MedScholars Funded Projects
The following projects have been approved as part of the Arts and Humanities Medical Scholars Program (1999-2003) or the Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities Medical Scholars Program (2003-present).
For additional information about medical scholars projects, please click HERE.
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2023-2024
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2022-2023
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2021-2022
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2020-2021
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2019-2020
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2018-2019
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2017-2018
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2016-2017
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2015-2016
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2014-2015
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2013-2014
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2012-2013
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2011-2012
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2010-2011
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2009-2010
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2008-2009
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2007-2008
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1999-2000
| Student | Project Title | Advisor(s) |
| Student | Project Title | Advisor(s) |
| Ben Teasdale | Viral Metaphors in a Pandemic, How to Celebrate a Birthday in a Psych Ward and Tales of Dying in a 1960s Commune: Narrative Non-Fiction Writing in the Medical Humanities | Laurel Braitman Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine/Medicine and the Muse |
| Yasmin Rafiei | 'Solis Occasum': A Nonfiction Series of Short Reporting on Healthcare Reform in America as Illuminated by the Coronavirus Crisis | Michelle Mello, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and Professor of Medicine in the Center for Health Policy/Primary Care and Outcomes Research in the Department of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine David Barstow, UC Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism |
| Student | Project Title | Advisor(s) |
| Kim DeBruler | Decreasing Provider Discordance in Code Status Ordering and Interpretation at SHC | David Magnus Pediatrics/ SCBE |
| Katherine Lyman | Psychosis and Spiritual Experiences: Comparative Perspectives from Patients | Jacob Ballon (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences) |
| Yasmin Rafiei | Chronically Mismanaged: A Narrative Nonfiction Series of Short Reporting on What the Coronavirus Crisis Reveals about Chronic Illness in America | Laurel Braitman Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine/Medicine and the Muse |
| Hannah Rasmussen | Perspectives on Pain: Exploring patient perspectives of chronic headache pain through photography | Erika Schillinger Primary Care & Population Health and Henry Curtis Emergency Medicine |
| Ben Schwartz | Skin, Spirit, and Stigma: Judeo-Christian Perceptions of Skin and Their Contemporary Implications | Holly Tabor Med/Primary Care and Population Health/ SCBE |
| Christine Xu | From Cane to Canine: How Guide Dogs Can Help Us See | Laurel Braitman Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine/Medicine and the Muse and Edward Wood (Ophthalmology) |
| Anna Zeidman | Mindsets, emotional and physical health and well-being in breast and gynecologic cancer patients and survivors | Oxana Palesh (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences) |
| Student | Project Title | Advisor(s) |
| Jason Batten | A Multi-Institutional Mixed Methods Study of Code Status Designations and Ontologies | David Magnus Pediatrics/SCBE
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| Anna Goshua | Health and Wellness Advocacy Through Opinion and Reported Writing | Laurel Braitman Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine/Medicine and the Muse |
