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Day 1 – Wednesday JUNE 26th, 2024
08:15 – 09:00 | REGISTRATION S. Faustino cloister |
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09:00 – 09:30 | OPENING CEREMONY & WELCOME REMARKS Aula Magna S. Faustino |
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09:30 – 10:30 | SPECIAL FEATURED LECTURE
Aula Magna S. Faustino Prof. Francesco Castelli, Rector of the University of Brescia, Italy “Health literacy and communication with migrants’ populations: The case of Covid-19” (Chair: Annalisa Zanola) |
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10:30 – 11:00 | TEA/COFFEE – S. Faustino cloister | ||||||
ROOM B4 (S. CHIARA) | ROOM B3 (S. CHIARA) | ROOM A1 (S. CHIARA) | ROOM C1 (S. CHIARA) | ROOM B2 (S. CHIARA) | AULA MAGNA (S. FAUSTINO) | SALA BIBLIOTECA (S. FAUSTINO) | |
ORAL SESSION 1 Chair: Stefan Timmermans |
ORAL SESSION 2 Chair: Laura Pinnavaia |
ORAL SESSION 3 Chair: Anna Middleton |
WORK IN PROGRESS SESSION 1 Chair: Kirk St. Amant |
WORK IN PROGRESS SESSION 2 Chair: Roxanne Barbara Doerr |
PANEL 1 – SESSION 1 Ethics of care and communication (Coordinator: Srikant Sarangi) |
PANEL 2 – SESSION 1 Healthcare communication discourses and the applied linguist (Coordinators: Stefania Maci & Roxanne Holly Padley) |
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11:00 – 11:30 | Engle Angela Chan Simulation-based education in palliative care communication training within a socio-material approach |
Joanna Pawelczyk & Elena Faccio Identifying therapeutic change in and across sessions: Conversation analysis of the therapist’s interactional management of gendered assumptions and categories |
John Casey Gooch Medical science, health policy, and oral argument: A qualitative content analysis of the PACE debate on COVID-19 vaccines |
Ana Reyes Herrero “I don’t understand, doctor”: Analysing the biomedical discourse of assisted reproduction to improve patients’ health literacy |
Silvia Gonella & Paola Di Giulio Preliminary evaluation of an interdisciplinary, experiential-based communication skills training program for nursing home staff |
Introduction by panel coordinator: Srikant Sarangi Lauris C. Kaldjian Michael C. Brannigan Rukhsana Ahmed |
Introduction by panel coordinators: Stefania Maci & Roxanne Holly Padley Paola Catenaccio Girolamo Tessuto Begoña Bellés-FortuñoDiagnosing vs. communicating: Women’s healthcare |
11:35 – 12:05 | Sara Patuzzo & Lidia del Piccolo Communicating suffering: Ethical and psychological challenges of palliative care in the context of medically assisted suicide |
Beth Malory Assessing the impacts of English diagnostic terminology for pregnancy loss on experiences of gestational bereavement |
Giulia Adriana Pennisi Health literacy and the EU Guide on ‘contributing to trust building and equitable access to healthcare’ |
Sinem Bilican Tackling methodological barriers: A journey of creating an accessible healthcare survey for a diverse population |
Ethan Stonerook The Good Surgeon: Design, implementation, and evaluation of a communal, mentored program to promote flourishing and character development in surgical trainees |
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12:10 – 12:40 | Yumin Lin Cultural influences on palliative care decision-making among family caregivers in Singapore |
Marion Chirwa Kajombo ‘Acceptable’ Chichewa taboo referring expressions used in consultations with male gynaecologists in urban Malawi |
Tanya Fischer Improving Care for Those with Cancer: NCCN Guidelines for Patients® |
Mohamed Irfan Inclusive research practices: Multilingual perspectives on informed consent |
Houda Al Kalaf Communicative intervention to improve communication between refugee and migrant patients and health workers in mental health |
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12:45 – 13:45 | LUNCH – S. Faustino cloister | ||||||
ROOM B4 (S. CHIARA) | ROOM B3 (S. CHIARA) | ROOM A1 (S. CHIARA) | ROOM C1 (S. CHIARA) | ROOM B2 (S. CHIARA) | AULA MAGNA (S. FAUSTINO) | SALA BIBLIOTECA (S. FAUSTINO) | |
ORAL SESSION 4 Chair: Alessandra Vicentini |
ORAL SESSION 5 Chair: Umberto Gelatti |
ORAL SESSION 6 Chair: Elisabetta Ceretti |
WORK IN PROGRESS SESSION 3 Chair: Giulia Adriana Pennisi |
WORK IN PROGRESS SESSION 4 Chair: Joanna Pawelczyk |
PANEL 1 – SESSION 2 Ethics of care and communication (Coordinator: Srikant Sarangi) |
PANEL 2 – SESSION 2 Healthcare communication discourses and the applied linguist (Coordinators: Stefania Maci & Roxanne Holly Padley) |
