Ramu Nagappan, PhD (TSP 2004-2005) is the Curriculum Coordinator for the UCSF School of Medicine and Co-Director of the Medical Humanities Area of Concentration Program. He received a Bachelors of Arts degree from Princeton University and a PhD in English Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. At UCSF, he teaches the popular Medicine & Creative Writing elective, which provides students the opportunity to write and reflect on the medical experience. Dr. Nagappan is teaches in Foundations of Patient Care and in the culture and behavior series of the Essential Core, and is course co-director for the Medical Humanities Seminar. He is particularly interested in the interdisciplinary possibilities of teaching the humanities in medical school, and is studying the outcomes of humanities instruction and the impact of a growing humanities community at a health sciences campus. In the spring of 2005, his book on literature, film, anthropology, and medicine, Speaking Havoc: Social Suffering and the South Asian Imagination, will be published by the University of Washington Press. He has also published works of short fiction.