PRESENT POSITION AND ADDRESS
Internist, Su Clinica
Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Texas School of Public Health at Houston
Division of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences
Arnold P. Gold Professor
U.T. Regents Distinguished Teaching Professor
Fellow, Institute on Medicine as a Profession
Founding Director, Frontera de Salud
Core Consultant, China Medical Board
International Appointments
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, PRC
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, PRC
Permanent: 1517 Santa Ana, Rancho Viejo, TX 78575
409/761-0543
Email: klshumed55@gmail.com
BIOGRAPHICAL
Birth date: September 14, 1957
Birth place: Oklahoma City, OK
Citizenship: U.S.A.
Home: 1517 Santa Ana, Rancho Viejo, Texas 78575
Languages: English – Fluent, Spanish – Intermediate B1, Mandarin – Basic
EDUCATION
June 2003
Senior Resident in Medicine
Georgetown University Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine
Washington, D.C.
May 2000
M.D., Medicine
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, Texas
May 1998
Ph.D., Medical Humanities
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, Texas
Dissertation: Facts, Values, and the Biomedical Theory of Disease
May 1990
M.A., Philosophy
University of Texas, Austin, Texas
May 1981
B.A., Interdisciplinary Studies Austin College
Sherman, Texas
LICENSURE INFORMATION
The State of Texas Medical Board License No. N6031
PROFESSIONAL AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Internist, Adult Medicine, Su Clinica (11/2015-Present)
Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Texas School of Public Health at Houston
Division of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences (9/2011-Present)
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, PRC (1/2015-7/2015)
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
School of Medicine (9/2003-9/2013)
Arnold P. Gold Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine
Associate Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (9/2003-2013)
Associate Member, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
School of Allied Health Sciences (9/2003-9/2013)
Associate Professor, School of Health Professions
Sept. 2009-2013
Director, UT Community Outreach
UT-System
October 2005-2010
Associate Director for Community Outreach
Stark Diabetes Center
May 2005-2009
Co-Director
Practice of Medicine Course, Year 1
School of Medicine
Sept. 2003-2009
Member
Institute for the Medical Humanities
Jan. 1990-1998
Graduate Assistant
Institute for the Medical Humanities
Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, D.C.
June 2001-June 2003
Faculty Associate
Center for Clinical Bioethics
June 2000-June 2003
Medical Resident
Department of Internal Medicine
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Area of Research
Community Service Learning
Medical Ethics & Professionalism
Disease Prevention and Control
Grant support
Current:
PRC Ministry of Education
“Medical Education and Professionalism in China” (Consultant Educator, 180,000 RMB for 2015 – 2016)
China Medical Board, PRC
“Village doctor-assisted case management for patients with schizophrenia in rural communities”
(Core Consultant, 30,000 RMB for 2013 – 2015)
The Hearst Foundations
“Frontera de Salud Endowment”
(PI: Kirk Smith, 0% FTE; $200,000 in perpetuity)
Past:
Texas Department of State Health Services
“University of Texas Community Outreach Program”
(PI: Kirk Smith, 25% FTE; Co-I: Christine Arcari; $700,000 for 2012 – 2014)
University of Texas Systems
“Innovations in Health Professions Education”
(PI: Kirk Smith, 25% FTE; Co-I: Ruth Berggren; $645,000 for 2008-2012)
Texas Department of State Health Services
“University of Texas Community Outreach Program”
(PI: Kirk Smith, 25% FTE; $150,000 for 9-11/2011)
Texas Department of State Health Services
“University of Texas Community Outreach Program”
(PI: Kirk Smith, 67% FTE; $6 million for 2009-2011)
Texas Department of State Health Services
“Socios para su Salud”