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13:45 – 14:15 | Ahmad Izadi Medical consultation visits in Iran: How culture is mirrored in talk-in-interaction |
Staci Defibaugh Tuning in: Approaches and expressions of empathy in physician assistant neurology visits |
Elzbieta Paszynska Preventive dentistry – existing oral health habits among Polish adults |
Nicola Pelizzari Lay-friendliness in British and Italian patient information leaflets – A corpus-driven comparative study |
Eloise Parr Pregnancy is a journey: a metaphor analysis of pregnancy lived experience |
Alison Pilnick Angus Clarke, Matilda Bradford, Beck Diamond, Lisa Ballard & Shane Doherty Álvaro Mendes, Maria Barbosa, Sofia Dias, Filipa Júlio, Jorge Sequeiros, Célia Sales, Liliana Sousa & Milena Paneque |
Stefania d’Avanzo Begoña Bellés-Fortuño & Lucia Bellés-Calvera Roxanne Holly Padley Questions, discussion and reflections |
14:20 – 14:50 | Bianca Beltrame Investigating the impact of social media usage and exposure on BBD and perceived self-image: A mixed-method analysis of a sample of young adults living in Italy |
Blair Ying Jin The affective reading of “hao-bu-hao?” in diagnosis delivery |
Irene Segopolo “Seeing ourselves through others online.” Integrating Foucault’s panopticon and Freire’s pedagogy of the oppressed |
Shauna Colette Bell The co-design of accessible medication instructions |
Isabel Balteiro Linguistic strategies in first-person oral narratives of women affected by osteoporosis |
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14:55 – 15:25 | Robyn Woodward-Kron Transforming intercultural communication through translanguaging: Interdisciplinary and critical approaches for medical education |
Zoe Ong Doctor-patient communication in telemedicine consultations: Insights from an interview study with patients in Singapore |
Miguel Ángel Campos-Pardillos Clarity in informed consents: A pilot bilingual study on readability, euphemisms and patient information in the legal-medical interface |
Michelle Nenkai Nthumba, Basweti Ombati, Monica Mweseli & Joseph Muleka Empowering communities through education and health communication: A catalyst for reducing maternal and unborn child mortality resulting from unintended pregnancies in Kenya |
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15:25 – 15:40 | SHORT BREAK – S. Chiara 1st floor & S. Faustino cloister | ||||||
ROOM B4 (S. CHIARA) | ROOM B3 (S. CHIARA) | ROOM A1 (S. CHIARA) | ROOM C1 (S. CHIARA) | ROOM B2 (S. CHIARA) | AULA MAGNA (S. FAUSTINO) | SALA BIBLIOTECA (S. FAUSTINO) | |
ORAL SESSION 7 Chair: Kristin Bührig |
ORAL SESSION 8 Chair: John C. Gooch |
WORK IN PROGRESS SESSION 5 Chair: Mary Catherine Beach |
WORK IN PROGRESS SESSION 6 Chair: Stephanie Fox |
PANEL 1 – SESSION 3 Ethics of care and communication (Coordinator: Srikant Sarangi) |
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15:40 – 16:10 | Jette Holt How to do things with numbers – how do infection prevention and control teams resemiotize surveillance data |
Walter Giordano Textual strategies for pharmaceuticals representation in advertising |
Kathrine Krüger Østbøll Psychometric properties and cultural and linguistic appropriateness of a health literacy scale in people with Somali background living in Norway |
Katharine Weetman & Katherine Heathcock An evaluation of the referred students’ coaching programme through student surveys |
Giuditta Caliendo & Lola Marinato Srikant Sarangi Questions, discussion and reflections |
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16:15 – 16:45 | Marco Annoni When words make us sick: the ethics of harnessing nocebo effects in clinical practice |
Mbulungeni Madiba Metaphors in Venda traditional medicines and their implications for western health communication and treatment in South Africa during COVID-19 |
Susy Macqueen Health literacy in context: Interrogating the construct of health literacy through instruments, interactions and insights |
Anna Smålander How do you write clinical notes? – a focus group study on clinical note writing with health-care professionals and university students |
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16:50 – 17:20 | Rosita Maglie & Francesca Filograsso A metaphor for changing the mental wellbeing of adolescents with cancer and the provision of health services |
Anais Carnet The CORPPS project: From theory to reality and back |
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17:20 – 17:40 | SHORT BREAK (S. Chiara 1st floor & S. Faustino cloister) & TRANSITION TO S. FAUSTINO | ||||||
17:40 – 18:40 |