| Vivian Ho | A Humanistic Investigation of Different Modes of Communication in Primary Care, Tibetan Medicine, and Clinical Chaplaincy | Sakti Srivastava Surgery (Clinical Anatomy)and Bioengineering (by courtesy) |
| Lauren Joseph | On Becoming a Physician: When the Curtains Lift | Laurel Braitman Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine/Medicine and the Muse |
| Dana Leonard | Exploring the Patient Experience of Surgery and the Physical and Psychological Implications of Scars through Painting (extension) | Samuel Rodriguez Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine |
| Stephen Marcott | A Declassified Medical School Survival Guide for Fending Off Stigma, Snaring a Psychiatrist on a Budget, and Buying a Pillbox: Creative Non-Fiction (and Other Stories) on Mental Health | Laurel Braitman Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine/Medicine and the Muse |
| Vaishali Mittal | The Role of Phrasicons and Hedges in Patient-Physician Communication | David Magnus Pediatrics/SCBE |
| Emmy Shearer | Investigating Treatment Limitation Designations and Policies: A Literature Review and National Survey | David Magnus Pediatrics/SCBE |
| Jane Thomas | Implementing a Group Poetry-Writing Intervention in the Acute Psychiatric Setting: Assessment of Feasibility and Acceptability, Plus Effects on Hopefulness, Mood, and Recovery Orientation | John Barry Neuropsychiatry Daniel Mason Psychiatry and Behavioral Science Randall Weingarten Psychiatry & Behavioral sciences
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| Jenny Tiskus | Creative Non-fiction about Women and their Bodies | Laurel Braitman Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine/Medicine and the Muse |
| Hayden Ware | Composing Stories of Family, Illness, and Love | Adam Tobin Art and Art History Audrey Shafer Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine/Medicine and the Muse |
| Student | Project Title | Advisor(s) |
| Victoria Bawel | The Opioid Epidemic & Our Future: A Child Health Perspective on Southern Indiana’s Drug Crisis |
Erika Schillinger -Medicine
Laurel Braitman - Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine/SCBE |
| Jacob Blythe | A Qualitative Study of “Medical Indication” and “Candidacy” | David Magnus - Pediatrics/SCBE |
| Orly Farber | Too Close to Home: When the Personal Bleeds into the Professional |
Laurel Braitman - Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine/SCBE
Lisa Raffensperger - STAT News |
| Dana Leonard | Exploring the Patient Experience of Surgery and the Physical and Psychological Implications of Scars through Painting | Samuel Rodriguez - Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine |
| Noemie Levy | Life After an Outbreak: Perspectives on Addiction and HIV in Appalachia | Laurel Braitman - Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine/SCBE Carrie Lawrence - Indiana University |
| Nicholas Love | Reimagining the ABCDEs of melanoma: sixteen dermatologic mnemonics | Kerri Rieger – Pathology and Dermatology |
| Katherine Lyman | Psychosis and spiritual experience: perspectives from religious patients (travel) | Tanya Luhrmann – Anthropology Samah Jabr – Psychiatry - Palestine |
| Daniel Mayor | Assessing Parental Attitudes and Beliefs About Concussion Education in Pediatric Patients: What Should the Provider’s Role Be? | Emily Kraus - Orthapedic Surgery, Pediatrics Sports Medicine |
| Paige Qin | Coming of age in modern medicine: an anthology of personal narratives and literary journalism | Bruce Feldstein – Spiritual Care Service/Family and Community Medicine Audrey Shafer – Anesthesiology |
| Dillon Stull | Composing Poetry on Death, Dying, and Bereavement: Creative Vision as Prophet to Ethics and Clinical Care | Audrey Shafer - Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine |
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Advisor(s) |
