Lectures and Conferences

Lectures

Dr. Watts has led workshops, given keynote and honorary lectures, and served as visiting professor at numerous colleges and medical schools across the country, including Yale, NYU, Baylor, UTMB, U. Conn, Columbia, Sara Lawrence, UCSF, Stanford, U Nebraska, and U Texas – Houston. 

Select list:

• “Love, Words, and Medicine,” The Annual Chang Lecture on Art and Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, July 20, 2017;
• “The Path to Medicine,” SPAN Pre-Med Club, University of California at Berkeley, April 19, 2017;
• “Love, Words, and Healing,” Arts in Health California Conference, UCSF Medical Center, March 18, 2017;
• “The Importance of the Physician-Patient Relationship in the Healing Process,” Children-Spirituality-Art and Medicine Symposium, Children’s Medical Center, Dallas, TX, April 20, 2015. 

Writers’ Conferences 

Writing the Medical Experience and The Healing Art of Writing

Week-long writers’ held at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Sarah Lawrence College, and Dominican University of California. Seven have been created to date with 40 to 70 participants, including doctors, nurses, medical students, patients, health care professionals from all over the USA, Canada, England, and Australia.