Department of Greek and Roman Studies featured at medical linguistics conference in Budapest

Stephen Russell, an instructional assistant in the Department of Greek and Roman Studies, brought his knowledge of Latin and the language of medicine to the 2025 Semmelweis Medical Linguistics Conference in Budapest, Hungary, which was held from May 23–24. The theme of the conference was “Inclusivity and Diversity in Healthcare Communication Research.”

Stephen co-presented three papers at the event:

“Ghost terms: Locating missing anatomical terms from matching opposite pairs” (in collaboration with Jasper Bain)

“The medical terminology teaching rhapsody: Problems observed by classicists in North America” (in collaboration with Mélanie Houle and Lewis Stiles)

“A proposed systematic nomenclature for muscular variants” (in collaboration with Lewis Stiles, Keira Parr, Madeline Damjanovic, Logan Bale, Isabella Damjanovic, and Emma Dall)

Stephen also had 2 research posters included in the conference’s poster information session.

“A critical study of the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria: the Latin anatomical naming system for animals” (in collaboration with Yasameen Ihsan)

“A proposed systematic nomenclature for muscular variants: A collaboration between anatomists and Latinists” (in collaboration with Lewis Stiles, Keira Parr, Madeline Damjanovic, Logan Bale, Isabella Damjanovic, and Emma Dall)