Mentors

McGovern Center faculty and postdoctoral fellows are available to mentor students on their final projects. The final projects are completed during students’ fourth year of the Medical Humanities Scholarly Concentration as part of the fourth-year course, Humanistic Elements of Medicine.

Students’ projects may be research or interpretive works on a topic of their choice. Students interested in connecting with a mentor for their particular topic or interest are encouraged to review areas of expertise among our faculty and fellows.

 

Keisha Ray, PhD Medical Humanities Scholarly Concentration Director	Joelle Robertson-Preidler, PhD Humanistic Elements of Medicine Course Director	Nathan Carlin, PhD McGovern Center Director
Bioethics/Medical ethics Medical humanities Narrative medicine Social, political, and cultural determinants of health Health of Black/African American peoples Health disparities (race, gender, ability) Ethics of biomedical enhancement Ethics of clinical uses of psychedelics	End-of-life decision-making Clinical ethics Medicine and theatre Medical humanities Bioethics	Medical humanities Literature and medicine Religion and bioethics Psychoanalysis Psychoanalysis and religion Doctor-writers Narrative medicine
Jessica N. Wise, PhD, MPH Postdoctoral Fellow	Laura Spector Artist in Residence	Pritha Bhattacharyya, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow and Writer in Residence
Public health Health economics and health policy Social and economic determinants of health with emphasis on economy as a structural determinant Methods of research	General art (painting, sculpting, etc.) Visual storytelling and narrative medicine Art and empathy in medical education Support for visual art projects and interpretation	Fiction and creative writing, science in literature, and Asian American and diasporic literature Narrative medicine, medicine and literature, and poetry/poetics
Eugene Boisaubin, MD Professor Emeritus	Renee Flores, MD, MHSA GME in Humanities & Ethics Director; Core Faculty	Mary Horton, PhD, MPH, MA Core Faculty
Medicine/health care Clinical ethics	Medicine/health care End of life care Death and dying Palliative care Geriatrics/older adults Gender and sexuality	History of American medicine, medical education, and institutions History of psychiatry Professionalism and professional identity formation Gerontology
Marianne Florian, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow	Angela P. Gomez, EdD, MBA, MS Quality Enhancement Plan Director
Compassion science and compassion-based ethics Spirituality and health American religious cultures	Medical education research and scholarship Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methodologies, including surveys and instrument creation Assessments of student learning/knowledge/skills Statistical and qualitative analyses Curricular and program development