Dan Shapiro, Ph.D. is an associate professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of Arizona College of Medicine where he directs the Medical Humanities Program.

Dr. Shapiro earned his Ph.D at the University of Florida and went on to Harvard Medical School where he completed an internship at McLean Hospital and an endowed fellowship in medical crisis interventions at Boston Children's Hospital, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and the Brigham and Women's Hospital.

His professional writings have appeared in Ethics and Behavior, Health Psychology, and the Journal of Psychosomatic Research. His personal essays have appeared in the New York Times, JAMA, Salon.Com, the American Psychological Association's Monitor and he has had commentaries on National Public Radio's: All Things Considered. As a result of expertise as someone who has lived on "both sides of the medical bed", he has been featured in the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Today Show, NPR's Talk of the Nation, ABCNEWS.COM, AARP's Magazine, Salon.Com and a number of other periodicals.

His first book, Moms Marijuana, about his personal cancer experience, was published in October 2000 by Harmony Books (a Random House imprint) and appeared as a Vintage paperback in fall 2001. It has now been translated into Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian. His second book was published in 2004. Titled Delivering Doctor Amelia, it focused on his psychological treatment of a physician and is now required reading at a number of medical schools.

Helle Mathiasen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 1967 she was awarded the cand.mag. (Master's) degree in English and Ancient Greek from the University of Copenhagen. After emigrating to the United States in 1965, she studied Colonial American Literature and History at Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, obtaining her Ph.D. in English in 1974. Her two most recent teaching positions have been in the Boston College Honors Program and in the University of Arizona Humanities Program. She holds numerous grant awards, including a Merrill Fellowship from Radcliffe College and several grants from the Ministry of Education of the Government of Denmark. From 1996-2001, she directed the national conference, The Ethics of Health Care and Healing at the University of Arizona College of Medicine.

Her areas of teaching and research include the Humanities, European art, literature, and philosophy from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century; Medical Humanities, Literature and Medicine and Bioethics; Danish World War II History, and Danish Women Authors. She has lectured and published nationally and internationally in these areas. During her ten-year tenure in the University of Arizona Humanities Program, she was awarded the Provost's General Education Teaching Award and was a finalist for the Five-Star Faculty Award.

In the Fall of 2003, she was appointed Director of Medical Humanities at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. The Director works to develop and support college- and university-wide lectures, seminars, and courses that explore the relationship between the sciences and humanities. In addition, she teaches a fourth-year elective in Medicine and Literature in the College of Medicine at the University of Arizona.

Education: BS 1955 University of Nebraska
MA 1967 University of Arizona
PhD 1978 University of Arizona
Teaching Experience: TA in English 1964-69
Lecturer in Humanities 1969-present
Facilitator in Integrative Medicine

The focus of her teaching has been integration of literature, philosophy, and art history in the undergraduate classroom. Realizing the value of this material for every human being led Dr. Swaim to extend her teaching outside the traditional University environment. She has led discussions at Arizona Theatre Company, presented programs for the Arizona Humanities Council, taught classes and led workshops in prisons, taught several courses in the Adult Humanities Program, and worked as Facilitator of Spirituality and Medicine since the beginning of the Program in Integrative Medicine.

This experience has resulted in teaching awards such as the Honors College Five Star Teaching Award, the Outstanding Teaching Award from Adult Humanities Program, the Mortar Board Outstanding Teaching Award, the Honorary Bobcat Award, and the University Hall of Fame. Perhaps, among many other awards, the plaque from her prison students may be most highly valued as it presents her the august title of “Honorary Convict.”

Dr. Denny Bastron, Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology, is the son of a General Practitioner and the father of a Family Practitioner. His medical background is based in clinical anesthesia, renal physiology and pharmacology, intensive care medicine, and hospice. Dr. Bastron’s formal education began at a tender young age when his father enrolled him in obedience school at Wentworth Military Academy (it didn’t take). His medical education and specialty training occurred at the Universities of Iowa and Tennessee . He then went to finishing school (fellowship) at the hospital formerly known as the Peter Bent Brigham.

