Faculty

Susan Dodge Peters Daiss, MA, M.Div
Senior Associate
Email: susan_daiss@urmc.rochester.edu
Research Interests: Visual arts and healthcare education; visual arts, spirituality and patient care; thanatology in the visual arts.
Mentorships: The Reflector faculty mentor, Medical Humanities Interest Group faculty mentor

Richard Dees, PhD
Professor
Email: richard.dees@rochester.edu
Research Interests: Transplant ethics; neuroethics; and public health ethics.

Wendy Gonaver, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
Email: wendy_gonaver@urmc.rochester.edu
Research Interests: US History, especially African American History  1840s-1960s, social movements, and Civil War & Reconstruction; and History of Medicine, with special interest in public health, psychiatry, and obstetrics/gynecology.

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

Christopher Mooney, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Email: christopher_mooney@urmc.rochester.edu
Research Interests: Health promotion; healthy aging; frailty; psychological determinants of health; medical education assessment; program evaluation

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

Natercia Rodrigues, MD, MS
Assistant Professor
Email: Natercia_Rodrigues@URMC.Rochester.edu
Research Interest - Medical narrative, the family response to illness, communication with patients and families, visual arts, and the application of the humanities into the exam room
Mentorships: Progress Notes faculty mentor

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.

Laura Stamm, PhD
Director of DEI
Assistant Professor
Email: laura_stamm@urmc.rochester.edu
Research Interests: LGBTQ+ health, health equity, visual culture, and feminist theory.

Additional Faculty

Kwasi Boaitey, LMSW
Senior Associate, Department of Health Humanities & Bioethics
Director, Culturally Responsive Management, Office of Equity and Inclusion
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John Patrick Cullen, PhD   
Clinical Professor, Clinical and Translational Research
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Carl T. D’Angio, MD
Professor, Pediatrics (Neonatology) and Health Humanities & Bioethics
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Chin-To Fong, MD
Professor, Pediatrics (Genetics), Biochemistry and Biophysics, and Health Humanities & Bioethics
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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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Jackie Howitt, MD
Obstetrics & Gynecology
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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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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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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
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Daniel M. Yawman, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine and Health Humanities & Bioethics
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