Presenters
(W)rites of Passage...
A Journey Through Medical Resident Education 1978-2008
Keith Armitage, M.D. is Professor of Medicine, Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Medicine, Co-director of the Medicine/Pediatrics Residency, Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Training Program at Case Western Reserve University, and President of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine. He has special interests in medical education.
Jay Baruch, MD, lives and works just outside Providence, RI, where he practices emergency medicine and teaches medical ethics at Brown Medical School. Fourteen Stories: Doctors, Patients and Other Strangers (2007), a short story collection, was published by Kent State University Press. His fiction has appeared in Other Voices, Another Toronto Quarterly, Inkwell, Segue, Ars Medica, Issues Magazine, Salt River Review, and Fetishes.
Stephen Bergman, M.D., Ph.D. uses the pen name, Sam Shem. A graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Medical School, and Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, Shem/Bergman served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School for two decades, and has published four novels: The House of God, Fine, Mount Misery, and The Spirit of the Place. He was playwright-in-residence at the Boston Shakespeare Theatre, had several plays in The Best Short Plays anthologies, and an essay, “Fiction as Resistance,” in the Annals of Internal Medicine. With his wife Janet Surrey he has written the Off Broadway play, Bill W. and Dr. Bob, (2007 Performing Arts Award of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, and is available as a text from Samuel French and also on DVD), the nonfiction book We Have To Talk: Healing Dialogues Between Women and Men (1999 Paradigm Shift Award of the Boston Interfaith Counseling Service), and the curriculum Making Connections: Building Gender Dialogue and Community in Secondary Schools, published by Educators for Social Responsibility. His writings are in dozens of languages, he has given over 50 medical school commencement speeches, and was awarded the Vanderbilt University Medal of Merit.
Howard Brody received his M.D. degree from the College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University in 1976, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy, also from Michigan State University, in 1977. After completing his residency in family practice at the University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, he returned to Michigan State University, where he served as University Distinguished Professor of Family Practice, Philosophy, and the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences. He served as Director of the Center for Ethics and Humanities from 1985 to 2000. In 2006, Dr. Brody moved to the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, to become the Director of the Institute for the Medical Humanities and John P. McGovern Centennial Chair in Family Medicine. His most recent book is Hooked: Ethics, the Medical Profession, and the Pharmaceutical Industry (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007). He is also author of The Healer's Power (Yale University Press, 1992), Stories of Sickness (Yale University Press, 1987; second edition, Oxford University Press, 2003), Ethical Decisions in Medicine (Little Brown, second edition 1981), and Placebos and the Philosophy of Medicine
(University of Chicago Press, 1980), and is also a co-author (with Peter Vinten-Johansen, Nigel Paneth, Stephen Rachman, and Michael Rip) of Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine: A Life of John Snow(Oxford University Press, 2003). He is currently working on a book called The Future of Bioethics.
Stephanie Brown Clark MA, MD, PhD, is 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, and a Higher Diploma in Anglo-Irish Literature at Trinity College, in Dublin Ireland, she completed her MD degree at McMaster University, Canada.in 1990 and her Ph.D. in medical history and literature at the University of Leiden in 1998. Additionally, she teaches courses in medical history, medicine and literature to medical students, residents and faculty at the University of Rochester school of Medicine. She chairs the George W. Corner Society for the History of Medicine, and co-directs a program in art and medicine and also directs a dramatic group, Readers' Theatre Players, at the medical center.
Dagan Coppock, MD was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and was raised in the small town of Powell, Tennessee. After graduation from Powell High School, he attended the University of Tennessee as a Whittle Scholar. Between his junior and senior year of college he spent one year working as a phlebotomist in a rural clinic in Ghana. Upon completion of college, he served as a Fulbright Scholar in Ife, Nigeria. While there, he studied the divination poetry of Yoruba traditional healers. Following this, he received his MD from Yale School of Medicine. While at Yale he served as Lead Poetry Editor of Palimpsest: Yale Literary Arts Journal. Presently, he is a resident at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Martha L. Elks, MD, PhD is Associate Dean for Medical Education, and Chair and Professor of Medical Education at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. She is a graduate of Duke University, and earned MD and PhD (Neurobiology) degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before continuing training in Internal Medicine residency at Johns Hopkins. After research and clinical training in Endocrinology at the National Institutes of Health, she was appointed Associate Professor of Medicine and Chief of Endocrinology at Texas Tech in 1985. She has been in her current position since 1998. Research interests have included fat cell and islet cell metabolism, research and clinical ethics, the physician-patient relationship, and issues in medical education. In her current role, she teaches medical students in clinical skills and ethics in all years of the curriculum, as well as supervising the residency programs.
Amy Marie Haddad, PhD, RN is the Director for the Center for Health Policy & Ethics and the Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Endowed Chair in the Health Sciences. She received her BSN from Creighton University in 1975, her MSN from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 1979 and her PhD in education from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1988. She has been involved in education in the health sciences since 1979 at the College of Saint Mary then at Creighton University where she has taught ethics in the health sciences since 1984. Her publications include numerous journal articles and several books such as: Purtilo, R. B. & Haddad, A. M. (2007). The Health Professional and Patient Interaction. (7th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: W.B. Saunders Co. and Veatch, R. M., & Haddad, A. M. (2007). Case Studies in Pharmacy Ethics. (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. She is also a poet with poems published in the American Journal of Nursing, Reflections on Professional Nursing, Fetishes, Journal of Medical Humanities, Janus Head, and The Bellevue Literary Review. She also contributed to the anthologies The Poetry of Nursing. Schaefer, ed. Kent: Kent State UP, 2006, Intensive Care: More Poetry and Prose by Nurses. Davis and Schaefer, eds., Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2003, and Between the Heartbeats: Poetry and Prose by Nurses. Davis and Schaefer, eds., Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1995.
