Medical Humanities Community :
USA : New York
- Independent Scholars:
- Bryan Doerries, B.A., M.F.A. (Intersection of ancient Greek tragedy and modern medicine)
20 Bond Street, Fifth Floor
New York, NY 10012
(212) 477-8155; FAX: (212) 389-3939
bryandoerries@gmail.com
Philoctetes Project
- Albany Medical College
- Alden March Bioethics Institute
http://www.bioethics.org/
- John Balint, M.D. (Medical Ethics)
Emeritus Director, Alden March Bioethics Institute
Emeritus Balint Chair in Medical Ethics
(518) 262- 5378
balintj@mail.amc.edu
- Liva Jacobi, Ph.D., M.P.H. (Literature and Medicine, empirical research, Bioethics)
Course Director, "Health Care and Society"
Alden March Bioethics Institute
Albany Medical College, mail code 153
47 New Scotland Ave.
Albany, NY 12208
(518) 262-5466; FAX: 5(18) 262-6856
jacobyl@mail.amc.edu
[Required: Health Care and Society (Yr 1-4)]
- Wayne Shelton, Ph.D., M.S.W.
Director, AMBI Program on Ethics in Health Outcomes
518.262.6423
shellow@mail.amc.edu
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Ruth Macklin, Ph.D. (Philosophy)
Head, Division of Biomedical Ethics
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
1300 Morris Park Avenue
Bronx, NY 10461
(718) 430-3574; FAX: (718) 430-8780
macklin@aecom.yu.edu
http://eph.aecom.yu.edu/web/faculty_details.aspx?id=59
- Baruch College-City University of New York
- Beth Israel Medical Center
- Arya Nielsen M.S., Lic. Ac., Ph.D. candidate (Philosophies of medicine, traditional indigenous medicines, integrative clinical science and health care)
East Asian Medicine
Beth Israel Medical Center's Continuum Center for Health and Healing
245 Fifth Ave., 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10016
anielsen@chpnet.org
- Columbia University
- Maura Spiegel, Ph.D. (Literature and Medicine, Narrative Medicine, Film Studies)
Department of English and Comparative Literature
602 Philosophy Hall
Mail Code 4927
1150 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10027
(212) 854-6418; FAX: (212) 854-5398
mls37@columbia.edu
[Medical School selective (Yr 2): Film and Medicine; Illness and Film graduate seminar; graduate English course in Narrative Medicine (with Rita Charon)]
- Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
- Rita Charon, M.D., Ph.D (Literature and Medicine, Narrative Medicine)
Director, Program in Narrative Medicine
Division of General Medicine
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
630 West 168th Street PH 9-East, Room 105
New York, NY 10032
(212) 305-4942; FAX: (212) 305-9349
rac5@columbia.edu
[Required: Humanities and Medicine Seminar Series (Yr 2);
Selective Seminar: Literature and Medicine (Yr 2), Narrative Medicine Elective (Yr 4),
Literature at Work Reading Group, Narrative Medicine Rounds, Narrative Medicine Workshops]
- Sayantani DasGupta, M.D., M.P.H. (Literature and Medicine, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies)
Core Faculty, Program in Narrative Medicine
Adjunct Faculty, Graduate Program in Health Advocacy, Sarah Lawrence College
Division of General Pediatrics
622 W. 168th St. VC 402
New York, NY 10032
(212) 306-6227
sd2030@columbia.edu
[At P&S: Yr 2 selective, "Reading Bodies, Writing Bodies: Women's Illness Narratives"; Narrative Medicine weekend workshops. At Sarah Lawrence: "Illness Narratives: Understanding the Experience of Illness"; Writing the Medical Experience summer workshop]
- Ruth L. Fischbach, Ph.D., M.P.E. (Bioethics)
Director, The Center for Bioethics at Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons
630 West 168th Street, Suite 3-470
New York, NY 10032
(212) 305-8387
rf416@columbia.edu
- Schuyler W. Henderson, M.D. (Literature, Theater, Fine Arts and Medicine)
Psychiatry
1051 Riverside Drive, Box 78
New York, NY 10039
(212) 543-5793
henderss@childpsych.columbia.edu
- Craig Irvine, Ph.D. (Narrative Medicine, Philosophy and Medicine, Ethics)
630 W. 168th St., VC12-217
New York, NY 10032
(212) 305-0980: FAX: (212) 305-9484
ci44@columbia.edu
[Elective: Philosophy of Death (Yr 2); longitudinal narrative medicine curriculum across all 3 years of the Family Medicine Residency Program]
- Robert Klitzman, M.D. ( Medical Ethics, Narrative Medicine)
Director, Ethics, Policy and Human Rights Core, HIV Center For Clinical and Behavioral Studies
College of Physicians and Surgeons and Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
1051 Riverside Drive/Unit #15
New York, NY 10032
(212) 543-3710; FAX: (212) 543-6003
rlk2@columbia.edu
http://www.hivcenternyc.org/people/robertklitzman.html
- Edith J. Langner M.D. (Use of Visual Arts in Medical Education, with a special interest in observational training, and facial expression recognition)
Director, Arts-in-Medicine Project, Program in Narrative Medicine
Mail to: 860 Fifth Avenue 3J
New York, NY 10065
(212) 772-3038; FAX: (212) 772 8004
ediedoc@aol.com
[Selectives in visual arts and medicine, including courses at the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum, and classes in figure drawing (Yr 2); visual arts and medicine elective (Yr 4)]
- Barron H. Lerner, M.D., Ph.D. (History of Medicine, Medical Ethics)
