September 1, 2024

Lilit A. Sargsyan, MD

Lilit A. Sargsyan, is assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at McGovern Medical School. She is the Associate Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program and Medical Director of the Pulmonary Function Laboratory at Memorial Hermann…


August 14, 2024

GME in Humanities & Ethics graduate publishes piece in Pediatric Research

Vaishali Harne, MBBS, recently published, “‘Stickers’—A pediatric resident’s experience with loss” in Pediatric Research. The piece began as a journal entry by Harne written during the Graduate Medical Education in Humanities and Ethics (GME in H&E) program, offered by the McGovern…


August 12, 2024

Keisha Ray elected to ASBH Board

Congratulations are in order for McGovern Professor of Oslerian Medicine and Associate Faculty with the McGovern Center, Keisha Ray, PhD, who was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH). Ray’s term…


August 12, 2024

Keisha Ray selected for ASBH Board and Nominating Committee

Congratulations to Keisha Ray, PhD, who was newly elected to the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) Board and Nominating Committee. Ray will begin her term on the ASBH Board of Directors following the 2024 Annual Meeting in St….


July 31, 2024

Conference papers from festschrift conference published in Journeys of Life

In Spring 2023, Nathan Carlin, PhD, organized a festschrift conference in honor of Thomas R. Cole, PhD, founding Director of the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, hosting scholars from all over the world. The conference papers have been published…


July 23, 2024

Mary Horton speaks in Healthcare Professionalism podcast

Mary Kollmer Horton, PhD, recently spoke on the podcast, Healthcare Professionalism: Education, Research, and Resources, presented by the Center for Professionalism and Communication in Healthcare at Drexel University’s College of Medicine. In the episode, Horton discusses “A Search for a…


June 13, 2024

Nathan Carlin named editor of leading international journal

Boosting the prominence of the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, Nathan Carlin, PhD, has been named the editor of the Journal of Medical Humanities. Effective July 1, Carlin, director of the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, will serve…


June 5, 2024

Thomas Cole speaks at Annual John P. McGovern History of Medicine Banquet

Thomas Cole, PhD, professor emeritus and founding director of the McGovern Center spoke at the Annual John P. McGovern History of Medicine Banquet on May 16 at Hotel Zaza. Cole read from his book Old Man Country during the banquet,…


May 23, 2024

Sylvia Villarreal publishes poems in Annals and the Journal of Medical Humanities

McGovern Center adjunct faculty member Sylvia Villarreal, MEd, MPH, recently published two poems in prestigious publications. The first poem is “Attending,” which appears in the May 2024 Annals of Internal Medicine. The second poem, “Service Call” appears in the May…


May 17, 2024

17th Annual Humanities Banquet celebrates graduates

On March 26, 2024, the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics honored the Class of 2024 at the Annual Humanities Graduation Banquet. This year’s class included 5 graduates from the Clinical Humanities Certificate Program offered to students at the School…


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