The Search for the Healthy City
This residential seminar combines study of classics of medical history and health systems research with excursions to healing sites to learn what makes the best health systems tick. Participants learn from past and present how to build healthier cities.

The 5th Search for the Healthy City
Learn to Build Healthy Cities, September 16-26, 2010, Umbria and Rome, Italy
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The Fifth Annual "Search for the Healthy City," will examine classics of medical history and health systems research and offer excursions to healing and cultural sites in Umbria and Rome to learn from medical history and examination of the Italian health system what makes best health systems tick.  More...

4th Search for the Healthy City, Amalfi coast 2009
3rd Search for the Healthy City, Tuscany 2008
2nd Search for the Healthy City, Tuscany 2007
1st Search for the Healthy City, Tuscany 2006

Comments from past seminar participants:

“Good food, warm hospitality, spiritual and mental challenges, beautiful scenery - a stimulating fusion of past and present!”
The late Dr. Chester Burns, retired Professor of Medical History, University of Texas Medical Branch, participant, 2006

“The conjunction of medical history with present day problems is very effective. The seminar is inspiring and extremely well thought out. The environment was relaxing and contemplative. Our tour hosts were most professional and went out of their way to assure our comfort.”
Dr. Ed Morrison, Professor of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, participant, 2007

30 CME credits. Course Director: James E. Bailey, MD, MPH, Professor, College of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

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