Ethics and Medical Humanities Pathway Student Projects

This is a list of students' Ethics and Medical Humanities Pathway capstone projects. Students have broad discretion in choosing topic and methods. Projects can result in scholarly documents, creative writing manuscripts, works of art or music, etc. Pathway members are strongly encouraged to identify and work with a mentor; most but not all mentors are UM faculty members. The inaugural class of Pathway graduates was 2012.

Class of 2023

Barkas, Christina Miami Med Speaks
Goodman, Courtney Art and Ophthalmology | Mentor: Dr. Bradford Lee (Ophthalmology)
Gordon, Alex
Khalil, Samara
Lin, Ashley Medical Ethics in Myth | Mentor: Dr. Richard Hutchins (Classics)
Masciarella, Andrew Confidentiality and the Hospital: Exploring the Dialogue between Patient Privacy and the Medical Built Environment | Mentor: Dr. Joanna Lombard (Architecture)
Moore, Sabrina Physicians and Social Change | Mentor: Dr. Hansel Tookes (Medicine)

Class of 2022

Agwaramgbo, Ezinne Plastic Surgery and the Ethics of Social Media Marketing | Mentor: Dr. Seth Thaller (Plastic, Aesthetic, and Reconstructive Surgery)
Brannon, Mason Progressive Mystique: A Study of the Life of Miami’s Dr. John Ollis Brown and a Reflection on the Obligations, Privileges, and Ethics of a Physician Activist | Mentor: Dr. Donald Spivey (History)
Ferrante, Jennifer Collection of poems; website | Mentor: Dr. Tassie Guilliam (English)
Gaztanaga, Wendy Palliative Care for Parkinson’s Disease: Literature Review | Mentor: Dr. Melissa Fellman
Mintz, Mikaela being human healing humans | Mentor: Dr. Rob Gorski (Emergency Medicine)
Rosewater, Jake Cognition: A concept album for the medical community | Mentor: Dr. Teresa Lesiuk (Frost School of Music)
Zuckerman, Ryan Communal grief and morning | Mentor: Fritz Leiber

Class of 2021

Tamargo, Christina Ethical implications of insurance coverage limitations in eating disorder treatment, final manuscript. Ethics, insurance and eating disorders, abstract accepted for 2020 Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association | Mentor: Dr. Kenneth Goodman (Bioethics)
Torncello, Emma "Lead me to the light" (recording); lyrics and discussion | Mentor: Tony Perrino (record producer)

Class of 2020

Panic, Heather "Digital Heartbeat Suite" | Mentor: Luke Stark
Schwartz, Zachary "Empathy, Narrative, and Art in Medical Education"

Class of 2019

Rajagopal, Aarabhi Teaching without harm: The ethics of performing posthumous procedures on the newly deceased. The poster was presented at the Eastern Student Research Forum, Miami; and the Second Annual Medical Student Ethics Conference, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York. | Mentors: Dr. Tom Champney (Cell Biology), Dr. Kenneth Goodman (Bioethics)
Venincasa, Michael The Ever-Evolving Art of Medicine (after "The Doctor" [1891] by Sir Luke Fildes) | Mentor: Dr. John Paul Russo (English)

Class of 2018

Halili, Francis OATH: The Language of Medicine
Kassi, Yolaine Anelia Visual arts representations of diverse ideas of 'healthy'

Class of 2017

Howard, Danielle Back When They Lost What Made Them People —an Analysis of Ageism in Popular Medical Television ... poster accepted for American Geriatrics Society 2017 Annual Meeting program, San Antonio | Mentor: Dr. Rose Maria van Zuilen (VA Geriatrics)
Penn, Rachel A Student-Centered Approach for Teaching the Unteachable Skill of Empathy. Poster accepted at (i) AAMC Learn, Serve, Lead Conference, Baltimore, Nov. 5, 2015, Baltimore; (ii) American Medical Womens' Association, March 12, 2016, Miami; (iii) Patient Experience Empathy and Innovation Summit, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland. | Mentors: Dr. Monica Broome (Medical Education), Dr. Jeffrey P. Brosco (Pediatrics).

Class of 2016

Faber, David Organ Donation 101: Educating the Public on the Basics of Organ Donation | Mentor: Dr. Sam Salama (Surgery)
Kaakour, Hadi Development of Entertaining Programming for Use in Medical Ethics Education | Mentors: Dr. Mark O’Connell (Medicine) and Dr. Thomas Musca (Cinema & Interactive Media)
Bona, Anna Changes in Academic Demands and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Young Children | Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey P. Brosco (Pediatrics)

Class of 2015

Dixon, Deri-Ann Our Legacy: Minority Female Physicians | Mentor: Dr. Stephanie White (Pediatrics)
Stone, Melissa Autism Diagnosis/Etiology | Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey P. Brosco (Pediatrics)
Most, Zachary Minds and Medical Professionalism: Using Epiphenomenalism to Aid Decision Making in End-of-Life Care | Mentor: Dr. Kenneth Goodman (Bioethics)
Nguyen, Linda Breaking Ground with Simple Art | Mentor: Dr. Richard Tiberious (Medical Education).

Class of 2014

Cox, Audrey Integrating children’s artwork into murals at Jackson outpatient clinic | Mentor: Xavier Cortada (community artist)
Freiser, Monika Florida Hospital Ethics Committees: A Survey | Mentor: Dr. Robin Fiore (Bioethics)
Stone McGuire, Laura The Time to Unite is Now: The Revival of the Anti-Vaccination Movement with the Autism-Vaccine Debate and Jenny McCarthy’s Co-option of the Second Wave Feminist Rhetoric of Our Bodies, Ourselves
Van Leer-Greenberg, Brett The Five Senses of Haiti | Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey P. Brosco (Pediatrics)

Class of 2013

Lawler, Ashley Shakespeare’s Pacemaker: A Study in Poetic Meter and Cardiac Rhythms | Mentor: Dr. Frank Stringfellow (English)
Harvey, Tynsia An Assessment of Student Athlete Perspectives on Mandate for Sickle Cell Trait Screening | Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey P. Brosco (Pediatrics)
Muench, Michael Medical Hindi | Mentor: Dr. Ardash Kumar (Medicine)

Class of 2012

Chen, Emerson Involving Medical Students in Disaster Response: Ethics, Education and Opportunity | Mentor: Dr. Kenneth Goodman (Bioethics)
Hudson, Ryan Artwork depicting limits of physiological descriptions of emotion | Mentor: Dr. Richard Tiberius (Medical Education)
Lemelman, Benjamin Stories/poems that depict his experience as a 3rd-year student | Mentor: Walter K. Lew (English)