FACULTY

Two faculty members teach the three-hour morning workshop.  In addition, we each have fifteen individual sessions scheduled over five days, so there is time for all retreat participants to schedule one 50-minute afternoon session with each of us.  We also hang around for casual conversation, shared meals, and, occasionally, dancing.

FACULTY 2011   

Julie Reichert, PhD, (founding co-director, faculty 2000-2009) is a writer of creative non-fiction, stories, poems, and the immortal screen classic Breakin' 2 is Electric Boogaloo. She teaches writing for medical school students, residents, and faculty at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, and has created numerous writing workshops for medical practitioners and people living with illness.  Recently, she has been writing, directing, and producing narrative films. 

David Morris PhD, (founding co-director, faculty 2000, 2001, 2003-2006) has delivered invited lectures at major international conferences in pain medicine and recently retired as University Professor—with a position split between English and Medicine—at the University of Virginia. At UVA he is now Emeritus Professor of English, and his currrent work-in-progress includes a book entitled Eternity’s Sunrise: Living and Dying in Biocultures.

ASSOCIATED FACULTY

Daniel Becker, MD, (faculty 2008-2010) practices and teaches internal medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, where he also directs the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities, edits the on-line literary journal Hospital Drive, and encourages colleagues and students to recognize and nurture their muse. He is the author of two poetry collections, the chapbook Chance (2006) and the forthcoming Proof .

Thomas R. Cole, PhD, (faculty 2002, 2007) is Director of the McGovern Center for Health, Humanities, and the Human Spirit at the University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center.  His books include The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging in America (1992, and 'You Never Knew What Powers Lay Within you': Notes of an Aging Medical Humanist (2007).  He is Creator and Executive Producer of the documentary films Life Stories, Still Life: The Humanity of Anatomy, and Life After Stroke: Conversations with Couples.

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