| Julie Barzilay | Navigating Spinal Muscular Atrophy's Road to "Treatability": Social Media Use by Spinal Muscular Atrophy Patients and Families A Qualitative Study of Patient and Provider Perspectives | Holly Tabor - Medicine / Center for Biomedical Ethics |
| Natalia Birgisson |
Novel Writing |
Audrey Shafer - Anesthesiology |
| Jacob Blythe | Unseeing Eyes: Moral Medicine, the Literary Form, and the Primacy of Perception | Alvan Ikoku - Comparative Literature and Medicine |
| Cara Lai |
Strategies for preventing suicide and combating other socially contagious behaviors: A phenomenological approach toward analyzing the impact of positive messaging | Co-Advisors: Shashank Joshi (Psychiatry) and Laurel Braitman (Anesthesiology / Medicine & the Muse) |
| Noemie Levy | Indiana HIV/Opioid Epidemic | Co-Advisors: Laurel Braitman (Anesthesiology / Medicine & the Muse) and Audrey Shafer (Anesthesiology) |
| Nicholas Love |
The Art of Dermatopathology: A Med Student's Guide |
Kerri Rieger - Dermatology |
| Dagem Mammo |
Novel on Early Childhood Development | Donald Barr - Pediatrics |
| Petr Vitkovskiy | Novel Writing | Co-Advisors: Irvin Yalom (Psychiatry) and Audrey Shafer (Anesthesiology) |
| Hayden Ware |
Composing Stories of Patients, Physicians, and Illness | Co-Advisors: Laurel Braitman (Anesthesiology / Medicine & the Muse) and Audrey Shafer (Anesthesiology) |
| Student | Project Title | Advisor(s) |
| Gun Ho Lee |
Psychosocial Contraindications in Transplant Listing Decisions: A National Survey of Adult and Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Programs |
David Magnus - Pediatrics & Center for Biomedical Ethics |
| Emily Lines |
Your Voice is Primary: The Path to Primary Care | Erika Schillinger - General Medicine |
| Nicholas Love |
An illustrated, mnemonic journey through the first year medical student clinical anatomy experience |
Samuel Rodriguez - Anesthesia |
| Ruth Marks | Evaluating Quality of Family Conferences with Ethics Consultation Services |
David Magnus - Pediatrics & Center for Biomedical Ethics |
| Jessica Pullen | Elucidating the Role of Familiarity in Team Performance and Communication in the Operating Room |
David Magnus - Pediatrics & Center for Biomedical Ethics |
| Benjamin Robison |
At the Still Point: Art enabled reflection by and for patients and their health care providers |
Steven Lin (Medicine, General Medical Discipline) & Audrey Shafer (Anesthesiology) |
| Carolyn Sinow | Alterations in Spanish-language Interpretation in the Pediatric ICU | David Magnus - Pediatrics & Center for Biomedical Ethics |
| Xinyuan Zhang |
Documentary on Elderly Care in China |
Maren Grainger-Monsen - Center for Biomedical Ethics Co-Advisors: Randall Stafford (Medicine) and Audrey Shafer (Anesthesiology) |
| Student | Project Title | Advisor(s) |
| Muthuraman Alagappan | Quantifying the synergy between patients and surrogate decision-makers (health care proxies) with regard to end-of-life decisions, in collaboration with the Stanford Letter Project | VJ Periyakoil - General Medicine
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| Jason Batten | What Does 'Treatable' Mean? An Empirical Study of Physician-Patient Communication | David Magnus - Pediatrics & Center for Biomedical Ethics |
| Natalia Birgisson | Novel Writing Inspired by a Needs Assessment and Intervention on Postoperative Neurosurgical Outcomes in Mulago Hospital | Audrey Shafer - Anesthesiology |
| Raymond Deng | Denied Pathologies: Asian American Addiction | Lauren Edwards - General Medicine |
| Emily Liu | Practicing Well: Reflections on Bioethics and Medical Humanities in Education and Practice | Audrey Shafer - Anesthesia |
| Kendall Madden | Nature and the Mind: Exploring the influence of nature on the mind and body in the medical context through narrative | Lauren Edwards - General Medicine |
| Bonnie Wong | Patient Perspectives on the Clinical Encounter: A phenomenological understanding of medical interaction | Matthew Kohrman - Anthropological Sciences |
