In celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Institute for the Medical Humanities and the 20th anniversary of its Medical Humanities Graduate Program
The Institute for the Medical Humanities
Proudly Presents
Graduate Education in Medical Humanities: Models and Methods
March 6‐9, 2008 Galveston, Texas
This conference was made possible through the generous financial support of the Harris and Eliza Kempner Fund and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
Conference Rationale
Since its founding in 1973, the Institute for the Medical Humanities (IMH) of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) has brought together historians, philosophers, and scholars in literature, religious studies, jurisprudence, and other humanities disciplines to offer their perspectives on health, illness, and related topics. In 1988, the graduate program at the IMH was authorized to offer the nationʹs first M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in the medical humanities. Two decades later, the IMH is still one of the very few programs in the United States to offer advanced degrees in the medical humanities and is the only one to offer a Ph.D. in medical humanities. The IMH graduate program faculty have enjoyed the freedom, creativity, and challenges inherent in developing such a new interdisciplinary program. They have worked to define precisely what a medical humanities degree signifies, how medical humanists should be trained, and how graduates of the IMH contribute to the broader understanding and practice of health care, biomedical research, health policy, and the issues surrounding these. After two decades of training some of the fieldʹs best and brightest, they are ready to take pause–to reflect on what they have done well, what they could improve, how they measure up to the many other programs that have emerged, and how these programs can work to improve each other. This conference–Graduate Education in Medical Humanities: Models and Methods–will provide a rare opportunity for faculty, administrators, and students of programs throughout the world to come together to investigate the questions that characterize the evolving field of graduate education, to discuss their work, and to share models and methods of successful programs. Conference Director: Conference Coordinator: Program Committee: Anne Hudson Jones, Ph.D. Donna A. Vickers Anne Hudson Jones, Ph.D. (Chair) Ronald A. Carson, Ph.D. Krisann Muskievicz, M.A. Mary G. Winkler, Ph.D. Donna A. Vickers John Paul (Paulie) Gaido, J.D.
Local Arrangements:
SPECIAL THANKS
to The Harris and Eliza Kempner Fund, Galveston, TX and The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, New York, NY for making this conference possible through their generous financial support.
Schedule At‐a‐Glance
Thursday, March 6, 2008 – Open Gates *
7:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. 9th Annual IMH Graduate Student Research Colloquium Opening Reception
Friday, March 7, 2008 – Levin Hall, University of Texas Medical Branch **
7:30 – 7:45 a.m. 8:00 – 8:30 a.m. 8:00 – 11:45 a.m. 8:30 – 8:45 a.m. 8:45 – 10:00 a..m. Transportation from Tremont House to UTMB Campus Continental Breakfast Check‐in and Registration Welcome “The Mystic Chords of Memory: Defining the Humanities,” Robert E. Proctor, Ph.D., Connecticut College Introduced by Mary G. Winkler, Ph.D. Break
MODELS OF ESTABLISHED GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN MEDICAL HUMANITIES
10:00 – 10:15 a.m. 10:15 – 11:45 a.m.
11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. 1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
2:15 – 2:45 p.m.
2:45 – 3:00 p.m. 3:00 – 3:15 p.m. 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
5:15 p.m.
Moderator: Mary G. Winkler, Ph.D. “The Medical Humanities Graduate Program at the University of Texas Medical Branch,” Anne Hudson Jones, Ph.D., UTMB “The Drew University Graduate Program in the Medical Humanities,” Jo Ann Middleton, Ph.D., Drew University “The Politics and Poetics of a New M.A. in Medical Humanities and Bioethics,” Tod S. Chambers, Ph.D., Northwestern University Lunch “Erasmus and the Humanist Ideal of Sermo: Toward a Rhetoric of Tolerance,” Gary Remer, Ph.D., Tulane University Introduced by Thomas R. Cole, Ph.D. “Rhetoric, Virtue, and Particularity: Using the Medical Humanities to Contextualize Bioethics Practice,” Daniel S. Goldberg, J.D., Ph.D. student, UTMB Break Transportation from UTMB Campus to Tremont House Tours of the Ashbel Smith Building (fondly called Old Red and home of the Institute for the Medical Humanities), and the UTMB Anatomy Lab; and Special Exhibit at the Truman G. Blocker Collection in the History of Medicine, Moody Medical Library, with talk by Mary G. Winkler, Ph.D. Transportation from Tremont House to UTMB Campus
Schedule At‐a‐Glance
This eveningʹs special events are made possible by the generous financial support of Frederick This eveningʹs special events are made possible by the generous financial support of Frederick S. Huang, M.D., Scholar in the John P. McGovern Academy of Oslerian Medicine, UTMB. S. Huang, M.D., Scholar in the John P. McGovern Academy of Oslerian Medicine, UTMB.
5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Reception, with art exhibit ‐ Eric Avery, M.D., J. Ernest (Ernie) Aguilar, M.Div.,
Evelyn M. (Bernadette) McKinney, J.D., Ph.D., Amanda Scarbrough, M.H.S.A., Jesse Stewart, B.A., Nobue Urushihara Urvil, M.A. ‐ and musical performance ‐ Julie Kutac, M.A., and Mark Pedersen
6:30 – 7:30 p.m. 7:30 – 8:15 p.m.
8:30 p.m.
Showing of Sophocles’ Philoctetes Introduced by Anne Hudson Jones, Ph.D. Discussion Moderator: Frederick S. Huang, M.D., UTMB Respondents: James L. Kastely, Ph.D., University of Houston and Margaret Wardlaw, M.D./Ph.D. student, UTMB Transportation from UTMB Campus to Tremont House
Saturday, March 8, 2008 – Tremont House Hotel ***
8:00 – 8:30 a.m. 8:45 – 9:45 a.m. Continental Breakfast “Reading Medicine, Teaching Medical Humanities” Ronald A. Carson, Ph.D., UTMB Introduced by William J. Winslade, J.D., Ph.D. Break
INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN MEDICAL HUMANITIES
9:45 – 10:00 a.m. 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. 1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
Moderator: Kirk L. Smith, M.D., Ph.D. “Graduate Education in Medical Humanities in China: History and Challenges,” Daqing Zhang, Ph.D., Peking University, and Liping Guo, M.A., Peking University “The Old and the Young: Issues and Strategies Encountered in the Medical Humanities Program at the University of Sydney,” Author: Claire Hooker, Ph.D., University of Sydney; presented by Rhonda Soricelli, M.D., Drexel University “Twists and Turns: The Medical Humanities in the United Kingdom,” Faith McLellan, Ph.D.,The Lancet, and Brian Hurwitz, M.D., King’s College, London Lunch (on your own)
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: CLINICAL COMPONENTS OF GRADUATE EDUCATION ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: CLINICAL COMPONENTS OF GRADUATE EDUCATION IN MEDICAL HUMANITIES AT UTMB
Howard Brody, M.D., Ph.D., Michele A. Carter, Ph.D., and Sally Robinson, M.D., UTMB 2:15 – 3:15 p.m.
MEDICAL HUMANITIES IN OTHER KINDS OF GRADUATE PROGRAMS
Moderator: Laura Hermer, J.D., L.L.M. “Medical Humanities in Public Health: Is There a Future?,” Craig M. Klugman, Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno “Literature and Biomedical Humanities in a Master’s in Interdisciplinary Studies,” Carol C. Donley, Ph.D., Hiram College
Schedule At‐a‐Glance
3:15 – 3:30 p.m. 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. Break
UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS IN MEDICAL HUMANITIES
6:30 – 6:45 p.m. 7:00 – 9:30 p.m. 9:30 – 9:45 p.m.
Moderator: Harold Y. Vanderpool, Ph.D., Th.M. Moderator: Harold Y. Vanderpool, Ph.D., Th.M. “Undergraduate Medical Humanities: Relationship to Graduate Medical Humanities,” James A. Marcum, Ph.D., Baylor University and Michael Attas, M.D., Baylor University “How Undergraduates Help a Graduate Program in the Medical Humanities,” Richard B. Gunderman, M.D., Ph.D., William H. Schneider, Ph.D., and Judi Izuka‐Campbell, Indiana University‐ Purdue University, Indianapolis Transportation from Tremont House to Gaido’s Seaside Restaurant Conference Banquet, Gaido’s Seaside Restaurant **** Transportation from Gaido’s Seaside Restaurant to Tremont House
Sunday, March 9, 2008 – Tremont House Hotel ***
8:00 – 8:30 a.m. 8:30 –9:45 a.m. Continental Breakfast
TOWARD THE FUTURE: EMERGING GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN MEDICAL HUMANITIES
9:45 – 10:00 a.m. 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Moderator: Jason E. Glenn, Ph.D. ”Considering the Future of the Discipline: Why and How to Create an Interdisciplinary M.D./M.A. Program in the Medical Humanities,” Stephanie Brown Clark, M.D., Ph.D., University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and Thomas Hahn, Ph.D., University of Rochester “Narrative Competence, Narratological Proficiency, and the Educational Goals of a Master’s Program in Medical Humanities,” Mark A. Clark, Ph.D., St. Louis University Break
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: THE FUTURE OF GRADUATE EDUCATION IN MEDICAL HUMANITIES
11:30 a.m. – 12 Noon
Moderator: Dayle B. DeLancey, Ph.D. Faith Lagay, Ph.D., American Medical Association, Chicago, IL Jason Morrow, M.D., Ph.D., Durham Regional Hospital and Duke University, Durham, NC, and Kayhan Parsi, J.D., Ph.D., Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL Evaluations/Farewells
Pre‐Conference Event
9th Annual IMH Graduate Student Research Colloquium Thursday, March 6, 2008 Open Gates
7:30 – 8:00 a.m. 8:00 – 8:10 a.m. Continental Breakfast Welcoming Remarks and Introductions, Anne Hudson Jones, Ph.D., Graduate Program Director Announcements, Krisann Muskievicz, M.A., Colloquium Organizer Julie Kutac, M.A., ʺPain and Purification: Religious Asceticism’s Response to Suffering“ Response: Harold Y. Vanderpool, Ph.D., Th.M. Discussion Nobue Urushihara Urvil, M.A., ʺ‘Covenant with Existence’: Narratives of the Retarded by Oe Kenzaburo” Response: Anne Hudson Jones, Ph.D. Discussion Break Tom George, J.D., L.L.M., ʺThe Reasonable Exercise of Responsibility: Legal Liability of Institutional Review Boards“ Response: William J. Winslade, J.D., Ph.D. Discussion Margaret Wardlaw, B.A., ʺInclusion and Radicalism in Tension: The Changing Relationship with Biomedicine in Our Bodies, Ourselves: A New Edition for a New Era“ Response: Dayle B. DeLancey, Ph.D. Discussion Lunch Merle Lenihan, M.D., ʺHealth Policy and American Charity Careʺ Response: Laura Hermer, J.D., L.L.M. Discussion Break Panel Presentation: “What Is Medical Humanities? The Elevator Speech Expanded,” Jo Bremer, B.A., Jiin‐Yu Chen, B.A., Daniel S. Goldberg, J.D., and David Kozishek, M.A. Discussion Closing Remarks, Howard Brody, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Institute for the Medical Humanities * * *
8:10 – 8:15 a.m. 8:15 – 8:45 a.m. 8:45 – 8:55 a.m. 8:55 – 9:05 a.m. 9:10 – 9:40 a.m. 9:40 – 9:50 a.m. 9:50 – 10:00 a.m. 10:00 – 10:15 a.m. 10:15 – 10:45 a.m. 10:45 – 10:55 10:55 – 11:05 a.m. 11:10 – 11:40 a.m.
11:40 – 11:50 a.m. 11:50 a.m. – 12:00 noon 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. 1:00 – 1:30 p.m. 1:30 – 1:40 p.m. 1:40 – 1:50 p.m. 1:50 – 2:05 p.m. 2:05 – 2:45 p.m.
2:45 – 3:45 p.m. 3:45 – 3:50 p.m.
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Opening Reception
Schedule with Abstracts
Friday, March 7, 2008 Levin Hall, UTMB
Transportation from Tremont House to UTMB Campus – 7:30 – 7:45 a.m. Continental Breakfast (Levin Hall Dining Room) – 8:00 – 8:30 a.m. Check‐in and Registration (Levin Hall Foyer) – 8:00 – 11:45 a.m. 8:30 – 11:45 a.m. Levin Hall, North Auditorium Welcome – 8:30 – 8:45 a.m.