(PI: Kirk Smith, 15% FTE; $320,000 for 2007-2011)
The Arnold P. Gold Foundation
“Gold Professorship: Frontera de Salud”
(PI: Kirk Smith, 25% FTE; $100,000 for 2008-2010)
The John G. and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation “Frontera de Salud”
(PI: Kirk Smith, $25,000 for 2009 – 2010)
The Arnold P. Gold Foundation
“Changing the Culture of Medical Education”
(PI: Kirk Smith, 5% FTE; $15,000 for 2007-2009)
University of Texas Systems
“Collaboration for Healthcare Advocacy and Professionalism”
(PI: Kirk Smith, 50% FTE; CO-I: Abraham Verghese; $250,000 for 2006-2008)
The Arnold P. Gold Foundation
“The Integrated Professional Curriculum”
(PI: Kirk Smith 5% FTE; $16,350 for 2005)
UTMB President’s Cabinet
“Frontera de Salud”
(PI: Kirk Smith, 15% FTE; $15,000 for 2004)
Open Society Institute
“Improving Healthcare Access on the Texas/Mexico Border”
(PI: Kirk Smith. 50% FTE; $189,000 for 2004-2005)
American Association of Medical Colleges
“Caring for Communities”
(PI: Kirk Smith, 0% FTE; $22,000 for 2001)
UTMB President’s Cabinet
“Frontera de Salud”
(PI: Kirk Smith, 0% FTE; $40,000 for 2000)
COMMITTEE RESPONSIBILITIES
State/Regional:
▪ Member, Chancellor’s Council, University of Texas System (November 2011 – Present)
▪ Member, Community Service Learning Supervisory Committee, University of Texas System (September 2009 – Present)
▪ Member, Pandemic Flu Expert Consultant Workgroup, Texas Department of State HealthServices (May 2006-2008)
▪ Hispanic Health Research Center Community Advisory Board, Lower Rio Grande Valley,Brownsville, Texas (January 2005-Present)
▪ Executive Director, Frontera de Salud (2003-Present)
The University of Texas Medical Branch:
▪ Member, School of Medicine Admissions Committee (2012 – 2013)
▪ Member, Academy of Master Teachers Grants Review Committee (2010 – 2013)
▪ Member, Academy of Master Teachers Mentoring and Consultation Team (2010 – 2012)
▪ UTMB Search Committee for Director of Media Relations (2009)
▪ UTMB Search Committee for Dean, School of Allied Health Sciences (2008)
▪ UTMB General Preventive Medicine Residency Advisory Committee (2007)
▪ UTMB Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Associates, Executive Committee (2006- 2010)
▪ UTMB President’s Cabinet Awards Committee (2005-2010); Chair (2006-2009)
▪ UTMB Professionalism Charter Committee (2004-2010)
▪ Advisory Board, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Training in International Healthat UTMB (2004-2010)
OTHER
Presenter, “Community-based Health Education and Disease Prevention,” Texas Legislature south Texas Tour, Cameron Park, Texas, January 23, 2009.
Host, Frontera de Salud Town Hall Meeting featuring Senator John Kerry speaking on Veterans Affairs, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, February 23, 2008.
Presenter, “The Stark Diabetes Community Outreach Plan,” Texas Diabetes Council Quarterly Meeting, Department of State Health Services, Austin, Texas, April 27, 2006.
Panelist, Panel on Health Disparities, Association of Health Care Journalists National Conference, Houston, Texas, March 17, 2006.
Chair, Frontera de Salud Conference, “The Health Professional as Advocate: Skills for the Next Generation of Providers,” Keynote provided by Louis Sullivan, MD, Galveston, Texas, April 2-3, 2004.
Chief U.S. Organizer, 1st Tri-national Conference on Bioethics Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China, Jan. 2003.
INTERVIEWS
Television:
▪ PBS Religion and Ethics Interview; “Can We Say No? The Challenge of Health Care Rationing,” National Broadcast, August 8, 2008

Newspapers and Journals:
▪ American Profile Interview and Personal Profile; “A New Frontier for Diabetes,” December 5, 2009.
▪ The Brownsville Herald Interview; article on community-based diabetes prevention and control, Oct. 16, 2009.
▪ AAMC Reporter Interview; “On the Borderline: Teaching Hospitals, Medical Schools Work with Immigrant Populations,” September 2008
▪ The Houston Chronicle Interview; article on Frontera de Salud’s history and activities in the Rio Grande Valley, April 3, 2005.