After a tour of duty with the United States Air Force, he taught at Iowa, Arizona , and Texas A&M before returning to Tucson in December 2002. At Texas A&M, Dr. Bastron was professor of Anesthesiology and Professor and Head of the Department of Humanities in Medicine where he coordinated the first year course, Introduction to Clinical Ethics; taught a second year elective, Professionalism in Medicine; and participated in the Leadership in Medicine Program. He also chaired the Scott & White Ethics Committee, founded the Texas Bioethics Resource Consortium, and was the Associate Medical Director of the Scott & White Hospice.

Dr. Bastron is a member of the American Osler Society, the Mark Twain Circle of America , the Anesthesia History Association, and the American Association for the History of Medicine. At the University of Arizona he coordinates the history of medicine club and offers electives in professionalism and clinical ethics.

Dr. Bastron’s main pursuit in life outside of medicine has been finding novel ways to prolong adolescence beyond all previous limits, an endeavor at which he has been enormously successful.

VISITING PROFESSORS

April 12, 2006
Rafael Campo, MA, MD, Litt.D.
Harvard Medical School

Rafael Campo, MA, MD, Litt.D. was born in 1964 in Dover, New Jersey. A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Medical School, he currently teaches and practices general internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where his medical practice serves mostly Latinos, gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered people, and people with HIV infection.

He is the author of The Other Man Was Me (Arte Público Press, Houston, 1994), which won the 1993 National Poetry Series Award; What the Body Told (Duke University Press, Durham, 1996), which won a Lambda Literary Award for Poetry; and The Poetry of Healing: A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Desire (W.W. Norton, New York, 1997), a collection of essays now available in paperback under the title The Desire to Heal, which also won a Lambda Literary Award, for memoir. His poetry and prose have appeared in many major anthologies, including Best American Poetry 1995 (Scribner, New York, 1995), Things Shaped in Passing: More "Poets for Life" Writing from the AIDS Pandemic (Persea, New York, 1996), Currents in the Dancing River: Contemporary Latino Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry (Harcourt Brace, New York, 1994), and Gay Men at the Millennium (Putnam, New York, 1997); and in numerous prominent periodicals, including DoubleTake, JAMA, the Kenyon Review, The Lancet, the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, the New England Journal of Medicine, the New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Out, the Paris Review, The Progressive, Salon.com, Slate.com, the Threepenny Review, and the Washington Post Book World.

His work has also been featured on the National Endowment for the Arts website and on National Public Radio. With the support of a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, he wrote Diva (Duke University Press, 1999), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Paterson Poetry Prize, and Lambda Literary Awards for poetry. He is a recipient of the Annual Achievement Award from the National Hispanic Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Pushcart Prize, and he has served as Visiting Writer at Amherst College, George A. Miller Endowment Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana and Fanny Hurst Visiting Poet at Brandeis University. He has lectured widely, with recent appearances at the Lannan Foundation, the Library of Congress, the 92nd Street Y, and other prestigious venues. He is also the recipient of an honorary Doctor of Literature degree from Amherst College. His newest collection of poetry, Landscape with Human Figure, was published in April 2002, and won the Gold Medal from ForeWord in poetry. In August of 2003, W.W. Norton published The Healing Art: A Doctor's Black Bag of Poetry, new essays on poetry and healing.

Dr. Campo believes that, “Soul-numbing managed care and mind-boggling technological advancement seem to have conspired to distance doctors from patients.” Literature, including poetry, can be effective in restoring empathy to the doctor-patient relationship.

Read the Medical Humanities article by Rafael Campo, in the 7 Sept issue of JAMA, "A Piece of My Mind". vol. 294, pp. 1009-1011.
www.rafaelcampo.com

November 2, 2005
Jack Coulehan, MD, MPH, Director
The Institute for Medicine in Contemporary Society

Jack Coulehan, MD, MPH is the Director of the Institute for Medicine in Contemporary Society; and Professor of Medicine and Preventive Medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he chairs the Ethics Consultation Service at University Hospital . His contributions to the medical literature include epidemiological studies and clinical research, as well as essays on physician-patient communication, empathy, medical pedagogy, clinical ethics, and literature in medicine. Jack's poems and stories have appeared in major literary magazines and medical journals in the United States , Canada , England , and Australia ; and his work is widely anthologized. His collections of poetry include The Knitted Glove (1991), First Photographs of Heaven (1994), The Heavenly Ladder (2001), and Medicine Stone (2002). His other books include The Medical Interview: Mastering Skills for Clinical Practice (4 th edition, 2001), a best selling text on the clinician-patient relationship; Blood and Bone (co-edited with Angela Belli, 1998); Chekhov's Doctors (2003); and the forthcoming Second Opinion (University of Iowa, 2006) Jack's honors and awards include fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts (1988) and National Endowment for the Humanities (1989); the American College of Physicians Poetry Award (1997), the American Nurses Association's award for best book (1998), the Merck Fellowship at Yaddo (1999); and the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine award for distinction in the humanities (2004).