| Student | Project Title |
Advisor(s) |
| Pria Anand | Dreamers: A Fictional Exploration of Sleep | Shaili Jain - Psychiatry & Behavior Science |
| Genna Braverman | Reflections from Clinic: Student Perceptions of Communication Challenges | Erika Schillinger - Medicine |
| Emily Lines |
Your Voice: Medical Student Stories from the Preclerkship |
Erika Schillinger - Medicine |
| Michael Nedelman |
Health Narratives in the Aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan |
Julieta Gabiola - Medicine |
| Aarti Sharma |
Utilization of the American Psychiatric Lexicon: Outcomes of Evolution and Diaspora |
Audrey Shafer - Anesthesiology |
| Kelly Staves | Determination of Operational Goals in Seriously Ill Patients with Life Limiting Illness |
Kavitha Ramchandran - Medicine |
| Student | Project Title |
Advisor(s) |
| Shahed Alam | Map Your World - Kolkata |
Maren Grainger- Monsen - Center for Biomedical Ethics |
| Fahed Ayoub | A Prescription for Conflict: Tobacco Advertisements in Medical Journals |
Robert Jackler - Otolaryngology |
| Natalia Birgisson | The Fourth Floor: A Narrative of My First Year in Medical School |
Audrey Shafer - Anesthesiology |
| Katherine Hill | Undiagnosed: A medical student's memoir on living with a mystery illness (Renewal) | Larry Zaroff - Anesthesiology and Audrey Shafer - Anesthesiology |
| Harrison Hines | Assessing Community Support, Spirituality, and Religiosity for Post-Bariatric Surgery Patients |
John Morton - Surgery |
| Pin-Yi Ko |
The Imperfect is Our Paradise | Audrey Shafer - Anesthesiology and Julie Good - Pediatric Anesthesiology |
| Emily Lines | Your Voice: Medical Student Stories from the Preclerkship Years |
Erika Schillinger - Medicine |
| Michael Nedelman |
The Camouflage Closet: Stories of LGBT veterans' trauma |
Sakti Srivastava - Surgery & Anatomy |
| Megan Roosen-Runge |
Physician Communication Content and Style in the Pediatric Intensive Care Setting (Continuation) |
David Magnus - Pediatrics & Center for Biomedical Ethics |
| Student | Project Title | Advisor(s) |
| Shahed Alam | Map Your World | Maren Grainger-Monsen - Center for Biomedical Ethics |
| Pria Anand | Changing Tides: Narrative Documentation of Isla Providencia, Colombia | Katrina Karkazis - Center for Biomedical Ethics, Shaili Jain - Psychiatry & Behavior Science |
| Brian Anderson | Addiction, Regulation and Care in Mexico City, Mexico | Angela Garcia - Anthropology, Guilherme Luiz Borges - Guimaraes Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria & Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Calzada Mexico |
| Meghan Galligan | Asperger's disorder Identity Study | Carl Feinstein - Psychiatry & Behavioral Science |
| Danica Lomeli | Tell Me A Story: Promoting Reflective Practice in Medical Students through Oral History | Maren Grainger-Monsen - Center for Biomedical Ethics |
| Kendall Madden | Exploring sustainability in medicine through poetry | Audrey Shafer - Anesthesia |
| Megan Roosen-Runge | Physician Communication Content and Style in the Pediatric Intensive Care Setting | David Magnus - Pediatrics & Center for Biomedical Ethics |
| David (William) White | Animal research in the tobacco industry: A century of animal studies, cigarette designs and advertising campaigns | Robert Proctor - History |
| Student | Project Title |
Advisor(s) |
| Pria Anand | Changing Tides: Narrative Documentation of the Deaf Community on Isla Providencia, Colombia | LaVera Crawley - Center for Biomedical Ethics and Marta Tamayo - Instituto de Genetica Humana, Bogota, Colombia |
| Deborah Fretwell |
Medical decision making | David Magnus - Pediatrics & Center for Biomedical Ethics and Audrey Shafer - Anesthesiology |
| Jennifer Ladd | Parental refusal to vaccinate and the listing of pediatric patients: A national survey of kidney, liver and heart pediatric transplantation programs | David Magnus - Pediatrics & Center for Biomedical Ethics |
