MAP Foundation

Centre for Medical Humanities
Department of Primary Care and Population Science
Royal Free and University College Medical School
Holburn Union Building
2 -10 Highgate Hill
London
N19 5LW

Web: www.mapfoundation.org

The MAP Foundation uses the creative arts to express and communicate complex and painful issues relating to serious illness and dying. It builds on years of work conducted by artist Michele Angelo Petrone, Michele's Emotional Cancer Journey, a series of paintings depicting his journey through illness.

By providing creative space for people to contemplate their feelings of fear, pain, sadness, anger, hope and love the MAP Foundation creates a visual and verbal dialogue around the issue of illness.

MAP Foundation, a registered charity set up in 2002, is run by a board of Trustees supported by a group of professionals who advise on strategic direction. The Foundation is dependent on grants, donations and sales of publications in order to extend its work to the wider community.

MAP Foundation provides:

• Regional and local workshops using trained facilitators for cancer patients, carers and health professionals.
• Books, pictures and accounts of people's experiences.
• MAP Foundation website.
• Touring exhibitions.
• Talks and lectures.
• Educational training materials on the patient's experience for medical and nursing education.