International Health Humanities Network Membership

Caroline Wellbery, M.D., Ph.D. has been involved in all aspects of teaching in the Department of Family Medicine, both at the medical student and residency level, since 1994. Her long-standing interest in medical humanities goes back to her graduate student days, when she received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University. Her humanities work is represented in the website Interacting with the Medical Humanities. Other current interests include inter-institutional medical humanities research, using the arts to communicate about climate change and communicating through the arts with vulnerable groups as a mechanism for social change. She also runs Hippocrates Café, a monthly music and literature performance, for and by medical students. She is celebrating the second successful year of the Creative Arts and Humanism fellowship she founded.