Past Winners 2.0
Hektoen International honors the winners and runners up of the Hektoen Grand Prix essay contests
Summer 2018 Contest
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Sylvia Karasu: a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine and a member of the Institutional Review Board of The Rockefeller University. The senior author of The Gravity of Weight (2010) and The Art of Marriage Maintenance (2005). Dr. Karasu is a cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and has her M.D. degree from Einstein College of Medicine. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a graduate of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, an elected Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, and in private psychiatric practice in NYC. |
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2018 Annual Contest
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![]() Jack Coulehan: an Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Preventive Medicine and former director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at Stony Brook University. His latest collection of poetry, The Wound Dresser (2016), was chosen by Robert Pinsky, former poet laureate of the United States, as a finalist for the Dorset Poetry Prize. In 2012 he received the Nicholas Davies Scholar Award of the American College of Physicians for “outstanding lifetime contributions to the humanities in medicine.”
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2017
Anika Khan, Winner – Essay
Locked-in syndrome: inside the cocoon
Adam Komrowski and Sang Ik Song, Winner – Brief
The King’s -Evil and sensory experience in Richard Wiseman’s Severall Chirurgicall Treatises
2016
Lisa Mullenneaux, Winner
Outwitting ‘Typhoid Mary’
Robert Robeson, Winner
“Dust Off” and the Power of Perseverance
2015
Christopher Frank, Winner
You’re no fi’ Glasgow: memories of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary
Natalia Vieyra, Runner-Up
Illuminating addiction: morphinomania in fin-de-siècle visual culture
2014
Salvatore Mangione, Winner
Leonardo and the reinvention of anatomy
2013
Fergus Shanahan, Winner
“Waiting”
Daisy Fancourt, Runner-Up
Medicine musica