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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
Email: Susan

Carl T. D’Angio, MD
Professor, Pediatrics (Neonatology) and Health Humanities & Bioethics
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Richard Dees, PhD
Professor, Department of Philosophy
Email: Richard

Chin-To Fong, MD
Professor, Pediatrics (Genetics), Biochemistry and Biophysics, and Health Humanities & Bioethics
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Wendy Gonaver, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
Email: Wendy

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
Email: Natercia

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
Email: Jessica

Laura Stamm, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Email: Laura

Daniel M. Yawman, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine and Health Humanities & Bioethics
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Primary Faculty

Stephanie Brown Clark
Research Interest: History of medicine and science; literature and medicine; the role of humanities in medical education; understanding differences and diversity in healthcare.
Marianne Chiafery
Marianne Chiafery, DNP, PNP-C, M.S.

Research Interest: Moral distress among nurses and other health care providers, pediatrics, impact of cultural and religious beliefs on treatment decisions, nursing and medical student ethics education
Carl D'Angio
Research Interest: Immunizations and infections in the premature infant
Susan Daiss
Research Interest: Visual arts and healthcare education; visual arts, spirituality and patient care; thanatology in the visual arts.
Richard Dees
Richard H. Dees, Ph.D.

Research Interest: Transplant ethics; neuroethics; and public health ethics.
Richard Demme
Research Interest: Ethical issues in transplantation; transplantation issues in movies; ethical issues at the end of life; history of research ethics; history of medicine; functions of hospital ethics committees.
Jonathan Herington
Research Interest:

Research ethics, ethics of AI, public health ethics.

Alexander Larsen
Research Interest:

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

Marie-Patricia Luck
Research Interest:

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

Nicholas Mercado
Research Interest:

 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

Bryanna Moore
Research Interest:

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

Alexander Parry
Research Interest:

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

Marjorie Shaw
Research Interest:

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.

Christine Slobogin
Research Interest:

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