Trent Center faculty and faculty associates pursue research in areas related to the social and cultural aspects of medicine. Practicing physicians, scientists, theologians, artists, scholars, they explore empirical and theoretical realms of philosophy, literature, spirituality, art, education, culture and community, often in relation to human health and health care.
Harvey Jay Cohen - medicine, importance of religion and spirituality in health and aging
Jehanne Gheith - Russian literature/culture and medical social work
John David Ike - art and medicine, museum-based teaching methodologies
Karen Jooste - narrative medicine, expressive writing in adult pediatric oncology survivors and their caregivers
Warren Kinghorn - spirituality, religion and mental health
Jennifer Lawson - narrative medicine, underserved communities
Brett McCarty - relationship between theology and scientific medicine, particularly contemporary management of pain
Sneha Mantri - literature and medicine, creative writing to improve physician understanding of patient experience and mitigate physician/trainee burnout
John Moses - pediatrics, documentary photography that explores social and medical issues
Frank Neelon - role of literature in the formation and development of clinical practice
Neil Prose - training doctors and other health care providers in skills of empathic communication, care for skin diseases in developing countries
Brian Quaranta - narrative medicine (expertise in Shakespeare), communication with patients, palliative care
Damon Tweedy - writing, doctor-patient relationship, race and medicine
John Vaughn - narrative medicine; student health
Leonard White - neuroscience, neuroanatomy through the perspective of humanities, anatomy drawing