Mary Cappello has presented a rare breed of “Illustrated Reading” based on Swallow in such venues as Brooklyn’s Observatory; The Velaslavasay Panorama in LA; The Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; The Smithsonian Institution (NMAH); Dickinson College; Ursinus College; Claremont McKenna College; The West Laurel Hill Cemetery; The North Kingstown Free Library; at AWP, The Montana Book Festival, and at numerous bookstores across the land. She served as Keynote Speaker for the 6th Annual Foreign Body Pediatric Airway Endoscopy Course at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; as Presidential Lecturer for the ABEA (American Broncho-Esophagological Association); as Distinguished Visiting Professor for U/Penn’s Grand Rounds in Otorhinolaryngology; for the Hartford Medical Society; for Rhode Island Hospital’s Grand Rounds in Gastroenterology; and at “Das Wunderkino: A Cinematic Cabinet of Curiosities,” 12th Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium in Bucksport, ME.