PLENARY LECTURE Aula Magna S. Faustino Prof. Anna Middleton, University of Cambridge, UK “Human embryo editing: Citizens jury for deliberation of ethics and policy formation” (Chair: Srikant Sarangi) |
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18:40 – 20:00 | COMET 2024 WELCOME RECEPTION – S. Faustino cloister |
Day 2 – Thursday JUNE 27th, 2024
08:30 – 09:00 |
WELCOME REMARKS(Aula Magna S. Faustino) & SINGLE DAY REGISTRATION (S. Faustino & S. Chiara cloisters) |
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ROOM B4 (S. CHIARA) | ROOM B3 (S. CHIARA) | ROOM A1 (S. CHIARA) | ROOM C1 (S. CHIARA) | ROOM B2 (S. CHIARA) | AULA MAGNA (S. FAUSTINO) | SALA BIBLIOTECA (S. FAUSTINO) | |
ORAL SESSION 9 Chair: Diana Slade |
ORAL SESSION 10 Chair: Rosita Maglie |
ORAL SESSION 11 Chair: Robyn Woodward-Kron |
WORK IN PROGRESS SESSION 7 Chair: Michael C. Brannigan |
WORK-IN-PROGRESS SESSION 8 Chair: Giuditta Caliendo |
PANEL 3 Communicating reproductive futures: Ethical evaluations, terminology choices and speculations (Coordinator: Alexandra Krendel) |
PANEL 4 – SESSION 1 Health and well-being as seen through food and nutrition discourse(s): Past and present perspectives (Coordinator: Alessandra Vicentini) |
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9:00 – 9:30 | Mervyn Convoy High fidelity sound, light and action: Toolset and process to cultivate ethically wise decision making on the medical front line |
Sole Alba Zollo “Doctors need to see people as human”: Women’s experiences of obstetric violence in online narratives |
Zuzanna Jechna & Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak “Even the toughest cookies have mental problems”: Discursive resources applied in Polish healthcare platforms to help people cope with mental illness stigma |
Emma Giraudier What does ‘conscious’ mean? A terminological and interactional analysis of lay callers’ assessments in French emergency calls for severe trauma |
Karen Nissen Schade Shriver Interactional strategies in in-patient interviews: How psychiatric doctors communicate with patients with psychotic symptoms |
Introduction by panel coordinator: Alexandra Krendel Alexandra Krendel, Stephen Wilkinson & Nicola Williams Nicola Williams & Laura O’Donovan Andrew Darby, Sara Fovargue & Georgia Walton Questions, discussion and reflections |
Introduction by panel coordinator: Alessandra Vicentini Barbara Berti Elisabetta Lonati Simone Curzio Bacchini |
9:35 – 10:05 | Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro Computational insights into a spoken schizophrenia corpus |
Andrew Lustig Keywords of multiplicity: A corpus assisted discourse analysis of online multiplicity communities |
Gilberto Giannacchi Exploring depression in American government medical texts: a corpus-assisted discourse analytical study |
Laura Ferrarotti The Personal Stories Section on Pharmaceutical Company Websites: The Role of Patients’ Narratives on Novartis’ and Johnson & Johnson’s websites |
Monica Consolandi, Simone Magnolini & Mauro Dragoni Risk and communication: which tools to detect misunderstandings? |
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10:10 – 10:40 | Anna Maria Della Vedova The promotion of perinatal psychological health: screening expectant and new parents for possible distress, an exploratory study to compare two screening instruments |
Vanesa Rodríguez Tembrás |
Giulia Lamiani |
Kristin Bührig |
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10:45 – 11:15 | TEA/COFFEE – S. Faustino cloister | ||||||
11:15 – 12:45 |
ANNOUNCEMENT OF COMET 2025 + ANNOUNCEMENT OF COMET 2023 RESEARCHER AWARD PLENARY LECTURE Aula Magna S. Faustino Prof. Silvio Brusaferro, University of Udine, Italy “Institutional communication in public health crises: Lessons learned during the Sars-Cov-2 pandemic” (Chair: Umberto Gelatti) |
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11:45 – 13:45 | LUNCH – S. Faustino cloister | ||||||
ROOM B4 (S. CHIARA) | ROOM B3 (S. CHIARA) | ROOM A1 (S. CHIARA) | ROOM C1 (S. CHIARA) | ROOM B2 (S. CHIARA) | AULA MAGNA (S. FAUSTINO) | SALA BIBLIOTECA (S. FAUSTINO) | |
ORAL SESSION 12 Chair: Loredana Covolo |
ORAL SESSION 13 Chair: Angus Clarke |
ORAL SESSION 14 Chair: Lauris C. Kaldjian |
PANEL 5 Pushing the boundaries of life: Synchronic and diachronic observations on pre- and post-mortem body preservation (Coordinator: Kim Grego) |
PANEL 4 – SESSION 2 Health and well-being as seen through food and nutrition discourse(s): Past and present perspectives (Coordinator: Alessandra Vicentini) |