MEMBERSHIPS IN SCIENTIFIC AND SPECIALTY SOCIETIES
American College of Physicians
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
Alpha Omega Alpha
HONORS
Austin College Distinguished Alumni Award (2012)
The University of Texas System Board of Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award (2012)
AMA Physician’s Recognition Award with Commendation (2011)
Faculty Marshal, School of Medicine Commencement Exercises, University of Texas Medical Branch (2011)
May 3, 2011 declared University of Texas Community Outreach Day by Texas State Senate and Texas House of Representatives
Distinguished Teaching Professor, UTMB Academy of Master Teachers (2010)
Silver Medal, Innovations in Health Science Education, UT Academy of Health Science Education (2009)
Arnold P. Gold Professorship, Arnold P. Gold Foundation (2008)
Faculty Marshal, School of Medicine Commencement Exercises, University of Texas Medical Branch (2007)
Presidential Curriculum Innovation Award, UTMB Academic Executive Council (2005)
Soros Fellow, Institute on Medicine as a Profession (2004)
The Pharos Editor’s Prize, Best Article, “Sexual Science in Antiquity” (2002)
Honors in Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch (2000)
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society, Jason E. Perlman Award for Outstanding Research in the Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch (1997)
Chauncey Leake History of Medicine Prize for best original paper in the History of Medicine, National Student Research Forum, “Galen’s Defense of Phlebotomy” (1994)
Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society (1993)
Who’s Who in American Universities (1992)
University Fellow, University of Texas at Austin (1990)
Austin Scholar, Austin College (1981)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Editorial Boards:
JAMA Pulse Editorial Board – Senior Editor (1996-1997)
PUBLISHED
Peer Reviewed:
1. J-B. Nie, K. Smith, Y. Cong, L. Hu, and J.D. Tucker. (2015). Medical Professionalism in China and the United States: A Transcultural Interpretation. Journal of Clinical Ethics 26, no. 1 (Spring 2015):40-7.
2. Reininger, B., Barroso, C., Mitchell-Bennett, L., Chavez, M., Fernandez, M.E., Cantu, E., Smith, K., and Fisher-Hoch, S.P. (2014). Socio-ecological influences on health-care access and navigation among persons of Mexican descent living on the U.S./Mexico border. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health 16: 218-220.
3. Gong, W., Xu, D., Zhou, L., Brown, H., Smith, K. and Xiao, S. (2014). Village doctor- assisted case management of rural patients with schizophrenia: protocol for a cluster randomized control trial. Implementation Science 9:13 doi:10.1186/1748-5908-9-13
4. Smith, K., Meah, Y., Reininger, B., Farr, M., Zeidman, J. and Thomas, D. (2013). Integrating community service learning into the medical school curriculum. Medical Teacher 35(5), e1139-e1148 (doi:10.3109/0142159X.2012.735383).
5. Smith, K. and Hoverstadt, P. (2013). The United States and Federally Subsidized Health Care. Texas Public Health Journal, 65(2), 13 – 15.
6. Hoverstadt, P., Smith, K., Reininger, B. and Arcari, C. (2013). Waivers and Medicaid in the State of Texas. Texas Public Health Journal, 65(2), 16 – 22.
7. Brown, H.S., Wilson, K.J., Pagán, J.A., Arcari, C.M., Martinez, M., Smith, K, Reininger, B. (2012). Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of a Community Health Worker Intervention to Lower Glycemic Levels in a Population of Hispanic Adults with Diabetes. Preventing Chronic Disease, 9: 120074. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd9.120074.
8. Muller, D., Meah, Y., Griffith, J., Palermo, A.G., Kaufman, A., Smith, K. and Lieberman, S. (2010). The role of social and community service in medical education: The next 100 years. Academic Medicine (Flexner Centenary edition), 85(2), 302-309.
9. Smith, K. (2009). Ill-Medicine and the Canterbury Cure: Chaucer Treats the New Galen. Literature and Medicine, 27(1), 61-81.
10. Smith, K., Saavedra, R., Raeke, J., and O’Donell, A. (2007). The journey to creating a campus-wide culture of professionalism. Academic Medicine, 82(11), 1015-1021.
11. Smith, K. (2002). Sexual science in ancient Greece. The Pharos, 65(1), 12-17.
12. Bambas, A. and Smith, K. (2000). The Health Services Experience: an Alternative to the Classroom-based Model for Moral Development of Health Professionals. Revista Brasileira de Educacao Medica, 24(1), 36-47.
13. Smith, K. and Nie, J. (Eds.). (1998-1999). The medical humanities series. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. Hunan Science and Technology Press (Changsha, China). 14.Smith, K. (1996). Medicine in the humanities and social sciences. JAMA. Pulse. 276(13), 1094.
15. Smith, K. (1995). Two paradigms of bioethics education. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. Hunan Science and Technology Press. 16(4), 198-200.
16. Smith, K. (1995). Medicine in the humanities: Recovering a tradition. JAMA. Pulse. 274(21), 1738.
Other
Publications
1. Smith, K. (2012). Educating for Professionalism. Ethics Cases. Language Barriers in the Emergency Room. Virtual Mentor, 14:301-304. http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2012/04/ecas1-1204.html
2. Smith, K. and Cole, T. (1994). Graduate education in bioethics and the medical humanities. Society for Health and Human Values.