April 14, 2005
William A. Grana, MD, MPH
Professor and Head, Orthopaedic Surgery
The University Physicians, The University of Arizona College of Medicine

Dr. Grana received his medical degree from Harvard University in 1968. He completed his residency at Barnes Hospital, Washington University, St. Louis in 1975 and a fellowship in sports medicine from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in 1976. He was board certified in orthopaedic surgery in 1976. He received a master’s degree in public health administration and policy from the University of Oklahoma in 1995.

From 1975 to 2000 he was on the faculty of the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, including clinical professor of Orthopaedics and director of sports medicine. Dr. Grana was also an orthopaedic consultant to Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma City University and the Texas Ranger’s AAA baseball team, the Oklahoma Redhawks.

He was a physician member of the U.S. Olympic Committee’s 1985 Winter World University Games Team in Bulluno and Cortina, Italy; a member of the 1986 Olympic Festival medical staff in Houston, Texas; head physician for the United States Team at the 1987 Pan American Games in Indianapolis, Indiana; and a member of the USOC’s medical staff at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Nationally, he has assumed the role of President Elect for the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine and is the Editor-in-Chief for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons educational website called Orthopaedic Knowledge Online.

He is a consultant to the Chicago White Sox and a team physician for their Tucson training camps. He is also an orthopaedic consultant to the University of Arizona Athletic Department and regularly provides care to University of Arizona athletes.

Dr. Grana’s current professional interests include sports-related problems that affect the knee, shoulder, ankle and elbow.

November 3, 2004
Timothy E. Quill, MD
Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, and Medical Humanities
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.

Timothy E. Quill, M.D. is a Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, and Medical Humanities at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He is also the Director of the Center for Palliative Care and Clinical Ethics, Director of the Program for Biopsychosocial Studies, and palliative care consultant in Rochester, New York.

Dr. Quill has published and lectured widely about various aspects of the doctor-patient relationship, with special focus on end-of-life decision making, including delivering bad news, nonabandonment, discussing palliative care earlier, and exploring last-resort options. He is the author of several books on end-of life, including Physician-Assisted Dying: The Case for Palliative Care and Patient Choice (Johns Kopkins University Press, 2004), Caring for Patients at the End of Life: Facing an Uncertain Future Together (Oxford University Press, 2001) , and A Midwife Through the Dying Process:Stories of Healing and Hard Choices at the End of Life (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996) , and numerous articles published in major medical journals including “Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making” published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Quill was the lead physician plaintiff in the New York State legal case challenging the law prohibiting physician-assisted death that was heard in 1997 by the U.S. Supreme Court (Quill v. Vacco).

Dr. Quill received his undergraduate degree from Amherst College (1971), and his M.D. from the University of Rochester (1976). He completed his Internal Medicine residency in 1979 and a Fellowship in Medicine/Psychiatry Liaison in 1981, both from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Dr. Quill is a Fellow in the American College of Physicians, an ABHPM certified Palliative Care consultant, and a founding member of the American Academy on Physician and Patient.

Contact Information:

Palliative Care Program
University of Rochester Medical Center
601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 601
Rochester , NY 14642
Phone: 585-273-1154 Fax: 585-275-7403
E-mail: timothy_quill@urmc.rochester.edu

April 14 , 2004
John Stone, MD,
Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) Emeritus
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.

John Stone, MD is Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) Emeritus at Emory University School of Medicine. For 19 years he was Director of Admissions and Associate Dean. Prior to that, he worked in cardiology at Grady Hospital , where he founded the program in Emergency Medicine, now a full department in the School of Medicine . He has taught often for Emory College through the years, including the British Summer Studies Program in Oxford , England (Creative Writing and Literature and Medicine).

