There is a place where the human side of medicine is elevated, examined, and revered. Our Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics, situated in the Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine in the Renaissance School of Medicine, is devoted to training medical students and health professionals as well as conducting high impact research and scholarship in the three thematic components reflected in our name. We maintain a productive research portfolio combining work in the traditional medical humanities, clinically-oriented scholarship centered on compassionate care, and scientific research in health policy and clinical ethics. Building on a rich legacy of four decades of exemplary medical humanism at the Stony Brook University School of Medicine, the Center was founded in August 2008.