FEATURED SPEAKER – 8:45 – 10:00 a.m. “The Mystic Chords of Memory: Defining the Humanities”
Robert E. Proctor, Ph.D., Connecticut College, New London, CT Introduced by Mary G. Winkler, Ph.D. When the ruling ideals of an age no longer satisfy a people’s spiritual and material needs, it’s time to change the ideals. Some ages create the future by using the present to break the intellectual shackles of the past, as in the Scientific Revolution, when Galileo rejected the prevailing Aristotelian geocentric universe. Other ages use the past to break the intellectual shackles of the present, as in the Renaissance in Florence and the founding of the United States of America, when thinkers turned to classical antiquity for new models of individual and collective behavior, especially Greek ideals of beauty and Roman ideals of civic virtue. They called this dialogue with the classical past studia humanitatis, “studies of humanity,” from which our phrase “the humanities” comes. Al Gore says, “The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge of all humanity.” “For‐profit health care,” Bernard Lown, M.D., says in his book The Lost Art of Healing: Practicing Compassion in Medicine, “is essentially an oxymoron. The moment care is rendered for‐profit it is emptied of genuine caring. This moral contradiction is beyond repair.” America’s ruling ideal that the market is God, profit‐driven economic growth is good, and greed and selfishness are virtues, has become an intellectual shackle. We need a new Renaissance. In Cicero’s equation of humanitas with magnanimity, the tradition of the humanities contains an ethical and aesthetic ideal, and a vocabulary, that can free us to think and speak morally again.
Break ‐ 10:00 – 10:15 a.m. MODELS OF ESTABLISHED GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN MEDICAL HUMANITIES – 10:15–11:45 a.m. Moderator: Mary G. Winkler, Ph.D. “The Medical Humanities Graduate Program at the University of Texas Medical Branch”
Anne Hudson Jones, Ph.D., UTMB, Galveston, TX When the Texas State Board of Higher Education gave its approval in 1988 for the Institute for the Medical Humanities (IMH) to offer M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in medical humanities, through UTMBʹs Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, the program was the first of its kind. The IMH faculty had the pleasure and the challenge of trying to construct both model and methods for graduate education in medical humanities. A few years later, they had the experiences and responses of their students and alumni to help them rethink and revise the program. This presentation will describe the development of the program‐‐its history, underlying intellectual rationale, and current organization. Returning to the humanist tradition of the Renaissance and the studia humanitatis for its inspiration and intellectual roots, the IMH program has embraced the humanist practice of reflective scholarship as preparation for active engagement in the life of the community, especially the medical community. In the life of a medical humanist, the development of rhetorical and narrative skill serves an ethical goal: the moral development of the self, a self that works toward the good of his or her community. Central to this mission is an understanding of the humanist tradition, as well as skills in reflection, dialogic discourse with others in the tradition of sermo, and ethical analysis. The variety of our alumniʹs work and practice demonstrates the range of activities for which such an interdisciplinary graduate education offers preparation.
Schedule with Abstracts (continued)
Friday, March 7, 2008 Levin Hall, UTMB
“The Drew University Graduate Program in the Medical Humanities”
Jo Ann Middleton, Ph.D., Drew University, Madison, NJ Located in the most diverse state in the US, within thirty‐five miles of two medical schools, and in the midst of large pharmaceutical companies, The Caspersen School of Graduate Studies at Drew University, Madison, NJ, where interdisciplinarity has been a hallmark of graduate education since its inception, embarked on an experiment in 1995 that would bring together students and scholars from many disciplines to engage in an exchange of ideas in a formal program in the medical humanities, which was based not in a medical school, but in a liberal arts university. Five students enrolled in the fall of 1995; over one hundred students, who come from medicine, nursing, law, the pharmaceutical industry, medical publishing, medical administration, and medical education, as well as those preparing for medical school, are now pursuing degrees (C.M.H, M.M.H, D.M.H.). All students take required courses in Bioethics and Medical Narrative, as well as a Clinical Practicum at a teaching hospital. Electives are chosen from such courses as Literature and Medicine, History of Medicine, Medicine and Art, Medical Anthropology, Clinical Ethics, Contemporary Medicine and Culture, Spirituality and Medicine, and The Politics of Public Health. Doctoral dissertations must be academically rigorous, theoretically sound, and clinically relevant. Our graduates (47 M.M.H, 15 D.M.H. to date) work in medical centers, HMOs, and private practices, in publishing and pharmaceuticals, in grant writing and philanthropy. They are patient advocates, clinical ethicists, hospital and nursing home administrators, chaplains, and hospice workers. One is poised to initiate a comprehensive program of medical humanities in Japan.
“The Politics and Poetics of a New M.A. in Medical Humanities and Bioethics”
Tod S. Chambers, Ph.D., Northwestern University, Chicago, IL This presentation will examine two issues in the creation of a new master’s in bioethics and medical humanities: a) the politics of creating a new program within a university; and b) the particular issues facing the creation of a master’s that is concerned with both bioethics and medical humanities. The author will first look at the different issues that can result from the internal politics (that is, within the program faculty) and the external politics (that is, between the program and its graduate school). The author will then examine the issues of definition both for the construction of educational objectives and for the marketing of such a program to potential students. The author will consider the benefits and disadvantages of creating a program that attempts to provide expertise in both medical humanities and bioethics.
Lunch ‐ 11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. (Levin Hall Dining Room) 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Levin Hall, North Auditorium FEATURED SPEAKER – 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. “Erasmus and the Humanist Ideal of Sermo: Toward a Rhetoric of Tolerance”
Gary Remer, Ph.D., Tulane University, New Orleans, LA Introduced by Thomas R. Cole, Ph.D. Renaissance humanism was the intellectual movement that sought the revival of the studia humanitatis, especially, rhetoric. In this talk, I link the humanists’ revitalization of rhetoric with their defense of religious toleration during the Reformation. I focus on the leading humanist and rhetorician of his age, Desiderius Erasmus (1466‐1536), who promoted tolerance between Catholic and Protestant by seeking to moderate religious disputes through the Ciceronian ideal of sermo–that is, conversation. In addition to the main types of rhetoric used in public settings like political assemblies and courtrooms, Cicero (106‐43 BCE) identified sermo as a distinct rhetorical genre well suited to philosophical dialogue. And in contrast to the dominant types of rhetoric, which are usually structured for adversarial relationships and can be emotionally manipulative, Cicero’s sermo is not agonistic and avoids appeals to the passions, particularly to anger. Influenced by Cicero, Erasmus adapts Ciceronian sermo to his own rhetorical context, where Christian denominations battle each other verbally and physically. Erasmus’s solution to these conflicts is to limit the Christian fundamentals of faith to a bare minimum and to allow free discussion, à la sermo, of other nonessential theological matters—like Luther’s doctrine of free will. Erasmus hoped that adhering to the decorum of sermo would lead interlocutors to treat each other respectfully, as equals, in a common search for truth. And while Erasmus may not have personally succeeded at converting most of his contemporaries to adopt the principles of civil dialogue, sermo remains a rhetorical genre appropriate for cooperative work in which participants seek common answers without aspiring to prevail over one another.
Schedule with Abstracts (continued)
Friday, March 7, 2008 Levin Hall, UTMB
COMPETITIVE PAPER – 2:15 – 2:45 p.m. “Rhetoric, Virtue, and Particularity: Using the Medical Humanities to Contextualize Bioethics Practice”
Daniel S. Goldberg, J.D., Ph.D. student, UTMB, Galveston, TX This presentation (based on a work under review) assesses how study of the medical humanities can influence bioethics discourse and practice. This is not to adopt a purely instrumental view of the value of the medical humanities, but the hope is that this approach will shed light on some narratives and themes important to the medical humanities. The approach is philological in nature, because important facets of the humanist educational program become apparent only through an historically informed understanding of the studia humanitatis. Chief among these is an emphasis on the study of rhetoric, with an aim to understanding what techniques will best assist the cultivation of virtue. Late humanists in particular are a model in their comfort with ambiguity, subjectivity, and particularized modes of knowing. I conclude that analysis of the studia humanitatis as applied to the culture of biomedicine can thicken bioethical analysis and facilitate empathy and the moral imagination.
Break – 2:45 – 3:00 p.m. Transportation from Tremont House to UTMB Campus – 3:00 – 3:15 p.m. TOURS 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. Ashbel Smith Building and Moody Medical Library Tour of the Ashbel Smith Building (fondly called Old Red and home of the Institute for the Medical Humanities), and the UTMB Anatomy Lab Tour of Special Exhibit at the Truman G. Blocker Collection in the History of Medicine, Moody Medical Library, 4th Floor “The Eye/I: Scientific Illustration and Medical Humanities” Mary G. Winkler, Ph.D., UTMB, Galveston, TX (retired)
The Institute for the Medical Humanities (IMH) is fortunate in having one of the foremost collections of historical medical texts available in UTMB’s Moody Medical Library. The Truman G. Blocker Collection contains many of the seminal illustrated works of western medicine‐‐including a first edition of Andreas Vesalius’ Fabric of the Human Body. The availability of this collection has been a boon to our teaching. The IMH faculty has incorporated a viewing of some of these rare books into the Humanism and the Humanities course syllabus. The Moody Medical Library and the conference organizers have arranged an opportunity for conference registrants to see a selection of these rare historical texts. Dr. Winkler will give a brief rationale for the importance of using these texts in one of the IMH graduate program core courses.
5:30 – 8:15 p.m. Levin Hall Foyer and North Auditorium 5:15 p.m. 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Transportation from Tremont House to UTMB Campus Reception, with art exhibit ‐ Eric Avery, M.D., J. Ernest (Ernie) Aguilar, M.Div., Evelyn M. (Bernadette) McKinney, J.D., Ph.D., Amanda Scarbrough, M.H.S.A., Jesse Stewart, B.A., Nobue Urushihara Urvil, M.A. ‐ and musical performance ‐ Julie Kutac, M.A. and Mark Pedersen Showing of Sophocles’ Philoctetes Introduced by Anne Hudson Jones, Ph.D. Discussion Moderator: Frederick S. Huang, M.D., UTMB Respondents: James L. Kastely, Ph.D., University of Houston and Margaret Wardlaw, M.D./Ph.D. Student, UTMB Transportation from UTMB Campus to Tremont House
6:30 – 7:30 p.m. 7:30 – 8:15 p.m.
8:30 p.m.
Schedule with Abstracts
Saturday and Sunday, March 8‐9, 2008 The Tremont House – Sam Houston Ballroom
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Continental Breakfast – 8:00 – 8:30 a.m. FEATURED SPEAKER – 8:45 – 9:45 a.m. “Reading Medicine, Teaching Medical Humanities”
Ronald A. Carson, Ph.D., UTMB, Galveston, TX Introduced by William J. Winslade, J.D., Ph.D. We late moderns, no less than our early modern forebears, are in need of new literacies of imagination and intellect to aid us in making livable sense of the ambiguities and unpredictabilities of our lives. In the midst of medical plenty, patients and doctors tend to talk past each other, not knowing what questions to ask or anticipate. The goods of health care are unevenly distributed and beyond the reach of many. Experiences of illness and injury often appear devoid of meaning, and suffering sometimes seems senseless. And all too often we unthinkingly abet medicine’s heroic efforts to fend off death long after the flame of life is reduced to a flicker. We practitioners of the medical humanities—readers and teachers—are engaged in appropriating and adapting for our time and circumstances the Renaissance tradition of the studia humanitatis, that program of studies in the arts of language and moral discernment well‐suited to sorting through the complexities and confusions of ordinary life in changing times, in search of meaning, mutual understanding, and decency.
Break – 9:45 – 10:00 a.m. INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE PROGRAM IN MEDICAL HUMANITIES – 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. Moderator: Kirk L. Smith, M.D., Ph.D. “Graduate Education in Medical Humanities in China: History and Challenges”
Daqing Zhang, Ph.D., Peking University, and Liping Guo, M.A., Peking University, Beijing, China Although there has been a long tradition of medical humanities in China, academic training in the subject, especially the program of graduate education in medical humanities, was not established until the end of the 1970s. On the one hand, the humanity of medicine was considered as common sense of medical professionals in Traditional Chinese Medicine; on the other hand, the medical education system focused on professional training and neglected training in the social and behavioral sciences for medical students in modern China, so the education in medical humanities was limited to a small circle in medical schools. Since the introduction of the biopsychosocial model in medical education at the end of the 1970s, the importance of medical humanities has been gradually stressed. This paper reviews the brief history of the program of graduate education in medical humanities and the challenges of training and teaching graduate students in China.
