Articles, Poetry, Essays, and Other Publications

Student and Alumni

  • Aguirre Jarrad, Carrion VG. Integrated behavioral health services: a collaborative care model for pediatric patients in a low-income setting. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2013 Dec;52(12):1178-80.
  • Anand, Pria. Rooftops. Flash: The International Short Short Story Magazine 6(1):33-4, 2013
  • Anand, Pria. (2013, February 4). “Far, Far Away.” Creative Nonfiction, 47, 51-59. 
  • Anand, Pria. "Commotio Cordis." Bellevue Literary Review. 2013: 22-30.
  • Anderson Brian T, Garcia Angela. 'Spirituality' and 'cultural adaptation' in a Latino mutual aid group for substance misuse and mental health. BJPsych Bull. 2015 Aug;39(4):191-5.
  • Anderson BT. Ayahuasca as Antidepressant? Psychedelics and Styles of Reasoning in Psychiatry, Anthropology of Consciousness. 2012; 23 (1): 44-59
  • Anderson BT, Labate BC, Meyer M, Tupper KW, Barbosa PC, Grob CS, Dawson A, McKenna D. Statement on ayahuasca. Int J Drug Policy. 2012
  • Anderson, BT. Ayahuasca e depressão / Ayahuasca and depression, Plantandoconsciencia.wordpress.com. 2011
  • Andrews JS, Zaroff L. Surgical Ethics in Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics, edited by Singer PA and Viens AM. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U Press, 2008 [link]
  • Batten Jason. Assessing clinical ethics consultation: processes and outcomes. Med Law. 2013 Jun;32(2):141-52.
  • Bein, Sarah. Dreaming Vietnam. JAMA 2003 289(9):1080
  • Blauwet, Cheri. “Promoting the Health and Human Rights of Individuals with a Disability through the Paralympic Movement.” Sport for Persons with a Disability. C. Higgs & Y. Vanlandewijck (ed). Berlin, International Council on Sport Science and Physical Education. 21-35, 2007.
  • Blauwet, Cheri. “The Paralympics: Promoting Health and Human Rights through Sport.” Bonn, International Paralympic Committee. 1-19, 2004.
  • Bhuvaneswar, Chaya, Shafer A. Survivor of that time, that place: Clinical uses of violence survivors' narratives  J Med Hum,25:109-27, 2004
  • Chao, Christina. "Powder" Kaleidoscope, No. 57. Gail Willmott, Editor-In-Chief. Akron, OH: Kaleidoscope Press 2008. p 44
  • Chang W, Bank TC, and Scott CT. Fit to Print? Media Accounts of Unproven Medical Treatments Across Time. AJOB Primary Research 2013
  • Charlton Blake, Verghese A. Caring for Ivan Ilyich. J Gen Intern Med. 2010 21:93-5.
  • Cohen Marc A, Shafer A. Images And Healers: A Visual History of Scientific Medicine. Cultural Sutures: Medicine and Media, edited by Friedman L. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press pp. 197-214, 2004
  • Craven P, Blauwet, Cheri, Farkas A. (2006) “The Paralympics: Right to Participate, Right to Win.” Beyond the Scoreboard. G. Di Cola (ed).  Geneva, International Labour Organization. 45-57.
  • Hanft, Simon. Tactus Eruditus: The influence of Keats in the poetry of William Carlos Williams.SMSCJ (2003) for announcement of William Bean Student Research Award to Simon Hanft from the American Osler Society, 2005 based on this work
  • Hemond, Christopher. On not remembering faces. Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical Humanities. 2011, 3(4)
  • Hilgenberg, Sarah. Transformation: From Medical Student to Patient. Annals of Internal Medicine. Volume 144(10), 16 May 2006, pp 779-780
  • Hope, Michael. Pain and forgetting. MSJAMA 2003 289(5):617
  • Ives B, Nedelman Michael, Redwood C, Ramos MA, Hughson-Andrade J, Hernandez E, Jordan D, Horowitz CR. Vision Voice: A Multimedia Exploration of Diabetes and Vision Loss in East Harlem. Prog Community Health Partnersh. 2015 Autumn;9(3):335-43.
