DME Health Humanities Faculty

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Photo of Michael Blackie PhD
Associate Professor Department of Medical Education
Work Phone: 312-996-7954

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  • Research and Teaching Interests: Dr. Blackie’s scholarly and teaching interests include health humanities, narrative medicine, death studies, and medical education. He is associate editor of The Journal of Medical Humanities, book review editor for Literature and Medicine, and editor of the Literature and Medicine book series published by Kent State University Press.
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, Health Humanities, Master of Health Professions Education
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Assistant Director Education and International Programs
Work Phone: 312-996-4666
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Administration & Staff, Health Humanities, Master of Health Professions Education
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Work Phone: 312-413-8910
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate, Health Humanities
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Photo of Leah Eisenberg
Department of Medical Education
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, DME Part Time Faculty, Health Humanities
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Photo of Matthew Gambino
Clinical Assistant Professor Psychiatry
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Part Time Faculty, Health Humanities
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Work Phone: 312-996-3297
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate, Health Humanities
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Photo of Laura E. Hirshfield PhD
Associate Professor in DME, Co-director of the PhD program in Curriculum Studies/HPE and the Associate Director of Graduate Studies for DME Department of Medical Education
Website: Laura’s Personal Website

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  • ORCID: 0000-0003-0894-2994
  • Research and Teaching Interests: Socialization, qualitative methods, professional identity, inequality, leadership, and sociology
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, Health Humanities, Master of Health Professions Education
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Photo of Ann W. Jackson PT, DPT, MPH
Adjunct Lecturer Medical Education

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  • Research and Teaching Interests: Dr. Jackson is a licensed Physical Therapist who has interest in community health delivery models, health equity, ethics and food insecurity. Her clinical and research interest include health equity and access in vulnerable communities, post-secondary educational resources for those with physical and intellectual disabilities and addressing food insecurity among those with chronic health conditions.
Categories: Department of Medical Education, Health Humanities
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Photo of Kristi L Kirschner MD
Clinical Professor Department of Medical Education
Home Phone: 312-355-5418

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  • ORCID: 0000-0003-0651-3678
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, Health Humanities, Master of Health Professions Education
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Director of Medical Student Learning Environment
Categories: DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate, Health Humanities
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Photo of Pringl Miller MD, FACS
Adjunct Lecturer Medical Education
Website: Personal web site Website: Physician Just Equity

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  • Research and Teaching Interests: Dr. Miller is board certified in general surgery and hospice and palliative medicine. She practices acute care surgery, provides palliative medicine and clinical medical ethics consultation, and has worked as an associate medical director of an inpatient hospice unit. Her clinical and research interests include integrating palliative medicine and clinical medical ethics into the care of seriously ill or injured surgical patients and this passion has led to becoming a founding member of the Surgical Palliative Care Society. Additionally, Dr. Miller is a fierce advocate for gender and racial equity, diversity and inclusion in medicine and surgery as a founding member of TIME’S UP Healthcare and the Founder and President of Physician Just Equity. Physician Just Equity is a 501(c)3 non-profit foundation that exists to support learners, physicians, and surgeons experiencing bias, harassment, discrimination and retaliation through workplace conflicts, championing a balanced resolution, while simultaneously seeking to facilitate institutional culture change.
Categories: Department of Medical Education, Health Humanities
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Photo of Timothy Murphy PhD
Professor of Philosophy in the Biomedical Sciences Department of Medical Education
Work Phone: 312-996-3595

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  • Research and Teaching Interests: Dr. Murphy teaches and conducts research in the areas of professional ethics, assisted reproductive technologies, medicine and sexuality, and ethical aspects of genetic research. He is the author or editor of nine books, such as Justice and the Human Genome Project (University of California Press), Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research (Columbia University Press), and Case Studies in Biomedical Research Ethics (The MIT Press). His most recent book is Ethics, Sexual Orientation, and Choices about Children (The MIT Press). He has published widely in professional journals such as the Journal of Medical Ethics, American Journal of Bioethics, Bioethics, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, and Reproductive Biomedicine Online, among others. His work has been supported by grants from the U.S. Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health.
  • ORCID: 0000-0001-8003-550X
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, Health Humanities, Master of Health Professions Education
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Photo of Sandra Sufian PhD, MPH
Professor of Health Humanities and History – College of Medicine, Professor of Disability Studies – College of Applied Health Sciences Medical Education
Work Phone: 312-413-0113

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  • Research and Teaching Interests: Dr. Sufian specializes in the history of medicine and disability. She has published two books: Healing the Land and the Nation: Malaria and the Zionist project in Mandatory Palestine, 1920-1947 (U Chicago Press, 2007) and Reapproaching the Border: New Perspectives on the Study of Israel/Palestine (Rowman Littlefield, 2007). Sufian is currently working on a book project about the history of disability and adoption in America in the twentieth century. She teaches courses on the history of disability and the modern history of medicine and public health to medical students, PhD students and undergraduate students. She co-organizes the Health and Society working group of the Institute for the Humanities and is the founder of the Global Network of Researchers on HIV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa. Sufian is chair of the Disability History Association and serves on the editorial boards of Disability Studies Quarterly and the International Journal of Middle East Studies.
  • ORCID: 0000-0001-5545-5801
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, Health Humanities, Master of Health Professions Education
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Photo of Eric Swirsky JD, MA
Clinical Associate Professor Medical Education

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  • ORCID: 0000-0002-8949-1103
  • Research and Teaching Interests: Eric Swirsky, JD, MA is a clinical associate professor, director of graduate studies, and PhD program director in the College of Applied Health Sciences, Department of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Eric also serves as preceptor for the ethics rotation in the clinical informatics fellowship program and teaches in the health humanities curriculum in the UIC College of Medicine. Eric’s research interests include moral distress in health professions education; vaccine hesitancy in care givers, and the ethical milieu of healthcare technology.
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate, Health Humanities
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Lecturer
Categories: DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate, Health Humanities
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Photo of Dr Lawrence Zeidman M.D., FAAN
Work Phone: (312)-996-6496 Work Fax: (312)-996-4169
Categories: DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate, Health Humanities
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Other Health Humanities Faculty

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Photo of James Girardy MD, FACS
Clinical Associate Professor UICOM RockfordDepartment of Surgery/Surgical Specialties
Categories: Other Health Humanities
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