Keisha Ray publishes paper about iatrogenic harms for Black people from clinicians’ racial bias
“Clinicians’ Racial Biases as Pathways to Iatrogenic Harms for Black People” is the title of a recent article in the AMA Journal of Ethics by Keisha Ray, PhD. In the paper, Ray discusses that, in addition to structural inequities contributing…
Spector returns for Arts & Resilience
The McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics welcomes back Laura Spector for a summer event of its Arts & Resilience Program, July 28. Spector, a fellow of the New York Foundation for the Arts, will present her workshop Drawing for…
Fatema Shipchandler published by in-Training
The McGovern Center congratulates MS4 and medical humanities student, Fatema Shipchandler for her recent publication, “Maintaining Thick and Thin Skin”: “Third-year rotations forced me to reckon with my emotional capacity as a human and future physician. With each patient encounter,…
New episode of Life & Work from Nathan Carlin
Launched in 2019, Life & Work is a podcast-like series from Rev. Nathan Carlin, PhD, McGovern Center director and Samuel Karff Chair. In each episode, Carlin speaks with intellectuals and writers about the relationship between their personal lives and public…
Keisha Ray quoted in article about the effects of COVID vaccines on menstrual cycles
An article posted by The New York Times discusses a recent paper about changes in menstrual cycles related to COVID-19 vaccines. Keisha Ray, PhD, was quoted in the article, recommending that public health officials should acknowledge that there may be…
Stephen Linder appointed to Board of Environmental Change and Society
Congratulations to Stephen H. Linder, PhD, professor with the Department of Management, Policy, and Community Health, for his recent appointment to the Board on Environmental Change and Society (BECS) of the National Academy of Sciences. The National Academy of Sciences…
Your story matters to Houston Playback Theatre
Everybody has a story to tell. Whether the story is something menial, like a seemingly normal commute into the office, or a life-changing cancer diagnosis for a friend or family member, each person’s life is unique. For Houston Playback Theatre,…
Arts & Resilience welcomes Houston Playback Theatre Improv Group
The John P. McGovern, MD, Center for Humanities and Ethics continues its Arts & Resilience Program by welcoming Houston Playback Theatre to McGovern Medical School, June 22. Playback theatre is an improvisational form of theater that features members of the…
Medical Humanities students named Albert Schweitzer Fellows
Congratulations are in order to Miguel Bonilla Moreno, Patricia Marie Guzman, Isabel Kilroy, and Sanjna Tripathy. All four students are members of the Center’s Medical Humanities Scholarly Concentration and were recently named as part of the 2022-2023 class of the…
Keisha Ray featured in Nature article about sizeism in the scientific workplace
A recent article in Nature featured comments from Keisha Ray, PhD, about sizeism in the scientific workplace. Ray explained that weight bias and stigma can be found in health and science. One reason for this is the belief that those…