  • Kay HF, Sathiyakumar V, Archer KR, Mathis SL, Apfeld Jordan C, Lee YM, Jahangir AA, Ehrenfeld J, Obremskey WT, Sethi MK. The homeless orthopaedic trauma patient: follow-up, emergency room usage, and complications. J Orthop Trauma. 2014 Jun;28(6):e128-32.
  • Ladd JM, Karkazis K, Magnus D. Parental refusal of vaccination and transplantation listing decisions: A nationwide survey. Pediatr Transplant 17(3):244-50, 2013.
  • Les, Jessica “Affected” anthologized in Pulse-voices from the heart of medicine: More Voices, a second anthology. Ed: Gross E & Guernsey D. CreateSpace, pp 253-7, 2012
  • Les, Jessica Tekla. When spoken words fail. Literature and Medicine 28(2):200-14, 2009
  • Labate BC, Santos, Strassman R, Anderson BT, Mizumoto S. Effect of membership in a Brazilian ayahuasca religion on substance dependence In: Labate & Bouso (eds), Ayahuasca y Salud. 2013
  • Labate BC, Anderson BT, Jungaberle H. Ritual Ayahuasca use and health: an interview with Jacques Mabit In: Labate, B.C. & Jungaberle, H. (Eds). The Internationalization of Ayahuasca. Zurich, Switzerland: Lit Verlag. 2011: pp.223-244
  • Labate BC, Santos RG, Anderson BT, Mercante M, Barbosa PCR. The treatment and handling of substance dependence with ayahuasca: Reflections on current and future research In: Labate & MacRae (eds), Ayahuasca, Ritual and Religion in Brazil. 2010: pp205-227
  • Ladd Jennifer M, Ungar Leo D. An ethical take on the "stress vaccine". Virtual Mentor. 2012 Jan 1;14(1):60-7
  • Liu Emily Y, Scott CT. Great expectations: autism spectrum disorder and induced pluripotent stem cell technologies.
    Stem Cell Rev. 2014 Apr;10(2):145-50.
  • Love N. Artist's Statement: To Zanzibar by Motor Car, Please! Academic Medicine. 93(4):531, April 2018.
  • Love, N. Artist's Statements: Sixteen Anatomic Mnemonics. Academic Medicine. 93(3):349, March 2018.
  • Love, N. Artist's Statement: A Lady Between Two Majors. Academic Medicine. 93(2):156, February 2018.
  • Madden, Kendall. Inside the Hospital. Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine January 17, 2014 http://pulsemagazine.org/archive/poems/338-inside-the-hospital
  • Mansh M, White Wiliam, Gee-Tong L, Lunn MR, Obedin-Maliver Juno, Stewart L, Goldsmith E, Brenman S, Tran E, Wells M, Fetterman D, Garcia G. Sexual and gender minority identity disclosure during undergraduate medical education: "in the closet" in medical school. Acad Med. 2015 May;90(5):634-44.
  • Maxwell, Bryan has two poems published in the recently released anthology, Body Language: Poems of the Medical Training Experience (Editors: N Jain, D Coppock, S Brown Clark, BOA Editions, 2006).
  • Means, Casey. Review of 100,000 Hearts: A Surgeon's Memoir, by Denton A. Cooley. Pharos Spring 2013: 22-23. Print.
  • Means, Casey. My First Patient. The Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. Fall 2013
  • Meites Elissa. "Choose." Stories of Illness and Healing. Sayantani DasGupta and Marsha Hurst, editors. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2007. pp. 149-155.
