Faculty & Staff
Director
Stephen G. Post, PhD
Professor
Center Director
History of Bioethics; Geriatrics; Dementia; Healthcare; Compassion and Altruism
Associate Director
Maria A. Basile, MD, MBA
Clinical Assistant Professor
Center Associate Director
Human Values and Medicine; Literature and Medicine; Medical Professionalism; Medical
Education; Leadership
Research & Teaching Faculty
Michelle S. Ballan, PhD
Professor and Associate Dean for Research, School of Social Welfare
Professor, Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine
Richard A. Bronson, MD
Professor of Obstetrics/Gynecology and Pathology
Reproductive Medicine; Poetry; Narrative in Medicine; Medical Education
John L. Coulehan, MD, MPH
Director Emeritus
Literature and Medicine, Empathy, Narrative, Clinical Ethics
Brooke Ellison, PhD, MPP
Associate Professor
Hope and Medical Ethics, Stem Cell Research, Sociology and Healthcare
Craig Malbon, PhD, MDiv, FAAAS, FRSM
Leading Professor, School of Medicine
Department of Pharmacology; Department of Family, Population & Preventive Medicine.
Medical Ethics, Social Justice, End-of-Life Ethical Issues
Phyllis Migdal, MD, MA
Clinical Assistant Professor
Institutional Ethics Committee
Medical Ethics, Health Disparity, Implicit Bias
Gretchen Mockler, MD
Attending Physician
Assistant Clinical Professor
Jeffrey Trilling, MD
Associate Professor
Medical Humanities and Ethics
Physician-Patient Relationship
Primary Care and Family Medicine
Michael Vetrano, PhD
Course Director, Medicine in Contemporary Society
Clinical Ethics and Decision Making, Doctor-Patient Communication, Spirituality and
Health Care
Religion and Bioethics
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
Krisha Mehta, MD
Distinguished Visiting Scholar on Compassion Research and Practice
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 Instructor, Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine
Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
Administrative Staff
April Bortzfield, MSEd
Graduate Program Coordinator