Departments of Medicine and Public Health, Room 938
722 West 168th St.
New York, NY 10032
(212) 305-5154; FAX (212) 342-1986
BHL5@columbia.edu
[Required: Ethics and Professionalism: (Yr 1,2), Clinical Ethics: (Yr 3).
History of Social Medicine (Public Health School)]
- David J Rothman, Ph.D. (History of Medicine, Medical Ethics)
Director, Center
for the Study of Society and Medicine
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
630 West 168th Street
P&S Box 11
New York, NY 10032
(212) 342-4186; FAX: (212) 305-6416
djr5@columbia.edu
[Elective: Intro to Social Medicine (Yr 1,2)]
- Sheila M. Rothman, Ph.D (History of Medicine, Medical Ethics)
Deputy Director, Center
for the Study of Society and Medicine
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
630 West 168th Street
P&S Box 11
New York, NY 10032
(212) 342-4186; FAX: (212) 305-6416
smr4@columbia.edu
- Patricia Stanley, M.B.A., M.A. (Literature and Medicine)
Guest faculty, Program in Narrative Medicine
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
mail to: 310 Mills Road North
Salem, NY 10560
(914) 669- 5011 (home and fax)
Patstan@optonline.net
- Columbia University, Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health
Health Policy and Management Division
- Joseph C. d'Oronzio, Ph.D., M.P.H. (Medical Ethics, Professional
Ethics, Organizational Ethics)
(Adjunct Professor, Teachers College, Executive Nursing Program)
(Executive Director, The Ethics Group, LLC)
PO Box 415
89 Summit Avenue
Suite 185
Summit, NJ 07901
908-273-1378 FAX: 908-522-8740
jcd7@columbia.edu
http://asp.cumc.columbia.edu/msphfacdir/profile.asp?uni=jcd7
[Required: The management of health care ethics (Executive
MPH program), Ethics for health care professionals (Executive
Nursing Program, Teachers College) Elective: Health care ethics:
policy development and implementation (Mailman School of Public
Health)]
- Cornell University Weil Cornell Medical College
- Program in Humanities and Medicine -- listed under:
http://www.med.cornell.edu/education/programs/
- Lyuba Konopasek, M.D.(Reflective Practice, Art and Medicine, Film/Theatre and Medicine, Cultural Competence)
Course Director, Medicine, Patients, and Society 1
DIrector, Pediatrics Clerkship
525 E. 68th Street, Box 139
New York, NY 10065
(212)746-3388; FAX: (212)746-3140
lyk2003@med.cornell.edu
[
Art of Observation: collaboration between Weill Cornell and the Frick Collection
Elective for MS1-4s. 4 sessions at Frick per elective module, two modules offered per year.
Ethics and Compassion in Clinical Care: Lessons from Sophocles - a one hour reading of the play, Philoctetes followed by a one hour discussion session - offered as an elective for first years, third and fourth years are involved as discussion facilitators]
- Edith J. Langner, M.D. (Art and Medicine)
See listing under Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
[Co-teaches elective with Dr. Lyuba Konopasek at Cornell Medical College, in conjunction with the Frick Museum: Art of Observation]
- The Frick Collection
- Amy E. Herman, M.A., J.D. (Enhancing observation and communication skills for professionals in medicine and law enforcement by learning to look at art)
The Frick Collection
1 East 70th Street
New York, N.Y. 10021
(212) 547-6856; FAX: (212) 628-4417
herman@frick.org
[
The Art of Observation is taught as an elective in the first, second, third and fourth years in four different medical schools in New York City (Weill Cornell, Mt. Sinai, Albert Einstein, and New York University)]
- Hofstra University
- G. Thomas Couser, Ph.D. (Life writing concerning illness and disability, disease and disability in literature)
Director, Disability Studies
Co-director, American Studies
Department of English
204 Mason Hall
Hempstead, NY 11549
(516) 463.6743: FAX:(516) 463.6395
enggtc@hofstra.edu
http://people.hofstra.edu/G_T_Couser/
[Introduction to Disability Studies; Disability in Literature and Culture] Syllabi available on request
- LaGuardia Community College,- City University of New York
- J. Elizabeth Clark, Ph.D. (AIDS Poetry, Literature, Film; Cultural Studies of Medicine; Breast Cancer Narratives and Poetry)
Department of English
E-103
31-10 Thomson Ave.
