Faculty
Secondary Faculty & Affiliates
Kwasi Boaitey, LMSW
Lead Culturally Responsive Management, Office of Equity & Inclusion
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John Patrick Cullen, PhD
Clinical Professor, Clinical and Translational Research
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Susan Dodge Peters Daiss, MA, M.Div
Senior Associate, Memorial Art Gallery
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Carl T. D’Angio, MD
Professor, Pediatrics (Neonatology) and Health Humanities & Bioethics
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Richard Dees, PhD
Professor, Department of Philosophy
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Chin-To Fong, MD
Professor, Pediatrics (Genetics), Biochemistry and Biophysics, and Health Humanities & Bioethics
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Wendy Gonaver, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
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Laurence B. Guttmacher, MD
Professor Emeritus, Psychiatry and Health Humanities & Bioethics; Associate Dean/Student Advising, Offices of Medical Education, SMD
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Sonia Hadchiti
Adjunct Instructor, Producer, writer and director of short films
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Patrick J. Hopkins, DNP
Assistant Professor Clinical Nursing, SON; Assistant Professor, Health Humanities & Bioethics
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David C. Kaufman, MD
Professor, Surgery (Thoracic), Medicine (Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care), Urology, Anesthesiology, and Health Humanities & Bioethics
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John D. Markman, MD
Vice Chair for Clinical Research; Director, Translational Pain Research Program I Neuromedicine Pain Division
Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurology and Health Humanities & Bioethics
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Gaelen McCormick
Senior Associate, Health Humanities & Bioethics and Instructor of Music Leadership, Eastman School of Music
Director of Eastman Performing Arts Medicine (EPAM)
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Christopher Mooney, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Division of General Medicine
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Michael Nabozny, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery and Health Humanities & Bioethics
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Caroline Nestro, PhD
Associate Professor for Clinical Nursing and Health Humanities & Bioethics
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Mical Raz, Md, PhD
Professor of Clinical Medicine, and Charles E. and Dale L. Phelps Professorship in Public Policy and Health
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Robert Riley, MPH
Adjunct Instructor, Health Humanities & Bioethics
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Natercia Rodrigues, MD, MS
Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine
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Olle Jane (OJ) Sahler, MD
Professor, Pediatrics (Hematology and Oncology) and Health Humanities & Bioethics
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Jessica C. Shand, MD MHS
Associate Professor
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Laura Stamm, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
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Daniel M. Yawman, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine and Health Humanities & Bioethics
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Primary Faculty







Research ethics, ethics of AI, public health ethics.

Literature and medicine; biopolitics in historical and contemporary contexts; history of the life sciences; critical theory and medicine; nineteenth-century American culture.
Mentorships: Murmur faculty mentor, Medical Humanities Interest Group faculty mentor

The Photo/Tiny Story project; the Mindful Art Pause project; mindfulness and medicine; empathy, stigma and shame in medicine; what influences presence in the clinical encounter; cross-cultural narratives; health justice.
Mentorships: The Reflector faculty mentor, Mindfulness Interest Group faculty mentor

Ethics in Family Caregiving, Health Professions Education, Clinical Ethics and Public Health
Mentorships: Science of Compassion in Medicine (SCIM) faculty mentor, Bioethics Interest Group faculty mentor

Pediatric ethics, end of life issues, virtue ethics, moral psychology, and community healthcare

History of public health, physical injuries and consumer protection, history of modern medicine

Law and ethics in clinical decision-making, including the rights and interests of the patient, family, professions, state, and federal government; ethics of engagement; and legal and ethics education in the clinical professions.

Art and medicine, History of medicine, Plastic surgery, Humor and medicine, Medical photography.