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| Stephen Post, PhD Division Head |
Maria Basile, MD, MBA Deputy Division Head |
In 1971, when Stony Brook's Health Sciences Center opened, Ed Pellegrino founded the Division. At its inception the group had faculty members representing the disciplines of history, sociology, anthropology, economics, political science, and philosophy and law. It was responsible for courses integrating social sciences and humanities into the medical school curriculum. Over the past 25 years, though the locus, size and composition of the division have changed, the importance of interdisciplinary teaching in the medical school at Stony Brook has continued unabated.
The division's Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics is devoted to training medical students and health professionals as well as conducting high impact research and scholarship in the three thematic components reflected in its name. While we maintain and develop curricula on these three themes with a primary focus on the medical school, we are also actively engaged in undergraduate and graduate teaching across the university. We maintain a productive research portfolio combining work in the traditional humanities including bioethics, narrative medicine and history; clinically-oriented scholarship centered on compassion, altruism and palliative care; and NIH and NSF funded scientific research.
Faculty
| Maria Basile, MD, MBA Clinical Assistant Professor and Associate Center Director Interests: Human Values and Medicine, Literature and Medicine, Medical Professionalism, Physician Leadership, Professional Identity Formation |
| Michele Bayley, MPH Instructor, Program in Public Health Interest: Family Medicine |
| Michelle Ballan, PhD, MSW Professor & Associate Dean for Research Interests: Family Medicine |
| Phyllis Migdal, MD, MA Clinical Assistant Professor Interests: Medical Ethics, Health Disparity, Implicit Bias |
| Stephen Post, PhD Director, Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics Interests: History of Bioethics, Geriatrics, Dementia, Religion and Health Care, Compassion and Altruism |
| Jeffrey Trilling, MD Associate Professor Interests: Medical Humanities and Ethics, Physician-Patient Relationship, Primary Care and Family Medicine |
| Michael Vetrano, PhD Course Director, Medicine in Contemporary Society Interests: Clinical Ethics and Decision Making, Doctor-Patient Communication, Spirituality and Health Care, Religion and Bioethics |