“The Old and the Young: Issues and Strategies Encountered in the Medical Humanities Program at the University of Sydney”
Claire Hooker, Ph.D., University of Sydney, Australia Presented by Rhonda Soricelli, M.D., Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA Medical humanities has only recently attracted attention in Australia but has been enthusiastically embraced by both the academic and practitioner communities. The University of Sydney offers the only formal degree program in medical humanities in Australia. This program is only four years old and until 2008 was located in the Faculty of Arts, not the Faculty of Medicine. This paper discusses two major teaching challenges at the University of Sydney. Firstly, the majority of students undertaking a degree in medical humanities are mid‐ to late‐career practitioners, many of whom are unfamiliar with approaches to critical thinking used in the humanities, are somewhat nervous about essay writing, and are often resistant to nonempiricist perspectives. Secondly, medical humanities is seen as an important resource for the Graduate Medical Program, which trains doctors, as a means of teaching students skills in empathy and communication. But these students are mostly very young men and women who have concentrated the bulk of their early adulthood on the mastery of technical knowledge and skills, for whom the concepts of medical humanities have little experiential meaning. In this talk I touch on two strategies we use to confront these two issues, suggesting ways the degree program in medical humanities can create a community resource for young doctors.
Schedule with Abstracts
Saturday and Sunday, March 8‐9, 2008 The Tremont House – Sam Houston Ballroom
“Twists and Turns: The Medical Humanities in the United Kingdom”
Faith McLellan, Ph.D., The Lancet, New York, NY, and Brian Hurwitz, M.D., King’s College, London, UK Medical humanities as an academic discipline is a relatively recent development in the United Kingdom. Since an original initiative in 1998 by the Nuffield Trust, an Association of Medical Humanities has been formed, regular academic conferences have been held, and new medical humanities programs established at Durham University, University College London, and King’s College London, just to name a few. These programs are configured in several ways and are aligned with different schools, departments, and disciplines, including primary care and English language and literature. Funding and support for these programs have come from a variety of sources. The Wellcome Trust, one of the world’s largest foundations, plans to award grants in the medical humanities later this year. In this presentation, I will describe some of the challenges the field has faced in the UK, as well as developments on the horizon.
Lunch (on your own) – 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: CLINICAL COMPONENTS OF GRADUATE EDUCATION IN MEDICAL HUMANITIES AT UTMB – 1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
Howard Brody, M.D., Ph.D., Michele A. Carter, Ph.D, and Sally Robinson, M.D., UTMB, Galveston, TX The Health Care Ethics area of concentration in the Institute for the Medical Humanities graduate program offers students and health‐care providers an enriched appreciation of the moral, professional, social, and practical dimensions of clinical medicine. By integrating clinical and academic learning environments and experiences, both students of medicine and humanities and practitioners have opportunities to deepen understanding of the ways in which ethical problems arise in health care and how they are analyzed and resolved. Students are provided guided opportunities to learn the culture of clinical medicine by being engaged in health‐care encounters and relationships that typify medical practice. The humanistic approach to the study of clinical ethics encourages students and practitioners to discuss and explore the different value perspectives and spheres of meaning associated with ideas of health, illness, disease, and suffering, paying close attention to issues of context and interpretation as a bridge to understanding the moral features of a clinical encounter. In this roundtable presentation, physicians, philosophers, and ethicists describe components of the clinical programs at UTMB, including the Institutional Ethics Program, Ethics Consultation Services, Clinical Practica, and Longitudinal Clinical Experience. They offer unique perspectives on the intellectual territory in which medical humanities, bioethics, and clinical medicine coalesce and attempt to serve humanistic ideals for the blending of knowledge with practical wisdom and compassionate action.
MEDICAL HUMANITIES IN OTHER KINDS OF GRADUATE PROGRAMS – 2:15 – 3:15 p.m. Moderator: Laura Hermer, J.D., L.L.M. “Medical Humanities in Public Health: Is There a Future?”
Craig M. Klugman, Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno, NV In the last decade, bioethics has begun to make inroads into the study and practice of public health. This incursion has taken the form of edited volumes, a new journal in public health ethics, model curriculum, and even the creation of a public health code of ethics (“Principles of Ethical Practice of Public Health,” 2002). However, few public health programs employ people trained in bioethics or the humanities, or offer entire courses in these topics. Of concern is that the academic accrediting body—Council on Education for Public Health—has no requirement for ethics or humanities training. Thus, when faced with a plethora of required disciplinary and knowledge areas, ethics and humanities are often neglected. Other aspects of the medical humanities such as literature, art, film, and history have made even less of an impact. The University of Nevada, Reno School of Public Health (UNR SPH) is one of the first public health programs in the country to have a specialization in public health ethics and to require a public health ethics course of all its students, as well as to offer elective courses in the humanities and professionalism. As the UNR SPH proceeds with accreditation, however, the school feels pressure to move such courses from required to elective status to rarely being offered. I will discuss the model of bioethics and humanities education that has been a foundational part of the UNR SPH and explore the difficulties faced by public health programs seeking to embrace the humanities and bioethics.
Schedule with Abstracts
Saturday and Sunday, March 8‐9, 2008 The Tremont House – Sam Houston Ballroom
“Literature and Biomedical Humanities in a Master’s in Interdisciplinary Studies”
Carol C. Donley, Ph.D., Hiram College, Hiram, OH Hiram College is home to the Center for Literature, Medicine, and Biomedical Humanities. Five years ago the college was accredited for a Master’s in Interdisciplinary Studies (MAIS). Several undergraduate biomedical humanities courses were upgraded to the Masterʹs level. Many of our MAIS students take a biomedical humanities track, which includes interdisciplinary courses using medicine, literature, bioethics and sometimes economics, the arts, history. Characteristic of all these courses is the use of literature to reveal and enrich the issues in health care. For instance, the team‐taught ʺWhatʹs Normal?ʺ focuses on disabilities (through theory, literature, ethics, case studies). Texts include an anthology of literature about disabilities, Elephant Man, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, and two books on disability studies. Attached to the annual summer symposia have been MAIS courses on human enhancement technologies and global health‐care justice. The 2008 symposium course, ʺLiterature about Values in Medical Educationʺ will observe the 30th anniversary of Shemʹs The House of God, its impact on medical residency programs, and a wide range of responses to it. The course will include Klassʹs A Not Entirely Benign Procedure. Another team‐taught MAIS course, ʺWhatʹs Human?ʺ looks at the many borderline issues involved in stem cell research, tissue cultures, xenotransplants, cloning, and biochemical enhancements. Texts include Atwoodʹs Oryx and Crake, Churchillʹs A Number, Vonnegutʹs Fortitude, Kassʹs Beyond Therapy, and Squierʹs Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Medicine.
Break – 3:15 – 3:30 p.m. UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS IN MEDICAL HUMANITIES – 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. Moderator: Harold Y. Vanderpool, Ph.D., Th.M. “Undergraduate Medical Humanities: Relationship to Medical School Education and Graduate Medical Humanities”
James A. Marcum, Ph.D., and Michael Attas, M.D., Baylor University, Waco, TX Rafael Campo’s essay “The Medical Humanities,” which appeared in the September 7, 2006, issue of JAMA, is a clarion call for change in contemporary medical education, in order to balance the “unfeeling science and uncaring economics” of contemporary medical practice with the compassion of the humanities. Although we applaud his effort to incorporate medical humanities at the level of medical school and residency, we believe that medical humanities would have a greater impact if begun at the level of undergraduate education. For the past seven years, Baylor University has offered a minor in medical humanities as part of its pre‐healthcare studies, and recently it now offers a major in it. Students may take courses in a variety of subjects, including philosophy, history, religion, sociology, literature, and economics, in which they are challenged to wrestle with the human dimension of medical knowledge and practice. We believe that undergraduate students represent an important target group for initiating studies in the medical humanities that will bear fruit in humanizing contemporary medical practice. We also believe that the earlier students are exposed to the human side of medicine, the more humane the practice of medicine will become. An important task for our program is setting the curricular agenda. Dialogue with graduate programs in the medical humanities, such as the Institute for Medical Humanities at UTMB, can provide needed guidance in setting that agenda.
“How Undergraduates Help a Graduate Program in the Medical Humanities”
Richard B. Gunderman, M.D., Ph.D., William H. Schneider, Ph.D., and Judi Izuka‐Campbell, M.B.A., Indiana University‐Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN Important synergisms can be achieved between undergraduate and graduate programs in the medical humanities, and programs that currently offer only graduate courses and degrees should be aware of the benefits that a robust undergraduate program can provide. Offering undergraduate courses often enables institutions to hire greater numbers of medical humanities faculty members than they could if they offered only graduate courses. It also expands the pool of research assistants, teaching assistants, and collaborators from which faculty members can draw. Offering undergraduate courses also provides medical humanities programs the opportunity to expose top undergraduate students to their work, thus increasing the probability that some of the best and brightest college students will choose to pursue graduate work in the field. At institutions whose medical humanities programs are confined to the graduate level, no such undergraduate introduction is possible, and in fact undergraduates at many institutions probably do not even know that the medical humanities exist. Finally, a key component of graduate education, whether at the master’s or doctoral level, is the opportunity to gain meaningful teaching experience. The “doctor” in “doctor of philosophy” means teacher, and many graduate students in medical humanities pursue careers that involve substantial teaching responsibilities, whether or not they wind up on the faculties of universities or professional schools. Undergraduate courses in the medical humanities can serve as valuable educational learning opportunities for such students. This presentation outlines these and numerous other benefits of an undergraduate program in medical humanities, based on our experience at Indiana University.
Schedule with Abstracts
Saturday and Sunday, March 8‐9, 2008 The Tremont House – Sam Houston Ballroom
Transportation from Tremont House to Gaido’s Seaside Restaurant – 6:30 – 6:45 p.m. Conference Banquet, Gaido’s Seaside Restaurant – 7:00 – 9:30 p.m. Transportation from Gaido’s Seaside Restaurant to Tremont House – 9:30 – 9:45 p.m.
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Continental Breakfast – 8:00 – 8:30 a.m. TOWARD THE FUTURE: EMERGING GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN MEDICAL HUMANITIES – 8:30 – 9:45 a.m. Moderator: Jason E. Glenn, Ph.D. “Considering the Future of the Discipline: Why and How to Create an Interdisciplinary M.D./M.A. Program in the Medical Humanities”
Stephanie Brown Clark, M.D., Ph.D., University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and Thomas Hahn, Ph.D., University of Rochester, Rochester, NY Since the 1990s interdisciplinary M.A. programs in bioethics have proliferated in the US, including on‐line and part‐ time versions. These programs provide academic preparation to work in the field, an intellectual community in which to develop a professional identity, institutional credentials to the graduates, and also academic legitimacy to the discipline itself. In medical humanities, such graduate programs have developed sporadically, and slowly. As the scholars and health‐care professionals who originated the discipline of medical humanities begin to retire, we need to consider the future of this field. The example of bioethics suggests that the creation of interdisciplinary MA programs in medical humanities has a number of advantages to legitimizing the discipline and producing graduates with academic credentials to continue the work of medical humanities in the future. The creation of an MA program is both deceptively simple and infinitely complex. In 2005, the Division of Medical Humanities at the University of Rochester Medical School began a collaboration with the Department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences to introduce a one‐year joint interdisciplinary M.A. degree for medical students and also for graduate students in the humanities. The program will begin in September 2008. The rationale and the process (the why and the how) will be discussed in this presentation. The lessons and caveats about the development of this M.D./M.A. program may be useful to those considering the introduction of graduate programs in medical humanities at their own institutions.
“Narrative Competence, Narratological Proficiency, and the Educational Goals of a Master’s Program in Medical Humanities”
Mark A. Clark, Ph.D., Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO Efforts by professors of medicine to promote narrative competence in medical school students are really aimed at cultivating something beyond competence—something I call “narratological proficiency,” a skill set that, as I shall demonstrate in this presentation, recognizes the enormously complex nature of narrative, grasps the time and devotion required for effective reading and listening, and recognizes the far‐reaching implications of narrative expression. Medical school is not the academic environment best suited to cultivating narratological proficiency, however: for three prominent reasons, a master’s program in medical humanities is. First, people require a relatively high degree of communicative, emotional, and intellectual sophistication to grasp the implications that narratological proficiency has for effective, ethical health care. Undergraduates—who, in a medical humanities certificate program, might develop some essential narrative competence—very seldom have the maturity that allows for the sophisticated understanding associated with narratological proficiency, while medical students are sufficiently preoccupied with other elements of training that they cannot devote themselves to the complex engagements of narratological endeavor. Second, graduate student status allows for sophisticated interactions with patients and health‐care professionals wherein dialogical components of treatment decision making reveal themselves and wherein students with growing narratological proficiency can appreciate the ramifications of these components. Third, graduate status affords a student the perspective from which sophisticated paths of narratological research become evident. In addition, professional collaborations and affiliations at this level enhance students’ vision of research prospects and of actions to take in pursuit of this research.
