Advisors

We encourage you to contact Brian Dolan, director of the Humanities track of this AoC theme, for more information about mentorship in the program. Other advisors include:

Vincanne Adams: UCSF (DAHSM)
Ethnomedicine, health development, medical power and social knowledge in the Himalayan regions of Nepal and Tibet

Louise Aronson : UCSF
Narrative medicine, fiction/creative non-fiction, empathy, ethnogeriatrics, illness narratives, and death

Jeff Burack: Berkeley (JMP)
Physician-patient relationship, clinical ethics, human rights, & death & dying

Tina Gillis: Berkeley (Townsend Center)

Jodi Halpern: Berkeley (JMP)
Philosophy and psychiatry, including empathy, autonomy, social hierarchies and justice

Christie Kiefer: UCSF (DAHSM)
Political economy of care; anthropology in community-centered care; war and health

Sharon Kaufman: UCSF (DAHSM, Nursing)

Tom Laqueur: Berkeley (History)
Death, dying; modern European culture and medicine

Guy Micco: Berkeley (JMP)
Suffering; death; narrative and medicine

Dorothy Porter: UCSF (DAHSM)
History of medicine

Malcolm Potts: Berkeley (Population, Family Planning)
Evolutionary Psychology; History

Eleanor Rosch: Berkeley (Psychology)
Cognitive psychology; psychology of dreams, Eastern psychologies, meditation, and the contemplative aspects of Western religions

Alan Steinbach: Berkeley (JMP)
Patient Narrative

David Watts: UCSF
Literature and medicine; creative writing; poetry