Interdisciplinary Team Teaching
The core curriculum is taught by interdisciplinary and interprofessional teams. The teaching faculty are from both clinical and humanities disciplines at the University of Rochester. The core curriculum is taught by healthcare providers in medicine, nursing, and other allied health fields from the Medical Center and the Department of Health Humanities & Bioethics, and by scholars in humanities from departments of Arts, Sciences and Engineering and faculty from other healthcare and academic institutions in Rochester and the surrounding area.
Primary Faculty
Sarah Hagaman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
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Department: Health Humanities and Bioethics
Research Interest - Literature and medicine; narrative medicine; post-1945 literature; history of psychiatry; feminist theory.
Jonathan Herington, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
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Department: Health Humanities and Bioethics
Research Interest - Research ethics, ethics of AI, public health ethics.
Alexander Larsen, M.A., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
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Department: Health Humanities and Bioethics
Research Interest - Literature and medicine; biopolitics in historical and contemporary contexts; history of the life sciences; critical theory and medicine; nineteenth-century American culture.
Mentorships: Murmur faculty mentor, Medical Humanities Interest Group faculty mentor
Andrew S. Lea, M.D., D.Phil.
Assistant Professor
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Department: Health Humanities and Bioethics
Research Interest - History of modern medicine; biomedical technology and computing; history and ethics of AI in medicine; critical algorithm studies; media studies; medical communication.
Bryanna Moore, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
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Department: Health Humanities and Bioethics
Research Interest - Pediatric ethics, end of life issues, virtue ethics, moral psychology, and community healthcare
Alexander Parry, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
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Department: Health Humanities and Bioethics
Research Interest - History of public health, physical injuries and consumer protection, history of modern medicine
Marjorie Shaw, J.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
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Department: Health Humanities and Bioethics
Research Interest - Law and ethics in clinical decision-making, including the rights and interests of the patient, family, professions, state, and federal government; ethics of engagement; and legal and ethics education in the clinical professions
Mentorships: Medical Humanities Interest Group faculty mentor
Christine Slobogin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
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Department: Health Humanities and Bioethics
Research Interest - Art and medicine, History of medicine, Plastic surgery, Humor and medicine, Medical photography