Faculty

Jonathan Herington, PhD
Assistant Professor
Email: jonathan.herington@rochester.edu
Research Interests: Research ethics, ethics of AI, public health ethics.

Erik Larsen, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor
Email: erik_larsen@urmc.rochester.edu
Research Interests: Literature and medicine; biopolitics in historical and contemporary contexts; history of the life sciences; critical theory and medicine; nineteenth-century American culture.
Mentorships: Murmur faculty mentor, Medical Humanities Interest Group faculty mentor

Patricia Luck, MBChB, MPhil PallMed, MSc MedHum​
Assistant Professor
Director, MS Program in Health Humanities & Bioethics
Email: patricia_luck@urmc.rochester.edu
Research Interests: The Photo/Tiny Story project; the Mindful Art Pause project; mindfulness and medicine; empathy, stigma and shame in medicine; what influences presence in the clinical encounter; cross-cultural narratives; health justice.
Mentorships: The Reflector faculty mentor, Mindfulness Interest Group faculty mentor

Nicholas R. Mercado, Dr PH, MPH
Assistant Professor
Email: nicholas_mercado@urmc.rochester.edu
Research Interests: Ethics in Family Caregiving, Health Professions Education, Clinical Ethics, Public Health.
Mentorships: Science of Compassion in Medicine (SCIM) faculty mentor, Bioethics Interest Group faculty mentor

Bryanna Moore, PhD
Assistant Professor
Email: bryanna_moore@urmc.rochester.edu
Research Interests: Pediatric ethics, end of life issues, virtue ethics, moral psychology, and community healthcare

Adrienne Morgan, PhD
Associate Professor - Health Humanities & Bioethics
Senior Director - Center for Advocacy, Community Health, Education and Diversity
Email: adrienne_morgan@urmc.rochester.edu

Alexander Parry, PhD
Assistant Professor - Health Humanities & Bioethics
Email: Alexander_Parry@URMC.Rochester.edu
Research Interest - History of public health, physical injuries and consumer protection, history of modern medicine

Lainie Friedman Ross​, MD, PhD
Chair
Department of Health Humanities and Bioethics
Email: lainie_ross@urmc.rochester.edu

 

Margie Hodges Shaw, JD, PhD
Associate Professor
Clinical Ethics Program Director
Email: margie_shaw@urmc.rochester.edu
Research Interests: Law and ethics in clinical decision-making, including the rights and interests of the patient, family, professions, state, and federal government; ethics of engagement; and legal and ethics education in the clinical professions.

Christine Slobogin, PhD
Assistant Professor
Email: Christine_Slobogin@URMC.Rochester.edu
Research Interests: Art and medicine, History of medicine, Plastic surgery, Humor and medicine, Medical photography.

 

Secondary Faculty & Affiliates

Kwasi Boaitey, LMSW
Lead Culturally Responsive Management, Office of Equity & Inclusion
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John Patrick Cullen, PhD
Clinical Professor, Clinical and Translational Research
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Susan Dodge Peters Daiss, MA, M.Div
Senior Associate, Memorial Art Gallery
Email: Susan

Carl T. D’Angio, MD
Professor, Pediatrics (Neonatology) and Health Humanities & Bioethics
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Richard Dees, PhD
Professor, Department of Philosophy
Email: Richard

Chin-To Fong, MD
Professor, Pediatrics (Genetics), Biochemistry and Biophysics, and Health Humanities & Bioethics
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Wendy Gonaver, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
Email: Wendy

Laurence B. Guttmacher, MD
Professor Emeritus, Psychiatry and Health Humanities & Bioethics; Associate Dean/Student Advising, Offices of Medical Education, SMD
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Sonia Hadchiti
Adjunct Instructor, Producer, writer and director of short films
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Patrick J. Hopkins, DNP
Assistant Professor Clinical Nursing, SON; Assistant Professor, Health Humanities & Bioethics
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David C. Kaufman, MD
Professor, Surgery (Thoracic), Medicine (Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care), Urology, Anesthesiology, and Health Humanities & Bioethics
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John D. Markman, MD
Vice Chair for Clinical Research; Director, Translational Pain Research Program I Neuromedicine Pain Division
Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurology and Health Humanities & Bioethics
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Gaelen McCormick
Senior Associate, Health Humanities & Bioethics and Instructor of Music Leadership, Eastman School of Music
Director of Eastman Performing Arts Medicine (EPAM) 
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Christopher Mooney, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Division of General Medicine
Email: Christopher

Michael Nabozny, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery and Health Humanities & Bioethics
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Caroline Nestro, PhD
Associate Professor for Clinical Nursing and Health Humanities & Bioethics
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Mical Raz, Md, PhD
Professor of Clinical Medicine, and Charles E. and Dale L. Phelps Professorship in Public Policy and Health
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Robert Riley, MPH
Adjunct Instructor, Health Humanities & Bioethics
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Natercia Rodrigues, MD, MS
Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine
Email: Natercia

Olle Jane (OJ) Sahler, MD
Professor, Pediatrics (Hematology and Oncology) and Health Humanities & Bioethics
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Jessica C. Shand, MD MHS
Associate Professor
Email: Jessica

Laura Stamm, PhD
Director of DEI, Department of Medicine
Email: Laura

Daniel M. Yawman, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine and Health Humanities & Bioethics
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