Webinar: Advancing wellbeing through social prescribing Webinar: Advancing wellbeing through social prescribing

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Wednesday, April 12, 2023

3pm – 4pm ET / 9pm – 10pm CET

Imagine a future where doctors prescribe more than just drugs. Dan Morse (Co-Founder and Founding Director of Social Prescribing USA) and Dr. Ardershir Hashmi (MD, FACP, FNAP is the Endowed Chair of Geriatric Innovation and Section Chief of the Center for Geriatric Medicine at Cleveland Clinic) takes viewers to that future by spotlighting successes of the present — educating the community on the history, evidence base, and practice of social prescribing, with an eye to what other social entrepreneurs, grassroots organizations, universities, governments and healthcare professionals can learn. Julia Hotz (Journalist and author of THE SOCIAL PRESCRIPTION (Simon & Schuster, 2024) will moderate the webinar, and help viewers explore to advance the benefits of social prescribing in their own wellbeing journeys, in the meantime.

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Dr. Ardeshir Z Hashmi's bio

Dan Morse's Bio

Julia Hotz's Bio

Julia Hotz

Julia Hotz is a solutions-focused journalist currently writing THE SOCIAL PRESCRIPTION (2024), a book exploring the science and stories of social prescribing by chronicling how doctor-led interventions for nonmedical supports —like art, nature, exercise, volunteer service, conversation groups, and economic resources—are making healthcare more effective, equitable, and sustainable. Her stories have appeared in WIRED UK, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, TIME, Popular Science, Scientific American, and more. After studying sociology at the University of Cambridge, she joined the Solutions Journalism Network, where she helps other journalists and entrepreneurs do and spread rigorous, evidence-based reporting on solutions to today’s biggest problems.

Dan Morse

Dan Morse is the co-founder of Social Prescribing USA, a network of leaders working to advance the US Social Prescribing movement. His team of volunteers are coordinating a US grassroots physician movement, organizing a network of 400+ experts, and catalyzing prospective pilot studies in collaboration with professors at Harvard, Stanford, University of Michigan, reps from hospitals, Cleveland Clinic, and the NIH. Aimed to be the “public town square” of the moment, the organization is also building a free site to allow people to find social prescriptions by zip code.

Dan has spent the past decade focused on social determinants of health, from organizing place-based health interventions in Detroit to founding an award-winning health empowerment restaurant. Today, Dan is on the founding team of a new Bachelor’s degree-granting college in San Francisco, called Make School (now Dominican University). The college prepares students from disadvantaged backgrounds to get jobs at companies like Apple, Google, Tesla, and NASA. Dan has pioneered data-driven programs that address students’ social determinants of health and foster academic success. He graduated from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business with honors.