Dr. Madan Kataria is thefounder of the world-wide laughter-yoga movement, e is also called the laughter-guru or the guru of giggeling. He is MD from Mumbai (Bombay) in India and has initiated this movement in 1995 when he went to a public park to laugh. Now the movement has >6000 laughter-clubs in 65 countries.
Madan Katarias laughter is unique!
Madan Kataria travels the whole world to give lectures, seminars, congresses and instpire people to laughter-yoga. He speaks for companies, parliaments and performss in TV and readio stations.
Laughter-yoga is unconditional laughter without a cause. There are exercises to provoke laughter until it becomes a stream of energy.
Günter Gerhardt (*1947) is a German TV-Doc and also was director of the German KV – Kassenärztlichen Bundesvereinigung. He runs a video portal for seniors in RLP – Rheinland-Pfalz.
During his TV career he performed in many stations as ZDF, 3sat, WDR and RTL and SWR4. Titles of his shows were „Gesundheitstipp“, in ZDF „PRAXIS täglich“ and in 3sat „Teletipps vom Hausarzt“.
He also has humour and sings with the Mainz carneval band…..
Tatort Köln: Freddy Schenk (Dietmar Bär), Joseph Roth (Josef Bausch-Hölterhoff) und Max Ballauf (Klaus J. Behrendt, von links) sind ein eingespieltes Team. Foto:WDR
Joe Bausch (Hermann-Joseph Bernhard Anton Maria Bausch-Hölterhoff; * 19. April1953 in Ellar) is a German MD, author, actor and speaker of audio books.
Bausch-Hölterhoff was born in the Westerwald as son of a farmer, later studied theatre sciences, politicc, germanistics and law, in 1985 he got his medical degree.
During his studies he founded a theatre group “TPI – theatre pathologic institute” and wrote the librettos of Mister Buffo nach Dario Fo, Mein Traum …, Hotel der verlorenen Träume, Und sie legten den Blumen Handschellen an nach Fernando Arrabal.
He also acted in the Prinzregententheater Bochum.
Joes first appearance in the German criminal series “Tatort” in “Manila” underlined the problems of Philippinian children living in the streets. He and his colleagues founded the association “Tatort – Straßen der Welt” which is engaged for children´s rights world-wide.
Having worked in the jail hospital of Werl he wrote som books about his experiences (see gallery).
4/11/02 Michael Crichton ’64, HMS ’69 speaks on “The Media and Medicine” at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA on Thursday, April 11, 2002. staff photo by Jon Chase/Harvard University News Office
John Michael Crichton (/ˈkraɪtən/; October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American writer and filmmaker. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films. His literary works heavily feature technology and are usually within the science fiction, techno-thriller, and medical fiction genres.
John Michael Crichton[1] was born on October 23, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois,[2][3][4][5] to John Henderson Crichton, a journalist, and Zula Miller Crichton, a homemaker. He was raised on Long Island, in Roslyn, New York,[1] and he showed a keen interest in writing from a young age; at 16, he had an article about a trip he took to Sunset Crater published in The New York Times.[6][7]
Crichton later recalled, “Roslyn was another world. Looking back, it’s remarkable what wasn’t going on. There was no terror. No fear of children being abused. No fear of random murder. No drug use we knew about. I walked to school. I rode my bike for miles and miles, to the movie on Main Street and piano lessons and the like. Kids had freedom. It wasn’t such a dangerous world… We studied our butts off, and we got a tremendously good education there.”[8]
Crichton had always planned on becoming a writer and began his studies at Harvard College in 1960.[6] During his undergraduate study in literature, he conducted an experiment to expose a professor who he believed was giving him abnormally low marks and criticizing his literary style.[9]: 4 Informing another professor of his suspicions,[10] Crichton submitted an essay by George Orwell under his own name. The paper was returned by his unwitting professor with a mark of “B−”.[11] He later said, “Now Orwell was a wonderful writer, and if a B-minus was all he could get, I thought I’d better drop English as my major.”[8] His differences with the English department led Crichton to switch his undergraduate concentration. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in biological anthropologysumma cum laude in 1964[12] and was initiated into the Phi Beta Kappa Society.[12] He received a Henry Russell Shaw Traveling Fellowship from 1964 to 1965 and was a visiting lecturer in anthropology at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom in 1965.[12] Crichton later enrolled at Harvard Medical School.[9][page needed] Crichton later said “about two weeks into medical school I realized I hated it. This isn’t unusual since everyone hates medical school – even happy, practicing physicians.”[13]
According to Crichton’s brother Douglas, Crichton was diagnosed with lymphoma in early 2008.[118] In accordance with the private way in which Crichton lived, his cancer was not made public until his death. He was undergoing chemotherapy treatment at the time of his death, and Crichton’s physicians and relatives had been expecting him to recover. He died at age 66 on November 4, 2008.
The phrase graphic medicine was coined by Dr. Ian Williams,[3][4] founder of GraphicMedicine.org, to denote “the intersection between the medium of comics and the discourse of healthcare”.[5] Comics offer an engaging, powerful, and accessible method of delivering illnessnarratives.[6] The academic appraisal of graphic fiction is in its infancy, but its examination by academics involved in healthcare-related studies is increasing, with work emerging in journals.[4]
It is notable that the medical humanities movement in many medical schools advocates the framework and use of literature in exploring illness, from practitioner and patient perspectives.[4]
A late-2010s entry to the scholarly study of graphic medicine is the PathoGraphics Research Group, an Einstein Foundation-funded project at the Free University of Berlin (2016–2019) under the direction of Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff, and with the collaboration of Susan M. Squier of the Pennsylvania State University.[7] The group is concerned with the study of illness narratives, or “pathographies,” and works of graphic medicine.[8]
according to his c.v. he is a notable key-note speaker.
Richard Kogan has a distinguished career both as a psychiatrist and as a concert pianist. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and Artistic Director of the Weill Cornell Music and Medicine Program, he has been praised for his “exquisite playing” by the New York Times, and the Boston Globe wrote that “Kogan has somehow managed to excel at the world’s two most demanding professions.”
Dr. Kogan has gained renown for his lecture/concerts that explore the role of music in healing and the influence of psychological forces and psychiatric illness on the creative output of the great composers. A master storyteller, he has captivated audiences at medical conferences, music festivals, universities and scholarly symposia throughout the world. He has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards in both psychiatry and the arts.
Dr. Kogan is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music Pre-College, Harvard College, and Harvard Medical School. He has a private practice of psychiatry and lives in New York City.
Markus Merk (born 15 March 1962) is a former top-level German football referee. He is a six-time winner of the German Referee of the Year Award and the record holder in games refereed in the Bundesliga. In 2005, Merk was awarded the German Bundesverdienstkreuz (Federal Cross of Merit) in recognition of his service to football and his charity work in India. He ended his career by refereeing the match between Bayern Munich and Hertha BSC Berlin on the last day of the 2007–08 Bundesliga season on 17 May 2008.
He is currently a pundit for Sky Deutschland and was the main referee commentator of the Turkish football channel Lig TV (which has the rights of the Turkish Super League) in 2010–2011 season
Carsten Petermann was touring all over Germany with the Paganini-Duo with a viiolinist until he got finger cramps and returned to medicine, working in a hospital in Rotenburg. Then he wrote a book “Kann man einem Psychiater trauen?” (Can you trust a psychiatrist?)
On his website he presents his comedy programs and is available as speaker.