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13:50 – 14:20 | Federica Ranzani “Doing being a good parent” in the pediatric clinic: Parents’ knowledge displays in advice requests on baby’s everyday care |
Liza Goncharov, Diana Slade & Diba Almasi Communication in end-of-life care in a geriatric ward |
Alessia Bevilacqua An ethical reflection on student engagement: which tools? Validation of an assessment questionnaire for Team-Based Learning |
Introduction by panel coordinator: Kim Grego Laura Tommaso & Simone Curzio Bacchini Francesca Cappellini Anna Anselmo Questions, discussion and reflections |
Alessandra Agnese Grossi Laura Pinnavaia Sara Corrizzato & Valeria Franceschi Alessandra Vicentini Questions, discussion and reflections |
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14:25 – 14:55 | Heidi Gilstadt Narrative health literacy – communicative manifestations of patients’ literacy in clinical encounters |
Ute Knoch Modelling communication challenges of aged care workers from multilingual and multicultural backgrounds |
Sarah Bigi Healthcare communication teaching in Italy: State of the art and future perspectives |
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15:00 – 15:30 | Kirk St. Amant Expanding health Literacy to address usability: Effectively contextualizing information for the modern healthcare context |
Fiona Chew Examining e-health literacy among senior adults: An exploratory study |
Susi Woolf Educating future health professionals: Modelling what we teach |
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15:30 – 16:00 | TEA/COFFEE – S. Chiara 1st floor & S. Faustino cloister | ||||||
16:00 – 17:15 | PLENARY POSTER SESSION Sala Biblioteca S. Faustino (Chair: Srikant Sarangi) (Each poster presenter will orally present their work in 2-3 minutes) |
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17:15 – 18:45 | POSTER PRESENTATIONS S. Faustino cloister |
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19:30 onwards | BUFFET-STYLE CONFERENCE DINNER at “La Sosta” Restaurant (Via S. Martino della Battaglia, 20) |
Day 3 – Friday JUNE 28th, 2024
08:30 – 09:00 |
WELCOME REMARKS(Aula Magna S. Faustino) & SINGLE DAY REGISTRATION (S. Faustino & S. Chiara cloisters) |
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ROOM B4 (S. CHIARA) | ROOM B3 (S. CHIARA) | ROOM A1 (S. CHIARA) | ROOM C1 (S. CHIARA) | ROOM B2 (S. CHIARA) | AULA MAGNA (S. FAUSTINO) | SALA BIBLIOTECA (S. FAUSTINO) | |
ORAL SESSION 15 Chair: Annalisa Zanola |
ORAL SESSION 16 Chair: Kim Grego |
ORAL SESSION 17 Chair: Rukhsana Ahmed |
PANEL 6 Strengthening scientific literacy through institutional health communication (Coordinator: Sara Rubinelli) |
PANEL 7 Navigating interactional challenges in interprofessional communication (Coordinator: Stephanie Fox) |
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10:45 – 11:15 | Weiwei Lu Toward mutual engagement: A narrative-based model of shared decision making |
Yvan Leanza An original video vignettes study to validate the typology of healthcare interpreter positionings among healthcare practitioners |
Johanna Falby Lindell Epistemic humility in complex migrant patient-provider interactions |
Introduction by panel coordinator: Sara Rubinelli Nicola Diviani Maddalena Fiordelli Claudia Zanini & Sara Rubinelli Questions, discussion and reflections |
Introduction by Panel coordinator: Stephanie Fox Stephanie Fox & Kirstie McAllum Léna Meyer Letizia Caronia, Federica Ranazani, Vittoria Colla, & Silvia Demozzi Kelly Lackie Questions, discussion and reflections |
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11:20 – 11:50 | Geoffrey Maina Using inclusive narratives to address the unintended influence of prevalence rates on ethics and funding decisions |
Mary Catherine Beach How is the patient’s voice recorded in their medical record by physicians? |
J. Elliot Casal Infant mortality, health literacy, and breastfeeding among minority populations in the USA |
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11:55 – 12:30 | Clare Delany Unpacking methods of communication in clinical ethics consultations: Seven steps of the critical dialogue model |
Roberta Martina Zagarella Improving the reliability of scientific publications: genre analysis of the retraction notes |
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12:30 – 13:30 | LUNCH – S. Faustino cloister | ||||||
13:30 – 14:30 | COMET OPEN FORUM & CLOSING SESSION Aula Magna S. Faustino (Chair: Srikant Sarangi) |
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14:30 onwards | SOCIAL EVENT / RESEARCH NETWORKING Aula Magna S. Faustino |