Profiles: Faculty and Affiliates of UCSF involved with the Medical Humanities

Vincanne Adams, PhD Web
(Dept. of Anthropology, History & Social Medicine)
Medical anthropology; culture and health in Tibet.

Louise Aronson, MD, MFA
(Medicine/Geriatrics)
Creative writing, narrative medicine, literature and medicine.

Nancy Ascher, MD
(Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery)
Art and medicine.

Michael Burg, MD
(Emergency Medicine)
Creative writing; medical humanities and medical education.

Nancy Burke, PhD Web
(Dept. of Anthropology, History & Social Medicine)
Clinical communication, culture and communication.

Nancy Byl
(Physical Therapy, Chair)
Professionalism, ethics, culture, access to care.

Marcelle Cedars, MD
(OB/Gyn, Reproductive Endocrinology)
Medical Humanities and medical education.

Molly Cooke, MD
(Medicine/DGIM)
Academy of Medical Educators.

Philip Darney, MD, MSc
(OB/Gyn and Reproductive Sciences, Chair)
Relationship between the arts' (especially novelists') and medicine's expression of compassion.

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.

Dutta Durba, MD
Radiology.
Medical Humanities.

David Elkin, MD
(Psychiatry)
Literature, creative writing.

Mitchell Feldman, MD, MPhil
(Medicine/DGIM)
Medical Humanities.

Howard Fields, MD, PhD
Philosophy of mind and neuroscience.

Stanton Glanz, PhD
(Medicine)
Medical Humanities.

Laura Goetz, MD
(Surgery)
Journalism and medicine.

Suzanne Goh, MD, MA
(Neuroscience/Gallo Center)
History of Science, women's studies

Heather Hall, MD
(Psychiatry)
Pianist; interface between culture, ethnicity, race and medicine.

Mardi Horowitz, MD
(Psychiatry)
Psychoanalysis; adult development, philosophy and art (painting/drawing)

Michelle Hsiang, MD
(Pediatrics)
Medical Humanities.

Eric Isaacs, MD
(Emergency Medicine)
Art and music.

Julene Johnson, PhD
(Memory and Aging Center)
Music and neurology, music recognition in dementia patients; history of neurology--specifically nineteenth-century studies of music in neurology and psychology. A flutist with a bachelors of music (BM).

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.

Shieva Khayambashi, MD
(Family Practice)
Poetry, medical humanities.

Paul Linde, MD
(Psychiatry)
Creative non-fiction; fiction; radio.

Paula Lum, MD, MPH
(Internal Medicine)
Medical Humanities.

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

Guy Micco, MD
(Joint Medical Program, UCSF-UCB)
Creative writing, death.

Elizabeth Murphy, MD
(Internal Medicine)
dance, narrative medicine, poetry.

Tung Nguyen, MD
(Medicine/DGIM)
Creative writing.

Geraldine Oliva, MD, MPH
(Director, Family Health Outcomes Project)
Buddhist philosophy and ethics and mindfulness techniques.

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.

Dorothy Porter, PhD Web
(Chair, Dept. of Anthropology, History & Social Medicine)
History of medicine; public health; history of diseases and patients' narratives.

George Rutherford, MD Web
(Institute for Global Health)
History.

Dean Schillinger, MD
(Medicine)
Writing, media/film; music/art; social science in general.

Mary-Ann Shafer, MD
(Pediatrics)
Medical Humanities.

William B. Shore, MD
(Family and Community Medicine)
Medical Humanities.

Ida Sim, MD, PhD
(Medicine/DGIM)
Science and technology teaching.

Lygia Steward, MD
(Surgery)
Medical history, communications, team biulding, humanism.

Ron Strauss, MD
(Internal Medicine)
Poetry.

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.

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.

Paul Turek, MD
(Urology)
Medical Humanities.

Paul Volberding, MD
(Medicine)
Medical Humanities.

Thienne Vu, MD, PhD
(Medicine)
Philosophy and ethics.

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.

David Watts, MD
(Medicine/GI)
Poet, NPR commentator, filmmaker, musician.

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.

William Young, MD
(Anesthesia)
Jazz music, philosophy.