Faculty

Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD
Dean’s Professor and Chair
Email: lainie_ross@urmc.rochester.edu
Research Interests: pediatric ethics; transplantation ethics; ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of genetics/genomics (especially newborn screening); and research ethics.

Susan Daiss, M.A., M.Div
Senior Associate (part-time)
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Research Interests: Visual arts and healthcare education; visual arts, spirituality and patient care; thanatology in the visual arts.

Sarah Hagaman, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Research Interests: Literature and medicine; narrative medicine; post-1945 literature; history of psychiatry; feminist theory.
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Jonathan Herington, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Research Interests: Research ethics, ethics of AI, public health ethics.

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

Andrew S. Lea, MD, D.Phil
Assistant Professor
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Research Interests: History of modern medicine; biomedical technology and computing; history and ethics of AI in medicine; critical algorithm studies; media studies; medical communication.

Patricia Luck, MBChB, MPhil PallMed, MSc MedHum
Assistant Professor
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Research Interests: The Photo/Tiny Story project; the Mindful Art Pause project; mindfulness and medicine; empathy, stigma and shame in medicine; what influences presence in the clinical encounter; cross-cultural narratives; health justice.
Mentorships: The Reflector faculty mentor, Mindfulness Interest Group faculty mentor

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

Bryanna Moore, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Research Interests: Pediatric ethics, end of life issues, virtue ethics, moral psychology, and community healthcare

Adrienne Morgan, PhD
Associate Professor
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Alexander Parry, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Research Interest: History of public health, physical injuries and consumer protection, history of modern medicine

Margie Hodges Shaw, JD, PhD
Associate Professor
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Research Interests: Law and ethics in clinical decision-making, including the rights and interests of the patient, family, professions, state, and federal government; ethics of engagement; and legal and ethics education in the clinical professions.

Christine Slobogin, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Research Interests: Art and medicine, History of medicine, Plastic surgery, Humor and medicine, Medical photography.

Secondary Faculty & Affiliates

Kwasi Boaitey, PhD
Assistant Professor, Director of Behavioral Health & Social Work Education
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John Patrick Cullen, PhD
Clinical Professor, Clinical and Translational Research
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Richard Dees, PhD
Professor, Department of Philosophy
Email: Richard

Chin-To Fong, MD
Professor, Pediatrics (Genetics), Biochemistry and Biophysics, and Health Humanities & Bioethics
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Sonia Hadchiti
Adjunct Instructor, Producer, writer and director of short films
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David C. Kaufman, MD
Professor, Surgery (Thoracic), Medicine (Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care), Urology, Anesthesiology, and Health Humanities & Bioethics
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John D. Markman, MD
Vice Chair for Clinical Research; Director, Translational Pain Research Program I Neuromedicine Pain Division
Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurology and Health Humanities & Bioethics
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Gaelen McCormick
Senior Associate, Health Humanities & Bioethics and Instructor of Music Leadership, Eastman School of Music
Director of Eastman Performing Arts Medicine (EPAM) 
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Christopher Mooney, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Division of General Medicine
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Michael Nabozny, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery and Health Humanities & Bioethics
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Mical Raz, Md, PhD
Professor of Clinical Medicine, and Charles E. and Dale L. Phelps Professorship in Public Policy and Health
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Robert Riley, MPH
Adjunct Instructor, Health Humanities & Bioethics
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Natercia Rodrigues, MD, MS
Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine
Email: Natercia

Olle Jane (OJ) Sahler, MD
Professor, Pediatrics (Hematology and Oncology) and Health Humanities & Bioethics
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Jessica C. Shand, MD MHS
Associate Professor
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Laura Stamm, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Email: Laura

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

Stephanie Brown Clark, MD, PhD - Professor Emerita

Marianne Chiafery, MS  - Assistant Professor (ret.)

Carl T. D’Angio, MD - Professor Emeritus

Richard Demme, MD - Professor Emeritus

Laurence B. Guttmacher, MD - Professor Emeritus

Patrick J Hopkins DNP - Assistant Professor (ret.)

Caroline Nestro, PhD - Associate Professor (ret.)