Upcoming Events:

• "Meeting Patients Where they Are: From Urban Slums to Mountain tops, from the Arctic to the Antarctic" talk at UCLA School of Medicine, 4/19/23. 

Past Events:

• "Anatomy Dinner" with chef Marcelle Afram, Washington DC 10/27/22. 
• "My Unusual Medical Career" University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Jackson, MS 10/3/22. 
• "Anatomy Dinner" with chefs Halima Salazar and Dria Price, Oxford, MS 10/2-3/22. 
• "The Unseen Body" at the Mutter Museum Philadelphia, PA 9/22/22.
• "Anatomy and Writing" at University of Pennsylvania 9/14/22.
• "Anatomy Eats" with chef Ari Miller, Philly Free Library, 12/8/21.
• "Musculoskeletal System Dinner: Anatomy Eats" with chef Ari Miller, Philly Free Library, 1/22/19. 
• "Digestive System Dinner: Anatomy Eats" with chef Ari Miller, Philly Free Library, 11/20/18.
• "Cardiovascular System Dinner: Anatomy Eats" with chef Ari Miller, Philly Free Library, 10/9/18. 
• "The Role of Fungi in Health and Disease" at Telluride Mushroom Festival August 2017. 
• "Medical Mycology" at Telluride Mushroom Festival (august, 2015), Boston Mycological Club (2014), Eastern Penn Mushroomers (2014), and Mycological Association of Washington (2014).
• “Modern Medicines from Nature” at the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium in Barrow, Alaska (May 2012), and the Harvard Outing Club (October 2013).
• "Prehistoric Crafts" demo for the New England chapter of the Explorer's Club, 6/5/15.
• "Travels in Kamchatka" talk for the New England chapter of the Explorer's Club, 10/25/13.
• "Street Medicine in Kolkata, India" at the International Street Medicine Symposium, Atlanta, GA 11/2009.
• "Travels to Pathology Past: An American Med Student in India" at the Medical History Soc. of NJ 10/2009. 
  
• "Wilderness Medicine" at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Camden, NJ, 5/2008.
  
• “Hormesis of Extreme Temperatures and Russian Cultural Adaptation to the Cold” at the National Conference on Wilderness Medicine for Medical Students, Salt Lake City, UT 4/2008.
  
• "Body Packing - Smuggling of Drugs in the Intestines" at Massachusetts General Hospital 2/25/14.
  
• “The effects of Soviet-era nuclear pollution on communities of the Southern Ural Mountains” at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ April 2006.
  
• “Natives of the Russian Far East and the Environmental Movement,” Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA May '03. 
  
• “Environmentalism in Post-Soviet Russia” at Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, NJ November 2002. 
  
• “Transnational Environmental NGO’s in Russia” at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ October 2002.