Long Island City, NY 11101
(718) 482-5656
lclark@lagcc.cuny.edu
http://faculty.lagcc.cuny.edu/eclark/
[Elective course for Liberal Arts majors: "Cultural Studies of Medicine."]
- Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- Rosamond Rhodes, Ph.D. (Bioethics, Ethics)
Director, Bioethics Education
Department of Medical Education
Associate Director,The Bioethics Program, a joint program with Union Graduate College
Box 1108
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, CUNY
One Gustave Levy Place
New York, NY 10029
(212) 241-3757/7057; FAX: (212) 427-7862
rosamond.rhodes@mssm.edu
[Required: Bioethics mini-courses (Yrs 1,2), Bioethics sessions
in major clerkships (Yrs 3, 4); Elective courses: Medical
Ethics,
Bioethics, Policies and Cases, Literature and Medicine, Independent
Study,
Graduate Bioethics Education Curriculum in most Residency
programs]
- New York University
- New York University School of Medicine
- Felice Aull, Ph.D., M.A. (Literature, Arts, and Medicine; Cultural Studies; Disability Studies)
Editor-in-Chief, Literature,
Arts and Medicine Database
Editor, Literature, Arts, and Medicine Blog
Department of Physiology and Neuroscience
NYU School of Medicine
550 First Avenue
New York, NY 10016
(212) 263-5401; FAX: (212) 263-8542
Felice.Aull@nyumc.org
[Electives: "Borderlands and Medicine"; literature and medicine individual projects (Yr 4)]
- Joseph Cady, Ph.D. (Literature and Medicine)
Adjunct faculty, Department of Medicine
mail to: 463 West Street, #H656
New York, NY 10014
joscady@aol.com
- François Haas, Ph.D. (History of Medicine: (1) Tuberculosis; (2) Role of physicians and scientists in the Holocaust)
400 East 34th Street
New York, NY 10016
(212) 263-6127; FAX: (212) 263-7980
francois.haas@med.nyu.edu
[Extracurricular seminars for students, faculty, and staff on different topics combining history and the arts in medicine; optional Art of Observation in conjunction with the Frick Museum, for medical students]
- Helena Hansen, M.D., Ph.D. (Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography of addictions, Studies of intersection of social class and ethnicity with mental health and concepts of treatment)
NYU Medical Center psychiatry residency program
Mail to: 231 Winthrop St
Brooklyn, NY 11225
home phone/fax: (718) 493-3451
hanseh03@med.nyu.edu
- Danielle Ofri, M.D., Ph.D.
Editor in Chief, The Bellevue Literary Review
Dept of Medicine
NYU School of Medicine
550 First Ave, Rm OBV-612
(212) 263-3973
info@BLReview.org
http://www.danielleofri.com
- Rochester Institute of Technology
- Rebecca Housel, Ph.D. (Medical Humanities, Science and Literature, Science Fiction, Popular Culture, Film)
Department of English--Writing Studies Minor Advisor
92 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, New York 14623
(585) 475-4422
rahgsl@rit.edu
http://houselzone.weebly.com/
http://www.alchemymedlit.blogspot.com/
[Teach required and elective undergraduate courses for the Science Writing Program:Medicine and Literature, Creative Nonfiction: The Patient's Narrative, Science Fiction Writing, etc.]
- St. John Fisher College
- Tim Madigan, Ph.D. (Bioethics,
Literature, Film and Medicine)
Dept. of Philosophy
St. John Fisher College, Rochester NY 14618
(585) 415-5925
timothymad@yahoo.com
[Elective in Medical Humanities, Spring 2008]
- St. John’s University
- Angela Belli, Ph.D. (Literature and Medicine, Modern Drama)
English Department
8000 Utopia Parkway
Queens, N.Y. 11439
(718) 990-6161, x5601
ambel@optonline.net
- State University of New York at Buffalo
School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
- James J. Bono, Ph.D.