3. Carlton, B. and Smith, K. (1992). Tripping on red tape: Universities have become too obsessed with procedures. Times Higher Education Supplement. URL Address: http:// www.thes.co.uk/.
Curricula
1. Smith, K. (2010) Professionalism ePortfolio. School of Medicine. University of Texas Medical Branch.
2. Smith, K. and Gerik, S. (2007). Syllabus: Practice of Medicine. Year I Curriculum. School of Medicine. University of Texas Medical Branch.
Dissertation
Smith, K. (1998). Facts, Values and the Biomedical Theory of Disease. The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Galveston.
Master’s Thesis
Smith, K. (1990). “The Rationalist/Empiricist Debate: Medical Philosophy in Antiquity.” The University of Texas at Austin.
Book Chapters
Nie, J. and Smith, K. (1995) Individualism and communitarianism in the ethics of health promotion: The search for a yin-yang/dialectical model. In R.I. Misbin, B. Jen- nings, D. Orentlicher, and M. Dewar (Eds.) Health Care Crisis? The Search for Answers (pp.235-245). Frederick, Maryland: University Publishing Group, Inc.
Republished in:
Nie, J. (2012) Medical Ethics in China. New York, New York: Routledge.
Copyrights
Smith, K., “Course Management Solution” Software (http://zipport.utmb.edu), UTMB file reference SMIT-Kl-10A
CONTINUING EDUCATION AND GRAND ROUNDS
1. “The Integrated Community Health Project,” Department of Preventative Medicine and Community Health Grand Rounds, UTMB, Galveston, Texas, January 13, 2004.
2. “Medical Ethics in Context: A History of Professionalism,” Prime CME Activity, Angleton Danbury Medical Center, Angleton, Texas, January 25, 2005.
3. “The Professionalism Initiative,” Neurology Grand Rounds, UTMB, Department of Neurology, March 2, 2005.
4. “Henri de Mondeville: Surgeon and Ethicist,” Surgery Ethics Grand Rounds, UTMB, Department of Surgery, March 5, 2005.
5. “Ethics in Context: A History of Professionalism,” Prime CME Activity, Nacogdoches, Texas, Texas Academy of Family Physicians, April 2, 2005.
6. “Ethics in Context: A History of Professionalism,” Prime CME Activity, The Woodlands, Texas; UTMB Office of Community Outreach, June 9, 2005.
7. “Ethics in Context: A History of Professionalism,” Prime CME Activity, Clear Lake, Texas; St. John’s Hospital, October 6, 2005.
8. “Osler and the Professional Revision,” UTMB Department of Internal Medicine Grand Rounds, Galveston, Texas, June 16, 2006.
9. “The Promise of Outreach: Community-Based Programs to Prevent and Control Diabetes,” McCoy Conference: New Developments in Diabetic Care, Galveston, Texas, September 15 and 16, 2006.
INVITED LECTURES AT SYMPOSIA AND CONFERENCES
“Sustaining a Successful Four-County Partnership during Hard Economic Times,” Reininger B, Peters P, Martinez M, Arcari C, Siller J, Smith KL, Welsh R. Poster Presentation, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health 15th Anniversary Conference, Houston, TX, April 21, 2012.
“Impact of Community Health Workers to Improve Nutrition and Physical Activity Behaviors,” Reininger B, Arcari CM, Brown HS, Smith KL, Gay J, Wilson K, Welsh R, Peters P, Siller J, Mitchell-Bennett L, Stine K. International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity Conference, Austin, TX, April 11, 2012.
“The Profession of Medicine: Craft, Art or Science,” Medical Humanities Education Series, Medical Humanities Institute, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, PRC, October 19, 2011.
“Promotoras Changing Communities: Diabetes Prevention and Control,” Smith KL, Reininger B, Arcari CM, Gay J, Mitchell-Bennett L, Siller J, Martinez M and Peters P. Poster Presentation, American Public Health Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC, October 10, 2011.
“Course Management Solutions,” Southern Group on Educational Affairs, Houston, Texas, April 15, 2011.
“Prevention and Wellness: UT Community Outreach,” Texas Public Health Association 87th Annual Education Conference, Houston, Texas, April 14, 2011.