  • Meites Elissa. Bein Sarah, Shafer A. Researching medicine in context: the Arts and Humanities Medical Scholars Program. BMJ-Medical Humanities 29:104-108, 2003.
  • Miller AC, Karkazis K. Health beliefs and practices in an isolated polygamist community of Southern Utah. J Relig Health. 2013 Jun;52(2): 597-609.
  • Milner LC, Liu Emily Y, Garrison NA. Relationships matter: ethical considerations for returning results to family members of deceased subjects. Am J Bioeth. 2013;13(10):66-7.
  • Novikov Z, Glover WJ, Trepman Paula C, Naveh E, Goldfracht M. How do integrative practices influence patient-centered care?: An exploratory study comparing diabetes and mental health care. Health Care Manage Rev. 2016 May 21. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Obedin-Maliver Juno, Goldsmith ES, Stewart L, White William, Tran E, Brenman S, Wells Maggie, Fetterman DM, Garcia G, Lunn MR. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender-related content in undergraduate medical education. JAMA. 2011 Sep 7;306(9):971-7.
  • Pathipati, Akhilesh. Medical school hasn’t changed much in a century. Here are 5 ways to fix that. July 7, 2016 https://www.statnews.com/2016/07/07/medical-school-reforms/
  • Pathipati, Akhilesh. Viewpoints: Why is spending on healthcare so high? Sacramento Bee February 1, 2014 Op-Ed. http://www.sacbee.com/2014/02/01/6119166/viewpoints-why-is-spending-on.html
  • Pathipati, Akhilesh. Viewpoints: Telemedicine is part of the solution for expanding health care. Sacramento Bee December 29, 2013 Op-Ed. http://www.sacbee.com/2013/12/29/6028839/viewpoints-telemedicine-is-part.html
  • Pathipati, Akhilesh. Attracting ‘young invincibles’ to Obamacare. Sacramento Bee December 8, 2013 Op-Ed. http://www.sacbee.com/2013/12/08/5974807/attracting-young-invincibles-to.html
  • Pischel Lauren.  Meanwhile. J Medical Humanities 38(2):213, 2017
  • Przybylo Jennie A, Wang A, Loftus P, Evans KH, Chu I, Shieh L. Smarter hospital communication: secure smartphone text messaging improves provider satisfaction and perception of efficacy, workflow. J Hosp Med. 2014 Sep;9(9):573-8.
  • Rizal Rachel E, Mediratta RP, Xie J, Kambhampati S, Hills-Evans K, Montacute T, Zhang M, Zaw C, He J, Sanchez M, Pischel Lauren. Galvanizing medical students in the administration of influenza vaccines: the Stanford Flu Crew. Adv Med Educ Pract. 2015 Jul 1;6:471-7
  • Roberts S, Birgisson Natalia, Julia Chang D, Koopman C. A pilot study on mobile phones as a means to access maternal health education in eastern rural Uganda. J Telemed Telecare. 2015 Jan;21(1):14-7.
  • Sathiyakumar V, Jahangir AA, Mir HR, Obremskey WT, Lee YM, Apfeld Jordan C, Sethi MK. The prevalence and costs of defensive medicine among orthopaedic trauma surgeons: a national survey study. J Orthop Trauma. 2013 Oct;27(10):592-7.
  • Shah Aatman M, Jung H, Skirboll S. Materials used in cranioplasty: a history and analysis. Neurosurg Focus. 2014 Apr;36(4):E19 Review
  • Sohoni, Aparajita. Crossing Over. SMSCJ (2003) 7 (2):7-8 Writing Voices: The South Asian Female Medical Professional Experience
  • Sohoni, Aparajita. Main Road Crossing UC Davis Journal Awaaz South Asian Magazine (June, 2003) Writing Voices: The South Asian Female Medical Professional Experience
  • Steinbach RJ, Allyse M, Michie M, Liu Emily Y, Cho MK. "This lifetime commitment": Public conceptions of disability and noninvasive prenatal genetic screening. Am J Med Genet A. 2016 Feb;170(2):363-74
  • Thakore RV, Apfeld Jordan C, Johnson RK, Sathiyakumar V, Jahangir AA, Sethi MK. School-based violence prevention strategy: a pilot evaluation. J Inj Violence Res. 2015 Jul;7(2):45-53.