Schedule with Abstracts
Saturday and Sunday, March 8‐9, 2008 The Tremont House – Sam Houston Ballroom
Break – 9:45 – 10:00 a.m. ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: THE FUTURE OF GRADUATE EDUCATION IN MEDICAL HUMANITIES – 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. Moderator: Dayle B. DeLancey, Ph.D.
Faith Lagay, Ph.D., American Medical Association, Chicago, IL, Jason Morrow, M.D., Ph.D., Durham Regional Hospital and Duke University, Durham, NC, and Kayhan Parsi, J.D., Ph.D., Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL The closing session of the conference will begin with brief comments from three IMH alumni whose career paths have been quite different. They will offer reflections on how their graduate education in medical humanities has prepared them for the work that they are currently doing, summaries of the main ideas and themes of the conference, and recommendations for the future. Their opening remarks are intended to spark general discussion among attendees as the conference concludes.
Evaluations/Farewells – 11:30 a.m. – noon
Featured Speakers
Robert E. Proctor, Ph.D., is the Joanne Toor Cummings ’50 Professor of Italian at Connecticut College in New London, CT. He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Teaching courses on Danteʹs Divine Comedy and on the Renaissance in Italy are two of the joys of his life. He wants to inspire in students a love of Danteʹs great work and a desire to make Danteʹs journey through the afterlife a companion in their journeys through this life. He wants as well to introduce students to the beauty of Italy, and to the enduring power of works of art and literature created during the Renaissance. Professor Proctor is interested in the history of education, especially in the history of the humanities and the liberal arts. His book Educationʹs Great Amnesia: Reconsidering the Humanities from Petrarch to Freud, with a Curriculum for Todayʹs Students received the 1990 Association of American Collegeʹs Frederic W. Ness Award as the book that contributed most to liberal learning. The book was reissued in paperback in 1998 with the new title Defining the Humanities: How Rediscovering a Tradition Can Improve our Schools. He is now writing a book titled From Violence to Beauty: Roman Origins of the Liberal Arts Tradition. Professor Proctor has also published numerous articles on contemporary Italian politics and economics. He has lectured extensively on the liberal arts tradition and the humanities, including his keynote presentations ʺIs There a Place for the Studia Humanitatis in American Education?ʺ and ʺThe Relevance of the Humanities in Twentieth‐Century Americaʺ presented at the 1993 biennial conference of the National Association for Humanities Education, and the 1992 National Italian American Foundation and the Agnelli Foundation conferences, respectively.
Gary Remer, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. He is the author of a book titled Humanism and the Rhetoric of Tolerance, which was published in 1996 by Penn State Press and is the first book‐length study to link the origins of religious toleration in the West to the humanistsʹ use of rhetoric. In addition to his book on rhetoric and toleration, Remer has‐co edited Talking Democracy: Historical Perspectives on Rhetoric and Democracy, which was published by Penn State Press in 2004. Remer has also published articles on rhetoric, humanism, Cicero, and toleration in various journals, including Political Theory, The Journal of Political Philosophy, History of Political Thought, Review of Politics, and Polity. He is currently working on a book‐length manuscript on political morality and the Ciceronian rhetorical tradition.
Ronald A. Carson received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Glasgow. He is the Harris L. Kempner Distinguished Professor, and he served as director of the Institute for the Medical Humanities at UTMB from 1982 to 2005. He has directed numerous research and education projects; he lectures and consults nationally and internationally; and he is a commentator on medical ethical issues in the public media. Professor Carson has authored many articles, chapters, and reviews in both humanities and medical publications. He is co‐editor of and contributor to Practicing the Medical Humanities: Engaging Physicians and Patients, University Publishing Group, 2003. He is also a founder and co‐ editor of the journal Medical Humanities Review, a founding member of the editorial board of the journal Medical Humanities (UK), and a contributing editor of the journal Literature and Medicine.
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Michael Attas, M.D., is the Chief of Cardiology at Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center, Waco, Texas, a medical humanities professor at Baylor University, and an Episcopal priest. An M.D. graduate of UTMB, he has been practicing medicine for thirty‐five years. Dr. Attas is very involved in helping students to have a rich undergraduate research experience. He helped to begin the Medical Humanities Program at Baylor University, in which students may receive a minor. Dr. Attas continues himself to be a lifelong learner, and he thoroughly enjoys guiding undergraduate students on ways to tackle the difficult issues surrounding religious and ethical matters in medicine. Howard Brody, M.D., Ph.D., arrived at the Institute for the Medical Humanities in May 2006 to assume the position of Director. Previously, he was University Distinguished Professor of Family Practice, Philosophy, and the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences at Michigan State University (MSU), East Lansing. He served as Director of MSUʹs Center for Ethics and Humanities from 1985 to 2000. Dr. Brody received his M.D. degree from the College of Human Medicine, MSU, in 1976, and his Ph.D. in philosophy, also from MSU, in 1977. He completed a residency in family practice at the University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville. His most recent books are Hooked: Ethics, the Medical Profession, and the Pharmaceutical Industry (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006) and Michael Ryan’s Writings on Medical Ethics (in press). He is presently working on a book titled The Future of Bioethics. Michele A. Carter, Ph.D., is the Frances C. and Courtney M. Townsend, Sr., M.D. Professor in Medical Ethics at the Institute for the Medical Humanities (IMH) and Director of the Institutional Ethics Program at UTMB. In the IMH graduate program, she teaches seminars in Clinical Ethics and Philosophical Ethics and coordinates the Health Care Ethics area of specialization. She has served as a bioethicist consultant and educator to numerous federal agencies, professional health‐care organizations, academic programs, and civic groups since 1990. In 2001, she was appointed by the NIH as the Research Subject Advocate for the General Clinical Research Unit at UTMB and is responsible for a variety of educational initiatives in research ethics. She has published in biomedical and humanities journals, and in 2005 she was awarded the Dr. Leon Bromberg Professorship for Excellence in Teaching. Tod S. Chambers, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities and of Medicine and Director of Graduate Studies in the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program at Northwestern Universityʹs Feinberg School of Medicine. His areas of research include the rhetoric of bioethics and crosscultural issues in clinical medicine. For the academic year of 2003‐2004, he was a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He is currently the president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. He is the author of The Fiction of Bioethics (Routledge, 1999) and, with Carl Elliott, is coeditor of Prozac as a Way of Life (University of North Carolina Press, 2004). He is presently working on a second monograph on the rhetoric of bioethics, which will be published by Rowman & Littlefield. Mark A. Clark, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of English at Saint Louis University, where he has recently helped to design and introduce an undergraduate Certificate Program in Medical Humanities. Since teaching pre‐med students at Michigan State University, Dr. Clark has been interested in literature and medicine, narrative medicine, narratives of aging, and the memoir. His most recent publication is an article titled “Manic Depressive Narration and the Hermeneutics of Countertransference,” which appears in Narrative and Depression: Telling the Dark, ed. Hilary Clark, SUNY Press (in press).
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Stephanie Brown Clark, M.D., Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Division of Medical Humanities at the University of Rochester Medical Center and Course Director of Medical Humanities. After completing her M.A. in English Literature at the University of Western Ontario, in Canada, and a Higher Diploma in Anglo‐Irish Literature at Trinity College, in Dublin, Ireland, she completed her M.D. degree at McMaster University, Canada, in 1990, and her Ph.D. in medical history and literature at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, in 1998. Additionally, she teaches courses in medical history and in medicine and literature to students, residents, and faculty at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. She chairs the George W. Corner Society for the History of Medicine, co‐directs a program in art and medicine, and organizes a dramatic group called Readers’ Theatre Players at the Medical Center. Thomas R. Cole, Ph.D., is the McGovern Chair in Medical Humanities and Director of the John P. McGovern, M.D. Center for Health, Humanities, and the Human Spirit at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. He is also a Visiting Professor in Religious Studies at Rice University. He was formerly a professor at the Institute for the Medical Humanities at UTMB and director of the medical humanities graduate program there. Dr. Cole has published many articles and several books on the history of aging and humanistic gerontology. His book The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging in America (Cambridge University Press, 1992) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He is senior editor of What Does It Mean to Grow Old? (Duke, 1986), the Handbook of Humanities and Aging (Springer, 1992, 2nd edition, 1999), and Voices and Visions: Toward a Critical Gerontology (Springer, 1993). He coedited The Oxford Book of Aging (1995), with Mary G. Winkler, and he coedited Practicing the Medical Humanities (University Publishing Group, 2003) with Ronald A. Carson and Chester R. Burns. Dayle B. Delancey, Ph.D., joined UTMBʹs Institute for the Medical Humanities in April 2007 as Assistant Professor of the History of Medicine, having completed her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in England at the University of Manchester’s Centre for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine. Previously trained as a literary scholar at Harvard University, where she received B.A. and M.A. degrees, Dr. DeLancey’s work focuses upon lay perceptions and experiences–particularly those of African Americans. Her ongoing research projects in this area include topics in the history and ethics of vaccination, pharmaceutical development, and municipal public health campaigns. Carol C. Donley, Ph.D., holds the Andrews Chair in Biomedical Humanities at Hiram College, where she cofounded with Martin Kohn the Center for Literature, Medicine, and the Health Care Professions. Recently retired, she continues to teach part‐time in the undergraduate biomedical humanities major and in the biomedical humanities track in the graduate program. She has directed two NEH Institutes on Humanities and Medicine and has helped lead thirteen summer seminars on literature, bioethics, and medicine. Her first book was Einstein as Myth and Muse, coauthored with Alan Friedman (Cambridge University Press, 1985). She and Martin Kohn coedit the Literature and Medicine Series from Kent State University Press, which includes Literature and Aging (1993); The Tyranny of the Normal (1996); Whatʹs Normal? Narratives of Mental and Emotional Disorders (2000); Recognitions: Doctors and their Stories (2002); and nine other books. In 2008, the series will publish a new novel by Samuel Shem and a collection of critical and reflective essays on his The House of God.
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Jason E. Glenn, Ph.D., joined UTMB’s Institute for the Medical Humanities as Assistant Professor of the History of Medicine in 2006. After receiving his B.A. from Stanford University with a dual major in African and Afro‐American Studies and in Euro‐American history in 1996, he received both his M.A. and his Ph.D. in the history of science from Harvard University in 2001 and 2005, respectively. His areas of specialty include the history of drug policy in the U.S., health disparities, human subjects research, and biological notions of race and discourses of genetic determination. At UTMB, he is director of the Herman Barnett Project, which brings the local history of medicine in Texas into the Galveston public schools, and director of Sobriety High, Inc., which is a nonprofit organization providing community re‐entry services for men with a history of substance abuse who are returning to Galveston from prison. Daniel S. Goldberg, J.D., received his B.A. with honors in philosophy from Wesleyan University, his J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Houston Law Center, and is currently a Ph.D student in the medical humanities at UTMB. He is also a health policy fellow at Baylor College of Medicineʹs Chronic Disease Prevention & Control Research Center, and a Research Professor at Baylor College of Medicineʹs Initiative on Law, Brains, & Behavior. His work focuses on a variety of issues, including conflicts of interest, neuroethics, disabilities, and the social determinants of health. His forthcoming dissertation will use the lenses of the medical humanities to address the root causes of the widespread undertreatment of pain in the US. He is also interested in assessing the role of the medical humanities for health policy. Richard Gunderman, M.D., Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Radiology, Pediatrics, Medical Education, Philosophy, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy at Indiana University‐Purdue University Indianapolis, where he also serves as Vice Chair of Radiology, Director of Pediatric Radiology, Associate Director of the Medical Humanities Program, and a Faculty Fellow in the Tobias Center for Leadership Excellence. He is a five‐time recipient of the Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award and, most recently, the Herman Frederic Lieber Memorial Award, Indianaʹs highest all‐ university recognition of teaching excellence. He has published over 200 scholarly articles, and his two most recent books are Achieving Excellence in Medical Education (Springer, 2006) and We Make a Life by What We Give (Indiana University Press, 2008). He and his wife, Laura, have four children. Liping Guo, M.A., is Associate Professor of English, Department of Applied Linguistics, Peking University Health Science Center, and a part‐time Ph.D student in the history of medicine at Peking University Center for the History of Medicine, in Beijing, China. She was a guest researcher at the National Institutes of Health from 2001‐2002, conducting a “Historical Study of Biomedical Exchanges between China and the United States between 1978‐1999.” She won a bursary from the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, the University of Cambridge, UK, in 2006 to attend its summer course in science and religion. Her research interests include the missionary influence in the development of western medicine in China, the relationship of science and religion (Christianity in particular). Recently she has developed a strong interest in literature and medicine and in the religious tradition of medical ethics.
