International Health Humanities Network Membership
Quinn Lam
Recently graduated with a MSc. in mental health research at Nottingham University.
I previously worked in mental health recovery running and facilitating music sessions for mental health service users.
My academic background is psychology. My interests are music, mental health, mental health and trauma and mental health recovery.
In the near future, I plan to collaborate or start a music and mental health project in the community or continue researching.
I play music and gig in my spare time and I am currently working on my own project recording an album.
Research Gate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Quynh_Lam
Twitter @qlpsych
Erin Lamb
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Erin Gentry Lamb, Ph.D. is Herbert L. and Pauline Wentz Andrews Professor of Biomedical Humanities at Hiram College in Ohio. An associate professor and chair of the Biomedical Humanities department, she also serves as Director of the Center for Literature and Medicine. Her research and teaching interests include aging, death and dying, disability, bioethics, health care and social justice, and new biotechnologies, with a particular focus on the social and ethical consequences of anti-aging consumer culture and medicine and the connections between age studies and disability studies. She also works on the pedagogy of health humanities and age studies, including co-authoring a comprehensive report on Baccalaureate Health Humanities Programs in the United States, co-editing a textbook on Research Methods in the Health Humanities (Oxford, 2019), and co-editing two special issues of The Journal of Medical Humanities, one focused on “Pre-Health Humanities” (2017) and one on “Exploring the Why, What and How of Medical Humanities Pedagogy” (2013). Her scholarly work has appeared in The Journal of Medical Humanities, The Health and Humanities Reader, The International Journal of Aging and Society, and Age, Culture, Humanities. A founding member and past-chair of the North American Network in Aging Studies (NANAS), she has chaired the executive committee of the Modern Language Association’s (MLA) Forum on Age Studies and the National Women’s Studies Association’s (NWSA) Aging and Ageism Caucus, and serves on the executive committee of the MLA’s Forum on Medical Humanities and Health Studies.
Nimesh Lamsal
Nimesh Lamsal (38)
Tulsipur Submetropolitan City, Ward 6, Uttar Kapadadevi, Dang.
Education: PhD in English Literature
Experience: 2o Years Teaching in Schools and Colleges
2 years of content writing, editing, and publishing
5 years of teaching yoga and naturopathy
Kamran Lankarani
Professor Lankarani is distinguished professor of internal medicine in Shiraz university of medical sciences(SUMS) , Islamic republic of Iran .As director of health policy research center in SUMS he has launched several initiatives in interdisciplinary research and education including works on social aspects of health and diseases.
Pasoot Lasuka
Trained in literary, historical, and cultural studies, I am now teaching literary and media studies at Chiang Mai University in Thailand. Recently, I have shifted my interest to focus more on the body, disability, and health, particularly from the context of Southeast Asia, from the colonial to the contemporary periods. I am now working with colleagues at my university to develop postgraduate degrees and training in the field of health/medical humanities. I am looking forward to connecting with other scholars and practitioners in the field and expand my knowledge to create new research that contributes to both Humanities and Health studies.
Pasoot Lasuka
A lecturer in literary studies at Faculty of Humanities, Chiang Mai Univerity, Thailand. My research interest covers a wide range of platforms and genres of cultural narratives, such as life writing, film, and history. I have recently been involved in the health humanities project at my university in which we are trying to lunch a research cluster in the Faculty of Humanities on "well being".
John Launer
I am a doctor, family therapist, educator and writer. I am a graduate in English, and was a GP for around 30 years as well as being a part-time consultant at the Tavistock Clinic. My current roles include being associate dean for faculty develpment for Health Education England, and associate editor of the Postgraduate Medical Journal, for which I write a monthly column on reflective practice and medical humanities. I have written or edited a number of books including "Narrative-Based Primary Care: A practical guide", "How Not to Be A Doctor", and a biography of the Russian psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein. My webste is www.johnlauner.com.
Jorge Lazareff
Got my medical degree in Argentina. Completed Neurosurgical Residency in Buenos Aires. Fellowships in South Africa and Canada. Academic possitions in Mexico and in the USA (at UCLA). Now Emeritus Professor of Neurosurgery and in charge of International Medical Initiatives at UCLA Center for World Health. Many articles published on Pediatric Neurosurgery. A book on spina bifida defects, and few poems. Robust link with Central America and China.
Strongly interested in exchanging ideas about medical education with colleagues in what we today call low and middle income nations. I emphasize on utilizing the internet and on fostering publications in the language spoken by the doctors to their patients. Medicine is more about stories told by one person to another than an itemized exchange of facts, thus while the widespread use of English as the lingua franca is understandable, we have to return to the native language of the patient and the physician when exchanging ideas about diseases.
Michael Leahy
I am currently working on a monograph entitled, The Art of Physic: Medical Discourse in English Culture, 1380-1450. It is a study of the absorption of medical knowledges in late medieval English culture arising from the increased circulation of medical texts among a lay readership. It identifies a distinctive and generative medical discourse at work across a variety of literary genres and cultural forms in the late medieval period. This work emerges from my PhD thesis. My research, focusing on the uses and circulation of medical learning beyond the academic and professional spheres, aligns with the broad interests of the health humanities.
I am an honorary visiting fellow with the School of English at the University of Nottingham. I have taught medieval literature and culture at Nottingham and Birkbeck College.
Deana Leahy
Deana is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia. Her research draws on interdisciplinary perspectives to critically study health education programs, curriculum and pedagogies. Whilst her work has a strong school focus, she has recently begun to explore the possibilities of other pedagogical spaces and approaches that seek to teach us something about health including museums/ exhibits, gardens, digital media and design thinking. Currently Deana is a member of 2 Australian Research Council Discovery Project teams that critically examine health pedagogies in different settings including schools and families.
Deana currently serves on the editorial boards of Health Education Journal and Health Education and is co-convenor of the CHESS (Critical Health Education Studies). She is co-editor of the Routledge Book Series Critical Studies of Health and Education. Additionally she is a co-convenor of the European Education Research Association's Research Network 8 - Research in Health and Wellbeing. More recently Deana has been invited to be a member of the International Scientific Committee of the new UNESCO Chair for Global Health and Education.