Presentations and Workshops

Booster Shot curated panel on healthcare education and public health comics. The panel also included comics on diabetes, emergency preparedness, influenza, and HIV/AIDS.

Booster Shot presented Iggy and the Inhalers as part of a panel of winners for the APHA PHEHP Materials contest. Iggy won the multimedia award category.

Booster Shot Comics presented our latest research from Madison Asthma Camp 2014 at the Comics & Medicine 2014 Conference: From Private Lives to Public Health at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore.

A presentation of the 'Iggy and the Inhalers' Education Program to the general pediatricians and pediatric specialists at the University of Wisconsin Department of Pediatrics General Faculty Meeting.

At the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA, we presented with a panel of a few colleagues from Graphic Medicine on research when comics is the intervention. You can view our presentation on SlideShare.

At the 2013 Comics and Medicine Conference at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School in Brighton, UK, we conducted a workshop where healthcare professionals, comics creators, students, academic scholars, comics enthusiasts, and others joined us in learning how to turn complex medical information into informative and engaging comics!

At the annual Madison Asthma Camp, children with asthma participated in a day of educational activities that included asthma education sessions using the Iggy the Inhalers comic book, trading cards, and the first public viewing of our animated video!

At the University of Wisconsin 2013 Childhood Allergic Diseases Conference, we gave a presentation on childhood asthma education to primary care providers, including physicians, nurses, physician assistants, pharmacists, and respiratory therapists who participate in the treatment of childhood allergic diseases.

At the 2013 Wisconsin Health Literacy Summit, we presented on the use of comics in health education to a group that included individuals from the fields of health care, adult literacy, and health care policy to address health literacy from an interdisciplinary perspective.

We presented on the usefulness of comics and sequential art in patient education as part of the University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine Primary Care Faculty Development Program. The group consisted of primary care providers in the community, including general pediatricians, internists, family medicine physicians, and nurse practitioners.

We presented our work on Iggy and the Inhalers at the Comics and Medicine 2012 International Conference at the University of Toronto. This fantastic interdisciplinary conference was attended by healthcare professionals, comics creators, artists, students, academic scholars, comics enthusiasts, and others.

At the 2012 Madison Asthma Camp, children with asthma participated in a day of educational activities that included asthma education sessions using the Iggy the Inhalers comic book and trading cards.

We gave a presentation of the early stages of the Iggy and the Inhalers comic at the executive committee meeting of the Wisconsin Asthma Coalition. We presented to the executive committee that consisted of allergists, pulmonologists, respiratory therapists, nurses, and public health experts.