Collaborators

Principle Investigator:

Marin Gillis, PhD, LPh

Marin Gillis, PhD (Calgary), LPh (KU Leuven) is a philosopher, bioethicist, and medical educator. Dr. Gillis has published on ethics and medical biotechnologies, but is more recently devoted to the scholarship of health education, publishing in Medical Sciences Educator, Medical Teacher, MedEd Portal, BEdR and Academic Medicine. She serves in various capacities towards the advancement of evidence-based ethics and humanities education and advancing women and other underrepresented folks in academic medicine, including: Director, USA Working Group, Cambridge Consortium for Bioethics Education; Co-Chair, Ethics and Humanities Educators in the Health Professions Affinity Group at the ASBH (American Society for Bioethics and Humanities); Co-Chair, 2017 Scientific Advisory Committee, ICCEC (International Conference on Clinical Ethics and Consultation) at NUS Singapore; and Steering Committee, American Association of Medical Colleges Group on Women in Medicine and Science (2015-2018). Dr. Gillis is part of a team working to establish a new direction in medical education at Roseman College of Medicine in Las Vegas NV where serves as Senior Executive Dean of Faculty Affairs & Leaning Innovation and as Interim Chair of the Department of Justice and Health Humanities.

Researchers:

Natalie K. Castellanos, JD

Natalie K. Castellanos, JD (FIU) is the Director, Policy & Research, for Health Foundation of South Florida in Miami.  She has an exceptional background in social determinants of health and on implementing models such as medical-legal partnership where legal services are used as a tool to improve health outcomes.  Prior to joining Health Foundation in October, 2018, Natalie worked as a supervising attorney for the Florida International University’s Green Family Foundation Neighborhood Health Education Learning Program (“NeighborhoodHELP”), specializing in health care access for low and moderate-income Floridians. She also serves as Assistant Professor, Department of Health, Humanities, and Society at the Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Fl.

Sanaz Kashan, MD

Sanaz Kashan, MD is engaged in scholarly approaches to teaching students and clinicians shared decision making at the end of life, in particular using online learning modalities. She has received funding from the Gold Foundation to study medical students’ professional development as revealed through their perceptions of advance care planning and work from this study has been presented regionally, nationally, and internationally. Dr Kashan is boarded in IM, Geriatrics and Palliative Care. She serves as the Program Director of the Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program at Aventura Hospital in Aventura, Fl.

Kendra Kirchmer, BArch, MFA

Kendra Kirchmer, BArch (KState), MFA (RISD) is a designer, maker, and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) educator. She is particularly interested in the application of human-centered design principles for quality improvement in patient, household, community, and provider outcomes as well as innovation in professional education through novel transdisciplinary collaboration. Professor Kirchmer is currently an Assistant Professor in the College of Architecture, Planning and Design at Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS.

Liana Perez Loughlin JD, MBE, HEC-C

Liana Loughlin, JD (U Penn), MBE (Perelman School of Medicine) works on educational interventions to develop shared decision making in obstetrics and medical student perceptions of the impact of the law. She was one of the first certified healthcare ethics consultants to receive credentialing (HEC-C). Professor Loughlin is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Ethics, Humanities, and the Arts at the Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Fl.

Jason D. Keune, MD, MBA

Jason D. Keune MD (Washington University SOM), MBA (SLU), BA (Music theory and composition) is a general surgeon, bioethicist, and Executive Director at the Bander Center for Medical Business Ethics at the Saint Louis University College of Medicine in St Louis, MO where he also serves as an Associate Professor of Surgery. He works with Dr. Gillis and Professor Kirchmer on applications of design thinking in medicine, particularly around disability.

Rebeca Martinez, MD, MHE, HEC-C

Rebeca Martinez, MD (U Miami), MHE (Creighton) works on simulations for shared decision making and ethics in reproductive medicine and narrative medicine in OBGYN. She is Chief of OBGYN at FIU Health, Assistant Clerkship Director and Assistant Professor in the Department of OBGYN at the Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Fl. Dr. Martinez is completing a Master of Education in the Health Professions (MEHP), at the Johns Hopkins School of Education and is a certified healthcare ethics consultant (HEC-C).

LeAnn Shannon, MD

LeAnn Shannon, BA (UF), MD (HWCOM) was recently a chief resident in radiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and is now practicing in South Florida. She is a published narrative essayist of her experience in medicine and a fantasy fiction author. She is interested in clinical ethics, in particular, informed consent processes for experimental and off-label procedures with vulnerable populations and social justice in healthcare.

Sarah Eisenstein Stumbar, MD, MPH

Sarah Stumbar, BA (Medical History, Yale), MD (SUNY-Stoney Brook), MPH (Sexuality and Healthcare, Columbia) is committed to social justice, reproductive health care, and innovative strategies to teach a holistic, integrated approach to primary care. Dr. Stumbar has published multiple narrative essays and papers about her experiences and won numerous awards for her commitment to community health and humanistic medicine, including the Tow Humanism in Medicine award recipient, sponsored by the Gold Humanism Honors Society. She is Assistant Professor in the Division of Family and Community Medicine in the Department of Humanities, Health, and Society and Assistant Dean of Clinical Education at the Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Fl.

Students:

Phoebe Hughes (MS 2021) collaborates with Drs. Gillis and Stumbar on educational interventions in the literary and visual arts and medicine.

Sachay Liriano (PhD Candidate, FIU College of Education) collaborates with Dr. Gillis on educational interventions in the literary and visual arts and medicine.

Kyle Pham (MS 2021) collaborates with Dr. Gillis and Professor Kirchmer on design thinking and inclusive communication projects.

Past Collaborators