International Health Humanities Network Membership

I have been a social worker and educator for the past twenty two years and have worked in the areas of mental health, violence and trauma, and reproductive healthcare. I have a keen interest in the use of the arts and narrative in professional education and practice and have done advanced narrative medicine training. My PhD dissertation (completed 2013) is an autoethnographic narrative analysis of practitioner writing.

I have published in the areas of counseling discourse, personal narrative in professional practice, the use of applied theatre in promoting interprofessional care, poetry as qualitative inquiry, poetry in social work ethics education and the role of visual arts in reflective practice.

I’m a freelance community visual artist and writer, art and health education consultant living in Yorkshire. Working over 15 years with both informal and formal groups, engaging participants with creative processes within Museums, Galleries and health settings.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->ü  <!--[endif]-->Degree  General Medicine and Surgery. Faculty of Medicine of the University of Murcia 1987.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->ü  <!--[endif]-->Degree of Research Sufficiency: Department of Surgery of the Faculty of Medicine of the Autonomous University of Madrid 1994.

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Dr. Gotfried received his B.A. degree from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1958, and his D.O. degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1963. Dr. Gotfried has a varied background ranging from certification in Laser and Endoscopic Surgery to Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Dr. Gotfried served as Coordinator of International Medicine at Ohio University from 2001 – 2005. This rural health and tropical disease field experience was developed by a native Kenyan and alumnus of Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine (OU-COM). The SHARE Kenya-Ohio program gives medical students, physicians and allied health professionals an opportunity to build their skills, deepen their empathy and understanding for underserved populations, and provide much-needed care.

Gotfried thru Ohio University's College of Osteopathic Medicine developed a month-long program for OUCOM and OU University students in Beijing, China during the summer quarter that focused on Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Dr. Gotfried has participated in Special Educational Training at Harvard Medical School, Duke University School of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, and Southern Illinois University Medical School. Dr. Gotfried is active in educational reform and has participated in developing the Problem Based Learning Curriculum at NYCOM.

In 2007 Dr. Gotfried helped establish the NYIT Center for Global Health, an Interdisciplinary Center of Excellence. The Center's mission includes enhancing communication across medical fields, communities, health systems and educational institutions to develop a common language of care and caring; broadening perspectives on health care as part of our responsibility to the global community by engaging in collaborative international teaching, research, and service; stimulating and supporting research in and integrating the use of osteopathic medical principles and practice around the world; developing innovative partnerships with global health and policy leaders, scholars and practitioners with the goal of improving the health of individuals, communities, and populations worldwide; educating and inspiring medical students, faculty, and health care professionals by providing exposure to and immersion in international experiences.

The Center for Global Health sponsors a multidisciplinary program that includes international conferences; establishing research and community service clerkships for NYCOM & Health Profession students in other countries; and research efforts involving many of the schools of NYIT (i.e. Health Professions, Engineering, & Education), to address global medical concerns. The Center is also participating in a mission to El Salvador with Pediatrician's for Central Americas Children where students and faculty participate in delivering health care to the underserved and engage in research. The Certificate Program in Global Health developed by Drs. Gotfried and Edward Cho is delivered in a multi-disciplinary, case-based, interactive, student-centered learning format interjecting content and perspectives from students and faculty in medicine, health professions, engineering, business, and education. The Certificate in Global Health is offered through the Center for Global Health of the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT). Dr. Gotfried has delivered Lectures and Workshops on Problem Based Learning at The University of Benin, Benin, Nigeria and at the First Joint Conference "Emerging Trends in Medicine" JUST/NYCOM held in Irbid, Jordan in April of 2008 and at the Global Health Conference "The Common Language of Health through Education" in Abu Dhabi, April 2008. Dr. Gotfried actively lectures at NYCOM, participates as a facilitator in the Problem Based curriculum and teaches as a visiting professor at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine.

In 2011 Dr. Gotfried received NYCOM's Outstanding Faculty Award for teaching Problem Based Learning, and the Standard of Excellence Award for the performance of his responsibilities.In 2012 The NYIT Center for Global Health under Dr. Gotfried's leadership received a Standard of Excellence award.

I left the British NHS after working in it for nearly a quarter of a century, and have spent the last 15 years in Higher Education, as a principal lecturer at the University of Brighton, UK. I work within the narrative paradigm, and have published work in autoethnography, narrative mental health and the use of poetry in health humanities.

Marlaine Gray, PhD (c)
Marlaine is a medical anthropologist interested in the intersection between art making, medicine, healing, and medical decision making.  Her current research project examines the institutional logics that underlie the use of patient art programming in US Medical Institutions.

She is also interested in discussions around end of life care, medical decision making and chroic or terminal illness, alternative palliative care and chronic pain management, patient art programming, medical humanities, children’s health, and conceptions of care. 

In addition, she has conducted research in Kenya and Mozambique on HIV/AIDS education, girls education, youth health outreach, maternal and child health, and childhood vaccination and malnutrition.  Marlaine was a Peace Corps volunteer in Mozambique from 2003-2005, and has a deep interest in the connection between health and education initiatives.  She instructs classes in ethnographic research methods and  social science writing and children’s health at the University of Washington.  She is a PhD candidate in the department of anthropology the University of Washington, holds a Masters in International Education Policy from the University of Maryland, and earned a BA in English and Alternative Journalism from Colorado College

My research explores the use of art to engange with health issues. My particular focuses are on literature, comics, theatre and cross media projects.

Michelle Green is an AHRC funded doctoral student in the department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. Her current research examines rebirth and developmental metaphors in representations of fatness and “obesity” in late twentieth-century and twenty-first century North American fiction. She has recently published a chapter on Margaret Atwood’s writing in Fat Sex: New Directions in Theory and Activism. 

Cheryl Green, MFA, MS combines her educational backgrounds in Performance as Public Practice and Speech-Language Pathology to create dynamic multi-media tools for exploring narratives of disability and how social forces simultaneously shape and reject disability culture and pride. A neurodivergent story collector, Cheryl is also dedicated to accessibilty. She transcribes her podcasts, captions her video work, and is training Audio Description for film. She is a frequent trainer and public speaker on ableism as a form of systemic oppression, representations of disability in film, and incorporating the Social Model of Disability into creative traumatic brain injury rehabilitation.