| Kendall Madden |
Exploring sustainability in medicine through poetry |
Audrey Shafer - Anesthesiology |
| Amrapali Maitra | Developing and Implementing a Workable Domestic Violence Screening Tool in Dhaka, Bangladesh Laws, Ami Medicine and Naved, Ruchira (Dhaka, Bangladesh, Gender Human Rights & Health Program) [travel] | |
| Aarti Sharma |
An explication and analysis of the clinical response to diabulimia |
Marina Basina - Endocrinology |
| Meghan Tieu |
Buddhist Perspectives on Pain and Suffering |
Paul Harrison - Religious Studies |
| David (William) White |
Animal research in the tobacco industry: A century of animal studies, cigarette designs and advertising campaigns | Robert Proctor - History |
| Student | Project Title |
Advisor(s) |
| Sarah Bahm |
Current Trends in Posthumous Sperm Procurement Protocols | David Magnus - Pediatrics & Center for Biomedical Ethics |
| Katherine Bell | Undiagnosed: A Personal Memoir on Living with a Mystery Illness | Larry Zaroff - Human Biology & Center for Biomedical Ethics |
| Woody Chang |
A Comparative Study of the Language Used to Describe Laterile and Stem Cell Therapy: An Evolution in Ethical Problems Through Language | Christopher Scott - Center for Biomedical Ethics |
| Anne (Katie) Miller | Health in the Short Creek Polygamist Communities: The Provider's Perspective | David Magnus - Pediatrics & Center for Biomedical Ethics and Katrina Karkazis - Center for Biomedical Ethics |
| Larry Ozowara | Parental Understanding of Surgical Procedures in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit | Claudia Mueller - Pediatric Surgery |
| Allison Zemek |
A Children's Book for Promoting Healthy Lifestyle Choices | Christopher Gardner - Medicine |
| Student | Project Title |
Advisor(s) |
| Brian Anderson | Translational Ayahuasca: Cultural Psychiatry of a Psychadelic Therapy for Depression | Tanya Luhrmann - Anthropology & Psychology |
| Cheri Blauwet | A Qualitative Assessment of the Impact of Sport on the Well-Being of Youth with a Physical Disability in Uganda | Paul Wise - Pediatrics, Nora Groce - Yale School of Public Health and University College, London |
| Blake Charlton | The Empire of Lights: A novel of the American psyche | Irvin Yalom - Psychiatry |
| Blake Charlton | Science Fictional, Medicinal: Short Speculative Fiction for Social Change | Audrey Shafer - Anesthesiology |
| Christina Gamba | The Preclinical Years: A fictional narrative of five medical students' lives | Larry Zaroff - Human Biology & Center for Biomedical Ethics |
| Courtney S. McGuire | Training Generation X: Comparing Attitudes and Perceptions of Current Dermatology Residents and Program Directors |
Hayes Gladstone - Dermatology |
| Xiao Tan | The impact of the Scholarly Concentration program on Stanford medical students: perceptions, outcomes, and future goals | Clarence Braddock - Internal Medicine, David Fetterman - Office of Medical Education, Laurence Baker - Health Research & Policy |
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Project Title | Advisor(s) |
| Alexa Bisinger | Professionalism and the Culture of Medicine | Larry Zaroff - Human Biology & Center for Biomedical Ethics |
| Christina Chao | Dear Student Doctor: Messages from patients to their future physicians |
Audrey Shafer - Anesthesiology |
| Sha-Nita Jones | Observational Study of HPV Vaccine Content in Social Media |
LaVera Crawley - Pediatrics |
| Hugh Keegan |
Media Treatment of Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Personal Genomics |
Mildred Cho - Pediatrics & Center for Biomedical Ethics |
| Jessica Les | When words fail: Interpreting the cancer experience through art |
Michael Marmor - Ophthalmology and Gail Wight - Art |
| Jessica Les | This Side of Diagnosis: A medical student's journey through breast cancer |
Larry Zaroff - Human Biology & Center for Biomedical Ethics and Sharon Bray - Cancer Center and Audrey Shafer - Anesthesia |
| Lori Ellen Rutman |
