Health Humanities: Contributors to the Field
Health Humanities reflects the commitment, creativity, and curiosity of diverse networks of academics, artists, health professionals, learners, and others working across the globe to advance education, scholarship, and practices in the field. Below, we offer an alphabetical listing of individual contributors.
This list is maintained by CAHH, and it is ever evolving as the health humanities landscape continues to change and grow. Please submit suggestions for changes or additions by email to: cahhsecretary@cahh.ca. Please include the individual’s name, title, and affiliation in the email.
Francis Dean Abantanga – Professor, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University for Development Studies, Ghana
Jill Allison -- Global Health coordinator/clinical assistant professor, Division of Community Health and Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Shannon Arntfield -- Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, Ontario, Canada
Felice Aull Founder & Editor Emerita, Literature, Arts, and of Medical Humanities, NYU School of Medicine. personal website: www.feliceaull.com
Keith Barrington – Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Montreal, Neonatologist; Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, CHU Sainte-Justine, Canada
Nathalie Beausoleil -- Professor of Social Science and Health, Memorial University, Community Health and Humanities, Canada
Alan Bleakley – Professor (Emeritus), Faculty of Health, University of Plymouth, UK
Pauline Bouchet -- Professor, Teaching and Research, Literature and Arts, University of Grenoble-Alpes, France
Donald Boudreau – Interim Director of the Institute of Health Sciences Education, McGill University, Canada
Sarah Brears -- Clinical associate professor, Family Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Pamela Brett-MacLean -- Associate Professor, and Director of Arts & Humanities in Health & Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta, Canada
Heather Buckley -- Clinical Educator Fellow, CHES (Centre for Health Education Scholarship) Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Canada
Marina Cantacuzino -- Founder, The Forgiveness Project, London, UK
Marie Cave – Department of Family Medicine, University of Alberta, Canada
Andrea Charise -- Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Centre for Health & Society, University of Toronto, Canada
Rita, Charon -- Executive Director, Narrative Medicine; Professor of Medicine, Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, United States
Ayesha Chatterjee -- Poet and Chair, League of Canadian Poets; Feminist Caucus League of Canadian Poets, Feminist Caucus, Canada
Carol-Ann Courneya – Associate Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada
Jim Connor – Professor, Medical Humanities and History of Medicine Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
brenda crabtree -- Director Aboriginal Programs + Special Advisor to the President on Indigenous Initiatives, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Canada
Sayantani DasGupta -- Faculty at Columbia University, M.S. Program in Narrative Medicine, the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, United States
Jim Davies – Professor, Cognitive Science, Carleton University, US
Sarah de Leeuw – Professor, Northern Medical Program, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada; Canada Research Chari in Humanities and Health Inequities
Aruna Dhara -- Assistant Professor and Family Doctor, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Canada
Courtney Donovan – Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environment, San Francisco State University, United States.
Rachel Ellaway – Professor, Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Canada
May Farrales -- Assistant Professor Simon Fraser University, Geography and Gender Sexuality and Women's Studies Department; Postdoctoral Researcher Northern Medical Program, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
Christopher Fletcher – Professor, Department of Social and Preventative Medicine, Laval University, Canada
Lesley Fletcher -- Executive Director League of Canadian Poets, National Office, Canada
Arthur Frank -- Professor Emeritus of sociology at University of Calgary, Canada
Sarah Fraser -- Associate Professor, Family Medicine, Dalhousie University, Canada
Abraham Fuks – Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Experimental Medicine, McGill University, Canada
Robert Gibbs – Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada
Jack Gieseking -- Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, United States
Helly (Rachel) Goez -- Assistant Dean, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta, Canada
Michael Green – Professor, Departments of Humanities and Internal Medicine, Penn State University, United States
Trish Greenhalgh Professor (Emeritus) of Professional Education, University of Sterling, UK;
Professor Department of Educational Studies, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Canada
Margo Greenwood – Professor, First Nations Studies, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
Francoise Guigne -- Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine (Family Medicine), Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Paul Haidet – Director, Medical Education Research, College of Medicine, Woodward Center for Excellence in Health Sciences Education, Penn State University, United States
Kristian Hammond, Professor, Computer Science, Northwestern University, US; Narrative Science (website)
Tracy Hamon -- Poet and Saskatchewan Representative, League of Canadian Poets; National Council, League of Canadian Poets, Canada
Nellie Hermann – Writer, Creative Director of the Program in Narrative Medicine, Columbia University, US
Tracey Hillier -- Assistant Professor, Associate Dean, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta, Canada
Cheryl Holmes -- Associate Dean, Undergraduate Medical Education, University of British Columbia, Medicine, Canada
Amy Holthouser --Associate Dean for Medical Education and Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Louisville, United States
Jillian Horton – Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Canada
Sarah Hunt -- Canada Research Chair and Assistant Professor University of Victoria, School of Environmental Studies, Canada
Alvan Ikoku -- Assistant Professor Comparative Literature, Stanford; Director of the Master of Arts in Bioethics graduate program at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Writer for the World Health Organization, Small Axe, Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, and Virtual Mentor, the ethics journal of the American Medical Association.
