Faculty
Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD
Chair
Department of Health Humanities and Bioethics
Stephanie Brown Clark, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Acting Chair, Department of Health Humanities and Bioethics
Email: stephanie_brownclark@urmc.rochester.edu
Research Interests: History of medicine and science; literature and medicine; the role of humanities in medical education; understanding differences and diversity in healthcare.
Susan Dodge Peters Daiss, MA, M.Div
Senior Associate
Email: susan_daiss@urmc.rochester.edu
Research Interests: Visual arts and healthcare education; visual arts, spirituality and patient care; thanatology in the visual arts.
Richard Dees, PhD
Professor
Email: richard.dees@rochester.edu
Research Interests: Transplant ethics; neuroethics; and public health ethics.
Erik Larsen, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor
Email: erik_larsen@urmc.rochester.edu
Research Interests: Literature and medicine; biopolitics in historical and contemporary contexts; history of the life sciences; critical theory and medicine; nineteenth-century American culture.
Patricia Luck, MBChB, MPhil PallMed, MSc MedHum
Assistant Professor
Email: patricia_luck@urmc.rochester.edu
Research Interests: 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, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Email: christopher_mooney@urmc.rochester.edu
Research Interests: Health promotion; healthy aging; frailty; psychological determinants of health; medical education assessment; program evaluation
Natercia Rodrigues, MD, MS
Assistant Professor
Email: Natercia_Rodrigues@URMC.Rochester.edu
Research Interest - Medical narrative, the family response to illness, communication with patients and families, visual arts, and the application of the humanities into the exam room
Jessica C. Shand, MD MHS
Associate Professor
Email: Jessica_Shand@URMC.Rochester.edu
Research Interests: Theological approaches to suffering in healthcare, visual representations of suffering in the arts, integration of spirituality and medicine, pediatric bioethics, moral distress in the care of sick children, social justice and children.
Margie Hodges Shaw, JD, PhD
Associate Professor
Email: margie_shaw@urmc.rochester.edu
Research Interests: Law and ethics in clinical decision-making, including the rights and interests of the patient, family, professions, state, and federal government; ethics of engagement; and legal and ethics education in the clinical professions.
Bernard Sussman, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Email: bernard_sussman@urmc.rochester.edu
Research Interests: Ethics of end of life decision making, narrative ethics, palliative care, surrogate decision making in end of life medical care
Nicholas R. Mercado, Dr PH, MPH
Assistant Professor
Email: Nicholas_Mercado@URMC.Rochester.edu
Jonathan Herington, PhD
Assistant Professor - Philosophy
Email: jonathan.herington@rochester.edu
Wendy Gonaver, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
Email: Wendy_Gonaver@URMC.Rochester.edu
Additional Faculty
Michael Brennan, MSN
Associate, Health Humanities & Bioethics
Gary Chadwick, PharmD, MPH
Professor Emeritus, Health Humanities & Bioethics
Carl T. D’Angio, MD,
Professor, Pediatrics (Neonatology) and Health Humanities & Bioethics
Richard Demme, MD
Professor Emeritus, Health Humanities & Bioethics
Chin-To Fong, MD
Professor, Pediatrics (Genetics), Biochemistry and Biophysics, and Health Humanities & Bioethics
Jane Greenlaw, JD
Professor Emeritus, Health Humanities & Bioethics
Laurence B. Guttmacher, MD
Professor Emeritus, Psychiatry and Health Humanities & Bioethics; Associate Dean/Student Advising, Offices of Medical Education, SMD
Patrick J. Hopkins, DNP
Assistant Professor Clinical Nursing, SON; Assistant Professor, Health Humanities & Bioethics
David C. Kaufman, MD
Professor, Surgery (Thoracic), Medicine (Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care), Urology, Anesthesiology, and Health Humanities & Bioethics
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
Adrienne L. Morgan, PhD
Assistant Professor, Health Humanities & Bioethics; Senior Director, Center for Advocacy, Community Health, Education and Diversity, SMD
Sarah E. Peyre, EdD
Associate Professor, Surgery (Surgery Education) and Health Humanities & Bioethics; Associate Professor of Clinical, Nursing; Director, Center for Experiential Learning, SMD
Timothy E. Quill, MD
Professor Emeritus, Medicine (Palliative Care), SON, Psychiatry and Health Humanities & Bioethics
J. Franklin Richeson, MD
Professor, Medicine (Cardiology) and Health Humanities & Bioethics
Robert Riley, MPH
Adjunct Instructor, Health Humanities & Bioethics
Olle Jane (OJ) Sahler, MD
Professor, Pediatrics (Hematology and Oncology) and Health Humanities & Bioethics
Joanne Wu, MD
Adjunct Instructor, Health Humanities & Bioethics; Physician, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Unity Health Systems/Rochester Regional Health Systems
Daniel M. Yawman, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine and Health Humanities & Bioethics
Marianne Chiafery, DNP, PNP-C, MS
Associate Professor - Retired, School of Nursing