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Thomas Hahn, Ph.D., is Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies for the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Rochester. He has published articles on writing in Britain in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries (Cambridge History of Middle English Literature), the paradox of popular chivalric romance, the history of the English language, medieval manuscripts, Latin writing, Chaucer, Dante, medieval drama, romances of Alexander of Macedon, medieval and Renaissance cultural and intellectual history, and post‐modern readers and medieval texts. He is editor of Reconceiving Chaucer: Literary Theory and Historical Interpretation; Sir Gawain: Eleven Romances and Tales; and The Letter of Alexander and general editor of The Chaucer Bibliographies (National Endowment for the Humanities Program Grant, 1989‐95). He has been a fellow of both the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. He teaches courses in Chaucer, gender studies, production of the Other, and outlaw heroes. Laura Hermer, J.D., L.L.M., joined UTMB’s Institute for the Medical Humanities in August 2007 as Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Bioethics. Ms. Hermer completed her L.L.M. in health law at the University of Houston Law Center, her J.D. at Northeastern University School of Law, and her B.A. in philosophy at Hampshire College. Her areas of specialization include the law and policy of private health coverage, Medicaid and SCHIP, health coverage expansion proposals, medical malpractice, and bioethics and the law. Her most recent article, ʺMedicaid Reform in an Era of Personal Responsibility,ʺ is forthcoming in the Hastings Center Report. Claire Hooker, Ph.D., began her academic career in the history of science and medicine, when she became interested in the experiences and outlook of women scientists and medical researchers. Her attention then turned to the history of public health, where she particularly investigated methods of disease control. In more recent years she has undertaken sociological research into risk and health. She is the coordinator of the medical humanities program at the University of Sydney, in Australia, where her failure to stick to one discipline has at last become an asset. Frederick S. Huang, M.D., is the director of pediatric hematology/oncology at UTMB and a William Osler Scholar, an endowed position that recognizes excellence in providing and teaching compassionate and humanistic care. He lectures for various courses in the School of Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and School of Allied Health Sciences and participates in the clinical education of both medical students and resident physicians. He has a particular interest in the issue of health disparities, particularly in pediatric hematology/oncology. Dr. Huang received his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, where he also performed his pediatric residency. He completed his fellowship in pediatric hematology/oncology at Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati. Brian Hurwitz, M.D., is a general practitioner and D’Oyly Carte Professor of Medicine and the Arts at King’s College, London, based in the Department of English, where he teaches in the UK’s first master’s degree program in literature and medicine. He is also a member of the Health and Social Care Research Division of the Medical School. His research interests encompass clinical medicine and narrative studies in relation to medical practice, ethics, law, and the literary form of case reports. He is the author or editor of Clinical Guidelines and the Law (1998), Narrative‐Based Medicine: Dialogue and Discourse in Clinical Practice (with P. Greenhalgh, 1998), and Narrative Research in Health and Illness (with P. Greenhalgh and V. Skultans, 2004). He is currently working with Paquita de Zulueta on a medical ethics text for primary care health professionals, Everyday Ethics for GPs, and has recently completed editing Medical Mistakes, Violations and Patient Safety with Aziz Sheikh (to be published by Blackwell in 2008).
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Judi Izuka‐Campbell, M.B.A., is a research associate in the Medical Humanities & Health Studies Program at Indiana University‐Purdue University Indianapolis. She is the lead student advisor for the program, and co‐instructs the interdisciplinary undergraduate core course, Perspectives on Health, Disease and Healing. Her academic background includes an M.B.A. in finance and doctoral work in higher education and student affairs. Anne Hudson Jones, Ph.D., is the Hobby Family Professor in the Medical Humanities and Graduate Program Director at UTMBʹs Institute for the Medical Humanities (IMH). In the IMH graduate program, she teaches the core course Humanism and the Humanities and coordinates the Literature and Narrative Studies in Medicine area of specialization. One of the first literature scholars ever appointed to the faculty of a medical school, she was a founding editor of the journal Literature and Medicine, which she served as editor‐in‐chief for more than a decade (1983‐1994). She has directed two collaborative research seminars for the IMH, resulting in Images of Nurses: Perspectives from History, Art, and Literature (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988) and Ethical Issues in Biomedical Publication, coedited with Faith McLellan (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000). She has published widely in biomedical and humanities journals. Since 2000, she has been an associate editor of Annals of Internal Medicine. James L. Kastely, Ph.D., is an associate professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston. He publishes in the history and theory of rhetoric, and his essays have appeared in PMLA, Rhetorica, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Rhetoric Review, and elsewhere. His book Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition: From Plato to Postmodernism (Yale University Press, 1997) explores a skeptical tradition within the history of rhetoric, arguing that Plato and the Greek tragedians initiated an important philosophical inquiry into the enduring problem of the relationship of language to injustice. His teaching has been recognized by the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Houston with a Teaching Excellence Award, and he has twice been named graduate teacher of the year by Graduate English Society. Craig M. Klugman, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Bioethics at the School of Public Health as well as founder and Chair of the Program in Health Care Ethics at the Nevada Center for Ethics & Health Policy, all at the University of Nevada, Reno. He teaches undergraduates, public health, medical, nursing, and EMS students. Dr. Klugman designed and teaches the first 14‐hour EMS Ethics course in the US. His research focuses on end‐of‐life issues, the social role of bioethics, and public health ethics. He is a coauthor in the edited volume, Meaning in Suffering, which won the 2007 American Journal of Nursing Research Book of the Year Award. He is coeditor of the upcoming volume Ethical Issues in Rural Health Care (Johns Hopkins University Press, Winter 2008) and most recently published an authoethnography on end‐of‐life care choices in Crisis Illness & Loss (January 2008). Faith Lagay, Ph.D., is Director of the Ethics Resource Center at the American Medical Association (AMA) in Chicago and editor of the AMA’s online, open‐access ethics journal Virtual Mentor (www.virtualmentor.org). She received a doctorate in the medical humanities from the Institute for the Medical Humanities at UTMB in 1999. Prior to that, she had many years of experience as a writer and university‐level teacher of composition and literature. She has published in the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Medical Humanities Review, The Lancet, and Free Inquiry, and has chapters on the humanities in several medical ethics texts. She has a keen interest in educating the medical community, particularly students, about medical issues that demand public policy decisions. Pursuing this goal entails a commitment to the principles of deliberative democracy and their roots in the humanist tradition.
Authors, Speakers, Moderators
James A. Marcum, Ph.D., is Director of the Medical Humanities Program and Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He received doctorates in philosophy from Boston College and in physiology from the University of Cincinnati Medical College. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a faculty member at Harvard Medical School before coming to Baylor University. His current research interests involve the philosophy and history of science and medicine. His current projects include philosophical analysis of laboratory and clinical practices, the discovery of reverse transcriptase, and the development of the oncogene theory of cancer. Examples of his recent publications include articles in Synthese, Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Perspectives on Science, Annals of Science, and History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. His most recent book is An Introductory Philosophy of Medicine: Humanizing Modern Medicine, Philosophy and Medicine Series (Springer, 2008). Faith McLellan, Ph.D., is North American Senior Editor of The Lancet, based in New York City. She is also Visiting Research Associate in the literature and medicine M.A. program of the Department of English Language and Literature, King’s College, London. McLellan earned a doctorate in the medical humanities at UTMB in 1997. Her dissertation was about Internet narratives of illness. Before coming to The Lancet, she was Editorial Director of Praxis Press, an online decision‐support tool for physicians; Managing Editor of the Physicians Information and Education Resource, a project of the American College of Physicians in Philadelphia; and an author’s editor for the Departments of Anesthesiology at UTMB and the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston‐Salem, North Carolina. McLellan is past president of the Council of Science Editors and coeditor, with Anne Hudson Jones, of Ethical Issues in Biomedical Publication (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000). Jo Ann Middleton, Ph.D., is Affiliate Associate Professor and the Founding Director of Medical Humanities in the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, Drew University. She also established and served as Director of the Medical Humanities Program at Raritan Bay Medical Center, Perth Amboy, NJ, from1990 to 2007. She received her B.A. from Manhattanville College, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Drew University. Dr. Middleton is the author of Willa Cather’s Modernism: A Study of Style and Technique (Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1990). Her “Medical Ethics: A Curriculum for the Internal Medicine Residency” was published in Educational Clearinghouse in Internal Medicine (Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine, 1995). She has also published essays on clinical ethics, medical humanities training and ethics curricula for residents, medicine in the works of Willa Cather, and aging, death and dying in literature, and, for seven years, she authored the chapter “Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s” in American Literary Scholarship (Duke, 1992‐1998). Jason Morrow, M.D., Ph.D., practices Hospital Medicine and leads the Palliative Care Consultation Service at Durham Regional Hospital in Durham, North Carolina. He also holds a faculty appointment in Internal Medicine at Duke University Hospital. He lectures on issues related to ethics and end‐of‐life care, participates in the ethics consultation service, and serves on the hospital ethics committee. He trained in Internal Medicine at the University of Virginia, where he developed a narrative‐based Intern Professionalism and Support Group. He earned his M.D./Ph.D. in medical humanities at UTMB in 2004.
Authors, Speakers, Moderators
Kayhan Parsi, J.D., Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director at the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. He teaches courses in the online graduate program and is a co‐course director for a first‐year medical school course. He sits on the ethics committee and the Institutional Review Board and is active in the ethics consultation service. He was elected in 2006 and re‐elected in 2007 to the nominating committee of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. He is currently serving as the chair of the Council of Graduate School Programs at Loyola for the year 2007‐2008. He coedited with Myles Sheehan Healing as Vocation: A Medical Professionalism Primer (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006). He received a B.A. in history from Rice University, a J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center, and a Ph.D. in medical humanities from UTMB in 1998. Sally S. Robinson, M.D., is a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UTMB and was the Medical Director of the Children’s Hospital and of the Pediatric Inpatient Service, which includes Pediatric Intensive Care, the Children’s Restorative Care, and the General Pediatric Units. In 2002, she was named the first Q. T. Box Professor. She worked in the private practice of pediatrics for twenty‐six years, and she worked with children with special needs as medical director of the Moody State School for Cerebral Palsied Children and then as the medical director of the Pediatric Rehabilitation Unit at UTMB. Dr. Robinson has been honored by the Texas Occupational Therapy Association for her work with interdisciplinary teams and received the Mustard Seed Award from the Sealy Society for her work in reaching out to special needs children by telemedicine. She was recently awarded the Steel Oleander Award, an award given by the Galveston Daily News and the Galveston Historical Foundation for service to the community of Galveston. William H. Schneider, Ph.D., is Professor of History, Baker‐Ort Chair of International Healthcare Philanthropy in the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, and Director of the Medical Humanities Program, based in the School of Liberal Arts. He is a core faculty member of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics with an adjunct appointment in the Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics in the School of Medicine. He has authored many articles, edited volumes and two monographs on modern French history and the history of science and medicine. He has received Fulbright and National Science Foundation fellowships, plus research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and National Institutes of Health. He teaches classes in the history of medicine, science, and technology as well as modern European history. His research interests include global health, humanitarian assistance, the history of eugenics, and the history of serology. Kirk L. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., is the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Assistant Professor in the School of Allied Health Sciences, and a member of the Institute for the Medical Humanities (IMH) at UTMB. Continuing work he began as an M.D./Ph.D. student at UTMB, he is now Executive Director of Frontera de Salud, a volunteer service organization of medical, nursing, and allied health students caring for the underserved. He serves as Associate Director for Community Outreach for UTMB’s Stark Diabetes Center and is a Soros Advocacy Fellow. Dr. Smith’s collaboration with Hunan Normal University in Changsha, China, where he is an adjunct professor, grew out of his collaboration with Jing‐bao Nie, M.D., Ph.D., while both were IMH graduate students.
