The Emeritus Faculty Organization at Penn State College of Medicine presents its Spring Scientific Meeting and annual Hinkle Lecture.

Agenda

8:30-9:00 AM – Coffee and muffins

9:00-9:15 AM – Eileen Hennrikus, MD, President of Emeritus Faculty Organization
Emeritus Faculty Organization Annual Meeting, Vote on Bylaws

9:15-9:30 AM – Q & A

9:30-9:45 AM – Kyle Snyder, MHA, President and Chief Operating Officer, Penn State Health
Update on Penn State Health

9:45-10:00 AM – Q&A

10:00-10:45 AM – Kimberly Myers, MA, PhD
Physician’s Writing Group

10:45-11:15 AM – Lou Schellenberg, MFA, Artist
Some Visitor Reactions to Art in Medical Centers

11:15-11:30 AM – Break

11:30-12:30 PM – Annual Hinkle Lecture: Paul Sullivan
Music – A Universal Language

12:30-1:30 PM – Buffet Lunch

Hinkle Lecture Details

Paul Sullivan is an American Grammy Award winning pianist and composer whose music blends jazz and classical styles.

Title: “Music – A Universal Language”
Featuring: Pianist and speaker Paul Sullivan

Paul Sullivan, Grammy Award Winning Pianist and Composer, will play some of his original compositions and discuss his insights into Music as A Universal Language.

He will tell us some stories of his travels around the world, playing with, and for, a breathtaking variety of musicians and audiences. Over his career, Paul has worked with Native American singers, Russian folk musicians, Japanese Taiko drummers, American jazz whistlers, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, to name just a very few.

Renowned for his warm and witty personality, as well as his musical artistry, Paul will tell us what he sees as the through-line to all his decades of making music.

About the speakers

Paul Sullivan has enjoyed a richly varied and distinguished career as a composer and a pianist. As a soloist, with his trio, and as a member of the Paul Winter Consort, he has played concert tours in most of the United States and Europe, as well as the Middle East, Central America, and Asia. He has performed among the dunes of the Negev Desert, in Leonard Bernstein’s living room, and on the stages of many of the world’s finest concert halls. He has been a guest on Marian McPartland’s “Piano Jazz”, and he has also performed with some legendary orchestras, such as the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy, the Boston Pops under both Arthur Fiedler and Keith Lockhart, and several regional orchestras around the US.

Kyle Snyder, MHA, was appointed President and Chief Operating Officer of Penn State Health, October 1, 2025. He joined Penn State Health in 2020 as chief operating officer of Holy Spirit Medical Center, then was appointed senior vice president and regional chief operating officer for Penn State Health Hampden and Holy Spirit medical centers in June 2022. Snyder earned a bachelor’s degree in health policy and management from Providence College, Providence, R.I., and a master’s degree in health administration from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. He also completed an administrative fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.

Kimberly Myers, MA, PhD, is Professor of Humanities and Medicine, and Distinguished Educator at Penn State College of Medicine. As a teacher-scholar trained in the liberal arts tradition, Kimberly’s core passions are teaching, one-on-one mentoring, and curriculum design. Since joining the faculty in 2007, she has created and taught 19 different courses for first- through fourth-year medical students; In 2009, Kimberly launched the ongoing Penn State Health Physician Writers Group whose 58 participants (as of 2023) have published a total of 85 pieces in major medical journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA. Kimberly’s scholarship focuses on sociocultural dimensions of illness, illness narratives, graphic medicine, and medical education.

Lou Schellenberg, MFA, is an oil painter who creates landscapes of dwellings and nature in Pennsylvania, Maine, and Nova Scotia. Her work is in many collections across the U.S. and Canada. She has also done commissioned art for LL Bean, The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Penn Medicine and other medical centers. Schellenberg was raised in New York City and New England. She studied at The Boston School of the Museum of Fine Arts and earned her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) at The University at Albany, NY. She taught art for several decades, retiring as Associate Professor of Art at Elizabethtown College, PA and has done workshops and critiques since. Schellenberg is currently a board member of the Mount Gretna School of Art, known for its intensive landscape painting program. She lives and works in Lititz, PA, and in a small village in Nova Scotia, Canada.