and Ethics (COMET 2022)
Conferences
IRCAHC Events
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Date
13 - 15 Jul 2022
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Organiser
Department of English and Communication & International Research Centre for the Advancement of Health Communication
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Time
09:00 - 18:00
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Venue
Zoom
Speaker
Professor Raanan Gillon
Professor Richard L. Street, Jr.
Professor Robyn Woodward-Kron
Summary
The 20th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Communication, Medicine, and Ethics (COMET 2022) will be hosted by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. A Pre-COMET Masterclass is scheduled for 12 July 2022. The conference will be conducted online.
The COMET conference aims to bring together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds involving various healthcare specialties and the human and social sciences. A special emphasis is on the dissemination of ongoing research in language/discourse/communication studies in relation to healthcare education, patient participation and professional ethics.
COMET 2022 will feature the following plenary speakers:
- Professor Raanan Gillon, Imperial College, London, UK
- Professor Richard Street, A&M University, Texas, USA
- Professor Robyn Woodward-Kron, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne, Australia
CONFERENCE THEMES INCLUDE:
- Client-Professional Encounters (involving doctors, counsellors, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, speech and language therapists, psychotherapists, etc.)
- Communicating Risk and Uncertainty
- Communication Skills Training
- Distributed Expertise among Professionals and Clients
- Ethics and Communication
- Evidence in Diagnosis and Non-Diagnosis
- Health and Disability
- Health, Wellbeing and the Lifespan
- Healthcare in Asia
- Health Literacy
- Health Technologies and Medical Informatics
- Interpreter Mediated Healthcare Delivery
- Intercultural Communication in Health
- Interprofessional Communication and Hospital Management Systems
- Media and Health Communication
- Medical Education
- Narratives of Illness Experience
- Public Understanding of Health and Illness
- Quality of Life and Quality of Care
- Representation of the Body
- Research Ethics
- (Shared) Decision Making
- Tailoring Health Messages
- Telemedicine
- Values and Responsibilities in Professional Practice
Registration and payment deadline: 20 June 2022
Keynote Speaker
Professor Raanan Gillon
Imperial College, London, UK
MB BS, BA (philosophy), MRCP (UK), FRCP (Lond), Hon DSc (Oxon), Hon RCM
The four principles approach- an international and intercultural basis for health care ethics
Modeling Pathways from Communication in the Medical Encounter to Improved Health
Professor Robyn Woodward-Kron
Department of Medical Education, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne, Australia
Learning healthcare through interaction: A language perspective on clinical education
