Faculty & Staff
Director
- Stephen G. Post, PhDView Profile
Professor and Center DirectorExpertise History of Bioethics; Geriatrics; Dementia; Healthcare; Compassion and Altruism
Associate Director
- Maria A. Basile, MD, MBAView Profile
Clinical Assistant Professor and Center Associate DirectorExpertise Human Values and Medicine; Literature and Medicine; Medical Professionalism; Medical Education; Leadership
Research & Teaching Faculty
- Michelle S. Ballan, PhDView Profile
Professor and Associate Dean for Research, School of Social WelfareProfessor, Department of Family, Population and Preventive MedicineExpertise Bioethics and Disability Studies - Richard A. Bronson, MDView Profile
Professor of Obstetrics/Gynecology and PathologyExpertise Reproductive Medicine; Poetry; Narrative in Medicine; Medical Education - Liam Butchart, MD, MAView Profile
Clinical InstructorExpertise Medical Humanities, Bioethics, Narrative Medicine, Philosophy of science - John L. Coulehan, MD, MPH, FACPView Profile
Director EmeritusExpertise Literature and Medicine, Empathy, Narrative, Clinical Ethics - Craig Malbon, PhD, MDiv, FAAAS, FRSMView Profile
Leading Professor, School of MedicineDepartment of Pharmacology; Department of Family, Population & Preventive MedicineExpertise Medical Ethics, Social Justice, End-of-Life Ethical Issues - Phyllis Migdal, MD, MAView Profile
Clinical Assistant ProfessorInstitutional Ethics CommitteeExpertise Medical Ethics, Health Disparity, Implicit Bias - Brian Papszycki, MAView Profile
Clinical InstructorExpertise LiveOnNY, Organ Donation and Transplantation - Adam Sepe, MA, MLS (ASCP)View Profile
Clinical InstructorExpertise - Caitlyn Tabor, JDView Profile
Clinical InstructorExpertise Law and Medicine - Jeffrey Trilling, MDView Profile
Associate ProfessorExpertise Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, Physician-Patient Relationship, Primary Care and Family Medicine - Michael Vetrano, PhDView Profile
Course Director, Medicine in Contemporary SocietyExpertise Clinical Ethics and Decision Making, Doctor-Patient Communication, Spirituality and Health Care, Religion and Bioethics - Susan Walker, MD, MS, FAAPView Profile
Assistant Professor of Clinical PediatricsExpertise Narrative Medicine, Medical Education, Pediatrics and primary care, Pediatric ethics - Hsien-Yu Wang, MDiv, PhD, SOScView Profile
Research Assistant ProfessorExpertise Medical Ethics, Social Justice
Administrative Staff
- April Bortzfield, MSEd
Graduate Program Coordinator Phone: (631) 444-8029 Email
Compassion Research Committee
Krisha Mehta, MD
Founder of the Compassion Research Committee
Distinguished Visiting Scholar on Compassion Research and Practice
Distinguished Visiting Scholars
Jane M. Chun, PhD
Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Compassionate Communication
Program Director of Specialized Programs at the Compassion Institute
Vincent de Luise, MD
Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Medical Humanities, Art and Opthalmology
Assistant Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, Yale University School Of Medicine
Matthew T. Lee, PhD
Distinguished Visiting Scholar of Health, Flourishing and Positive Psychology
Director of Empirical Research of the Human Flourishing Program at the Institute for
Quantitative Social Sceince at Harvard University
Senior Research Scientist in the Human Flourishing Program within the Institute for
Quantitative Social Science at Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Sal Mangione, MD
Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Medical Humanities and History
Associate Professor, Thomas Jefferson University
Lester Paldy
Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Science, Research, and Ethics
Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of Pathology and Department
of Technology and Society at Stony Brook University
Kevin Zacharoff, MD, FACIP, FACPE, FAAP
Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics
Faculty and Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family, Population and Preventive
Medicine
Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University