“Do the Right Thing: Public Health Challenges in Underserved Populations,” American College of Preventive Medicine 2011 Conference, San Antonio, Texas, February 17, 2011.
“Community Service-Learning: A Method for Teaching Medical Professionalism,” Medical Humanities Professors National Convocation, Medical Humanities Institute, Peking Uni- versity Health Science Center, Beijing, PRC, November 4, 2010.
“Altruism: The Defining Attribute of Medical Professionalism,” Inaugural Lecture, Winds of Change Ethics Forum, Research Institute of Ethics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan Province, PRC, November 3, 2009.
“Mobilizing Healthcare Students to Confront Disparities in Health,” 7th Annual Health Disparities Summer Workshop, Houston, Texas, June 22, 2009.
“Socios para su Salud: A community diabetes project,” University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, April 14, 2009.
“Community Service-Learning: What we’ve learned,” 2nd Annual Community Service Learning Conference, San Antonio, Texas, April 2, 2009.
“Innovations in Health Science Education: Frontera de Salud,” UT Academy of Health Science Education Annual Conference, Austin, Texas, February 5, 2009.
“The Defining Issues Test: A Tool for Evaluating Professionalism Training,” Gold Humanism Honors Society Biennial Conference, Chicago, Illinois, September 25, 2008.
“Assessing the Moral Judgment of Medical Students at the Start of a Four Year Professionalism Curriculum,” SGEA Annual Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, April 5, 2008.
“The Handshake,” Keynote Speaker, Gold Humanism Honor Society, Galveston, Texas, March 19, 2008.
“Frontera de Salud: Ethics in Action,” Baylor University Medical Ethics Discussion Society, Waco Texas, November 13, 2007.
“A History of Caring,” The Arnold P. Gold Foundation Symposium “How are We Teaching Humanism in Medicine and What is Working?” Chicago, Illinois, September 27, 2007.
“Ethics in Practice: Professional Response to Social Need,” The University Lecture Series, St. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas, February 15, 2007.
“Medical Ethics,” The National Youth Leadership Forum, UTMB, Galveston, Texas, July 11 and 25, 2006.
“Ethics in Action,” Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, 14th annual meeting, San Antonio, Texas, February 24-27, 2005.
“The Birth of Bioethics,” Institute of Ethics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, PRC, December 16, 2005.
“Promotoras de Salud: the role of the lay educator in community-based health promotion,” UTMB Stark Diabetes Center, Galveston, Texas (and closed circuit telehealth distribution), November 2, 2004.
“Frontera de Salud Resident Elective,” National Hispanic Medical Association, Washington, DC, March 19, 2004.
“Student Community Service Projects,” American Association of Medical Colleges, San Francisco, CA, November 9, 2002.
“Ethical Judgments in Clinical Practice: When and How to Make Them,” Medical Center of South Central China, Changsha, China, July 26, 2002.
“Chaucer Treats the New Galen,” Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., November 15, 2001.
“Ethics in Action,” Grand Rounds, Virginia Hospital Center-Arlington, Arlington, VA, September 18, 2001.
“Medical Theories in Antiquity” Department of Internal Medicine, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, January 21, 2000.
“The Metaphysics of Biomedicine: A Pragmatic Approach,” Center for Bioethics and the Philosophy, Department University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, October 24, 1998.
“The Biomedical Model of Disease,” Humanistic and Social Medicine: Facing the 21st Century, Dalian, China, August 12-14, 1997.
“Making a Career in the Humanities,” Annual Arts and Humanities Preview, Austin College, Sherman, Texas, November 8, 1996.
“Kant or Hobbes?: Contemplating the Source of Minimalist Ethics,” Philosophy Discussion Group, Society for Health and Human Values, Cleveland, OH, October 12, 1996.
“The Value-Conflict Model of Clinical Dilemma,” MD/PhD Education and Research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, Chicago, IL, April 12, 1996.
“The Paradigms of Bioethics,” International Conference on Bioethics and Medical Culture, Shanghai, China, October 8, 1994.
“Galen’s Defense of Bloodletting,” National Student Research Forum, Galveston, Texas, April 12, 1994.
“Graduate Education in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities” Graduate Program Directors Section Society for Health and Human Values, Washington, D.C., November 8, 1993.