Pilot Study: Social Media Content Analysis of Knowledge, Attitudes and Beliefs about HPV Vaccination | LaVera Crawley - Pediatrics |
| Mengkai Shieh | Russian Orthodoxy and Medicine | Samuel LeBaron - Family Medicine and David Holloway - Political Science, History and International Studies and Alexander Abashkin - Stanford Center in Moscow |
| Amar Trivedi | Medicine at the intersection of facts and values | David Magnus - Pediatrics & Center for Biomedical Ethics |
| Wenshuai Wan | Faces and Voices of Downtown Streets Team: Using pictures and stories to understand health beyond disease management | Lars Osterberg - Medicine and Maren Grainger-Monsen - Center for Biomedical Ethics |
| Student | Project Title |
Advisor(s) |
| James Andrews | Using diffusion tensor imaging to examine associations between white matter integrity and linguistic performance in children with periventricular white matter damage (Medical Scientist) | Heidi Feldman - Pediatrics (Neonatology) |
| Emma Bake | Prospective analysis of factors involving post-surgical delirium | Jose Maldonado - Psychology |
| Alexa Bisinger |
Identification of risk factors for T.gondii infection among pregnant women in Colombia (Travel Scholarship) | Jose Montoya - Medicine and Gloria Anais Tunubala |
| Matthew Bucknor |
Operating in the dark: A novel examining identity and race in medicine | Audrey Shafer - Anesthesiology |
| Chantal Forfota | Trace: a project of remembering (writing) | Audrey Shafer - Anesthesiology |
| Alana Frost | Web-Based behavior change program for children and adolescents with obesity | Rebecka Peebles - Pediatrics (Adolescent Medicine) |
| Debra Elena Garcia | Analysis of the Train the Trainers course in health and human rights (Travel Scholarship) | LaVera Crawley - Pediatrics |
| Helena Horak |
Analysis of water quality in villages within the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea (Travel Scholarship) | Alexandria Boehm - Engineering and Douglas Heidema (outside) |
| Helena Horak |
Water, sanitation, and environment: Child health in Tanzania | Jenna Davis - Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Sarah Langley |
Stand by the trashcan (a novel) | Audrey Shafer - Anesthesiology |
| Jessica Les | Masked and gloved: a medical student's exploration of the operating room | Michael Marmor - Ophthalmology and Gail Wight - Art |
| Naresh Ramarajan |
"A Window Called Death": The Narratives of a Medical Trainee | LaVera Crawley - Pediatrics |
| Christopher Richards |
Describing institutional processes used in pediatric organ transplantation listing decisions (Medical Scientist) | David Magnus - Pediatrics & Center for Biomedical Ethics |
| Tracy So | Mobile Surgery: bringing the OR to underserved populations of rural Ecuador (Photo essay) | Donald Laub - Surgery and Edgar Rodas - Plastic Surgery (off-site) |
| Dona Tversky | My health, my self: Images and words of older adults | Peter Pompei - Medicine |
| Student | Project Title | Advisor(s) |
| Tina Allee | Treatment goals of patients experiencing overactive bladder syndrome and painful bladder syndrome (Medical Scientist) |
Christopher Payne - Urology |
| Bernard Chang | Medicine and mental illness: a tour through the history of psychiatry |
Audrey Shafer - Anesthesiology |
| Kimberley Young | After the storm: A reflection on the health and the hearts of those affected by the tsunami and Katrina |
Marjorie Ford - Writing and Rhetoric |
| Student | Project Title |
Advisor(s) |
| James Andrews | Characterizing the relationship between anatomical and functional variability in the left inferior frontal gyrus in individuals performing a language task (Travel Scholarship) | Anthony Wagner - Psychology, Denise Klein - off site |
| Jamie Dermon | Mayan Elixir: A Medical Thriller | Audrey Shafer - Anesthesiology |
| Jenya Kaufman | Stories of sunfllower country hospital: a collection of narratives inspired by African American women describing the trustworthiness of their local hospital |
