Many of our greatest healthcare challenges cannot be solved by science and technology alone.

The Medical Humanities Research Institute is convening leading international researchers for a workshop in Paris to address how social, cultural, and ethical forces shape patients’ lived experiences, why healthcare must treat the whole person, and what medical and health humanities can do to make medical interventions more equitable, effective and accessible.

Medical Humanities Research Institute Participants (Rice University)
Kirsten Ostherr, PhD, MPH, Medical Humanities
Sabia Abidi, PhD, Bioengineering
Travis Alexander, PhD, Medical Humanities
Anthony Brandt, PhD, Composition and Music Theory
Chin Jou, PhD, University of Texas San Antonio; joining Rice in July 2024
Samuel Reis-Dennis, PhD, Philosophy
Katherine Shwetz, PhD, Medical Humanities

International Workshop Participants
Sari Altschuler, PhD, Northeastern University, US
Emmanuel Didier, PhD, MA, MSc, National Center for Scientific Research, France
Luna Dolezal, PhD, University of Exeter, UK
Eivind Engebretsen, PhD, University of Oslo, Norway
Kim Gallon, PhD, Brown University, US
Jeremy Greene, MD, PhD, MA, Johns Hopkins Medicine, US
Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, PhD, Georgetown University, US
Sebastian Kuhn, MD, MME, Philipps University Marburg, Germany
Céline Lefève, PhD, Université Paris Cité, France
Séverine Mathieu, PhD, Paris Sciences & Lettres University, France
Ricardo Nuila, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, US
Zoe Oftring, MD, MA, Philipps University Marburg, Germany
Thomas Picht, MD, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Monika Pietrzak-Franger, PhD, University of Vienna, Austria
Keisha Ray, PhD, UTHealth McGovern Medical School, US
Anna Roethe, MD, MA, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Angela Woods, PhD, Durham University, UK