{"id":52521,"date":"2022-08-03T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T13:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=52521"},"modified":"2022-10-10T08:32:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T12:32:40","slug":"emu-2022-distinguished-service-award-dr-joseph-gascho-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2022\/emu-2022-distinguished-service-award-dr-joseph-gascho-68\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Distinguished Service Award: Dr. Joseph Gascho &#8217;68"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><em>EMU&#8217;s 2022 alumni awards will be presented at the Oct. 7-9 Homecoming and Family Weekend celebration. <\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><em>Recipients include <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2022\/emu-2022-distinguished-service-award-dr-joseph-gascho-68\/\">Amy Rosenberger &#8217;86<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2022\/emus-2022-outstanding-young-alum-camila-pandolfi-12\/\">Camila Pandolfi &#8217;12<\/a>.<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><aside class=\"highlight highlight-right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/homecoming\">See all the Homecoming weekend events.<\/a><\/aside><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Joseph Gascho \u201868 \u2013 cardiologist, poet, author, photographer and professor \u2013 is the recipient of EMU\u2019s 2022 Distinguished Service Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gascho was a professor at The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center at Pennsylvania State University and director of the Penn State Cardiology Fellowship Program for 25 years. His research has been funded by the National Institute of Health and has been documented in approximately 60 peer-reviewed and published papers. Gascho began exploring themes of medicine and his profession through the media of photography and poetry about 20 years ago.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPenn State Hershey was the first medical school in the US to have a humanities department,\u201d he said. \u201cI didn\u2019t realize that humanities emphasis when I came there, but it was there and changed my life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That same university honored his unique healing capacities and relationships with patients, families, and healthcare colleagues with the 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2018\/cardiologist-joseph-gascho-68-honored-with-leonard-tow-humanism-in-medicine-award\/\">Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now recently retired, Gascho has by no means stopped working. \u201cI have a lot of projects in the works,\u201d he said. His collected works include five books of poetry, photography and memoir; his latest is <em>Heart &amp; Soul: A Cardiologist\u2019s Life in Verse. <\/em>(Learn more about Gascho\u2019s arts and collected works at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jgascho.com\">www.jgascho.com<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout his life, Gascho has been guided by his Anabaptist heritage. Psalm 16:6 \u2014 <em><sup>&nbsp;<\/sup>The lines have fallen unto me in pleasant places; Surely I have had a good inheritance \u2014<\/em> speaks to \u201chow fortunate I\u2019ve been,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/02\/Gascho-with-ancillary-portraits-original-1000px.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/02\/Gascho-with-ancillary-portraits-original-1000px.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/02\/Gascho-with-ancillary-portraits-original-1000px-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/02\/Gascho-with-ancillary-portraits-original-1000px-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Dr. Joseph Gascho &#8217;68 with his exhibit<\/strong> <strong>at Penn State Hershey.<\/strong> <strong>(Courtesy photo)<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Support from others<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>How did a Mennonite farm boy from Nebraska, educated in a one-room school, carve out an impressive medical career and his award-winning arts? There is no doubt Gascho worked hard for his success, but he acknowledges&nbsp; many people have made a tremendous contribution towards his accomplishments\u2026 beginning with his parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gascho\u2019s father moved the family from Nebraska to Virginia when his son was 13 so he could attend Eastern Mennonite High School. \u201cHe left behind a life as a respected pastor. He left behind precious family,\u201d Gascho said. His father worked at EMC as a watchman and maintenance person for 75 cents an hour. (Years later, he would honor his father with a <a href=\"https:\/\/pennstatehealthnews.org\/topics\/more-than-meets-the-eye\/\">photography exhibit <\/a>featuring Hershey Medical Center support staff, including a maintenance worker, a painter, a shuttle bus driver and others.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His mother also influenced Gascho with her interest in photography and writing and being \u201cambitious for me,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019d probably not have gone into medicine without her.\u201d&nbsp; Gascho earned his MD from the University of Virginia and completed postdoctoral training there&nbsp; as well as at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also credits his wife, <strong>Barbara Sue Brunk<\/strong>, a registered nurse and chaplain, as \u201csomeone without whom I\u2019d have never made it,\u201d Gascho said. \u201cShe\u2019s the person who has held our family together through the hassles of a physician\u2019s sometimes wild life.\u201d The couple have two adult children \u2014 <strong>Joseph Gascho \u201895<\/strong>, a harpsichordist and music professor at University of Michigan, and <strong>Susan Gascho-Cooke \u201897<\/strong>, a musician and pastor at Community Mennonite Church of Lancaster \u2014 and four grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Roots and influences<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Gascho cites significant events that pointed towards a career in science and supported his interest in photography and poetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His time as a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War is an example. He describes his experience as being a \u201chuman guinea pig\u2026probably not the wisest thing I did.