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| Christopher Richards | Institution decision-making regarding transplant listing criteria | David Magnus - Pediatrics & Center for Biomedical Ethics |
| Student | Project Title | Advisor(s) |
| Mark Christopher Adams |
Hoy Tenemos: a novel |
Clifford Barnett - Anthropological Sciences |
| Tina Allee | Examination of the parent's perspective of the rule out sepsis evaluation |
William Rhine - Pediatrics |
| Cheri Blauwet |
Promoting the health and human rights of people with disabilities through the Paralympic movement |
David Magnus - Pediatrics & Center for Biomedical Ethics |
| Kendra Bowman |
Creative expression of bereaved children | Barbara Sourkes - Pediatrics Intensive Care |
| Hetty Eisenberg | Charting mind-body methods: an ethnography of traditional Tibetan Buddhist medicine in Dharamsala, India (Travel Scholarship) |
David Spiegel - Psychiatry |
| Michael Ho |
Post-SARS Asia in a photo essay |
Robert Siegel - Medicine and Ker-Neng Lin - Infectious Disease |
| Lori Rutman |
Medical students' perspectives on death | David Magnus - Pediatrics & Center for Biomedical Ethics |
| Peter van Roessel |
Assessing the impact of an institutional commitment to colorectal cancer screening |
Sherry Wren - Surgery |
| Joanna Wrede | Sustainable healthcare practices in Papua New Guinea: A photo-essay (Travel Scholarship) |
Elliott Wolfe - Education and Sherry Wren - Surgery |
| Student | Project Title |
Advisor(s) |
| Ali Sina Bari |
Healing Asian America: A Photoessay (Travel Scholarship) |
Ronald Garcia - Family and Community Medicine and Rebekah Qidwai - Asian Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS |
| Sarah Bein | 33 Hats for Julia: Inventing Narrative and Cause in Illness (Renewal) Red Hen Press. 2008. pg 2001-2002 |
Audrey Shafer - Anesthesiology and Kate Gale - English (Loyola Marymount University) |
| Joaquin Garcia |
101 Indian Hospitals of the Southwest (Travel Scholarship) |
Gabriel Garcia - Internal Medicine and Rachel McIntire - Art Director, Boys & Girls Club of the Peninsula |
| Sarah Hilgenberg |
Formation, Malformation and Transformation: My Experience as Medical Student and Patient Annals of Internal Medicine. Vol144(14), 16 May 2006, pg779-80 |
Audrey Shafer - Anesthesiology and Lorraine Garnett Ward - English, The Fenn School |
| Jennifer Johnsen |
Tomorrow's Physicians: An Insider's Perspective on Learning Humanistic Medicine (Renewal) |
Samuel LeBaron - Family and Community Medicine and Elliott Wolfe - Associate Dean |
| Elise Lawson |
Accessing Medical Care through Free Clinics: A Photoessay Exploring the Experiences of the Uninsured |
Laurence Baker - Health Research & Policy and Sarah Ruby - Photojournalist |
| David Myung | Andy Vesalius, Kid Professor (Renewal) |
Harvey Cohen - Pediatrics and Robert Horn - Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Language and Information |
| Rosalyn Nguyen | Embracing the East? Fostering Sensitivity and Understanding in Asian Health Care (Renewal; Travel Scholarship) |
Quynh-Thu Le - Radiation Oncology |
| Peter Peng |
Hôpital Albert Schweitzer and the Cultural Context of Healthcare in Haiti | Ralph Greco - Surgery and Manuel Jordan - Curator, Art of Afriac, Oceania and the Americas; Cantor Arts Center |
| Michelle Rhee | The Journey of Medicine: Reflections on my experiences with malaria in Africa |
Russ Altman - Genetics, Medicine and Richard Roberts - History |
| Student | Project Title |
Advisor(s) |
| Sarah Bein | The Poetry of Healing: Inventing Narrative and Cause in Illness Thirty-three Hats for Julia Red Hen Press (2008) Dreaming Vietnam JAMA 2003 289(9):1080 |
Audrey Shafer - Anesthesiology and Kate Gale - English (Loyola Marymount University) |
| Suzanne Cowley | Choice as Life: Doctors' Experiences wtih Abortion |
Andrea Lunsford - English and Karen Meckstroth - Obstetrics and Gynecology (UCSF-SFGH) |
| Simon Hanft |
'A Paradise for a Sect': The Transfiguring Art of the Physician American Osler Society: The William Bean Student Research Award, 2005 |
