Steering Committee:

Position

Alvan A. Ikoku MD, PhD

Assistant Professor
Departments of Comparative Literature and Medicine

Tanya M. Luhrmann, PhD

Watkins University Professor, Department of Anthropology (and Psychology, by courtesy) Director, Certificate Program: Cultures, Minds and Medicines
 

Donald A. Barr, MD, PhD

Professor (Teaching), Pediatrics, Professor (Teaching) (By courtesy), Graduate School of Education

Jonathan Berger, DMA

Denning Family Provostial Professor Department of Music

James Chang MD

Chief, Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Professor of Surgery (Plastic Surgery) & Orthopedic Surgery Hand & Microsurgery

Adjunct Clinical Professor in Medicine/General Internal Medicine
Chaplain, Stanford University Medical Center

Rona Giffard, PhD MD

Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research
Professor of Medicine and Health Research and Policy

Aleta Hayes, MFA

Lecturer, Department of Theatre and Performance Studies Dance Division, Director, Chocolate Heads Movement Band

Sewall Professor and Chair, Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery; PI, Stanford Research into the Impact of Tobacco Advertising

Matthew Kohrman, PhD

Associate Professor, Anthropology

Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Professor, Ophthalmology

Susan B. Ford Professor Dunlevie Family University Fellow  Department of Biology Photography

Associate Professor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences

The Ann O’Day Maples Professor in the ArtsProfessor in Theatre and Performance Arts, and in English

Janice Ross, PhD

Professor, Dept. of Theatre and Performance Studies Director of Dance Division
 

Professor of Medicine, Nephrology

Randall S. Stafford, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine, Director, Program on Prevention Outcomes and Practices Stanford Prevention Research Center

Sakti Srivastava, MBBS, MS

Associate Professor, Surgery and Bioengineering (by courtesy) Chief, Division of Clinical Anatomy,Course Director: Art and Anatomy

Abraham Verghese, MD, MACP

Professor and Senior Associate Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine Department of Medicine

Jonah Willihnganz, PhD,

Braden Lecturer in Narrative Art Director, The Stanford Storytelling Project

Gail Wight, MFA

Associate Professor of Art and Art History

Irvin D. Yalom, MD

Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emeritus

LaVera Crawley, MD, MPH

Palliative Care Chaplain, Alta Bates

Ramona Doyle,MD

Group Medical Director, Genetech

Honorary Advisory Board

Position

Rafael Campo, MA, MD, D. Litt (Hon)          

Associate Professor, Harvard School of Medicine, Director, Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Humanism in Medicine Program

Paulus Hochgatterer, MD

Physician in Chief, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, County Clinic, Tulln, Austria 

Eric Kandel, MD       

Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, Recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 

Jonathan Kellerman, PhD          

Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Psychology) at USC School of Medicine; Adjunct Professor of Psychology at USC.

Robin S. Rosenberg, PhD,       

Clinical Psychologist, San Francisco and Menlo Park, CA

Marilyn Yalom, PhD      

Senior Scholar at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University.