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 Division of Medical 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.
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Primary Faculty
Stephanie Brown Clark, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
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Department: Medical Humanities and Bioethics
Research Interest - History of medicine and science; literature and medicine; the role of humanities in medical education; understanding differences and diversity in healthcare.
Marianne Chiafery, DNP, PNP-C, M.S.
Associate Professor
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Department: Medical Humanities and Bioethics
Research Interest - Moral distress among nurses and other health care providers, pediatrics, impact of cultural and religious beliefs on treatment decisions, nursing and medical student ethics education
Susan Daiss, M.A., M.Div
Senior Associate
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Department: Medical Humanities and Bioethics
Research Interest - Visual arts and healthcare education; visual arts, spirituality and patient care; thanatology in the visual arts.
Richard Dees, Ph.D.
Professor
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Department: Medical Humanities and Bioethics
Research Interest- Transplant ethics; neuroethics; and public health ethics.
Richard Demme, M.D.
Associate Professor
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Department: Medical Humanities and Bioethics
Research Interest- Ethical issues in transplantation; transplantation issues in movies; ethical issues at the end of life; history of research ethics; history of medicine; functions of hospital ethics committees.
Alexander Larsen, M.A., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
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Department: Medical 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.
Marie-Patricia Luck, M.B.Ch.B.
Assistant Professor
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Department: Medical Humanities and Bioethics
Research Interest - Understanding intersectionality within health care; exploring the transitional spaces of our lives; mindfulness in medicine; touch, presence and intimacy in the clinical encounter; cross-cultural narratives; health justice.
Christopher Mooney, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Instructor
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Department: Medical Humanities and Bioethics
Research Interest - Health promotion; healthy aging; frailty; psychological determinants of health; medical education assessment; program evaluation
Natercia Rodrigues, M.D.
Senior Instructor
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Department: Family Medicine
Research Interest - Medical narrative, the family response to illness, communication with patients and families, visual arts, and the application of the humanities into the exam room
Marjorie Shaw, J.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
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Department: Medical 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.
Bernard Sussman, M.D.
Clinical Professor
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Department: Medical Humanities and Bioethics
Research Interest - Ethics of end of life decision making, narrative ethics, palliative care, surrogate decision making in end of life medical care