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Degrees MPH, Interdisciplinary Studies :: University of California, Berkeley (2004) Residency :: University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (1986) MD :: Meharry Medical College (1981)
Crawley's current research interests include: identifying unique spiritual care needs across the various trajectories of functional decline that precede death; and the phenomenology of spirituality among patients suffering from dementia.
In the field of medicine and ethics, LaVera is internationally known for her work on health disparities for palliative and end...
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Linda Spector-Hatofsky has devoted the better part of fifty years to working in many aspects of community theatre -- as a director, playwright and instructor of acting and improvisation. Her students -- disabled, able-bodied, young and old, range in ages from 6 to 100.
For 27 years, she served as co-director and playwright for STAGEBRIDGE, a senior theater company whose goal is to use Drama and Storytelling to bridge the gap between generations and make dramatic activities an opportunity for elders. Linda has also created what she calls "Imaginations Workshops", working with...
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Degrees Doctorate in Intergenerational Studies :: Union Institute in Cincinnati (1996) MA in Drama :: University of Newcastle BA in Theatre :: Northwestern University
Stuart Kandell has been called a “pioneer in the field of creative aging” and is nationally known for his leadership of Stagebridge, the nation’s premiere performing arts company of older adults, which he founded in 1978 and ran until 2013. He currently travels around the country speaking, training artists and replicating Stagebridge’s successful programs.
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Adjunct Professor in Medical Humanities, UC Berkeley-UC San Francisco Joint Medical Program
Since receiving her PhD in comparative literature from Princeton University Marilyn Chandler McEntyre has included in her roster of literature courses many that connect humanities and sciences. In the course of 30 years of college teaching she has developed courses in literature and medicine that prepare premed students to enter medical school with a repertoire of questions about how medical practice is informed by cultural values and myths and shaped by the art of...
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Degrees AB Biology :: Amherst College (1964) PhD Biology :: Harvard University (1969) Postdoctoral Fellowship History of Science :: Harvard University (1971)
Member of the Faculty Emeritus, The Evergreen State College
John Perkins has been a Visiting Scholar at CSTMS from August 2018 to September 2020. He is currently a Research Associate at CSTMS.
JohnPerkins completed his undergraduate and graduate educations in biology, and his PhD work focused on the physiological and genetic...
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Lucia Tanassi (PhD 2002) is a medical anthropologist, bioethicist and clinical social worker who has worked on the ethics of the ends of life for more than a decade. She trained in medical anthropology at the University of Cambridge, and completed a Bioethics Fellowship with the Program in Medicine and Human Values. Her work has focused on agency, personhood and the relationships and meanings produced in therapeutic encounters—beginning with her fieldwork on routine episiotomy in Italy, to her work in palliative care, organ donation policy, plastination, and ethical dilemmas in critical...