Born in Jackson , Mississippi , Dr. Stone graduated from Millsaps College , then received his M.D. degree from Washington University School of Medicine. He trained in Medicine and Cardiology at the University of Rochester and Emory University , joining the Emory faculty in 1969. Dr. Stone has three times been selected Best Clinical Professor at Emory and has given the Graduation Address for the School of Medicine four times. He received the Thomas Jefferson Award from Emory (1983) and the Emory University Scholar / Teacher Award (1990). In 1987, he received the Theobald Smith Award, the highest academic award of Albany Medical College , for "distinguished service to mankind in the fields of science, medicine, and teaching." In April 1996, he received the Nicholas E. Davies Memorial Scholar Award from the American College of Physicians for scholarly activities in the realm of the humanities. Dr. Stone received the Georgia Governor’s Award in the Humanities in 1992. In 2000, the Medical Alumni Association honored Dr. Stone with the Evangeline T. Papageorge Distinguished Faculty Award for excellence in teaching. Dr. Stone has received honorary degrees from Miami University , Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, and Albany Medical College . In April 2003, he received the Mastership designation (MACP) from The American College of Physicians.

Louisiana State University Press publishes Stone's poetry: THE SMELL OF MATCHES (1972); IN ALL THIS RAIN (1980); RENAMING THE STREETS (1985); WHERE WATER BEGINS (1998). MUSIC FROM APARTMENT 8 : New and Selected Poems, will be published by LSU in 2004. His work has twice received a Literature Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters (1986 and 1999). (Former winners include Walker Percy, Ellen Gilchrist, and Barry Hannah.)

IN THE COUNTRY OF HEARTS, a book of new and collected essays, was originally published by Dell and reprinted by LSU Press (1996). Most of these essays appeared first in The New York Times Magazine, others in Journal of the American Medical Association, Discover, MD Magazine.

Stone is co-editor (with Drs. Richard Reynolds, Lois Nixon, and Delese Wear) of ON DOCTORING, an anthology of Literature and Medicine (Simon and Schuster). The book is presented annually as a gift from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to students entering U.S. medical schools; the book is now in its 3rd edition. More than 200, 000 copies of ON DOCTORING have been distributed.

Stone’s work has appeared in such publications as Poetry, The American Scholar, The New York Quarterly, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, New England Review, and Poetry Northwest. His work has been widely anthologized, including The Norton Introduction to Literature and Contemporary Southern Poetry.

Stone has read and lectured at celebratory events at well over 100 institutions in 39 states and given named lectures at Yale, Stanford, Tulane, Vanderbilt, Brown, and The Mayo Clinic. Stone wrote the libretto for CANTICLES OF TIME, a choral symphony (music by Samuel Jones) that won the Music Award of the Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters (1991). In February 2001, Stone and the pianist, William Ransom, performed a program called “The Poet and The Pianist” at New York 's Carnegie Recital Hall.

Articles about John Stone and his writing appear in the following journals: The Lancet (Vol. 349, p. 275, January 25, 1997) and The American Journal of Medicine (Vol. 101, No. 4, p. 447, October 1996). His work was a front-page feature in the Wall Street Journal on March 3, 1998.

March 31 and April 1, 2004
Rita Charon, MD, PhD,
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Founder and Director of the Program in Narrative Medicine at
the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in New York City.

The 2004 Medical Humanities Lecture will feature Rita Charon, MD, PhD. She will visit our campus 31 March and 1 April 2004. Dr. Charon, a Harvard Medical School graduate, holds a PhD from Columbia University, where she studied the work of Henry James. Recently featured on NPR (28 October 2003, Morning Edition with Bob Edwards), Dr. Charon here explains her innovative teaching methods for medical students and residents: the concept of parallel charts. This way of keeping charts gives students an opportunity to record a regular chart, but also, and parallel with that, a chart of their emotional reactions to the patients they see.

Dr. Charon is Professor of Clinical Medicine as well as Founder and Director of the Program in Narrative Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in New York City. She is a general internist in practice in the Associates of Internal Medicine in Presbyterian Hospital. She has designed and directed Columbia's teaching programs in medical interviewing, humanities and medicine, and narrative medicine. She edits the journal Literature and Medicine (Johns Hopkins), and co-edited Stories Matter : The Role of Narrative in Medical Ethics (Routledge, 2002). Her essays and reviews have appeared in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Literature and Medicine, The Lancet, and the New England Journal of Medicine. She has recently been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is working on a book titled Narrative Medicine to be published by Oxford University Press.

