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Alabama Tuskegee, AL 36088
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • University of Alabama School of Medicine at Birmingham
    • Gregory Pence, Ph.D. (Medical Ethics)
      Department of Philosophy
      University of Alabama
      HB 414A
      900 13th Street South
      Birmingham, AL 35294-1260
      (205) 934-8922
      pence@uab.edu
      http://www.uab.edu/philosophy/faculty/pence/
      [Required: Medical Ethics (Yr 1)]
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health
    • Mary B. Evans, M.A. (Bioethics, Public Health, Medical Sociology)
      UAB Center for the Study of Community Health LNB 1081
      2001 3rd Avenue South
      Birmingham, AL 35294-0001
      (205) 975-8387
      mevans@uab.edu
Arizona
  • University of Arizona College of Medicine
    • Program in Medical Humanities
      [Required ethics sequence, reflective writing throughout professionalism curriculum; electives, annual literary and visual arts journal (Harmony), speaker program]
    • Kenneth Iserson, M.D., M.B.A. (Medical Ethics)
      Director, Arizona Bioethics Program
      University of Arizona Health Sciences Center
      1501 North Campbell Avenue
      PO Box 245057
      Tucson, AZ 85724-5057
      (520) 626-2398; FAX: (520) 626-2480
      kvi@u.arizona.edu
      [Elective: Bioethics (Yrs 1, 2), Bioethics Seminar for Medical Center.]
    • Nancy Alexander Koff, Ph.D.
      Associate Dean for Curricular Affairs
      College of Medicine
      University of Arizona
      Tucson, AZ 85724
      (520) 626-1002; FAX: (602) 626-4884
      nkoff@u.arizona.edu
    • Helle Mathiasen, Cand.mag., Ph.D. (Literature and Medicine)
      Clinical Professor of Medical Humanities Emerita
      College of Medicine
      University of Arizona Health Sciences Center
      P.O. Box 245017
      Tucson, AZ 85724
      mathiase@email.arizona.edu
Arkansas
  • University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
    • Chris Hackler, Ph.D. (Medical Ethics)
      Director,
      Division of Medical Humanities
      University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine
      4301 W. Markham, Slot 646
      Little Rock, AR 72205
      (501) 661-7970; FAX: (501) 661-7967
      HacklerChris@uams.edu
      [Required: Medical Ethics (Yr 2 and 3). Syllabus on line at
      http://www.uams.edu/humanities/sophomore.asp ; Electives (Yr 4). Syllabi at http://www.uams.edu/humanities/senior.asp].
    • Charles M. Anderson, Ph.D. (Literature and Medicine)
      Executive Editor, Literature and Medicine
      Division of Medical Humanities
      University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine
      4301 W. Markham, Slot 646
      Little Rock, AR 72205
      (501) 296-1745 ext 1307;FAX: (501) 661-7967
      cmanderson@ualr.edu
      [Medicine in Literature elective (Yr 4)]
    • D. Micah Hester, Ph.D. (Biomedical Ethics)
      M2 Medical Ethics Course Director
      Division of Medical Humanities
      UAMS/Arkansas Children's Hospital
      4301 W. Markham, Slot 646
      Little Rock, AR 72205
      (501) 661-7970;(501) 425-8846
      Fax: (501) 661-7967
      hesterdm@uams.edu
    • Cynthia D. Pitcock, Ph.D. (History of Medicine)
      Division of Medical Humanities
      University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine
      (501) 661-7970; FAX (501) 661-7967
      PitcockCynthiad@uams.edu
      [Electives in History of American Medicine (Yr 4)]
    • Harold H. Simpson, J.D.