Authors, Speakers, Moderators
Rhonda Soricelli, M.D., came to the United States in 1972 following her graduation from the University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine. Now an independent scholar and physician‐educator, her work in the medical humanities and clinical ethics is strongly influenced by her background in private practice nephrology (Portland, Oregon), academic internal medicine (Hahnemann University School of Medicine, now Drexel), and an NEH Fellowship in Literature and Medicine. She continues to direct and teach medical humanities electives at Drexel University. From 2002–2007, Dr. Soricelli chaired the Section on Medicine and the Arts and led a fully ‐funded Humanism in Medicine Initiative at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, developing an innovative program series that engaged the six medical schools in the Philadelphia region, the professional community, and the lay public. In addition to her involvement with professional societies in the US, she maintains close ties with the University of Sydney and participated in the founding of the Medical Humanities Program there. Harold Y. Vanderpool, Ph.D., Th.M., is James Wade Rockwell Professor in the History and Philosophy of Medicine in the Institute for the Medical Humanities (IMH) at UTMB. He lectures, gives rounds, leads discussion groups in the School of Medicine, and teaches courses in the IMHʹs medical humanities graduate program, for which he coordinates the Religion and Medicine area of specialization. He also directs a course on the Regulation and Ethics of Clinical Research for the School of Medicineʹs General Clinical Research Center and is co‐director of the Ethics in Scientific Research course for the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. His more than sixty publications include The Ethics of Research with Human Subjects: Facing the 21st Century (University Publishing Group, 1996). Dr. Vanderpool has consulted widely for federal agencies and presently serves as a member of the Ethics Committee of the International Xenotransplantation Association (IXA). Margaret P. Wardlaw, B.A., is an M.D./Ph.D. student at UTMB currently doing graduate work at the Institute for the Medical Humanities. While an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin in the Plan II honors program, she did ethnographic research about the effects of the hospital environment on midwives and obstetricians working in in‐hospital birth centers. After graduation she spent time at Maternidad La Luz, a direct entry midwifery program in El Paso. Margaret is the recipient of a John P. McGovern Student Scholarship in Oslerian Medicine. She is active in Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Galveston and is currently a student director of the free clinic run by medical students at St. Vincentʹs. Mary G. Winkler, Ph.D., until her retirement in 2000, was Associate Professor and Associate Graduate Program Director at UTMBʹs Institute for the Medical Humanities (IMH). Drawing on her background in early modern history, she was instrumental in creating Humanism and the Humanities as a core course for the IMH graduate program. While on the IMH faculty, she worked to make art and visual studies an integral part of study in the medical humanities. She directed a collaborative research project that resulted in the volume The Good Body: Asceticism in Contemporary Culture (Yale University Press, 1994), coedited with Letha B. Cole. [Her article ʺThe Anatomical Theaterʺ is included in the conference registration packet as an introduction both to UTMBʹs anatomy lab in the Ashbel Smith (Old Red) Building and to images from the Truman G. Blocker History of Medicine Collection in UTMBʹs Moody Medical Library.‐‐AHJ]
Authors, Speakers, Moderators
William J. Winslade, Ph.D., J.D., is James Wade Rockwell Professor of Philosophy of Medicine, Professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and is a member of the Institute for the Medical Humanities at UTMB. He is also Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Houston Health Law and Policy Institute. His academic and professional background includes a Ph.D. in philosophy from Northwestern University, a J.D. from UCLA Law School, a Ph.D. in Psychoanalysis from the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, and an Honorary D.H.L. from Monmouth College. He is a Fellow of the Hastings Center. Philosophic, legal, and psychoanalytic ideas are applied in his work to the study of human values in science, medicine, technology, and law. Professor Winsladeʹs books include Confronting Traumatic Brain Injury: Devastation, Hope and Healing (Yale University Press, 1998) and Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine, 6th edition (McGraw‐Hill, 2006). Daqing Zhang, Ph.D., is Professor of History of Medicine and Director of the Center for the History of Medicine at Peking University, in Beijing, China. He received his Ph.D. in 1996 from Beijing Medical University and was a visiting scholar at Yale University, Section of the History of Medicine, from 2001‐2002. He is also the Director of the Commission of the History of Medicine, Chinese Society for the History of Science & Technology; and Vice‐Director of the Chinese Commission of the Philosophy of Medicine. His research interests include the cultural and social history of medicine in nineteenth‐ and twentieth‐century China, comparative history (particularly that of Traditional Chinese Medicine and western medicine), and medical cultures since the late nineteenth century. Recently, he is especially interested in the activities of missionary physicians in China and in education in medical humanities. Professor Zhang has published many papers in national and international journals. His recent books include A Social History of Diseases in Modern China (Jinan: Shandong Education Press, 2006) and A History of Medicine (textbook) (Beijing: Peking University Press, 2007).
Director and Actors
Bryan Doerries is a New York‐based writer and director. Over the past decade he has directed many of his own translations of Greek and Roman plays at theaters and universities across the country. Recent theatrical projects include The Bacchae of Euripides; Sophoclesʹ Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Bloodhounds, and Philoctetes; Senecaʹs Phaedra and Octavia; and Virgilʹs Aeneid, Book IV. He has a B.A. in classics from Kenyon College and an M.F.A. in directing from the University of California, Irvine. Over the past two years, Doerries‘s translation of Philoctetes has enjoyed staged readings at Anne Bogartʹs SITI Company, The Culture Projectʹs Impact Festival, and, most recently, at The Weill Medical College of Medicine of Cornell University. A two‐day conference at Bard College (centered on The Philoctetes Project) has been set for March 21‐22, 2008. Dr. Jonathan Shay, author of Achilles in Vietnam, will participate. Mr. Doerries has also been invited to present a reading of Philoctetes at Camp Pendleton for 800 mental health professionals at the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Stress Conference in early May 2008. Jesse Eisenberg (Neoptolemus) has been in the films The Squid and The Whale, Roger Dodger, and The Hunting Party and plays the title role in the upcoming The Education of Charlie Banks. On stage, he most recently played Philip in Lyle Kesslerʹs Orphans, opposite Al Pacino and Shawn Hatosy. Adam Ludwig (Odysseus) is an actor and a member of the Philoctetes staff. He edits the Philoctetes Web site and the newsletter, Dialog. He has performed at regional theaters throughout the country, including Berkeley Rep, The Old Globe, The Pittsburgh Public, and A.C.T. He has appeared on television and in film and most recently played one of the leads in the Off‐Broadway comedy Jewtopia. He has an M.F.A. in acting from the American Conservatory Theater. John Schmerlingʹs (Chorus, Merchant, Herakles) Off‐ and Off‐Off‐Broadway performances include King Lear, The Golem, Billy Budd, Henry IV, Part I, Of Mice and Men, Pericles, Anouilh’s Antigone, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Tempest, Hamlet, and The Brothers Karamazov. He created the role of Maurice in the original cast of Tennessee Williams‘s Something Cloudy, Something Clear and appeared in the reading of Oscar Wildeʹs Salome with Al Pacino, Marisa Tomei, and David Strathairn. He is a member of Actorsʹ Studio. Michael Stuhlbarg (Philoctetes) was last seen as Edward Voysey in David Mametʹs new adaptation of Harley Granville Barkerʹs The Voysey Inheritance at the Atlantic Theater Company (OBIE, Joe A. Callaway Award, Lucille Lortel nomination, Drama League Honoree). His Broadway credits include The Pillowman (Tony nomination, Drama Desk Award, Drama League Honoree), The Invention of Love, Cabaret, Taking Sides, Saint Joan, Timon of Athens, The Government Inspector, Three Men on A Horse. Off‐ Broadway appearances include Measure for Pleasure (Lortel nomination, Drama League Honoree), Twelfth Night, The Winterʹs Tale, A Dybbuk, Richard II, Henry VIII, Allʹs Well That Ends Well, Woyzeck, As You Like It (all with the Public Theater), Belle Epoque (Lincoln Center), The Mysteries (CSC), The Grey Zone (MCC), Old Wicked Songs (Drama League Honoree), Sweetbitter Baby (Playwrightʹs Horizons), Mad Forest (MTC). Film/TV: Body of Lies, Afterschool, Damages; Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The Grey Zone, Solidarity, A Price above Rubies, The Hunley, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, and Alexander Hamilton.
Artists
J. Ernest (Ernie) Aguilar, M.Div., came to the Institute for the Medical Humanities from New York City, where he worked as the Director of Pastoral Care at a health‐care facility that primarily serves men and women who are HIV positive. He earned his B.S. in Applied Learning and Development in 1994 from the University of Texas at Austin and then went on to get a Master of Divinity in 2000 at the Washington Theological Union in Washington, DC. He is currently writing his dissertation on “A Narrative Approach to Intercultural Communication in Medical Education.” Eric Avery, M.D., is both a printmaker and physician/psychiatrist working in the HIV and psychiatry clinics at UTMB. He is a clinical associate professor of psychiatry and an associate member of the Institute for Medical Humanities. His art–primarily prints, three‐dimensional paper objects, and installations–explores issues such as social responses to disease, death, sexuality, and the body. He has had numerous solo exhibitions in the United States, and his prints are in leading collections, including the Library of Congress, Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. In the United Kingdom, his work is included in The Wellcome Trust Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Dr. Avery’s artwork is on line at his Web site: www.DocArt.com. Evelyn M. (Bernadette) Mckinney, J.D., Ph.D., graduated from UTMB with a Ph.D. in medical humanities in May 2007. She has accepted a postdoctoral fellowship with the Institute for the Medical Humanities to explore legal and ethical issues in correctional health care. In addition to her research, she plans to teach medical students, offer continuing education lectures to health‐care professionals, and continue to serve on hospital committees. Her dissertation is titled “Medical Error: Overcoming Barriers to Truthful Disclosure.” Amanda Scarbrough, M.H.S.A., received her Master of Health Services Administration from George Washington University in Washington, DC. She recently accepted a tenure‐track position at Texas State University as an assistant professor in the College of Health Professions, School of Health Administration. She is writing her dissertation on “The Medicare End‐Stage Renal Disease Program– The History, the Politics, and the Ethics of a Disease‐Specific Federally Funded Health‐Care Program.” Jesse Stewart, B.A., an M.D./Ph.D. student, began medical school at UTMB in the fall of 2005. He previously received his bachelorʹs degree in biology from Texas A&M University, College Station. Jesse comes to the Institute for the Medical Humanities with a general interest in the integration of the liberal arts and the medical sciences. Nobue Urushihara Urvil, M.A., received her B.A. in the English language and her M.A. in American Literature from Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan. She completed her doctoral program at Sophia University and worked there three years as a lecturer of English in the General Education Program. Her main focus is literature and medicine, and she is interested in translating narratives of illness and physician‐authors’ works from both the USA and Japan.
Musicians
Julie Kutac, M.A., is a fourth‐year Ph.D. student at the Institute for the Medical Humanities and has recently joined the Sealy Center on Aging as a pre‐doctoral fellow studying aging among minority groups. She has an M.A. in religious studies from Rice University and a B.S. in molecular biology from Texas Lutheran University. She is also a coloratura soprano and an accomplished musician. In high school, she was a member of the 1997 Texas All‐State Choir under the direction of John Rutter. She was also one of only sixty‐six vocal students in Texas to receive an Outstanding Performer Award from the University Interscholastic League. She was a soloist with the historic Texas Lutheran Concert choir, and served as Soprano Section Leader for three years. She has performed with the Rice University Chorale and the Houston Choral Showcase. Currently, she is a member of the Bay Area Chorus under the direction of Keith Dixon.
Mark Pedersen is currently a junior premedical piano performance major at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He studies with Dr. James Williams and is preparing to give his junior recital, covering works of Bach, Beethoven, and Chopin. Mark is an experienced collaborator, having accompanied vocalists in settings varying from musical theater to recitals to competitions. Mark’s connection with the Institute for the Medical Humanities dates to this past summer when he was a student in the Graduate School’s Summer Undergraduate Research Program at UTMB. With Dr. Anne Hudson Jones as his mentor, Mark researched and analyzed portrayals of madness in select operas from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries. He is looking forward to starting his graduate studies in the fall of 2009.
IMH Alumni (M.A.)
1992
Janet Claire Beasley, M.A., Ph.D., “A Plea for Medical Excuses” (Chair: Winslade). Received Ph.D. in 2001 from University of Colorado; employed outside academia. Maureen Milligan, Ph.D., M.A., “Not God, Not Disease: The Philosophy of Alcoholics Anonymous” (Chair: Winslade). Deputy Chief of Staff, Texas Health & Human Services Commission, Austin, TX. Cielo Perdomo, M.A., “Healing Ethics: A Virtue Approach to Decision Making in Medical Ethics” (Chair: Carson). Bilingual Teacher, Houston Independent School District, Houston, TX.
1994
Dale Meyer (Alexander), R.R.T, M.A., “The Averted Glance: Disfigurement and the Morality of Looking“ (Chair: Winkler). Manager of Respiratory Care Services, Novato Community Hospital, CA.
1995
Anne‐Marie Giesel, M.A., “The Role Hospice Assumed in Twentieth‐Century American Medicine” (Chair: Burns). Wife and mother, Ennis, TX.
