Wanking

Have I told you lately that I'm depressed and lonely? I may have mentioned that i've gained weight; have been rejected multiple times for dates; still don't know the differential for acute abdominal pain; my favored candidates continues to fall short of clinching the nomination; am in risk of not completing my required coursework; spilled red tomato sauce on my white shoes , etc.

To make myself feel better, i am going to reflect on the fact that i now have a complete thesis committee. and they are all really sexy. So there.

They are loosely anonymous on the off risk of showing up in a google search associated with my rambling, blatantly unprofessional, and vaguely tasteless blog.

Ok. not so vaguely.

(1) JH, professor of bioethics and medical humanities, has served as a Fellow in the Townsend Center for the Humanities. She was a Co-chair for the Conference on Genomics, Science and Society at UC Berkeley in April 2003. She served on a Steering Committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Scholar’s Program on Health & Society. She is a reviewer for the Journal of the American Medical Association. She completed her undergraduate work at Yale University with a BA in Philosophy. She received her MD from Yale University, a MA and a PhD in Philosophy from Yale University. She has received the Martin Sisters Chair at UC Berkeley School of Public Health. She also received The Porter Prize for overall outstanding PhD. dissertation at Yale University. In addition, Halpern received a Greenwall Faculty Fellowship for 2005-2008. Her research focuses on emotions, the imagination and decision-making. She has recently published a book that Is A Big Deal, and is now writing another book.

(2) GM, professor of clinical medicine, received a MD from UCSF and is certified with the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is a member of the Core Faculty, Executive Committee and Advisory Board, and the Northern California Geriatrics Education Center. He also serves a member of the Board of directors of the California Council on Gerontology and Geriatrics. He is a reviewer for Annals of Internal Medicine and The Journal of Clinical Ethics. Currently, GM has received teaching awards from UCSF for the Preclinical Faculty and a special recognition Award for Humanistic Teaching from the JMP where he is is a clinical professor. He teaches the medical curriculum as well as various courses topics including death, suffering, aging and narrative in medicine.He is also Director of the nascent Center for Medicine, the Humanities and Law, which seeks to promote interdisciplinary education and research in the problems of medicine and society. Dr. M has additional interests in a broad range of ethical issues in medicine and aging, and he is the long-time chairperson of the Alta Bates Medical Center Ethics Committee and a member of the ethics committee for the Center for Elders' Independence. He is currently Co-Principal Investigator with medical anthropologist SK (PI) on a project addressing the quality of death for older people in a community hospital.

(3) CK, professor of law, Director of [a respectable] Center for Morality, Law, and Public Affairs joined the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at Boalt Hall in 1998. He clerked for Judge etc of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and was a visiting professor at Columbia and Stanford law schools. His work focuses on moral, political and legal philosophy, and he has particular interest in the foundations of criminal, international and constitutional law. His book addresses the question of individual moral and legal responsibility for harms brought about through collective and corporate activity. His current work centers on democratic theory, the law of war, the metaphysics of criminal law and the nature of political legitimacy. He teaches courses in criminal law, and moral, political and legal philosophy.

(4) ST, professor of clinical medicine, received her medical degree from UCLA, and her public health degree from Harvard University. She completed the UCSF Family and Community Medicine residency at San Francisco General Hospital in 2002. Prior to starting fellowship, ST worked on a Family Medicine training program in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Stephanie started her fellowship in 2003, and is currently doing research on the role of medical assistants in redesigning primary care teams. Her research interests also include primary care workforce issues in developing countries and the development of Practice-Based Research Networks. She has presented her research at several conferences and is involved in the Global Health Sciences institute that is undertaking a capacity building effort with the College of Health Sciences in Tanzania.

In various combinations I have: Two medical humanists, two professional philosophers, three medical doctors, a legal scholar, an expert in global human health resources, a partridge and a pear tree--score. For real. in future may consider starting thesis related blog so as to work out ideas in public space, invite commentary on philosophical notions and policy issues in spirit of intellectual roundtable, without also inviting commentary on personal health, mental welfare, love affairs or fashion tastes.

Hmm. note to self: contemplate overlapping spheres of the private and public, rampant confusion re: propriety, and risk of California Board of Physician Licensure googling me in future.

Note 2 to self: google self before running for office.