      (Law and Medicine) The Health Law Firm
      8201 Cantrell Road, Suite 255
      Little Rock, AR 72227-2448
      (501) 221-7100
      HHSimpson@healthlawfirm.com
      [Elective in Law and Medicine (Yr 4)]
    • Laura Ackerman Smoller, Ph.D. (History of Science)
      Department of History
      University of Arkansas at Little Rock
      2801 S. University Avenue
      Little Rock, AR 72204
      (501) 569-8389; (501) 569-3235
      FAX (501) 569-3059
      LASmoller@ualr.edu
      [Elective: Disease and Society from Antiquity to Now (Yr 4)]
Medical Humanities Community : USA :California
  • California Pacific Medical Center
    • Lawrence J. Schneiderman, M.D. (Literature and Medicine)
      Program in Medicine & Human Values
      2395 Sacramento Street, 3rd Floor
      San Francisco, CA 94115
      (415) 600-1647; FAX (415) 600-1355
      ljs@ucsd.edu
      ethics@sutterhealth.org
  • Contra Costa Regional Medical Center
    • Jon Stanger, M.D., M.Div., M.H.S.
      Chair, Bioethics Committee
      Coordinator, Medical Ethics & Humanities Curriculum
      Family Medicine Residency Program
      2500 Alhambra Avenue
      Martinez, CA 94553
      (925) 370-5328; FAX: (925) 370-5142
      jstanger@hsd.cccounty.us
  • Stanford University
    • Larry Zaroff, M.D., Ph.D. (Literature and Medicine)
      433 Bridgeway
      Sausalito, CA 94965
      (415) 331-9936; FAX: (415) 331-2687
      larryz.zaroff@gmail.com]
      [Required Yrs 1 and 2 gateway course for medical students choosing the Medical Humanities Concentration, "The Human Condition: Medicine, Arts and Humanities": Elective, "Theater of Illness" ; undergraduate electives for juniors and seniors: " The Literature of Health Care: Novels and Theater of Illness", "Health Care As Seen through Medical History, Literature and the Arts"; undergraduate elective for freshmen and sophomores: "Becoming a Doctor: Readings from Medical School, Medical Training, Medical Practice"]
  • Stanford University School of Medicine
  • University of California, Davis School of Medicine
    • Daniel Benson, M.D.
      Course Director, History of Medicine
      University of California, Davis - Orthopedics
      2230 Stockton Blvd.
      Sacramento, CA 95817
      (916) 734-2937; FAX: (916) 734-7904
      Daniel.Benson@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
      [Elective: History of Medicine (Yr 4)]
    • Roberta Springer Loewy, Ph.D.
      Bioethics Program
      University of California, Davis
      UCDMC -- PSSB 2400
      4150 V Street
      Sacramento, CA 95817
      (916) 635 7555
      roberta.loewey@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
      raloewy@ucdavis.edu
  • University of California, Irvine, College of Medicine
    • Johanna Shapiro, Ph.D.(Medical Humanities, Literature and Medicine)
      Director,
      Program in Medical Humanities and Arts
      Department of Family Medicine
      101 City Drive South
      Rte. 81, Suite 512
      Orange, CA 92868-3298
      (949) 824-3748: FAX: (714) 456-7984
      jfshapir@uci.edu
      [Required: Medical Humanities components in Anatomy (Yr 1 - clinical correlate), Clinical Foundations (Yr 2), Pediatric, and Family Medicine clerkships(Yr 3), Family Medicine residency; Elective: Literature and Medicine (Yr 1); Creative projects option Anatomy (Yr 1), Art of Doctoring (Yr 4), Humanities research (Yr 4)]
      Syllabi online at:
      http://www.ucihs.uci.edu/som/medhum/courses/index.html
  • University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
    • Martha Stoddard Holmes, Ph.D. [Disability Studies, Literature and Medicine]
      School of Medicine
      Division of Family Medicine
      9500 Gilman Drive
      La Jolla, CA 92093
      Department of Literature and Writing Studies
      California State University, San Marcos
      (760)750-8064
      mstoddar@csusm.edu
      http://www.csusm.edu/mstoddar
  • University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
    • Louise Aronson M.D., M.F.A (Narrative Medicine, Literature and Medicine, Creative Writing, Advocacy Journalism)
      Co-director,
      Medical Humanities Working Group
      Director, Narrative Medicine Curriculum
      Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics
      University of California, San Francisco