2000
Dana Bjarnason, R.N., M.A., Ph.D., “End‐of‐Life Care: Understanding and Enhancing the Nurse‐ Patient Dialogue” (Chair: Jones). Received Ph.D. in nursing from UTMB, 2007. Administrative Director, Medical Surgical Services, Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital, Houston, TX.
2001
Scott Ryan Gregory, M.A., M.D.,“A Place for Piety: The Role of Religion in Early Anglo‐American Texts on Medical Ethics” (Chair: Burns). Received M.D. from UTMB, 2005. Resident in Internal Medicine, The George Washington University, Washington, DC. Richard Homan, M.D., M.A., “In Search of a Comprehensive Health Policy Metaphor” (Chair: Winslade). Deceased, 2002.
2002
Melissa Astala, M.A., J.D., “Stopping the Silence: Understanding the Problems of Miscarriage” (Chair: Winslade). Attorney, Boston & Hughes, P.C., Houston, TX.
2006
Marissa Gostanian, M.A., “Physician, Heal Thyself: Desire and Impairment in Physicianʹs Writings” (Chair: Jones). Administrator, Center for Bioethics, Science, and Society, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL. Rebecca Lunstroth, J.D., M.A., “Employer‐Based Health Insurance in the United States from 1920– Present: The Fall of an Empire” (Chair: Winslade). Instructor/Senior Program Development Officer, The John P. McGovern, M.D. Center for Health, Humanities, and the Human Spirit, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, TX.
2007
Toni D’Agostino, M.A., “Fully Informed Consent: Can Public Trust Be Restored and Harms Avoided?” (Chair: Carter). Director, Office of Sponsored Programs, UTMB.
IMH Alumni (Ph.D.)
1989
Craig Brestrup, M.S.S.W., Ph.D., “Martin Buberʹs I‐Thou Relation within the Sphere of Nature” (Chair: Gadow). President and Executive Director, Texas Association of Sanctuaries, Glen Rose, TX.
1990
Susan Baker, R.N., Ph.D., “Information, Decision Making, and the Relationship Between Clients and Health Care Professionals in Published Personal Narratives” (Chair: Gadow). Professor and Director, Canseco School of Nursing, Texas A&M International University, Laredo, TX. Johanna (Schmid) Price, Ph.D., “Tuberculosis in West Texas 1870‐1940” (Chair: Burns). Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, CA.
1991
Jaclyn Low, O.T.R., Ph.D., “Worthy of Great Things: Development and Disability” (Chair: Cole). Retired Dean, School of Occupational Therapy, Texas Women’s University, Houston, TX. Suzanne Peloquin, O.T.R., Ph.D., “Art in Practice: When Art Becomes Caring” (Chair: Winkler). Professor, Occupational Therapy, School of Allied Health Sciences, UTMB.
1992
Patricia Jakobi, Ph.D., “American Attitudes toward the Dependent Poor: Implements to an Equitable National Health Care System” (Chair: Cole). Editor and Grantswriter, Office of Community Outreach, UTMB. Van McCrary, J.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., “Dwelling in the Shadow: Physiciansʹ Decision Making for Terminally Ill Patients” (Chair: Winslade). Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine, Division of Medicine in Society, SUNY‐School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY. Poldi Tschirch, R.N., Ph.D., “The Caring Tradition: Nursing Ethics in the United States 1890‐1915” (Chair: Cayleff). Director of Distance Education, Telehealth Center, UTMB. Larry Wygant, Ph.D., “Medicine and Public Health in Galveston, Texas: The First Century” (Chair: Burns). Retired and self‐employed, Wygant Indexing, Galveston, TX.
1995
Mary White, Ph.D., “Reconfiguring Autonomy: Genetic Counseling as a Socially Embedded Practice” (Chair: Carson). Associate Professor, Department of Community Health, Wright State University‐School of Medicine, Dayton, OH.
1996
Martha Holstein, Ph.D., “Negotiating Disease: Senile Dementia and Alzheimerʹs Disease” (Chair: Cole). Independent researcher, Chicago, IL. Claudia Rappaport, M.S.S.W., Ph.D., “To Make Treatment Effective: The Development of Medical Social Work at Massachusetts General Hospital 1905‐1945” (Chair: Burns). Assistant Professor of Social Work and Coordinator of Field Placements, Tarleton State University‐Central Texas, Killeen, TX.
IMH Alumni (Ph.D.)
1997
Faith McLellan, Ph.D., “The Electronic Narrative of Illness” (Chair: Jones). North American Senior Editor, The Lancet, New York, NY.
1998
Deborah S. Cummins, Ph.D., “A Critical Examination of the Practice of Health Care Ethics Consultation” (Chair: Winslade). Director, Research/Evidence Analysis, American Dietetic Association, Chicago, IL. Gretchen Aumann Kelly, R.N., Ph.D., “Public Policy and Pregnant Drug Abusers: The Rise of Fetal Rights” (Chair: Cole). L and D/Antepartum Services Educator, Perinatal Services, Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital, Houston, TX. Kayhan Parsi, J.D., Ph.D., “Metaphorical Imagination: The Legal and Moral Status of Embryos and Fetuses in Four Common Law Countries” (Chair: Winslade). Associate Professor of Bioethics and Health Policy and Graduate Program Director, Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL. Kristi Schrode Travers, J.D., Ph.D., “A Critical Analysis of Hospital Futility Policies” (Chair: Winslade). Senior Counsel, Johnson and Johnson Law Department, Mountain View, CA. Cheryl Vaiani, R.N., Ph.D., “Regarding Anencephaly: Its History, Images, and Issues” (Chair: Winkler). Assistant Professor, Clinical Ethicist, Institute for the Medical Humanities, UTMB.
1999
Faith Lagay, Ph.D., “A Humanist Analysis of Ethical Arguments Concerning Germline Genetic Engineering” (Chair: Carter). Director, Ethics Standards Group, Institute for Ethics, American Medical Association, Chicago, IL. Jing Bao Nie, M.D., Ph.D., “Voices behind the Silence: Chinese Moral Beliefs and Experiences of Abortion in Cultural Context” (Chair: Vanderpool). Senior Lecturer, Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand; Adjunct Professor, Institute of Ethics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China; Faculty Associate, Center for the History of Medicine, Medical School, Peking University, Beijing, China.
2000
Charles Hinkley, Ph.D., “Value Conflicts and Moral Residue in the Quest for Transplantable Organs” (Chair: Winslade). Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX. Kirk L. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., “Shaping Illness: How Ideology Constructs Concepts of Disease” (Chair: Carson). Director, Frontera de Salud, Arnold P. Gold Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, UTMB.
2001
Craig Klugman, Ph.D., “An Exploration of Witnessesʹ Stories of Death” (Chair: Vanderpool). Associate Professor of Bioethics, School of Public Health, and Chair, Program in Health Care Ethics, Nevada Center for Ethics and Health Policy, University of Nevada, Reno.
IMH Alumni (Ph.D.)
2002
Alexandra (Bambas) Nolen, Ph.D., “Health Inequity and Contemporary Development: A Concept Analysis and Strategy for the Formulation of Just Public Policy” (Chair: Carter). Contractor, San Antonio, TX. Cheryl Erwin, J.D., Ph.D., “Evaluating Expertise: Towards A Humanistic Perspective of Expert Opinion” (Chair: Winslade). Assistant Professor, The John P. McGovern, M.D. Center for Health, Humanities, and the Human Spirit, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, TX. Laura Kicklighter, Ph.D., “Prophetic Voices: Religionʹs Role in the Public Sphere” (Chair: Carson). Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, VA. James Templer, M.F.A., Ph.D., “Medical Technology Art: A Reunion of Art and Medicine” (Chair: Jones). Vice President for Instruction, College of the Mainland, Texas City, TX.
2004
Michael Bevins, M.D., Ph.D., “The Practice of Medicine” (Chair: Carson). Family Doctor, Medical Director, Homecare and Hospice Program, Seton Marble Falls Healthcare Center, Marble Falls, TX. Amy McGuire, J.D., Ph.D., “Respect for Research Subjects: Reality or Rhetoric?” (Chair: Winslade). Assistant Professor, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. Jason Morrow, M.D., Ph.D., “Awakening to Humanity: Sources of Moral Authority and Responsiveness in Doctor‐Patient Relationships” (Chair: Carson). Physician, Department of Hospital Medicine, Division of Palliative Care, Durham Regional Hospital, and Internal Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC. Toni Witherow, Ph.D., “In the Best Interests of the Child: Challenging the Ethics of Adoption” (Chair: More). Middle school teacher, Hope Mills, NC.
2005
Alison Rutledge, Ph.D., Ph.D., “Narratives of Mental Illness and the Joint Creation of Narrative in the Patient‐Clinician Relationship” (Chair: Jones). Psychological Associate, Pathology Research, UTMB. Joal Hill, J.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., “Expertise and Citizenship: Public Bioethics and the Ethicistʹs Role” (Chair: Carter). Advocate IRB, Advocate Health Care, Park Ridge, IL.
2006
Stacey Tovino, J.D., Ph.D., “The Visible Brain: Confidentiality and Privacy Implications of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging” (Chair: Winslade). Assistant Professor of Law, Health Law Center, Hamline University School of Law, Saint Paul, MN. Robin Solomon, Ph.D., “Cultivating Shared Decision Making in the Physician‐Patient Relationship: Re‐ Conceptualizing Patient Autonomy” (Chair: Winslade). Clinical Ethics Fellow, St. Josephʹs Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ. Heather Wooten, Ph.D., “The Polio Years in Harris and Galveston Counties: 1930‐1962” (Chair: Vanderpool). Currently on leave to revise her dissertation into a book titled Battling a Terrifying Unknown: The Polio Years in Texas, to be published by Texas A&M University Press in 2008.
IMH Alumni (Ph.D.)
2007
John D. Caskey, M.D., Ph.D., “Cultivating Moral Medicine: Ethical Criticism and the Relevance of Richard Selzer to Medical Ethics Education” (Chair: Jones). Resident, Brown Universityʹs Triple Board Program, which is a combined residency in Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Child Psychiatry, Providence, RI. Evelyn M. (Bernadette) McKinney, J.D., Ph.D., “Medical Error: Overcoming Barriers to Truthful Disclosure” (Chair: Winslade). Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for the Medical Humanities, UTMB. Angela Lea Scott, M.D., Ph.D., “The Stories We Sell: A Narrative Analysis of Direct‐to‐Consumer Drug Advertisements” (Chair: Jones). Applying for residencies in pediatrics, Chapel Hill, NC.
Registration
The full registration fee includes:
•IMH Graduate Student Research Colloquium including continental breakfast and lunch •Thursday evening reception •Friday evening special event •Three continental breakfasts •One lunch •All refreshment breaks •Abstract book
Registration Rates
$125.00 (regular) $ 50.00 one day only (regular)
$ 25.00 (full‐time students and residents) $ 10.00 one day only (full‐time students and residents) $ 30.00 (conference banquet)
To register, fill out the registration form below:
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Ways to register
Mail: University of Texas Medical Branch Institute for the Medical Humanities c/o Donna Vickers 301 University Blvd. Galveston, TX 77555‐1311 USA E‐mail: davicker@utmb.edu (Donna Vickers) Phone: 409‐772‐9396 Fax: 409‐772‐5640 (Attention: Donna Vickers)
After February 15, 2008, you must call or register on‐ site. Cancellation policy: All cancellation requests must be made in writing. A $25 processing fee applies to all cancellations. No refunds will be made on cancellations postmarked after February 15, 2008.