DETAILED TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston School of Medicine:
▪ Instructor, Practice of Medicine 4, School of Medicine, 1 two hour session per month, 10 sessions per year, 2010 – 2012
▪ Instructor, Practice of Medicine 3, School of Medicine, 1 two hour session per month, 10 sessions per year, 2008 – 2012
▪ Director, Professionalism Theme, School of Medicine (January 2007-2011)
▪ Instructor, Primary Health Care in Developing Countries Course, INTL 1041: “Health Care, Ethics, and Human Rights” 1 hour/year (Summer 2007)
▪ Instructor, Professional Ethics Course, Joint Admission Medical Program (JAMP), 2 hours/week, 6 weeks (Summer 2006)
▪ Preceptor, Austin College January Term Elective on Community Medicine, one month community elective for selected undergraduates (January 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011)
▪ Co-course Director: Practice of Medicine (POM), Term I (2005-2009)
▪ Community Preceptor: Ambulatory Community Selective, FAMU 4022: Integrated Community Health Project: Frontera de Salud, one month clinical selective, 10 months per year (2004-2013)
▪ Instructor: Integrated Community Health Clinical Elective, FAMU 4021: Integrated Community Health Project: Frontera de Salud, one month clinical elective, 10 months per year (2004-2013)
▪ Instructor: Basic Science and Humanities Selective, IMHU 4020: A History of Caring;seminar, 9 hours/week, 4 weeks per session, 10 sessions per year (2004-2012)
▪ Facilitator: Practice of Medicine (POM), Term I, 3 hours per week, 18 weeks per annum (2004-2010)
▪ Discussion Leader: Ethics Case Conference Series, Internal Medicine Clerkship, 4 1-hour sessions per year (2004-2009)
▪ Ethics Consultant: Practice of Medicine (POM), Term I, 18 1-hour sessions per annum (2003-2009)
▪ Instructor: Practice of Medicine (POM), Term II; Humanities, Ethics and Professionalism, 6 3-hour sessions per annum (2003-2010)
School of Allied Health Sciences:
▪ Community Sponsor, “Team Ideal Capstone Proposal,” 5 1-hour sessions, discussing implementation of physical therapy students planning to train community health workers re- garding lower back exercises in the community of Cameron Park, Texas (Spring 2005)
▪ Community Sponsor, “Community-based Asthma Control,” 5 1-hour sessions, discussing implementation of respiratory therapy students planning to train community health workers regarding asthma prevention control in the community of Cameron Park, Texas (Spring 2007, 2008)
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences:
▪ Small Group Discussion Leader in MEHU 6101 “Ethics of Scientific Research.” Required course for all first year graduate students and any Fellows or Faculty who are on NIH training grants. Term II – 1 credit hr., 3 day discussion (Summer 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
▪ Instructor: MDPH 6001 – Research Rotation: required rotation for incoming MD-PhD students, Term III, 8-10 weeks (Summer 2005)
Students/Mentees/Advisees/Trainees:
School of Medicine Advising:
▪ Honors Thesis Committee Chair: Andrew Watson, M.S., Honors in Medicine, “Quality of Life and Symptom Distress Among Patients in Prison Hospice Care.” (2010)
Master’s Student Advising:
▪ Thesis Committee Member: Sarah Baker, BA, Masters of Medical Humanities, “Making Meaning of Empathy: a Qualitative Study of Students’ Understandings of Empathy in Medical Practice.” (2013)
▪ Capstone Committee Chair: Phillip Hoverstadt, M.D., Masters of Public Health, “Healthcare transformation in the State of Texas.” (2013)
▪ Capstone Committee Chair: Charu Sawhney, D.O., Masters of Public Health, “Socios para su Salud: A Program Evaluation of a Community-based Health Education Program in Cameron Park, Texas.” (2009)
▪ Capstone Committee Member: Edgar Rodriguez, M.D., Masters of Public Health, “Chagas Disease, Need and Progress Made in Implementing Donor Blood Screening in theUnited States” (2007)
▪ Capstone Committee Member: Luis Raul Rivero, M.D., Masters of Public Health, “A Study of the 1993 Health Care Reform in Puerto Rico” (2005)
TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES AT PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER
Institute for the Medical Humanities:
Instructor: Ethics, 3 hours per day, 2 days per week (May 2015-July 2015)
Instructor: Literature and Medicine, 3 hours per day, 1 day per week (Feb. 2015-July 2015)
Instructor: Advanced Ethics Reading Group, 3 hours per day, 1 day per week (March 2015-July 2015)
TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES AT HUNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY
Institute of Ethics:
Instructor: Principles of Bioethics, 3 hours per day, 5 days during December term (2004- Present)