      3333 California St., Ste. 380
      San Francisco, CA 94118
      (415)514-3154; FAX: (415) 514-0702
      aronsonl@medicine.ucsf.edu
      http://medicine.ucsf.edu/geriatrics/faculty/Profiles/aronson.html
      [Courses: Introduction to Narrative Medicine, Creative Writing, Illness Narratives, Advocacy Journalism]
 
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    • Brian Dolan, Ph.D. (History of Medicine, Social Medicine, Medical Science and Technology Studies)
      Director,
      Humanities in Medicine Area of Concentration
      Department of Anthropology, History & Social Medicine
      3333 California Street, Suite 485
      San Francisco, CA 94143-0850
      (415) 514-0461; FAX: (415) 476-6715
      dolanb@dahsm.ucsf.edu
      http://dahsm.medschool.ucsf.edu/faculty/bios/dolan_brian.aspx
    • Niranjan Karnik, M.D., Ph.D. (Social Medicine)
      Anthropology, History & Social Medicine
      Postal Mail: 3333 California Street, Suite 485
      San Francisco, CA 94143-0850
      karnikn@dahsm.ucsf.edu
    • Guy Micco, M.D. (Suffering, Death, Aging, Literature and Medicine)
      Director,
      University of California at Berkeley Resource Center on Aging
      570 University Hall #1190
      University of California at Berkeley
      Berkeley, CA 94720-1190
      (510) 643-0662
      guym@berkeley.edu
      [Elective: Literature and Medicine, The Death Course, Narrative and Medicine (a writing class)]
    • Dorothy Porter, Ph.D. (History of Medicine, Public Health, Social Medicine)
      Chair, Department of Anthropology, History & Social Medicine
      Anthropology, History & Social Medicine
      3333 California Street, Suite 485
      San Francisco, CA 94143-0850
      (415) 476-8826, FAX: (415) 476-6715
      porterd@dahsm.ucsf.edu
      http://dahsm.medschool.ucsf.edu/faculty/bios/porter_dorothy.aspx
    • Eric Stover (Medical Ethics, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law)
      Director,
      Human Rights Center
      University of California at Berkeley
      460 Stephens Hall #2300
      Berkeley, CA 94720-2300
      (510) 642-0965; FAX (510) 643-3830
      hrc@berkeley.edu
      [Health and Human Rights, The Politics of Human Rights and Humanitarian Interventions]
    • David Watts, M.D. (Poetry, Prose and Medicine)
      Department of Medicine
      University of California, San Francisco
      350 Parnassus Avenue, Suite 900
      San Francisco, CA 94117
      (415) 759-2121
      fax: (415) 753-6600
      hdwatts@earthlinkcom
      [Elective: Poetry and Medicine (Yr1,2)]
  • University of California, Santa Barbara
    • Janis McLarren Caldwell, M.D., Ph.D. (Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medicine)
      Department of English
      1624 Garden St. #7
      Santa Barbara, CA 93101
      (805) 962-9222
      jcaldwell@english.ucsb.edu
      [Undergraduate elective in Literature and Medicine]
  • University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine
    • David Goldstein, M.D.
      Co-Director, Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics
      GNH 8435
      University of Southern California
      Los Angeles, CA 90089-9320
      (323) 226-6571; FAX: (323) 226-2718
      dgoldste@usc.edu
    • Pamela Schaff, M.D. (Medical Education, Medical Humanities)
      Director, Program in Medical Humanities, Arts, and Ethics
      Director, HEAL (Humanities, Ethics/Economics, Art, and Law) Curriculum
      Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
      1975 Zonal Ave. KAM 100 B
      Los Angeles, CA 90089
      (323) 442-2553
      pschaff@usc.edu
  • Westmont College
    • Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Ph.D. (Literature and Medicine)
      Department of English
      955 La Paz Road
      Santa Barbara, CA 93103
      (805) 565-7179
      mcentyre@westmont.edu
Colorado Medical Humanities Community : USA :Connecticut
  • Independent Scholars:
    • Cortney Davis, M.A., N.P. (Nursing and Literature)
      P.O. Box 678
      Redding, CT 06896
      phone and fax: (203) 938- 2697
      cortneydav@aol.com
      http://www.cortneydavis.com
  • University of Connecticut
    • Barbara J. Campbell (Autobiography and Creative Nonfiction, Narrative Medicine, Medical Humanities, History/Rhetoric of Women's Health, Chronic Illness, Pain)
      Ph.D. Candidate in English
      English Department, U-4025
      215 Glenbrook Rd.
      Storrs, CT 06269-4025
      barbara.campbell@uconn.edu
  • University of Connecticut School of Medicine
    • Zita Lazzarini, J.D., M.P.H. (Medical Ethics, Law)
      Director,
      Division of Medical Humanities, Health Law, and Ethics
      Department of Community Medicine
      University of Connecticut Health Center
      MC 6325
      263 Farmington Avenue
      Farmington, CT 06030
      (860) 679-3480; FAX: (860) 679-2356
      lazzarino@nso.uchc.edu
      [Required: Human Development and Health - Legal and Ethical Aspects of Medicine (Yr 2)]
      Courses in Medical Humanities
    • Ralph D. Arcari, Ph.D. (History of Medicine)
      Coordinator,
      Massey History of Medicine Society
      arcari@nso.uchc.edu
      [Elective: History of American Medicine (Yr 2)]
    • Barbara Blechner, J.D. (Medical Ethics, Law)
      Division of Medical Humanities, Health Law, and Ethics
      Department of Community Medicine and Health Care
      University of Connecticut Health Center
      Farmington, CT 06030-1910
      (860) 679-2356; FAX: (860) 679-2374
      blechner@nso.uchc.edu
      [Required: Human Development and Health - Legal and Ethical Aspects of Medicine (Yr 2)]
    • Audrey R. Chapman, Ph.D., M. Div., S.T.M.
      Joseph M. Healey, Jr. Chair in Medical Humanities and Bioethics
      Division of Medical Humanities, Health Law & Ethics
      Department of Community Medicine and Health Care
      University of Connecticut Health Center
      263 Farmington Avenue, MC 6325
      Farmington, CT 06030-6325
      (860) 679-1590; FAX:(860) 679-5464
      achapman@uchc.edu
      http://www.commed.uchc.edu/faculty/chapman/
  • The University of Hartford
    • Nels P. Highberg, M.A., Ph.D. (Autobiography and Creative Nonfiction, Theories and Rhetorics of Gender and Sexuality, Medical Humanities)
      Dept. of Rhetoric, Language, and Culture
      The University of Hartford
      200 Bloomfield Avenue
      West Hartford, CT 06117 (860) 7684136; FAX:
      (860) 7684940
      highberg@hartford.edu
      http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/highberg/
  • Yale University School of Medicine
    • Toby Appel, Ph.D., M.L.S.
      Librarian for Medical History
      Historical Library
      Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
      333 Cedar Street
      P.O. Box 208014
      New Haven, CT 06520-8014
      (203) 785-4354; FAX: (203)785-5636
      toby.appel@yale.edu
      http://www.med.yale.edu/library/historical/
    • Thomas P. Duffy, M.D.
      Program Director, Humanities in Medicine
      thomas.duffy@yale.edu
      Program for Humanities in Medicine
    • Clara Gyorgyey, M.A.
      Associate Director and Coordinator, Program for Humanities in Medicine
      (203) 397-1479; FAX: (203) 397-5439
      gyorgyey@aol.com
      [Elective: Hindrance or Inspiration]
    • Anna Reisman, M.D. (Creative Medical Writing, Writing for Advocacy, Literature and Medicine)
      Co-Director,
      Department of Internal Medicine Writers Workshop
      11-ACSL, VA Connecticut
      950 Campbell Ave
      West Haven, CT 06516-2770
      (203) 932-5711x5400; FAX: (203) 937-3403
      anna.reisman@va.gov
    • Howard Spiro, M.D. (Literature and Medicine, Medical Ethics)
      Editor,
      The Yale Journal of Humanities in Medicine
      393 Temple St.
      New Haven CT 06511
      (203) 777-3059; FAX: (203) 777-0064
      howard.spiro@yale.edu
      [Electives: Various]
    • George A. Trone, Ph.D.
      Managing Editor and Webmaster, The Yale Journal of Humanities in Medicine
      (810) 423-2045
      info@yjhm.org
District Of Columbia
  • George Washington University School of Medicine and
    Health Sciences
    • Rhonda M. Goldberg
      Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Education
      George Washington University
      School of Medicine and Health Sciences
      2300 Eye Street, N.W.
      Washington, DC 20037
      (202) 994-2977; FAX: (202) 994-0926
      msdrmg@gwumc.edu
    • Linda Raphael, M.A., Ph.D. (Literature and Medicine, Narrative Medicine)
      Director of Medical Humanities
      900 23rd Street, NW, Suite 6200
      Washington, DC 20037
      (202) 994-1034; FAX (202) 994 0328
      msdlsr@gwumc.edu
      [Electives Yr 1(e.g., First-person Medicine, Literature and Medicine; Doctors as Authors); Yr 2 (e.g., Literature, Medicine, and Public Health; Borderlands); Yr 4 intensive writing; Required Yr 3: 1-2 literature and writing sessions in each rotation; Initiatives: literature and writing sessions with residents, faculty reading groups, interdisciplinary medical humanities seminars for academic community and public]
Medical Humanities Community : USA :Florida
  • Florida State University
    • Meegan Kennedy, Ph.D. (Literature and Science, Literature and Medicine)
      Department of English
      Tallahassee, FL 32306-1580
      (850) 644-7771; FAX: (850)-644-0811
      mkennedy (at) english.fsu.edu
      http://english3.fsu.edu/~mkennedy/
  • Florida State University College of Medicine
  • University of Florida
  • University of South Florida
    • David P. Schenck, Ph.D. (Biomedical Ethics, Literature and Medicine)
      3006 Harbor View Avenue
      Tampa, FL 33611
      (813) 974-7533; FAX: (813) 974-2270
      dschenck@cas.usf.edu
  • University of South Florida Colleges of Medicine and Public Health
    • Lois LaCivita Nixon, Ph.D., M.P.H. (Ethics, Literature, Health Policy)
      Division Director, Medical Ethics and Medical Humanities
      Director, Master's Degree Program in Bioethics and Medical Humanities
      Department of Internal Medicine
      University of South Florida College of Medicine
      MDC19
      12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd.
      Tampa, FL 33620
      (813) 974-5300; FAX: (813) 974-5460 or 251-5142
      lnixon@com1.med.usf.edu
      [Required: Ethics and Humanities (Yr1); Elective medical humanities courses (Yr4);
      Master's Degree Program in Bioethics and Medical Humanities]
  • University of South Florida at St. Petersburg
    • Cheryl A. Koski, Ph.D., Coordinator
      Department of Journalism and Media Studies
      140 Seventh Avenue South, FCT 204
      St. Petersburg, FL 33701-5016
      (727) 873-4736; FAX: (727) 873-4034
      koskica@stpt.usf.edu
Georgia
  • Emory University School of Medicine
    • John Stone, M.D. (Literature and Medicine)
      Professor of Medicine, Emeritus
      Emory University
      3983 Northlake Creek Ct.
      Tucker, GA 30084
      (770) 934-2475
      jhstone@emory.edu
      [Elective: Literature and Medicine (Yr 2)
  • Mercer University School of Medicine
    • Karen Kovach, Ph.D. (Biomedical Ethics)
      Course Director,
      Biomedical Ethics Program
      Department of Family Medicine
      Mercer University School of Medicine
      1550 College Street
      Macon, GA 31207
      (478) 301-4028
Hawaii
  • University of Hawaii at Manoa
    • Kathryn A. Hoffmann, Ph.D. (History of Medicine; Medicine, Art, and Literature)
      Department of Languages & Literatures of Europe and the Americas
      Moore Hall 483
      University of Hawaii-Manoa
      Honolulu, HI 96822
      (808) 956-4170; FAX: (808) 956-9536
      hoffmann@hawaii.edu
    • Kenneth Kipnis, Ph.D.
      Department of Philosophy
      2530 Dole Street
      University of Hawaii at Manoa
      Honolulu, HI 96822
      Dept. (808) 956-8954; FAX: (808) 956-9228
      Home (808) 732-0072
      kkipnis@hawaii.edu
      [Ethics in Health Care]
Illinois
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