Craig Irvine -- PhD, Director of the Master of Science in Narrative Medicine graduate program at Columbia, Lecturer in Narrative Medicine at Columbia, phenomenologist and memoirist, author of “The Other Side of Silence: Levinas, Medicine, and Literature.”
Melissa Jacques -- Senior Instructor, English and Cultural Studies University of British Columbia, Canada
Janusz Janczukowicz -- Head of the Centre for Medical Education, Medical University of Lodz, Poland
Annie Janvier -- Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Montreal, Canada; Neonatologist and Clinical Researcher, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, CHU Sainte-Justine, Canada.
Tibetha (Stonechild) Kemble -- Director of Indigenous Health (Division of Community Engagement) Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta, Canada
Martina Kelly – Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada
Monica Kidd - Community Associate Professor, Cumming School of Medicine, Family Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada
Frances Kilbertus, Associate Professor, Palliative Medicine, Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Canada
Audrey Kobayashi -- Professor, Geography and Planning, Queen's University, Canada
Ayelet Kuper -- Associate Professor Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada
Donna Kurtz -- Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Canada
Jennifer Leason -- Assistant Professor, Anthropology & Archaeology, University of Calgary, Canada
Gilles Leclerc –Faculty Member, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universite de Montreal, Canada
Lorelei Lingard -- Professor, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Davina Banner-Lukaris -- Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
Jeffrey Masuda -- Associate Professor, School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen's University, Canada
Eric Magrane -- Assistant Professor, Geography, New Mexico State University, United States
Jane Macnaughton -- Director Durham University, United Kingdom Institute for Medical Humanities
Emily McGiffin -- Writer and Lecturer, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, University of British Columbia, Okanogan, Canada
Tracy Moniz -- Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada
Annemarie Mol -- Professor, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Kathryn Montgomery-- Professor Emeritus (Research area: epistemology of medicine), Northwestern University, US
Aimee Morrison—Associate Professor, Digital Humanities, English language and Literature, University of Waterloo, Canada
Sarah Nelson -- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Geography and Planning, Queens University, Canada
Emilia Nielsen -- Assistant Professor, Department of Social Science, York University, Canada
Stephanie Nixon -- Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto, Canada
Allan Peterkin -- Professor, Psychiatry and Family Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada; Director of Health, Arts and Humanities Program, University of Toronto, Canada
Katrina Plamondon -- Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Canada
Caylee Raber – Director, Health Design Lab, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Canada
Michael Roberts -- MD in Toronto – published in CFP (nov, 2012 – narrative means to profession end. mroberts@mtsinai.on.ca
Tom Rosenal -- Associate Professor (Emeritus), Critical Care Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada
Mark Rosenberg – Professor, Geography and Planning, Queen's University, Canada
Jean Roy – Medical Doctor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Canada
Claudia Ruitenberg -- Associate Professor, Philosophy of Education, Department of Educational Studies, UBC Vantage College, Canada
Tinu Ruparell – Associate Professor, Department of Classics and Religion, University of Calgary, Canada
Gretchen Schiller -- University Professor, Litt &Arts, University Grenoble Alpes, France
Brett Schrewe -- PhD student, Educational Studies, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Canada; Pediatrician, Canada
Barbara Sibbald – Editor, Canadian Medical Association Journal
Niigaanwewidam Sinclair -- Assistant Professor, Native Studies, University of Manitoba, Canada
David Smith -- Global Medical Humanities: Building a common platform. Looking at history of medicine worldwide, outside the western zeitgeist, including Islam medicine (dominated vast parts of the world until 1500); Medicine in S. India. W. Medicine evolved in the late 18th C and was greatly influenced by exploration, naval commerce and European colonialization. A lot of innovation occurred outside Europe. V. interesting.
Graeme Smith -- Professor and Head, Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Queens University, Canada
Maura Spiegel -- PhD, Professor of English at Columbia, Interim Director of Columbia’s American Studies Program, US
Alywn Spies-- Senior Instructor, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada
Wendy Stewart -- Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Division of Medical Education, Dalhousie University, Canada
Angela Towle -- Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Canada
Bryce Traister – Dean, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada
Cheryl Tress -- Rural Nursing Instructor, Nursing, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
Ebru Ustandag -- Associate Professor Geography and Tourism Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Brock University, Canada
Petra Verdonk -- Associate Professor, Department of Medical Humanities, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Netherlands
Cynthia Whitehead – Professor, Medical Humanities and History of Medicine, Wilson Centre Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada
Marc Zaffran – Researcher, Ethics Research Centre, University of Montreal, Canada
Joyce Zazulak—Professor, Family Medicine, McMaster University, Canada