Draíocht: Sparking Creativity. Proceedings of the 2024 International Graphic Medicine Conference

Abstract

The Graphic Medicine Community is Global. Conferences are a significant way to bring colleagues together to share art, writing, research, new ideas, and projects. It also provides a venue for networking, enhancing, and developing new collaborations, but most importantly to gather community members who all share an interest in Graphic Medicine based on the primary philosophy that Graphic Medicine is inclusive and gives voice to those who are often not heard. The 15th International Graphic Medicine Conference took place at the Technological University of the Shannon in Athlone, Ireland from July 16th- 18th 2024. The three-day conference kicked off with specialist workshops, based in TUS (Athlone) and in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. The pre-conference workshop entitled Graphic Medicine for Health Care Professionals led by Dr. Williams was awarded Irish College of General Practioners CPD credits and the Developing a Graphic Medicine Collection workshop led by Matthew Noe was awarded CPD Credits by the Library Association of Ireland.