Neeta Jain, MD, grew up in Las Vegas, NV. She attended college at Stanford University (BA 1999) before medical school at the University of Rochester (MD 2004). She completed her residency in internal medicine at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco (2007) and is currently chief resident and deputy co-editor of Reflections, the creative writing section of the Journal of General Internal Medicine. She initiated and edited Body Language: Poems of the Medical Training Experience, published by BOA Editions, Ltd. in 2006.
Anne Hudson Jones, PhD, is the Hobby Family Professor in the Medical Humanities and Graduate Program Director in the Institute for the Medical Humanities and the Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health of The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, where she is also on the faculty of the Graduate School for Biomedical Sciences. She attended graduate school at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and received her PhD in Comparative Literature in 1974. Professor Jones was a founding editor of the journal Literature and Medicine (Johns Hopkins University Press), which she served as editor-in-chief for more than a decade. She served on the first Board of Directors of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, 1998-2000. She has published extensively in scholarly journals such as Academic Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, BMJ, Comparative Literature Studies, The Journal of Clinical Ethics, The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, The Lancet, Literature and Medicine, Medical Humanities Review, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Science and Engineering Ethics, Theoretical Medicine, and Woman's Art Journal. She is also editor of the books Images of Nurses: Perspectives from Art, History, and Literature and, with Faith McLellan, of Ethical Issues in Biomedical Publication
Perri Klass MD, is Medical Director of the Reach Out and Read National Center. and Professor of Journalism and Pediatrics at New YorkUniversity. She attended Harvard Medical School and completed her residency in pediatrics at Children's Hospital, Boston, and her fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at Boston City Hospital. She is also an extensively published writer, whose most recent book, Every Mother is A Daughter, is coauthored with her mother. Her book, Quirky Kids: Understanding and Helping Your Child Who Doesn't Fit In, coauthored with Eileen Costello, MD, was published by Ballantine in November 2003, and her novel, The Mystery of Breathing, was published by Houghton Mifflin in February, 2004. She is also the author of Other Women's Children, a novel; and two collections of essays, Baby Doctor: A Pediatrician's Training and A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years as a Medical Student, along with other works of fiction and non-fiction.
Howard Markel, MD, PhD is a physician, medical educator, and the George E. Wantz Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan. An internationally known scholar in pediatrics and the history of medicine, Dr. Markel has written or co-authored seven books, published articles in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Lancet, as well as articles in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, etc.
Suzanne Poirier, PhD teaches literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has taught campus-wide electives on such topics as History and Literature of Women's Health, Literature and Aging, and AIDS and Literature. In the College of Medicine she participates in courses in ethics and social issues as well as teaches a clinical elective, Literature and Medicine. She is the past editor of Literature of Medicine, the major journal in her field. Her research, often done in collaboration with other humanists and health professionals, has dealt with images of health professionals in a variety of media, the language of such medical genres as the chart and the case report, and the experiences of women as both patients and health practitioners. Her latest book, co-authored with nurse Lioness Ayres, is Stories of Family Caregiving: A Reconsideration of Theory, Literature, and Life.
Larry Smith, MD, is the 15-hospital North Shore-Long Island Jewish health system’s senior physician, responsible for the overall professional management of clinical, education, research and operational issues related to all medical and clinical affairs. Before joining North Shore-LIJ, Dr. Smith was at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Manhattan, where he served as dean and chairman of medical education, director of the school’s Institute for Medical Education, professor of medicine and an attending physician.
Janet Surrey, Ph.D. M.Ed., is a clinical psychologist and founding scholar of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute at Wellesley College. She is co-author of Women’s Growth in Connection, Women’s Growth in Diversity, Mothering Against the Odds, and many other writings on women’s relational psychology, addiction, and spirituality. She was a faculty member of Harvard University for many years, and is now a board member and on faculty at the Institute of Meditation and Psychotherapy in Boston. She is co-author with Shem/Bergman of a play, Bill W. and Dr. Bob (2007 Performing Arts Award of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence), a nonfiction book We Have to Talk: Healing Dialogues Between Women and Men (1999 Paradigm Shift Award of the Boston Interfaith Council), and a curriculum, Making Connections: Building Gender Dialogue and Community in Secondary Schools. Also known for her writing and speaking all over the world, she recently completed a training program to be a Community Dharma Leader.
Marc Zaffran, MD, has been a General Practitioner in France since 1983, and an author under the pen name "Martin Winckler" since 1987. He has penned eight novels (including the best-selling The Case of Dr Sachs, translated by Linda Asher, New York, Seven Stories Press, 2000) and two dozen non-fiction books - on patient-doctor relationships, television drama, comic-books, contraception and patient rights.
Abigail Zuger MD is a physician in New York City and a frequent contributor of essays, reviews and articles to both medical and lay publications, including the New England Journal of Medicine and the science section of The New York Times. Her book about the early days of AIDS, "Strong Shadows: Scenes from an Inner City AIDS Clinic" was published in 1995. She is working on an update.
For more information on the upcoming 2008 Symposium call 216-932-3448