Center members publish work in Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
Reverend Nathan Carlin, PhD, Angela Gomez, EdD, and Margarita Ortiz, JD, MA, published a commentary in the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. The paper “Teaching Pathographies of Mental Illness (external link)” discusses the fourth-year elective of the same name taught…
Kelli Cohen Fein receives award from Baylor College of Medicine
Kelli Cohen Fein, MA, MD, EdD, will receive a Humanitarian Award as part of Baylor College of Medicine’s 2024 Alumni Awards, scheduled for October 17. The award recognizes Fein for making a profound impact through her humanitarian efforts and commitment…
Keisha Ray interviewed by Oprah Daily about IUD insertion pain management
Keisha Ray, PhD, was recently quoted in Oprah Daily in an article titled, “Getting an IUD Doesn’t Have to be Painful. Here’s What Your Doctor May Not Be Telling You (external link).” The article discusses what to expect when considering…
Jessica Wise and Sandy McKay co-author policy report on early childhood education as health and economic policy
Co-authored by Jessica N. Wise, PhD; Katarina Reyes, MEd; and Sandy McKay, MD, FAAP, the policy report, “The Case for Early Childhood Education as Health and Economic Policy (external link)” was recently published by Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public…
Marianne Florian, PhD, MA
Marianne Parrish Florian holds a post-doctoral fellowship in religion and medicine, shared between McGovern Medical School and the Institute for Spirituality and Health. Prior to this position, she taught courses in religion and health at the University of South Florida. Dr….
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 an Associate Professor at the University of Buffalo School of Nursing. Barr grew up in Rochester, NY, and earned her Bachelor of Science in Communication with a focus on scientific writing and a minor in African American…
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…
Alejandro Zapata, BA
Joelle Robertson-Preidler, PhD, MA
Joelle Robertson-Preidler is Assistant Professor in the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston). Before joining the McGovern Center, she was an assistant professor in the Center for Medical…