Medical Humanities Community : USA : Illinois

• Independent Scholars:
  • Tony Miksanek, M.D. (Literature and Medicine)
    712 Old Orchard Drive
    Benton, Illinois 62812
    (618) 435-2362 [phone & fax]
    Tmiksanek@aol.com
    tonymik@uiuc.edu

• Loyola University Chicago - Stritch School of Medicine
  • Mark G. Kuczweski, Ph.D.,
    Director, Neiswanger Institute for Biethics and Health Policy
    Joint MD/MA Program in Bioethics & Health Policy
    Required courses and honors program in bioethics and professionalism; electives in medical humanities, narrative medicine. See description, syllabi: http://www.meddean.luc.edu/depts/bioethics/education/Bioethics_home.html

  • Ruby Roy, M.D. (Literature and Medicine, Narrative Medicine)
    rroy@lumc.edu
    http://bioethics.lumc.edu/about_the_institute/people/Roy_06.html
    [Electives: Healer's Art, Culture, Narrative and Medicine] (link to descriptions, syllabi)

• Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Kathryn Montgomery, Ph.D. (Literature and Medicine, Epistemology of Medicine)
    Director, Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program
    750 North Lake Shore Drive
    Suite 635
    Chicago, IL 60611
    (312) 503-7962; FAX: (312) 503-0574
    kmontgomery@northwestern.edu
    http://www.bioethics.northwestern.edu/faculty/montgomery.html
    [Elective: Humanities Seminars (Yrs 1, 2); Required: The Profession of Medicine (Yr 2), Ethics and Values (Yr 1), Clinical Ethics Seminars (Yr 3 and Medicine subinternship)] See http://www.bioethics.northwestern.edu/medschool/index.html for descriptions, syllabi

  • Laurie Zoloth, Ph.D. (Medical Humanities, Bioethics, Religion)
    Director, Center for Bioethics, Science and Society
    Feinberg School of Medicine
    Northwestern University
    676 St. Clair Street
    Chicago, Illinois 60611
    (312) 926-2990
    lzoloth@northwestern.edu
    http://www.bioethics.northwestern.edu/faculty/zoloth.html

  • Catherine Belling, Ph.D. (Literature and Medicine)
    Medical Humanities and Bioethics and Program
    750 North Lake Shore Drive
    Suite 625
    Chicago, IL 60611
    (312) 503-3215
    c-belling@northwestern.edu
    http://www.bioethics.northwestern.edu/faculty/belling.html

  • Tod Chambers, Ph.D. (Rhetoric of Bioethics, Cross-Cultural Issues)
    Medical Humanities and Bioethics and Program
    750 North Lake Shore Drive
    Chicago, IL 60611
    (312) 503-0412; FAX: (312) 503-0840
    t-chambers@northwestern.edu
    http://www.bioethics.northwestern.edu/faculty/chambers.html

  • Joel Frader, M.D., M.A. (Bioethics)
    Children's Memorial Hospital
    2300 Children's Plaza, #16
    Chicago, IL 60614
    (773) 880-8361
    j-frader@northwestern.edu
    http://www.bioethics.northwestern.edu/faculty/frader.html

  • Douglas Reifler, M.D. (Writing across the medical curriculum, Medical Humanities, Professional Development)
    676 N St Clair St -300
    Chicago, IL 60611
    (312) 695-6412
    drdougr@northwestern.edu

  • Katie Watson, J.D. (Health Law and Medical Ethics)
    750 N Lake Shore Dr - Suite 625
    Chicago, IL 60611
    (312) 503-1675
    k-watson@northwestern.edu
    http://www.bioethics.northwestern.edu/faculty/watson.html

• Rush University
  • Susan Arjmand, M.D. (Literature and Medicine, Narrative Medicine)
    Dept of Family Medicine
    Rush Medical College
    
    Mail to: One East Schiller, #15C
    Chicago, Il 60610
    (312) 664-7811
    DivaDocSA@aol.com

  • Russell Burck, Ph.D. (Medical Ethics)
    Ethics Consultant
    Department of Religion, Health, and Human Values
    Rush University Medical Center
    600 S. Paulina St.
    Chicago, IL 60612
    312-942-8933; Page: 85-5578
    From outside of Rush, 312-942-6000, 5578# Callback No., then press #
    Fax: 312-942-6464
    Russell_Burck@rush.edu

• Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
  • Sharon K. Hull, M.D., M.P.H.
    Interim Chair, Department of Medical Humanities
    http://www.siumed.edu/medhum/index.htm
    Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
    P.O. Box 19230
    913 N. Rutlefge Springfield, IL 62794-0603
    (217) 545-4261; FAX: (217) 545-7903
    

  • University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences
    and the Pritzker School of Medicine
    • Mark Siegler, M.D.
      Director, The MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
      Department of Medicine
      University of Chicago - Pritzker School of Medicine
      MC 6098
      5841 South Maryland Avenue
      Chicago, IL 60637-1470
      (773) 702-1453; FAX: (773) 702-0090
      msiegler@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu

    • John D. Lantos, M.D.
      Associate Director
      jlantos@peds.bsd.uchicago.edu

    • Lainie Ross, M.D., Ph.D.
      Associate Director
      lross@uchicago.edu

  • University of Illinois at Chicago
    • Lennard J. Davis, Ph.D. (Biocultures, Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Theory, The Novel)
      Director, Project Biocultures
      Department of English (MC 162)
      601 South Morgan Street
      Chicago, Illinois
      (312) 413-8910; FAX: (718) 543-8821; FAX: (607) 348-1534 (summer)
      lendavis@uic.edu, lennard.davis@gmail.com
      http://www.lennarddavis.com/

  • University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
    • Suzanne Poirier, Ph.D. (Literature and Medicine, Medical Education)
      Professor Emeritus of Literature and Medical Education
      suzanne.poirier@uic.edu
      

  • University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign
    • Evan M. Melhado, Ph.D., (History of Science, Medicine and Health Policy)
      Head, Medical Humanities and Social Sciences Program
      University of Illinois College of Medicine
      190 Medical Sciences Building
      506 South Mathews Avenue
      Urbana, IL 61801
      (217) 333-6175; MHSSP: (217) 333-3461; MHSSP FAX: (217) 333-8868
      melhado@uiuc.edu
      [Required: Clerkship, Medicine and Society (Yr 4)]
      Medicine, Health, and Society Seminar Series