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Barbara Heifferon

Listed at 15 conventions, 1998–2020, 26 listings.

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Career strip

2000200520102015202020251998 1998: chair (3)1999: speaker (1)2004: chair (1)2004: respondent (1)2004: speaker (1)2005: speaker (1)2006: chair (1)2006: speaker (2)2007: chair (1)2007: speaker (1)2008: chair (1)2008: speaker (1)2010: chair (1)2011: chair (2)2011: speaker (1)2013: chair (1)2014: chair (1)2015: chair (1)2016: speaker (2)2017: speaker (1)2020: speaker (1)

speakerchairrespondentfacilitatorother Grey band: 2000–2003, not in the corpus.

Listings

YearSessionRoleAffiliation as printed
1998I Didn't Learn How to Write Good Reports . . . I Learned How to Save Lives: The Importance of Mundane Medical Genres in Prehospital CareChair University of Arizona, Tucson → University of Arizona
1998What Makes a Rhetorical Analysts Rhetorical?: A Study of Headache and Rhetorical InquiryChair University of Arizona, Tucson → University of Arizona
1998Power Dynamics in the Rhetoric of Birth: Midwives, Women, IdentityChair University of Arizona, Tucson → University of Arizona
1999Challenging Constructions of Disability: How Writers with “Disabilities” Contribute to Composition Praxis
“Discussion, Dismay, and Disability: Bringing Nancy Mairs’ Carnal Acts into the Classroom”
Presenters Clemson University, SC → Clemson University
2004Rhetorical Treatments: Languages of Disease and the Composition of Public Health
“The New Smallpox: An Epidemic of Words?”
Presenters Clemson University, SC → Clemson University
2004Medical RhetoriciansChair Clemson University, SC → Clemson University
2004Medical RhetoriciansRespondent Clemson University, SC → Clemson University
2005Medical Rhetoricians
“A History of the HIPAA Act”
Presenters Clemson University, SC → Clemson University
2006Investigating the Role of Public Health Rhetoric in Communities and Coalitions
“Epidemics of Wrong Information in U.S. Public Health”
Speakers Clemson University, SC → Clemson University
2006Medical RhetoriciansChair Clemson University, SC → Clemson University
2006Medical Rhetoricians
“Hi-Tech Health Communication Programs”
Speakers Clemson University, SC → Clemson University
2007Representing Diseases, Representing Cultures
“Mutating Viruses, Mutating Languages, Mutating Cultures”
Speakers Clemson University, SC → Clemson University
2007Medical Rhetoricians SIGChair Clemson University, SC → Clemson University
2008Ethics from Praxis in Medical and Pharmaceutical Discourse
“Business and Feminist Ethical Frameworks in Strange Marriages”
Speakers Clemson University, SC → Clemson University
2008Medical RhetoriciansChair Rochester Institute of Technology, NY → Rochester Institute of Technology
2010Medical Rhetoricians Special Interest GroupChair Rochester Institute of Technology, NY → Rochester Institute of Technology
2011Widening the Community: Re-thinking and Re-framing Medical Rhetoric/Writing
“Evidence-Based Medicine to Evidence-Based Writing: Borrowing from the Medical Community”
Speakers Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge → Louisiana State University
2011Contesting the Consequences of Language: Examining the Material Effects of Medical Discourse, DrugChair Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge → Louisiana State University
2011Medical Rhetoric SIGChair Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY → Rochester Institute of Technology
2013Medical RhetoriciansChair Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge → Louisiana State University
2014Medical RhetoriciansChair Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge → Louisiana State University
2015Medical Rhetoricians Special Interest Group
“20th Anniversary Retrospective”
Co-Chairs Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge → Louisiana State University
2016Rhetorics of Health and Medicine: A Roundtable Examining the Breadth and future actions of an Emerging Sub-Field
“Expanding the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine to Global Contexts”
Speakers Louisiana State University → Louisiana State University
2016Medical Rhetoric Standing Group Business MeetingSpeakers Louisiana State University → Louisiana State University
2017Medical Rhetoric Standing GroupSpeakers Louisiana State University → Louisiana State University
2020Teaching Health and Medical Writing Today: Envisioning
“Commonplaces for Connections between Health Professionals and Writing Teachers”
Speakers Louisiana State University → Louisiana State University

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