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Ange Finn is the program director and facilitator of the Center’s Sacred Vocation Program. Ms. Finn is also a private life coach in the wellness sector, teaching and coaching clients in stress management, emotional self-regulation skills, and resilience. She is…

Keisha Ray earned a PhD in philosophy from the University of Utah. She is currently an associate professor with tenure with the McGovern Center for Humanities & Ethics and serves as the Director of the McGovern Center’s Medical Humanities Scholarly…

Pedro Mancias is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Child and Adolescent Neurology at McGovern Medical School.  He is a Distinguished Teaching Professor, having received the 2011 Herbert L. and Margaret W. DuPont Master Clinical Teaching Award…

Francine Snow is Assistant Professor of Nursing in the Department of Graduate Studies at the Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston. She is a faculty member in the Nursing Leadership MSN Program and advisor in the Nurse Executive DNP…

Alma Rosas joined the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics in March 2015 as Executive Assistant. Prior to joining the Center, Ms. Rosas held administrative staff positions in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences as well as the…

Deborah Franklin is Associate Professor in General Practice and Dental Public Health at the UTHealth School of Dentistry. Dr. Franklin directs the Clinical Humanities Certificate Program and Beyond Silos electives for dental students who want to incorporate the humanities into…

Alejandro Chaoul is The Jung Center’s Mind Body Spirit Institute Scholar and Founding Director. He is also adjunct faculty of the Integrative Medicine Program at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Chaoul also leads the Center’s Meditation program.

Benjamin Saxton is a former lecturer at Rice University in the Department of English and was previously a postdoctoral fellow with the McGovern Center. Dr. Saxton is Visiting Assistant Professor at Bard Early College in New Orleans and is Adjunct…

Kirsten Ostherr is the Gladys Louise Fox Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Rice University, where she is a media scholar, health researcher, and the founding director of the Medical Humanities Program. Dr. Ostherr is also…

Stephen Linder is a Professor in the Department of Management, Policy and Community Health, and Director of the Institute for Health Policy at the UTHealth School of Public Health; he is an Associate Faculty Member at the Center for Humanities and…