Pritha Bhattacharyya, PhD
Pritha Bhattacharyya is a Bengali-American fiction writer, poet, teacher, and reader. Her work appears in The Southern Review, Ecotone, Ninth Letter, Nashville Review, Bodega, Apogee Journal, and elsewhere and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She completed her fiction…
Emily Barr, PhD, RN, CPNP-PC, CNM, ACRN, FACNM, FAAN
Emily Barr is Assistant Professor (research tenure track) at Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston in the Department of Research, where she joined as faculty in January 2022. Barr grew up in Rochester, NY, and completed her bachelor’s of…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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,…