Faculty involved with Medical Humanities at UCSF
Alphabetical list (Last updated April 2007)
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Interest Areas:
Are you a student interested in pursuing a project in the creative arts? Contact Dr. John Tercier for more information.
Nancy Ascher, MD
(Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery)
Art and medicine
Philip Darney, MD, MSc
(OB/Gyn and Reproductive Sciences, Chair)
The relationship between the arts' (especially novelists') and medicine's expression of compassion.
Heather Hall, MD
(Psychiatry)
Pianist; interested in the interface between culture, ethnicity, race and medicine.
Mardi Horowitz, MD
(Psychiatry)
Psychoanalysis; adult development, philosophy and art (painting/drawing)
Eric Isaacs, MD
(Emergency Medicine)
Art and music.
Julene Johnson, PhD
(Memory and Aging Center)
Music and neurology, music recognition in dementia patients.
Betty Martin-Finneran, PhD
(Graduate Division Financial Analyst)
Use of poetry, soul collaging, spirituality, and bibliotherapy as adjuncts to physical healing.
Brandy R. Matthews, MD
(Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology)
Intersection of Neuroscience and Music; emotional response to music in neurodegenerative disease
Elizabeth Murphy, MD
(Internal Medicine)
dance, narrative medicine, poetry.
Cynthia Perils
(Director, Art for Recovery; UCSF Cancer Center)
Clinical art, mind-body connection; art for healing and community.
R.H. Phibbs, MD
(Pediatrics)
Painting and drawing.
John Tercier, MD, PhD Web
(Dept. of Anthropology, History & Social Medicine)
Cultural studies; history of science and medicine; violence in the visual arts; cultural constructions on the body; research methods in the humanities; the contemporary deathbed.
William Young, MD
(Anesthesia)
Jazz music, philosophy.
Are you a student interested in pursuing a project in the history of medicine? Contact Dr. Brian Dolan for more information.
Mandu Deshpande, MD
(Family and Community Medicine)
History of Medicine.
Brian Dolan, PhD Web
(Dept. of Anthropology, History & Social Medicine)
Medical science and technology studies; history of medicine. Clinical decision making.
Suzanne Goh, MD, MA
(Neuroscience/Gallo Center)
History of Science, women's studies.
George Rutherford, MD Web
(Institute for Global Health)
History.
Lygia Steward, MD
(Surgery)
Medical history, communications, team biulding, humanism.
John Tercier, MD, PhD Web
(Dept. of Anthropology, History & Social Medicine)
Cultural studies; history of science and medicine; violence in the visual arts; cultural constructions on the body; research methods in the humanities; the contemporary deathbed.
Elizabeth Watkins, PhD Web
(Dept. of Anthropology, History & Social Medicine)
The technological and clinical applications of medical knowledge; the popularization of information about health and medicine; roles of gender in medicine.
Ellen Weber, MD
(Emergency Medicine)
Literature, history and film.
David Winickoff, JD, MA
(Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley)
Ethics of biotechnology, literature, history and philosophy, law and literature.
Are you a student interested in pursuing a project in medical anthropology? Contact Dr. Vincanne Adams for more information.
Vincanne Adams, PhD Web
(Dept. of Anthropology, History & Social Medicine)
Medical anthropology; culture and health in Tibet.
Nancy Burke, PhD Web
(Dept. of Anthropology, History & Social Medicine)
Clinical communication, culture and communication.
Heather Hall, MD
(Psychiatry)
Pianist; interface between culture, ethnicity, race and medicine.
Niranjan Karnik, MD, PhD Web
(Dept. of Anthropology, History & Social Medicine)
Visual culture, biomedical ethics, science studies.
John Tercier, MD, PhD Web
(Dept. of Anthropology, History & Social Medicine)
Cultural studies; history of science and medicine; violence in the visual arts; cultural constructions on the body; research methods in the humanities; the contemporary deathbed.
Are you a student interested in pursuing a project in narrative medicine? Contact Dr. Louise Aronson for more information.
Louise Aronson, MD, MFA
(Medicine/Geriatrics)
Creative writing, narrative medicine, literature and medicine.
Michael Burg, MD
(Emergency Medicine)
Creative writing; medical humanities and medical education.
Philip Darney, MD, MSc
(OB/Gyn and Reproductive Sciences, Chair)
Relationship between the arts' (especially novelists') and medicine's expression of compassion.
David Elkin, MD
(Psychiatry)
Literature, creative writing.
Laura Goetz, MD
(Surgery)
Journalism and medicine.
Shieva Khayambashi, MD
(Family Practice)
Poetry, medical humanities.
Paul Linde, MD
(Psychiatry)
Creative non-fiction; fiction; radio.
Guy Micco, MD
(Joint Medical Program, UCSF-UCB)
Creative writing, death.
Elizabeth Murphy, MD
(Internal Medicine)
Dance, narrative medicine, poetry.
Dean Schillinger, MD
(Medicine)
Writing, media/film; music/art; social science in general.
Ron Strauss, MD
(Internal Medicine)
Poetry.
David Watts, MD
(Medicine/GI)
Poet, NPR commentator, filmmaker, musician.
Ellen Weber, MD
(Emergency Medicine)
Literature, history and film.
Are you a student interested in pursuing a project in philosophy or ethics? Contact Dr. Brian Dolan for more information.
Nancy Byl
(Physical Therapy, Chair)
Professionalism, ethics, culture, access to care.
Howard Fields, MD, PhD
Philosophy of mind and neuroscience.
Mardi Horowitz, MD
(Psychiatry)
Psychoanalysis; adult development, philosophy and art (painting/drawing)
Niranjan Karnik, MD, PhD Web
(Dept. of Anthropology, History & Social Medicine)
Visual culture, biomedical ethics, science studies.
Geraldine Oliva, MD, MPH
(Director, Family Health Outcomes Project)
Buddhist philosophy and ethics and mindfulness techniques.
Stephanie Tache, MD, MPH
(Family and Community Medicine)
Cultural issues related to health care abroad; the role of time and time perception on how we think about and organize our life; the impact of healthcare and medical interventions.
Thienne Vu, MD, PhD
(Medicine)
Philosophy and ethics.
William Young, MD
(Anesthesia)
Jazz music, philosophy.
Are you a student interested in pursuing a project in Science and Technology Studies? Contact Dr. Brian Dolan for more information.
Nancy Burke, PhD Web
(Dept. of Anthropology, History & Social Medicine)
Clinical communication, culture and communication.
Brian Dolan, PhD Web
(Dept. of Anthropology, History & Social Medicine)
Medical science and technology studies; history of medicine. Clinical decision making.
James Kahn, MD
(Medicine)
Engaging patients through the use of the internet.
Niranjan Karnik, MD, PhD Web
(Dept. of Anthropology, History & Social Medicine)
Visual culture, biomedical ethics, science studies.
Ida Sim, MD, PhD
(Medicine/DGIM)
Science and technology teaching.
Lygia Steward, MD
(Surgery)
Medical history, communications, team biulding, humanism.
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