\u201d In a NASA-sponsored project, Gascho endured two cardiac catheterizations, rides on a human centrifuge, 19 complete days of bed rest (which included bedpans and urinals), numerous blood draws and stringent diets. He was so hungry he remembers sneaking into the kitchen and eating \u201cmustard off of a knife.\u201d However, it showed him what medicine was like from the point of view of a patient. \u201cOverall, a defining experience in my life&#8230; I knew despite it that I wanted to be a doctor, I could empathize with my patients, tell them I\u2019ve had a heart cath myself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gascho also counts his mentors as part of his good fortune. One significant influence guided him in \u201cthe decision to go into academic medicine rather than private practice.\u201d His time as a professor at Penn State Hershey Medical Center exposed him to the strong humanities program. Another mentor with a degree in literature recognized Gascho\u2019s talents as a poet and took the time to \u201cencourage me, push me, critique me in a way that was helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Changes<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Gashco\u2019s intersecting work in medicine and the arts continued to evolve. Mid-career, he changed from specializing in cardiac catheterizations to reading echocardiograms. Learning a new skill set later in life was an \u201conerous process,\u201d he said. \u201cBut the concept of <em>echo<\/em> \u2026 the seeing of heart structures and its broader concept\u2026 for me, looking at the image that I will photograph or write a poem about and then bringing that image to life as a photograph or a poem has been very important to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A poignant example is the poem \u201cTo Myself<em>\u201d <\/em>from his book <em>Heart &amp; Soul: A Cardiologist\u2019s Life.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>TO MYSELF<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>You gaze upon the image on the monitor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Made up of bits of sound that bounce from probe<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Through skin to heart then back again<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>And think it shows what broke your heart.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I only wish there was a tool<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I could use on me not you<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>To look inside not heart but soul<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>so I could know for what it yearns<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>so I could learn to make it whole.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Integrating photography<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Gascho describes several experiences in 2003 as \u201cone of those serendipitous, unbelievable kind of \u2018the-constellations-coming-together-in-a-wonderful-way.\u2019\u201d The gift of a Nikon digital camera inspired participation in&nbsp; a workshop on expressing spirituality through digital photography At the same time, he was studying the contemplative writings of Trappist monk Thomas Merton. He came to understand that the creative side of his brain \u201cwas good and it pushed me in the direction of using my interest in photography and budding interest in poetry with fervor and without apology,\u201d Gascho said. His initial project of his patients\u2019 portraits came to fruition because of that workshop. \u201cI worried the flame would die, but it has sustained me now for 19 years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gascho\u2019s 2022 essay \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alphaomegaalpha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/p9_14_Gascho_Human-face_SPR22.pdf\">Putting A Human Face On Hospitals<\/a>\u201d encapsulates his seamless weaving of science and photography into a congruent whole, telling a more complete story of human life. Penn State houses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gold-foundation.org\/newsroom\/blog\/joseph-gascho-photographs\/\">exhibits of Gascho\u2019s portraits<\/a> \u2014 patients enjoying their favorite pastimes, doctors in settings outside the hospital context, and ancillary staff dressed to the nines with their tools, such as a mop, wrench, or clipboard. Such employees \u201care indispensable to a hospital\u2019s functioning,\u201d Gascho wrote in the exhibit abstract. \u201cThese unique displays of portrait photographs decrease stress and distress in a hospital environment and humanize both patients and health care workers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>An epiphany<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Growing up in a conservative church, Gascho was taught that God was a redeemer God. \u201cThat impacted me greatly, even into mid-career and church work.\u201d Acting as an agent of God to \u201credeem\u201d and extend God\u2019s holistic peace was his highest priority.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy epiphany,\u201dhe says,\u201dwas that God is also sustainer and creator.\u201d The whole of his work, in medicine, poetry, and photography, then, \u201cis doing God\u2019s work,\u201d he said. \u201cMy epiphany about God has been very important and crucial to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gascho\u2019s devotion to his faith, and dedication to bring that to his work as a cardiologist, photographer and poet is reflected in the words of Albert Einstein, \u201cThe most beautiful experience we can have is the mystical. It is the fundamental experience which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Lauren Jefferson contributed to this article.&nbsp;First published 8\/15\/22.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-emu-news wp-block-embed-emu-news\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"tMspDTl2nd\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/video\/suter-science-seminar-joseph-gascho-md\/\">&#8220;A Cardiologist Uses Poetry and Photography to Treat His Patients\u2026and Himself&#8221; &#8211; Joseph Gascho<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;&#8220;A Cardiologist Uses Poetry and Photography to Treat His Patients\u2026and Himself&#8221; &#8211; Joseph Gascho&#8221; &#8212; EMU News\" src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/video\/suter-science-seminar-joseph-gascho-md\/embed\/#?secret=LpE1WIjfYg#?secret=tMspDTl2nd\" data-secret=\"tMspDTl2nd\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EMU&#8217;s 2022 alumni awards will be presented at the Oct. 7-9 Homecoming and Family Weekend celebration. 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