Here is an excerpt from Dr. Charon's article in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences (May 2000, vol. 319, number 5, pp. 285ff.). She writes about literature and medicine:

“Many great literary texts, King Lear, The Divine Comedy, Middlemarch, The Wings of the Dove, The Magic Mountain, The Sound and the Fury – are attempts to make sense, artistically, of illness and death. The tradition of the physician-writer – John Keats, Francois Rabelais, Anton Chekhov, William Carlos Williams, Walker Percy, Richard Selzer, Ethan Canin, among many others, - reflects the overlap between the methods and concerns of literature and medicine. Ultimately, both literature and medicine follow individual characters or patients from their origins to their destinies, answering, in somewhat different ways, the urgent and universal questions of human beings, “Where do I come from?” and “Where am I going?”

January 26, 2004
W. Kenneth Holditch
Research Professor Emeritus
University of New Orleans

W. Kenneth Holditch is a Research Professor Emeritus from the University of New Orleans, where he taught for 32 years. He is the founding editor of The Tennessee Williams Journal and has published numerous short stories, poems, periodical articles, and critical essays on William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman, Walker Percy, Richard Ford, Anne Rice, and many others. Holditch was a founder of the Tennessee Williams Festival in New Orleans, Tennessee Williams Festival in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society, and the Words and Music Festival. In 1974 he created a French Quarter literary walk and still conducts the tours. Long term plans include a biography of John Kennedy Toole as well as a novel about growing up in the Mississippi. His full-length play on Tennessee Williams has been given two staged readings by Irma Duricko at Lincoln Center in New York and is still a work in progress. His recorded narration was used as a voice-over in an off-Broadway production produced and directed by Erma Duricko, Derelicts and Dreamers .

In 1997 Holditch was keynote speaker at the Great Lakes The-atre Festival in Cleveland, Ohio, and has lectured extensively in the U.S. and Europe on Tennessee Williams and other Southern authors. He has participated in symposia at the Alley Theatre in Houston, Tennessee Williams Symposium at the University Alabama and the University of Minnesota. He is an annual speaker at the Hartford Stage for their Tennessee Williams Marathon. In recent years, he had concentrated much of his attention on Williams. His works on the playwright include a monograph about Williams in New Orleans, The Last Frontier of Bohemia . He co-edited with critic Mel Gussow the two Library of America volumes (2000) that include thirty-three plays of Tennessee Williams. He collaborated with Richard Freeman Leavitt on Tennessee Williams and the South , a photo biography of the playwright, which was published in 2002.

He was awarded the Louisiana Endowment of the Humanities Lifetime Achievements Award for 2001. He and Marda Burton have recently completed their book on Galatoire's restaurant, which will be published in November, 2003

November 19, 2003
Abraham Verghese, MD, MFA, DSC(Hon.), Director
The Center of Medical Humanities and Ethics and Professor of Medicine
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

Abraham Verghese, Director of the Center of Medical Humanities and Ethics and Professor of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, graduated from Madras (India) Medical College in 1979, completed his residency in internal medicine at East Tennessee State University, and his fellowship in infectious diseases at Boston University. He received an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers Workshop in 1991.

Dr. Verghese went to Texas Tech, El Paso, in 1991 as a professor of medicine and chief of infectious diseases. He is board-certified in internal medicine, infectious diseases, pulmonary medicine and geriatrics. In 2000 he was appointed Grover E. Murray Distinguished Professor of Medicine. He has received the President's medal for teaching from Texas Tech University, many student teaching awards, the Nicholas Davies Award from the American College of Physicians, and an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Swarthmore College.

He has published extensively in the area of pneumonia, infections in the elderly, HIV infection and on topics related to medical humanities. He has been the commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins, Loyola University, Medical College of Georgia, the University of Connecticut, Northwestern University and UT San Antonio.

Dr. Verghese is the author of My Own Country: A Doctor's Story, a book that was nominated for the National Book Critic's Circle Award and was made into a television movie for Showtime. That book is now being taught at many medical schools across the country. His second book is The Tennis Partner: A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss, which was also a national bestseller and is being made into a movie. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Granta, TALK, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Atlantic Monthly.