International Health Humanities Network Membership
Maureen Donohue-Smith
Maureen Donohue-Smith earned a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology at Cornell University, a Master’s Degree in Psychiatric Nursing at the University of Colorado and is a licensed Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. She began her academic career in the humanities, earning a BA in English Literature and was a Ph.D. candidate in English Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research has included the use of memoir in teaching about mental illness, and the representation of mental illness, aging, and child abuse in film and literature. For many years, she has used mainstream films in teaching students about the powier of the media to shape public perceptions of mental illness. She is currently Associate Professor of Psychiatric Nursing at La Salle University in Philadelphia, PA.
Thomas Dooley
Thomas Dooley is a New York City poet who facilitates creative writing at the bedsides of hospitalized teenagers, young adults and palliative care patients. In addition to his in-patient work, Thomas runs writing workshops for teenagers living with HIV/AIDS. He is editor-in-chief of a literary magazine that publishes writing and art created by teenagers in and out of the hospital community. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing - Poetry from New York University where he coordinates the Starworks Fellowship. As coordinator, he mentors creative writing students who visit New York hospitals and facilitate creative writing at the bedside of pediatric patients. His work as an editor of published illness narratives has been presented internationally at A Narrative Future for Health Care at Kings College, London and at Attentive Writers at University of Glasgow. In addition, Thomas is founder and artistic director of Emotive Fruition, a theatre collective where poets and actors collaborate to bring new poetry to life on stage and in film. As a poet, Thomas's first collection, TRESPASS was selected as a winner by The National Poetry Series and will be published by HarperColins Publishers in October 2014.
Natasha Doran
Natasha Doran (BA; MA; PhD) is a social scientist (medical anthropologist and medical sociologist) with an expertise in qualitative research in health.
She has collaborated on a range of research exploring doctors' health, well-being in the workplace, education, professional development and practice, as well as patients experiences of chronic illness and pain. She has presented and published in the areas of medical education, trainee doctors' stress and support mechanisms, junior doctors' experiences of personal illness, general practitioners reasons for leaving UK general practice early in their careers, pain management and social research methodology.
Current projects include a South-West academic health science network funded qualitative study evaluating a quality improvement (QI) programme for junior doctors across south-west England and a National Institute for health research funded mixed methods national study to evaluate patient safety collaboratives (PSCs) across NHS England (2015 - 2018)
Publications
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- Doran, N.J; Bethune, R; Watson, J; Finucane, K; Carson-Stevens, A. “Empowering junior doctors: A qualitative study of a QI programme in South West England” (Submitted to journal Aug 2018)
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- Doran, N.J; Fox, F.E; Rodham, K.J; Taylor, G.J; Harris, M.F. 2016 ‘Lost to the NHS: a mixed methods study of why GPs leave practice early in England’ Br J Gen Pract 2016; DOI:10.3399/bjgp16X683425
- Rodham, K.J; Fox, F.E & Doran, N.J., 2015. ‘Exploring analytical trustworthiness and the process of reaching consensus in interpretative phenomenological analysis: Lost in transcription.’ International Journal of Social Research
- Doran, N.J., 2014. ‘Qualitative Health Research, 24 (6), pp. 749-760. DOI: 10.1177/1049732314529662
- Bullock, A; Fox, F; Barnes, R; Doran, N.J; Hardyman, W; Moss, D; Stacy, M., 2013. ‘Transitions in medicine: Trainee doctor stress and support mechanisms.’ Journal of Workplace Learning. Special Issue Vol. 25 no. 6. pp.368-382 DOI: 10.1108/JWL-Jul-2012-0052
- Fox, F.E; Doran, N.J; Rodham, K.J; Taylor, G.J; Harris, M.F; O’Connor, M., 2011. ‘Junior doctors’ experiences of personal illness: a qualitative study’ Medical Education Journal, 45(12):1251-61
- Doran, N.J. (2007): ‘Journeys Through Health-Care: A Qualitative Study Exploring Perceptions and Experiences of Health Seeking for Chronic Back Pain in the North West of England’. PhD Thesis Manchester
- Doran, N. J. (2006): A Close-up of a Self-Management in Pain Programme. : 22-23.
- Doran, N.J. (1999): ‘The Medical Gaze and the Anthropological Gaze: Towards an Embodied Understanding of Pain’. MA Dissertation, Medical Anthropology, University of London SOAS.