  • Tucker JD, Cheng Y, Wong Bonnie, Gong N, Nie JB, Zhu W, McLaughlin MM, Xie R, Deng Y, Huang M, Wong WC, Lan P, Liu H, Miao W, Kleinman A; Patient-Physician Trust Project Team. Patient-physician mistrust and violence against physicians in Guangdong Province, China: a qualitative study. BMJ Open. 2015 Oct 6;5(10):e008221.
  • Ungar Leo D, Ladd Jenifer M. The ethical status of prophylactic interventions in children: ovarian tissue cryopreservation and vaccination. Am J Bioeth. 2012;12(6):50-2
  • Van Cleave AC, Roosen-Runge Megan U, Miller AB, Milner LC, Karkazis KA, Magnus DC. Quality of communication in interpreted versus noninterpreted PICU family meetings. Crit Care Med. 2014 Jun;42(6):1507-17.
  • Van Roessel, Peter.Music, Medicine, and the Art of Listening. J Learning Through the Arts vol 2, issue 1, 2006.
  • Verghese A, Charlton Blake, Cotter B, Kugler J, A History of Physical Examination Texts and the Conception of Bedside Diagnosis, Trans Am Clin Climatol Assoc. 2011; 122: 290–311.
  • White William, Brenman S, Paradis E, Goldsmith ES, Lunn MR, Obedin-Maliver J, Stewart L, Tran E, Wells Maggie, Chamberlain LJ, Fetterman DM, Garcia G. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Patient Care: Medical Students' Preparedness and Comfort. Teach Learn Med. 2015;27(3):254-63.
  • Winkelman, Megan. For you, I want to be more. Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical Humanities. 2011, 3(3)
  • Winkelman Megan, Ng Jacqueline, Shafer Audrey. Charting Phelan's "To Suffer a Sea Change" BMJ-Medical Humanities 41(2):121-7, 2015

Faculty, Staff, Housestaff and Affiliates

  •  Adaeze J & Gold J. Medical Humanities: Extracurricular Activity or Critical Curricular Component? 29 March 2012.
  • Bailey, Paula. Stillness in Motion: Wisdom From a Shaolin Martial Monk. Black Belt Magazine May 2009 47(5):106-8
  • Baker, Monya. On the Edge, short story in Nature 485:672, 2012
  • Crawley, LaVera. Having a say: Agency and end-of-life decision-making in The Chaneysville Incident. J General Internal Medicine 07 May 2010 Epub ahead of print
  • Garcia Angela. Serenity: Violence, Inequality, and Recovery on the Edge of Mexico City. Med Anthropol Q. 2015 Dec;29(4):455-72.
  • Jain, Shaili. Aziz Ansari, 100 French Women, “Witch Hunts” and Backlash: What #MeToo must learn from the science of sexual harrassment. Psychology Today pub 02.05.2018
  • Jain, Shaili. The Aftermath of Trauma, Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical Humanities. 5(1), 2013
  • Ikoku, Alcan. Reading Malaria Literature. Literature and Medicine 34.1 (2016): 207-236. Project MUSE. Web. 23 Aug. 2016.
  • Ikoku, Alvan. Refusal in 'Bartleby, the Scrivener': Narrative Ethics, Conscientious Objection - Virtual Mentor, 15(3), March 2013: 249-256.
  • Ikoku, Alvan. Conscience, Values, Justice in Savulescu - Virtual Mentor, 15(3), March 2013: 208-212.
  • Ikoku, Alvan. Telling. Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics 2(2), Fall 2012: E1-E4.
