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MK Czerwiec, RN, MA is a nurse, cartoonist, educator, and co-founder of the field of Graphic Medicine. She is the creator of Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371, a co-author of Graphic Medicine Manifesto and editor of the two-time Eisner Award winning Menopause: A Comic Treatment. MK is also the comics editor for the journal Literature & Medicine.

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Michael is a physician and bioethicist, and a professor in the Departments of Humanities and Medicine at Penn State College of Medicine. He has been interested in comics (and all forms of visual arts) since childhood, and created a first-of-its-kind course on Comics and Medicine for medical students (students’ comics can be viewed here). As a physician, he cares for patients, teaches medical students, and is an NIH-funded researcher in the area of end-of-life decision-making and advance care planning. He is co-author of the Graphic Medicine Manifesto and published several landmark articles on Graphic Medicine including “Missed It,” the first comic to be featured in a mainstream medical journal. These days, he is the standing guest editor of the Graphic Medicine section of the Annals of Internal Medicine, and has authored several of his own comics. His professional profile can be viewed here and he can be found on Instagram @mjg15.

Kimberly R. Myers, M.A., Ph.D., is Professor of Humanities and Medicine and Distinguished Educator at Penn State College of Medicine. Dr. Myers’ scholarship focuses on sociocultural dimensions of illness, illness narratives, medical education, and graphic medicine, and she has published in professional journals including Journal of the American Medical Association, British Medical Journal, Annals of Internal Medicine, Literature and Medicine, and Academic Medicine as well as lay publications including The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Atlantic. She is co-author or editor of six books, including Graphic Medicine Manifesto and Clinical Ethics: A Graphic Medicine Casebook (May 2022).

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Dr. Theresa Rojas is Professor of English and the first Professor of Ethnic Studies at Modesto Junior college where she teaches literature, creative writing, composition, Ethnic Studies, and comparative media, with a specialty in post-1945 Comics Studies and visual culture. She is an Academic Senator and the Founding Director of the Latinx Comic Arts Festival (LCAF). LCAF is the California Central Valley’s international celebration of Latinx comic arts creators and friends, highlighting Latinx cartoonists, writers, animators, artists, and comic arts educators. Follow LCAF on Instagram: @ latinxcomicartsfest

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Susan is Brill Professor Emerita of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and English at Pennsylvania State University. From 2016-2021, she served as Einstein Visiting Fellow, Freie Universität, Berlin, and was part of the PathoGraphics Project, examining the relationship between illness narratives and works of graphic medicine. Squier’s many books include PathoGraphics: Narrative, Aesthetics, Contention, Community (2020), Epigenetic Landscapes: Drawing as Metaphor (2017), Graphic Medicine Manifesto (2015), Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine (2004), Babies in Bottles: Twentieth- Century Visions of Reproductive Technology, and Poultry Science, Chicken Culture: A Partial Alphabet (2011). She has been scholar in residence at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin; the Zentrum für Literatur-und Kulturforschung, Berlin; The Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Italy; Visiting Distinguished Fellow, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia; and Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, Melbourne, Australia. She serves on the editorial boards of Configurations, Literature and Medicine, and Journal of Medical Humanities. Her co-edited special issue of Configurations, “Graphic Medicine,” was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2014. She is a founding member of the Graphic Medicine International Collective and she co-edits the Graphic Medicine book series at Penn State University Press. @susansquier

Alex Thomas is a founding board member of the Graphic Medicine International Collective. He is a pediatric allergist/immunologist and a cartoonist and illustrator with more than 20 years experience. Alex is co-founder of Booster Shot Media, a company that educates people of all ages about complex health topics using the power of comics. He has presented on the use of comics in health education extensively over the years, including San Diego Comic-Con International. He has a faculty appointment in the Department of Medical Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine where he teaches clinical applications of graphic medicine to medical students. When not graphic medicining, he continues to see patients in his allergy practice in Chicago.

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Ebru Ustundag is a critical feminist geographer interested in intersections of health/care and social justice as these relations unfold in various urban spaces. In St. Catharines (ON) she collaborates with various community partners and social agencies to facilitate radical collective action by building solidarities and alliances. She is an Associate Professor of Geography at Brock University and a graduate faculty member in the interdisciplinary Social Justice and Equity Studies MA program. Ebru is also a founding member of the executive board of the Graphic Medicine International Collective (GMIC) where she collaborates with other academics, health carers and comic artists to explore the interactions between the medium of comics and the discourses of healthcare. Ebru has been an active member of the Canadian Association of Health Humanities (CAHH) advisory and executive committees.

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Shelley Wall is an artist, an associate professor in the Biomedical Communications program, University of Toronto, and a founding member of the Graphic Medicine International Collective.