Lewis Dowell, III
I completed my BA in philosophy Premedicine at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte College of Arts and Sciences and completed postgraduate research at the University of Aberdeen in the School of Social Sciences in the department of Anthropology and History and Philosophy of Science research in the Divinity, History, and Philosophy department.
I am currently employed as an Intensive Support Resident Manager in the mental/behavioral field in Anchorage, Alaska.
Further links regarding Lewis and some of his interests may be found at:
Jack Downs
I hold a PhD in English and currently provide writing support for our undergraduate and graduate health sciences students at Washington State University Spokane, the WSU Health Sciences campus.
Pascal Durrenberger
Psychology, Clinial Neuroscience and Immunology and Clinial Medical Research graduate with a keen interest in better understanding our fundamental relationship to life in light of modern challenges such as global warming, population growth, epidemics, terrorism and pollution.
Rosalie Dwyer Kent
Retired Nurse Educator
Thesis Research (OISE,University of Toronto) 2004)-Curriculum focus using Narrative inquiry of personal and progessionall Knowledge in Clinical Teaching situations which
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Michael Eades
I am currently an independent researcher and associate lecturer in the Department of Cultures, Film and Media at the University of Nottingham. My research is interdisciplinary, lying primarily on the intersection of literary theory and cultural studies. In my recently completed doctoral thesis on collaboration, community and exchange in the later work of the contemporary author Iain Sinclair, I used a number of critical methodologies to present a culturally contextualised study of this author’s collaborative artistic practice, explored in relation to the discourses of political communitarianism in post-1997 UK politics. This research was guided by a broader critical questioning of the oppositional, subversive, and above all ethical role that collaborative creative activity might play as an intervention in more hegemonic political imaginings of ‘community’.
Recently, I have expanded this research context to work on more ‘applied’ projects relating to ideas of creative practice and community: researching particularly in the fields of medical humanities and arts and health, and working with community groups and cultural institutions across Nottinghamshire. I have a particular interest here in participatory arts and mental health, and have worked closely as a researcher with the Arts on Prescription services coordinated by Nottingham City Arts and the Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham.
OLAYINKA EGBOKHARE
A lecturer with the Department of Communication and Language Arts and member of Faculty of the Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health( CCAMH),University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. Author of Dazzling Mirage, a novel on Sickle Cell Anaemia which was made into a Film by the same title. Interested in bridging information gap between health professionals and the public by producing creative works which emphasize health issues.
Mona El-Sherbini
Mona El-Sherbini, M.D, has been based in the Department of Medical Parasitology, Kasr Al-Ainy, Cairo university since 2007. During her work in the quality assurance of Education (QAE) and contribution to the national reaccreditation of her Faculty of Medicine at Cairo University in June 2017. A pressing quest to address the deficiency of humanitarian studies for undergraduate medical studies was the initiative to embark on the pathway of “Narrative Medicine” ,she envisioned her institute “Kasr Al -Ainy” as a symbol of the medical profession in Egypt(founded in 1827)where other remarkable new medical faculties had branched out from Kasr Al-Ainy across Egypt with time and it was necessary to continue to retain the confidence of the most community-attached establishment to meet emerging needs in the healthcare professionin recent Egyptian history as well .
Accordingly, to achieve her credibility and implement “Narrative Medicine” in the undergraduate medical curriculum, she managed to receive a certificate in Basic Medical Education from Kasr Al-Ainy and was honoured a certificate of the International Professional Trainer (CIPT)from Missouri State University in U.S.A., August 2017.
Currently, “Narrative Medicine” is taught as an elective training course for the third-year undergraduate medical students in the Integrated Program of Kasr Al-Ainy (IPKA) and Mona holds membership in the curriculum reform committee for undergraduate medical education at Faculty of Medicine, Cairo university.
Her educational philosophy in teaching medicine is to bring education to life through adding an element of gamification and music. She forestalls in many vocations her passion to bring humanity back to the healthcare practice through merging multidisciplinary humanitarian sciences with biomedical sciences.
Mona’s research interests include narrative studies in relation to medical practice and professionalism, narrative medicine in medical education, cultural influence on health and disease as well as Egyptology and History of Medicine. Further academic studies include: Molecular and Epigenetic studies, Parasitic diseases and Epidemiological studies. She considers herself a global thinker with international mindfulness, she is fascinated with studying the global effect of climate change on the shifting boundaries of some diseases like Leishmania and Malaria with social impact.