Faculty & Staff
Director
- Stephen G. Post, PhDView Profile
Professor and Center DirectorExpertiseHistory of Bioethics; Geriatrics; Dementia; Healthcare; Compassion and Altruism
Associate Director
- Maria A. Basile, MD, MBAView Profile
Clinical Assistant Professor and Center Associate DirectorExpertiseHuman 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 MedicineExpertiseBioethics and Disability Studies - Richard A. Bronson, MDView Profile
Professor of Obstetrics/Gynecology and PathologyExpertiseReproductive Medicine; Poetry; Narrative in Medicine; Medical Education - Liam Butchart, MD, MAView Profile
Clinical InstructorExpertiseMedical Humanities, Bioethics, Narrative Medicine, Philosophy of science - John L. Coulehan, MD, MPH, FACPView Profile
Director EmeritusExpertiseLiterature and Medicine, Empathy, Narrative, Clinical Ethics - Brooke Ellison, PhD, MPPView Profile
Associate ProfessorExpertiseHope and Medical Ethics, Stem Cell Research, Sociology and Healthcare - Craig Malbon, PhD, MDiv, FAAAS, FRSMView Profile
Leading Professor, School of MedicineDepartment of Pharmacology; Department of Family, Population & Preventive MedicineExpertiseMedical Ethics, Social Justice, End-of-Life Ethical Issues - Phyllis Migdal, MD, MAView Profile
Clinical Assistant ProfessorInstitutional Ethics CommitteeExpertiseMedical Ethics, Health Disparity, Implicit Bias - Brian Papszycki, MAView Profile
Clinical InstructorExpertiseLiveOnNY, Organ Donation and Transplantation - Adam Sepe, MA, MLS (ASCP)View Profile
Clinical InstructorExpertise - Caitlyn Tabor, JDView Profile
Clinical InstructorExpertiseLaw and Medicine - Jeffrey Trilling, MDView Profile
Associate ProfessorExpertiseMedical Humanities, Compassionate Care, Physician-Patient Relationship, Primary Care and Family Medicine - Michael Vetrano, PhDView Profile
Course Director, Medicine in Contemporary SocietyExpertiseClinical Ethics and Decision Making, Doctor-Patient Communication, Spirituality and Health Care, Religion and Bioethics - Hsien-Yu Wang, MDiv, PhD, SOScView Profile
Research Assistant ProfessorExpertiseMedical Ethics, Social Justice
Administrative Staff
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