Payment
Check (enclosed)
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Hotels
The Tremont House has been selected as the conference hotel. A special conference rate of $139.00 (single/double) plus any taxes or fees has been obtain. Plan to book early and mention Graduate Education in Medical Humanities. The special rate expires on February 1, 2008, or when the negotiated room block has been filled. After that time, higher rates may apply. The Tremont House‐A Wyndham Historic Hotel in Galveston, Texas, combines the charm of the Victorian Gulf Coast with the elegance of a grand tour of the Continent. Nestled in the center of Galvestonʹs brilliant Strand Historic District, this charming historic Galveston hotel offers a standard of comfort and service that experienced travelers describe in one word–ʺEuropean.ʺ The Tremont House A Wyndham Historic Hotel 2300 Ship’s Mechanic Row Galveston, TX 77550‐1520 Phone: 409‐763‐0300 Fax: 409‐763‐1539 Web address: http://www.galveston.com/thetremonthouse/
A courtesy rate of $139.00 (single/double Island view) and $159.00 (single/double Ocean view) plus taxes and fees has been obtained at The Hotel Galvez for anyone wishing to stay on the beach. Contact in‐house reservations directly at 409‐765‐7721 between the hours of 8:00 a.m.– 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday and mention the name of the conference, Graduate Education in Medical Humanities. Rooms must be booked 1 month prior to event day and are based on hotel availability at the time of the reservation. No rooms are guaranteed. Since 1911, gracious hospitality, comfort, and Old World charm have been the standard at the grand dame of all Island hotels. Hotel Galvez A Wyndham Historic Hotel 2024 Seawall Blvd. Galveston, TX 77550 Phone: 409‐765‐7721 Fax: 409‐765‐5780 Web address: http://www.galveston.com/galvez/index1.html
A special courtesy rate has been obtained at The Commodore on the Beach: Thursday, $69.00 (single/double); Friday/Saturday, $109.00 (single/double) plus taxes and fees. All rooms offer a spectacular beach front view of the Gulf of Mexico. The Commodore On the Beach 37th and Seawall Blvd. Galveston, TX 77552‐0830 Phone: 409‐763‐2375 Fax: 409‐763‐2379 Web address: http://www.commodoreonthebeach.com/
Event locations
* Open Gates was built for Galveston merchant, banker, and philanthropist George Sealy and his wife, Magnolia Willis Sealy. The home known as Open Gates was designed by Stanford White of the New York architectural firm McKim, Mead & White and is thought to be White’s only design in this region. Construction of the neo‐Renaissance mansion took from 1887 to 1889, and was supervised by Galveston architect Nicholas Clayton, whose designs of the time included the Ashbel Smith Building (Old Red), the original John Sealy Hospital, and the carriage house for Open Gates. The home was a center of commercial and social life in Galveston for many years, and it was used as a refuge during the 1900 hurricane. In 1979, the Sealy family gave the structure to UTMB. Today, a variety of meetings, seminars, and receptions, including teleconferences, take place at the Open Gates Conference Center. Open Gates is located at 2419 Sealy Street, Galveston, TX 77550.
** Levin Hall, named in honor of Dr. William C. Levin, former UTMB president, is a main gathering place on the UTMB campus. It features a large auditorium named for former U.S. congressman Clark W. Thompson, who served as representative from the 9th Congressional District during the Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations and two smaller side auditoriums that can be rotated to join the main auditorium. It houses the administrative offices of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and features an attractive foyer for special receptions, as well as a large dining room. Levin Hall is located at the corner of 11th and Market St.
*** The Tremont House‐A Wyndham Historic Hotel combines the charm of the Victorian Gulf Coast with the elegance of a grand tour of the Continent. Nestled in the center of Galvestonʹs brilliant Strand Historic District, this charming historic Galveston hotel offers a standard of comfort and service that experienced travelers describe in one word–ʺEuropean.ʺ The Tremont House is located 2300 Ship’s Mechanic Row, Galveston, TX 77550‐1520, Phone: 409‐763‐0300; Fax: 409‐763‐1539; Web address: http://www.galveston.com/thetremonthouse/
**** Gaido’s Seaside Restaurant has been a tradition of excellence for over 92 years. Back in 1911 when S. J. Gaido first opened his restaurant, visitors often arrived by boat or on the old inter‐urban line. The Gaido familyʹs commitment was to make the trip worthwhile with the best in service and the finest in seafood. They still honor that same commitment today. The conference banquet will feature Gaido’s famous seafood buffet which includes several seafood appetizers, ten seafood entrée choices on the buffet (some non‐seafood entrée’s will also be available), a house salad, Charles Brooks’ famous shrimp gumbo, parmesan tomatoes, mushroom pecan rice, homemade bread, coffee, tea, or soft drink, and several dessert choices. Cash bar. Gaido’s Seaside Restaurant is located at 3802 Seawall Blvd., Galveston, TX 77550, Phone: 409‐762‐9625; Web address: http://www.galveston.com/gaidosrestaurant/
Airport and Ground Transportation
Airports: There are two major airports in Houston to choose from for travel to this conference: The William P. Hobby Airport and the George Bush Intercontinental Airport. Detailed information about both airports can be found online at http://www.fly2houston.com/. Hobby Airport is much closer to Galveston Island. William P. Hobby Airport (HOU) is Houston’s second major commercial aviation facility and is owned and operated by the City of Houston. Hobby Airport is located near Interstate 45 (Gulf Freeway) and is approximately 45 minutes north of Galveston Island. The airport is serviced by the major rental car companies from convenient pick up and drop off locations. Booths are located in the baggage claim area in the lower level. Buses and shuttle vans operate between the terminal and the car company sites. Call individual companies for more information or link directly to their web site to make reservations, http://www.fly2houston.com/houRentalCars. George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) is Houston’s largest airport and in 2006, more than 42 million passengers were served. This convenient passenger gateway is the largest hub airport for Continental Airlines, and numerous other carriers also offer domestic and international air service. Over 185 domestic and international destinations are accessible through nonstop or direct flights from IAH. Bush Airport is approximately 1 ½ hours from Galveston Island. Convenient access to the airport is provided by Interstate 45, U.S. Highway 59, the Hardy Toll Road, and the Sam Houston Toll Road (Beltway 8). There are two main entrances to the airport terminal complex via John F. Kennedy Boulevard (JFK) from the Sam Houston Toll Road (Beltway 8) and Will Clayton Parkway from U.S. Highway 59. The airport is serviced by the major rental car companies from a single, central location at their Consolidated Rental Car Facility. This modern, efficient, and customer friendly facility is located on the east side of JFK Blvd, less than 5 minutes from the terminals. A common bus system is now shared by all rental car companies. To get there, follow the Rental Car signage at your arriving terminal and look for the white and maroon buses marked ʺRental Car Shuttle.” Call individual companies for more information or link directly to their web site to make reservations, http://www.fly2houston.com/iahRentalCars. Limousine Services: The Galveston Limousine Service, Inc. is a full service company serving the transportation needs of Galveston Island and the Bay Area since 1960. Customized transportation and daily scheduled airport shuttles are available from both airports. Contact them by phone at 1‐800‐640‐4826 or find their schedules online at http://www.galvestonlimousineservice.com/. CTI Transportation, LLC is one of the largest providers of corporate sedan, limousine, van, charter, shuttle, and event management transportation service in the Houston/Galveston area. Contact them by phone at (800) 332‐2368 or read further about booking a reservation online at http://www.ctihouston.com/. Taxi Companies: Most national taxi cab companies service Galveston Island. The approximate cost from Hobby Airport is $85.00 and from Bush Airport is $130.00. Some local taxi companies are Busy Bee, 409‐762‐8429; Tropical Taxi, 409‐621‐4000; and Yellow Cab Company, 409‐763‐3333. Driving Directions from Houston to Galveston: Take Interstate 45 (I‐45) South from Houston to Galveston until the freeway ends. Upon reaching the Island I‐45 will turn into Broadway. To reach The Tremont House, continue on Broadway to 24th Street, turn left, go to Ship’s Mechanic Row and turn right, go 1 ½ blocks, the hotel will be on your left. Valet or street parking is available. To reach UTMB, go down Broadway to 14th Street, turn left, continue until you dead‐end on Harborside Drive, make a right, go to the next light which is the Emergency Room and Public Parking Garage 2, make a right, then another quick right into the parking garage. Galveston is a very easy town to navigate and is based on a grid pattern. Generally numbered streets run from the Gulf of Mexico to the port of Galveston while named streets run across the Island. You can find a map of Galveston online at http://travel.yahoo.com/p‐map‐479594‐map_of_galveston_tx‐i.
Things To Do in Galveston
• • • Bolivar Point Lighthouse – Ride the ferry from Galveston to the Bolivar Peninsula to see the Bolivar Point Lighthouse and maybe a dolphin or two, http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=152 Carriage Rides – Enjoy a horse drawn carriage ride through the historic streets of Galveston’s East End, http://www.galveston.com/islandcarriages/. The Colonel – A Victorian‐style paddlewheel boat that cruises Galveston Bay and features tour narration by the Captain. The Colonel is located at Moody Gardens, http://www.moodygardens.com/attractions/colonel_paddlewheel_boat/. Cruise – Extend your Galveston stay on a lovely Western Caribbean cruise that will take you to Montego Bay, Jamaica, Grand Cayman Island, and Cozumel. You will cruise on the Carnival Conquest (passport required) which departs from the Port of Galveston on Sunday, March 9, 2008. For further information call Denise Smith at Travel Counselors, phone, 1‐800‐764‐7759; e‐mail, email@travel‐counselors.com. The Elissa – Built in 1877 in Aberdeen, Scotland by Alexander Hall & Company , the Elissa is a square‐ rigged iron baroque restored to her former grandeur by the Galveston Historical Foundation. The Elissa is docked at Pier 21, http://www.galvestonhistory.org/1877_Tall_Ship_ELISSA.asp. Historical Strand District – The Strand District, in downtown Galveston, has transformed itself into the ʺSocial and Shopping Center of the Island.ʺ For shoppers, this 36‐block historic district holds everything one could desire: clothing, factory outlets, souvenirs, art galleries, antique galleries, excellent restaurants, and even a trolley ride, http://www.thestrand.com/history/the_strand_today.php. Historic Homes ‐ The preservation of historic structures and places remains at the core of what Galveston Historical foundation (GHF) does. Seven historic structures are owned or managed by GHF and made available to the public for tours and rentals. They include 1838 Michel B. Menard House, 1839 Samuel May Williams House, 1859 Ashton Villa, 1859 St Joseph’s Church, 1861 U. S. Custom House, 1880 Garten Verein Pavilion in Kempner Park, and 1921 City National Bank Building, home of the Galveston County Historical Museum. Each of the historic properties has an important story to tell about the founding or flourishing of Galveston, and each is worth a visit, http://www.galvestonhistory.org/Historic_Places.asp. Lone Star Star Flight Museum – The internationally recognized Lone Star Flight Museum contains an award winning collection of over 40 historically significant aircraft expertly maintained to flying standards. A few notable aircraft in the collection include the P‐47 Thunderbolt, F4U Corsair, F6F Hellcat, SBD Dauntless, Spitfire and a newly restored Hawker Hurricane, http://www.lsfm.org/index.php?pgid=1. Moody Gardens – This tropical destination is ideal for families and groups alike. Delve into the oceans depths at the Aquarium Pyramid to see penguins, sharks and thousands of tropical fish. Step into the Rainforest Pyramid that features a diverse collection of exotic tropical plants and animals. Explore the mysteries of science at the Discovery Museum or experience the action of the IMAX 3D, 4D or Ridefilm theaters. Cruise aboard the Colonel Paddlewheel Boat or enjoy beautiful white sand beaches and blue lagoons at Palm Beach, http://www.moodygardens.com/. Railroad Museum – The Southwest’s largest train museum, with more than 40 railway cars on display, http://www.galvestonrrmuseum.com/visitor.htm. Schlitterbaun Waterpark – German‐style castle spires and architecture provide the visual focal point cover approximately 15 acres. The park has food kiosks, retail shops, changing rooms with showers, lockers, group areas, plus more than 20 attractions. It is a convertible waterpark with an entire area that can be opened or closed for indoor / outdoor year‐round operation. During the Wasserfest Heated Indoor Season, the Wasserfest area is converted to an indoor waterpark and features a dozen heated attractions, http://www.schlitterbahn.com/gal/. Texas Seaport Museum – Located in the historic port of Galveston, the Texas Seaport Museum tells the story of a rich legacy of seaborne commerce and immigration, http://www.galvestonhistory.org/Texas_Seaport_Museum.asp.
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Special Thanks
Anonymous Donor Nora Boutwell, Catering, Tremont House Howard Brody, M.D., Ph.D.,Institute for the Medical Humanities, UTMB Tilly Clark, Open Gates, UTMB Tom Curtis, Public Affairs, UTMB Sharon Enge, Audio‐Visual Services, UTMB Michael Friedline, Swank Audio Visuals John Paul (Paulie) Gaido, Gaido’s Seaside Restaurant Bruce Gilmer, Printing and Graphics, UTMB Paul Gleaton, Swank Audio Visuals John Glowczyski, Photography, UTMB Stephen Griffiths, Catering Department, UTMB Suzanne Kaboord, Moody Medical Library, UTMB Mark Kinonen, Photography, UTMB Brett A. Kirkpatrick, Moody Medical Library, UTMB The Leake Family Stephanie McClain, Institute for the Medical Humanities, UTMB Flo McMillan, Anatomy Lab, UTMB Sarita Oertling, Moody Medical Library, UTMB Heather Ramirez, Tremont House Sandy Sheehy, Office of University Advancement, UTMB Staff, Institute for the Medical Humanities, UTMB Sylvia Torres, Tour Guide, Anatomy Lab, UTMB