oxford empathy previous events

Previous events

11/12 November: Empathy in Healthcare: 3rd Biennial Colloquium (Virtual)

  • Over 150 participants from 12 countries and 5 continents
  • Included self-empathy breaks
  • Overwhelmingly positive feedback

04 November 2019 'International Colloquium'

* This colloquium had over 100 attendees, including Jodi Halpern and Stewart Mercer
* The aim was to explore innovative ways to embed enhanced empathy within healthcare
* It was done in partnership with the Royal Society of Medicine (https://www.rsm.ac.uk/events/open/2019-20/onn01/)

21 May 2018 'Introducing the Hard Science of Self Healing' Balens Continuing Professional Development Conference, Birmingham, UK 

17 May 2018 'Placebos, empathy, and expectations: how these change your patients minds and bodies' Psychologists in the Pub, London UK.
28 April 2018. 'Why every healthcare consultation needs a dose of empathy' Stanford Medicine X.

27 April 2018. One Day Workshop at Stanford Medicine X: 'Mine your placebo potential, unleash empathy, and meet the power of Doctor You'.

28 March 2018 The Oxford Empathy Programme co-sponsored a 1-day empathy training course. See here for more details.

13 March 2018 'The Ethics of Placebo Treatments' Health Psychology Seminars, King's College London (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/depts/psychology/research/ResearchGroupings/...)

1 March 2018. 'Why every healthcare consultation needs a dose of empathy' Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Oxford (https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/f25cef80-09c6-4800-bbdc-213776098691/)

26 January 2018. “Why every healthcare consultation needs a dose of empathy”. Grand rounds talk. University of British Columbia, Canada 

 

Official Launch of the Oxford Empathy Programme
25 October 2016. Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford.

2016 Inaugural National Empathy Colloquium
25/26 October Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford.
The aim of this event is to start a discussion about how promoting a culture of empathy might improve patient, practitioner, and staff health and well being. We will publish a report of what happened at the event in November 2016.

International Colloquium 24 October 2017 

  • This colloquium had over 50 attendees, including Sir Muir Gray and Professor Jeffrey Aronson
  • What kind of empathy is beneficial to patients and practitioners? 
  • Through group discussions, plenary sessions and poster presentations, we will explore this and other contemporary issues in empathy, with a view to collating our findings and publishing a report on our colloquium.
    international empathy colloquium
  • This colloquium had over 50 attendees, including Sir Muir Gray, Professor Jeffrey Aronson, and
  •  What kind of empathy is beneficial to patients and practitioners?
  • Through group discussions, plenary sessions and poster presentations, we will explore this and other contemporary issues in empathy, with a view to collating our findings and publishing a report on our colloquia