  • Kaplan, Susan. Survivors. The Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine Spring, 2013
  • Karkazis K, Health beliefs and practices in an isolated polygamist community of Southern Utah. J Relig Health. 2013 Jun;52(2): 597-609.
  • Kwak, J. Standing Up by Speaking Up. Pulse
  • Larøi F, Luhrmann Tanya M, Bell V, Christian WA Jr, Deshpande S, Fernyhough C, Jenkins J, Woods A. Culture and hallucinations: overview and future directions. Schizophr Bull. 2014 Jul;40 Suppl 4:S213-20.
  • Leng, Jody. An Anesthesia Resident’s Prayer. Anesthesiology 119:483, 2013
  • Luhrmann Tanya M. Book Forum: Hidden in Plain Sight: The Social Structure of Irrelevanceby Eviatar Zerubavel. Am J Psychiatry. 2016 Jan 1;173(1):93-4.
  • Luhrmann Tanya M, Padmavati R, Tharoor H, Osei A. Hearing Voices in Different Cultures: A Social Kindling Hypothesis. Top Cogn Sci. 2015 Oct;7(4):646-63.
  • Luhrmann Tanya M. Making God real and making God good: some mechanisms through which prayer may contribute to healing.
    Transcult Psychiatry. 2013 Oct;50(5):707-25.
  • Marrow J, Luhrmann Tanya M. The zone of social abandonment in cultural geography: on the street in the United States, inside the family in India. Cult Med Psychiatry. 2012 Sep;36(3):493-513.
  • Murphy-Shigematsu, Stephen has published a new book with Katz, Richard. Synergy, Healing, and Empowerment: Insights from Cultural Diversity
  • Murphy-Shigematsu, Stephen. Teaching cross cultural competence through narrative. Family Medicine 41:622-4, 2009
  • Murphy-Shigematsu, Stephen; Grainger-Monsen, Maren. The impact of film in teaching cultural medicine. Family Medicine 42:170-2, 2010.
  • Nagata, Jason M. Red Velvet. Family Medicine 2018;50(5):392-3.
  • Nagata, Jason M. Geriatric paediatrics: reflections on models of adolescent health. The Lancet Child&Adolescent Health (2017). Web.
  • Nagata Jason M. Until Death Do Us Part. Journal of Palliative Medicine. August 2016, ahead of print. doi:10.1089/jpm.2016.0306.
  • Nagata, Jason M. The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Child. JAMA Pediatr. Published online October 05, 2015.
  • Novak, Richard J. The Metronome. Anesthesiology 117:417, 2012
  • Orlovish, Daniel D. Burnout and Wellness: Another Answer. Journal of Graduate Medical Education. February 2018/
  • Peterson, Kendra. Denial. Pulse - Voices from the heart of medicine. October 9, 2015
  • Peterson, Kendra. Overwhelmed. The Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine Spring, 2013
  • Peterson, Kendra. House Call. Pulse – Voices from the heart of medicine. Aug 3, 2012
  • Shafer, Audrey. "No, first and foremost, remember to be humble". Doximity, April 2018.
  • Shafer A. Memorial Day. JAMA. 2016;315(20):2238. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.4645.
  • Shafer Audrey. Words, data and the weave of narrative. Editorial. Anesthesia & Analgesia. 121(4):843-5, 2015
  • Shafer R, Shafer Audrey. Deborah Butterfield's Horses: Commentary.  Academic Medicine (Medicine and the Arts) 86:1129, 2011.
  • Steiner, Hans. First Person: Parte for a Mother. MD Magazine, January 2017.
  • Weingarte, Randall. For Dr. W.C.W. (poem) Pulse, October 2012
  • Wen L. Meeting the Organ Donor. JAMA. 2016 Mar 15;315(11):1111-2.
  • Zaroff, Larry. Code blue: A medical mortality plan in 3 acts. New York Times, 08/28/07

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