Richard Rorty - Comparative Literature and Philosophy and Larry Zaroff - Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities |
| Jennifer Johnsen |
Tomorrow's Physicians: An Insider's Perspective on Learning Humanistic Medicine | Samuel LeBaron - Family and Community Medicine and Elliott Wolfe - Associate Dean |
| John Lyo |
Catalan Doctors: Gender Balance and Perception of Equity (Travel Scholarship) |
Ramona Doyle - Pulmonary and Critical Care and Juame Marrugat - Unitat de Lipids i Epidemiologia Cardiovascular (Barcelona, Spain) |
| Melisa Minor | Understanding Prisoner Health Care: Developing Competence and Compassion in Treating Prisoner Patientes |
Neil Gesundheit - Endocrinology, Gerontology & Metabolism and Tommy Lee Woon - Assistant Dean of Students, Multicultural Education |
| Shannon Moffett | Faces of Thought: Book Proposal on Consciousness (Renewal) The Three-Pound Enigma Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006 |
Rona Giffard - Anesthesiology |
| David Myung | Immunology Illustrated |
Ann Arvin - Pediatrics, Microbiology & Immunology and Larry Zaroff - Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities |
| Aparajita Sohoni | Writing Voices: The South Asian Female Medical Professional Experience "Main Road Crossing" Awaaz, UC Davis Journal for South Asian Communities, 2003 |
Carolyn Lougee Chappell - History and Parvati Dev - SUMMIT, Associate Dean - Learning Technologies |
| Joshua Spanogle | The Protean Code Isolation Ward: A Novel of Medical Suspense Bantam Dell Publishing, 2006 |
Julie Parsonnet - Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine and John L'Heureux - English |
| Student | Project Title |
Advisor(s) |
| Emily Bronson |
The Art of Observation |
Elliott Wolfe - Associate Dean |
| Mary Cayley |
The Devil in Music: Physiological Responses to the Musical Interval of the Tritone |
Jonathan Berger - Music |
| Jeannie Chang | Culturally-appropriate Artwork in the Community Clinics of San Francisco: An Important Element of the Healing Environment? |
Elliott Wolfe - Associate Dean and Davey Hubay - Artist/Photographer |
| Ying-Ying Goh Feyza Marouf Rachel Mory |
Anatomy: A Journey into the World of Medicine |
Maren Monsen - Center for Biomedical Ethics and Lawrence Mathers - Pediatrics and Surgery (Human Anatomy) |
| Karen Kim | Outside the Exam Room: A New Generation of Physician Activism |
Ami Laws - Medicine and Sally Lehrman - Communication |
| Elissa Meites |
INDE 226: History of Medicine Online (Renewal) |
Carlos Camargo - Medicine |
| Rosalyn Nguyen |
Embracing the East: Fostering Sensitivity and Understanding in Asian Health Care |
Quynh-Thu Le - Radiation Oncology, Huy M. Do - Radiology, Gordon Chang - History, Tommy Lee Woon - Assistant Dean of Students |
| Irene Park |
Children's Book: Diabetes Type I |
Carl Feinstein - Psychiatry |
| Nicholas Rubashkin | What the White Coat Can't Hide: Medical Students Write About Struggle and Diversity |
R. Ruth Linden - Curriculum Reform and Ronald Garcia - Family and Community Medicine |
| Student | Project Title | Advisor(s) |
| Chaya Bhuvaneswar | Survivor of That Time, That Place: Clinical Uses of Violence Survivors' Narratives J Med Hum 2004 25:109-27 | Audrey Shafer - Anesthesiology and Philippe Bourgois - Anthropology, History & Social Medicine (UCSF) |
| Michael Hope |
Versed: Pain, Memory and Consciousness Pain and forgetting MSJAMA 2003 289(5):617 |
John Gabrieli - Psychology |
| Elissa Meites | INDE 226: History of Medicine Online |
Timothy Lenoir - History and Philosophy of Science and Carlos Camargo - Medicine |
| Shannon Moffett | Faces of Thought - Book Proposal on Consciousness The Three-Pound Enigma Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006 |
Rona Giffard - Anesthesiology and Teresa Barker - Author |
| Patricia Wong | Illustrations of Novel Techniques in Craniofacial Surgery | Stephen Schendel - Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery |