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
- David Magnus, Ph.D. (Philosophy)
  Director, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics
  701 Welch Road, Building A, Suite 1105
  Palo Alto, CA 94304
  (650) 723-5760; FAX: (650) 725-6131
  dmagnus@stanford.edu
  http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioethics/faculty/David_Magnus/
  [Director, Scholarly Concentration in Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities in the School of Medicine]
- Mildred Cho, Ph.D.
  Associate Director, Center for Biomedical Ethics
  micho@stanford.edu
  http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioethics/faculty/Mildred_Cho/
- Thomas Raffin, M.D.(Biomedical Ethics)
  Director Emeritus, Center for Biomedical Ethics
  (650) 723-7821
  tar@stanford.edu
  http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioethics/faculty/Thomas_Raffin/
- Audrey Shafer, M.D. (Literature and Medicine, Writing)
  Director, Program on Arts, Humanities & Medicine in the School of Medicine
  Department of Anesthesia 112A
  VAPAHCS
  3801 Miranda Avenue
  Palo Alto, CA 94304
  (650) 493-5000 x64973; FAX: (650) 852-3423
  ashafer@stanford.edu
  shttp://scbe.stanford.edu/people/resumes/shafer.html
  [Elective: Stanford Medical School:Creative Writing for Medical Students, History of Medicine Online]
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]
- 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

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