Sea Island Life Magazine Fall/Winter 2014 | Page 65

WHO’S WHO

Melissa Wells at the Creativity Conference

Sea Island’s March 2014 Creativity Conference featured an impressive lineup of scholars
across disciplines to pique the interests of conference attendees. Here are just a few of the
distinguished guests:
Stuart Firestein, chair of the department of biology at Columbia University, discussed
the topic of his book, “Ignorance: How it Drives Science.”
Kenneth Kamler, a surgeon who was portrayed in the book “Into Thin Air” and film
“Everest,” discussed practicing medicine in extreme conditions, which is t H