Department of History
Park Hall
SUNY at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260-4130
(716) 645-2181 x553; FAX: (716) 645-5954
hischaos@buffalo.edu
[Elective: Medical Humanities (Patient-Physician Relationship,
Socio-Cultural Aspects of Illness, Death and Dying through
Literature,
Film, Art) (Yr 1,2), Medical Anthropology (Yr 1)]
- Jack Freer, M.D. (Medical Ethics)
Associate Director, Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care
Department of Medicine
University at Buffalo
Millard Fillmore Hospital
3 Gates Circle
Buffalo, NY 14209
(716) 871-1571, FAX: (716) 871-1580
jfreer@buffalo.edu
[Required: Course Coordinator, Dilemmas in Clinical Medicine
(Yr 3)]
- Gerald Logue, M.D.
Co-director (w/ Stephen Wear Ph.D. [Ethics]) Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care
3495 Bailey Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14215
(716) 834-9200
gllogue@buffalo.edu
[Center Subcommittees: Education, Community Issues,
Research./Scholarship; Bioethics Newsletter (WWW)]
- State University of New York, Stony Brook University
- Lisa Diedrich, Ph.D., M.A. (Cultural Studies of Medicine and Science, Disability Studies)
Women's Studies Program
105 Old Chemistry Bldg.
Stony Brook, New York 11794
(631) 632-1765; FAX: (631) 632-5729
ldiedrich@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
- State University of New York, Stony Brook University School of Medicine
- Jack Coulehan, M.D., M.P.H. (Literature and Medicine)
Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Preventive Medicine
Fellow, Center for Medical Humanities and Bioethics
Health Sciences Center L3-092
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794-8036
(631) 444-8029; FAX (631) 444-7525
jcoulehan@uhmc.sunysb.edu
- Peter Williams, J.D., Ph.D. (Medical Education, Medical Ethics, Medical Jurisprudence)
Vice Dean of Academic Affairs
(631) 444-3084; FAX: (631) 444-6266
- State University of New York, Upstate Medical University
- James Dwyer, Ph.D. (Medical Ethics)
Center for Bioethics and Humanities
725 Irving Avenue, Suite 406
Syracuse, NY 13210
(315) 464-8455
dwyerja@upstate.edu
-
Kathy Faber-Langendoen, M.D.
Director, Center for
Bioethics and Humanities
faberlak@upstate.edu
- Rebecca E. Garden, Ph.D. (Literature and Medicine)
Center for Bioethics and Humanities
Associate Editor, The Healing Muse
SUNY Upstate Medical University
725 Irving Ave., Suite 406
Syracuse, NY 13210
315-464-8451; FAX: 315-464-5407
gardenr@upstate.edu
- Deirdre Neilen, Ph.D.(Literature and Medicine, Multiculturalism
and Medicine)
Center for Bioethics and Humanities
Editor, The Healing Muse: A Journal of Literary and Visual
Arts in Medicine
725 Irving Avenue
Suite 406
Syracuse, NY 13210
(315) 464-8452; FAX: (315)464-5407
neilend@upstate.edu
[Practice of Medicine (Yr 1,2); Creative Writing (Yr 4)]
- Joel Potash, M.D. (Role of literature and theater in education
of medical students, physicians and the public about health care; Medical Ethics)
Center for Bioethics and Humanities
Mail to: 161 Edgehill Rd.
Syracuse NY 13224
(315) 446- 9197
jpotash1@twcny.rr.com
- University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
- Stephanie Brown Clark, MD, Ph.D (History of Medicine, Literature
and Medicine)
Division of Medical Humanities
University of Rochester Medical Center
601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 676
Rochester, NY 14642
(716)275-5800; FAX: (716)273-1016
stephanie_brownclark@urmc.rochester.edu
[Required:Medical Humanities Seminars (Yrs, 1,2),Cultural
History of the Body, Epidemics in Medicine and Literature
and the Arts (TB, Syphillis, AIDS),
Clinical Tales: Stories by Patients and Doctors Elective:Topics
in Medical History (Yrs, 3,4); Topics in Medicine and Literature
(Yrs 3, 4)]
- Jane L. Greenlaw, J.D.(Health Law)
Director, Division of Medical Humanities
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 676
Rochester, NY 14642
(716) 275-5800; FAX: (716) 273-1016
jane_greenlaw@urmc.rochester.edu
- Barry M. Goldstein M.D., Ph.D. (Documentary Photography and Medicine)
Division of Medical Humanities
(Adjunct faculty, New York University School of Medicine)
Mail to: 243 Union St, #408
North Adams, MA 01247
(585) 615-9736
barry.goldstein@rochester.edu
www.bgoldstein.net
[Elective: "Images of illness: Photographic Representations in Medicine" (Yr 1 and 2 medical students, faculty/staff.)]
- Brenda D. Lee, M.Ed.
Assistant Dean for Medical Education and Student Affairs
Division of Medical Humanities
brenda_lee@urmc.rochester.edu
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