Notable Previous Speaking Engagements

University of Palermo, Sicily, June, 2024, a lecture exploring the history of anatomy in Sicily and Southern Italy.

Loma Linda University, CA, February, 2024, Integrated Biomedical Science Seminar Series, lecture title, The Connection Between Art and Anatomy in the Italian Renaissance.

Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Annual Meeting at the Italian Embassy to the United States, Washington, D.C. November, 2019, Conference theme: Science and Beauty: Leonardo’s Legacy, lecture title, Leonardo: Connecting Art and Anatomy.

University of San Diego, October, 2019, Connecting Art, Anatomy, and Religion in the Italian Renaissance, preceding the exhibition of Christ: Life, Death, and Resurrection – Italian Renaissance Drawings and Prints from the British Museum, with original art by Italian Renaissance artists including Michelangelo and Fra Lippo Lippi.

San Diego Italian Film Festival, Museum of Photographic Arts, Balboa Park, CA, September 2019, introduction to the film, Caravaggio: The Soul and The Blood.

Chapman University, Orange, CA, March 2019, symposium speaker, Science and Culture: An Italian Perspective.

International Congress on Wax Anatomical Modeling, Gordon Museum of Pathology, Kings College, London, September, 2017, presented paper, Anatomical Wax Modeling: Connecting Art and Anatomy.

Frank H. Netter School of Medicine, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT, October 2017 and 2018, keynote  speaker to medical students in preparation for human anatomy coursework.

University of Palermo, Sicily, June 23, 2016, invited speaker for history of anatomy seminar series in celebration of the University of Palermo's 210th anniversary.