Faculty Interested in Medical Humanities & Ethics
Professor
Internal Medicine
Areas of interest: communication, empathy in medicine, professional identity development, belonging
Assistant Professor
Internal Medicine
Associate Professor
Psychiatry
Associate Professor
Internal Medicine
Stephen Couch, MA, ACC, HEC-C
Clinical Ethicist
Children's Health
Areas of interest: clinical ethics, spirituality, pediatrics
Professor
Internal Medicine
Areas of interest: bioethics, public health, medical education in ethics, ethics related to antimicrobial resistance and stewardship, virtue ethics
Assistant Professor
Psychiatry
Heather Woodward Goff, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor
Dermatology
Areas of interest: communication and observation skill development using visual arts
Assistant Professor
Internal Medicine
Professor
Cell Biology
Areas of interest: genetics and eugenics, human research ethics, research integrity, bioethics education, nature of science
Professor
Psychiatry | Applied Clinical Research | Public Health
Dawn Hood-Patterson, Ph.D., MDiv, HEC-C
Clinical Ethicist
Children’s Health
Areas of interest: narrative ethics, narrative research methods, pediatric clinical ethics, qualitative research, spirituality and medicine, and theological anthropology
Professor
Surgery
Assistant Professor
Psychiatry
Areas of interest: digital mental health, informatics and artificial intelligence
Assistant Professor
Internal Medicine
Assistant Professor
Psychiatry
Assistant Professor
Internal Medicine
Areas of interest: Ethics in transplantation, just resource allocation, health equity in transplantation, patient centered research
Thomas Wm. Mayo, J.D.
Adjunct Professor
Internal Medicine and Psychiatry
Professor, SMU School of Law
Areas of interest: bioethics, death and dying, health care, policy, public health law and ethics
Prapti Mody, Ph.D.
Program Manager
Bioinformatics
Areas of interest: artificial intelligence, education aad program development
Sudha Mootha, M.D.
Adjunct Professor
Pediatrics
Assistant Professor
Pediatrics, Public Health
Associate Dean, UT Southwestern Graduate School
Assistant Professor
Areas of interest: responsible conduct of research, research integrity, research ethics
Jessica Roumillat, MA, LCSW, HEC-C (she/her)
Program Director Integrated Ethics
Children’s Health
Areas of interest: pediatric ethics, clinical ethics, and moral distress
Associate Professor
Neurology | Neurological Surgery
Areas of interest: death determination, shared medical decision making, neuroehancement and neuroethics, wellness and staff support systems
Professor
Psychiatry
Areas of interest: philosophy of psychiatry and mental health, philosophy of medicine, bioethics, clinical ethics, history of medicine
Assistant Professor
Neurological Surgery | Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute
Professor
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Areas of interest: reproductive justice, reproductive ethics, racism/sexism in medicine, history of medicine
Professor
Pediatrics | Human Growth & Development | Pathology
Clinical Assistant Professor
Psychiatry
Areas of interest: psychiatry in literature and narrative medicine, being with suffering, psychiatry and social science
Professor
Public Health
Assistant Professor
Psychiatry
Areas of interest: pathographies and graphic medicine, moral injury, social media/online communities in medicine, social sciences, qualitative methods
Melanie S. Sulistio, M.D., FACC, FAHA
Professor
Internal Medicine
Areas of interest: communication and compassionate care, navigating difficult conversations, emotional intelligence in medicine, humanity guidelines in medicine, cardiovascular disease and end of life (i.e. device management), health equity, education
Assistant Professor
Psychiatry
Areas of interest: education, research integirty, data integrity, human research ethics, psychology, history of psychology ethics
Assistant Professor
Pediatrics
Abey K. Thomas, M.D., MBA, FACP, FSHM
Associate Professor
Internal Medicine
Areas of interest: graphic medicine, narrative medicine, humanities in medical education, professional development and clinical practice, spirituality in medical practice
Linda B. Uchal, Pharm.D., M.S., BCPS, BCCCP
Clinical Pharmacist
William P. Clements Jr. Hospital
Jennifer Wimberly, M.D.
Medical Director, Resiliency and Chair, Institutional Ethics Committee
Parkland Health & Hospital System