Editors
Howard Spiro, M.D., Editor (howard.spiro@yale.edu)
Howard Spiro, emeritus professor of medicine at the Yale Medical School and founding director of the Program for Humanities in Medicine there, established the gastrointestinal section at the school in 1955. For a long time, he was the single author of a textbook, Clinical Gastroenterology. He is coeditor of Empathy and the Practice of Medicine, Facing Death, and Doctors Afield, and When Doctors Get Sick. His apologia pro vita mea is The Power of Hope, all published by the Yale University Press.
George A. Trone, Ph.D., Managing Editor and Webmaster (info@yjhm.org)
George Trone received a bachelor's degree in Italian studies (Phi Beta Kappa) from Stanford University in 1992 and a doctorate in Italian language and literature from Yale University in 1998. He has taught language and literature at Yale, Connecticut College, and Kettering University, and has published scholarly articles, reviews, and translations in The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, Dante Studies, Forum Italicum, Envoi, and New Vico Studies. Together with Howard Spiro, he established The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine (http://yjhm.yale.edu) in 1999. George and his wife An-Me Chung have two children and live in Flint, Michigan.
William G. Rector, M.D., Poetry Editor (poetry@yjhm.org)
Bill Rector graduated from Yale College in 1974 and Creighton Medical School in 1978. He completed internship and residency training at Johns Hopkins Hospital and received Hepatology training from Telfer Reynolds at the University of Southern California. He has published extensively in the area of portal hypertension. He is currently head of the Gastroenterology Division at Kaiser Permanente in Denver. Bill has published his poetry in a wide variety of journals and is the author of a volume entitled, bill, from Proem Press (www.proempress.com).
Regular Contributors
Raymond Cavanaugh, Jr. — "Fallen Stars"
Raymond (Ray) Cavanaugh, Jr., whose father is a longtime psychiatrist, is a recent graduate of Boston College. Along with the Fallen Stars series, he runs the world’s only dead Irish writer column, which appears in publications from London to Vancouver. Cavanaugh’s satirical debut novel, Dear Mr. Unabomber, is due out soon from ENC Press: www.encpress.com/DMU.html This epistolary novel explores the cultural wasteland of ever-ascending technology and materialism.
Brian T. Maurer — "Notes from a Healer"
Brian T. Maurer has practiced pediatric medicine as a Physician Assistant for the past three decades. As a clinician, he has always gravitated toward the humane aspect in patient care—what he calls the soul of medicine. Over the past decade, Mr. Maurer has explored the illness narrative as a tool to enhance the education of medical students and cultivate an appreciation for the delivery of humane medical care. His first book, Patients Are a Virtue, recently reviewed in The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, is a collection of patient vignettes illustrating what Sir William Osler called “the poetry of the commonplace” in clinical medical practice. Interested readers can read more of the author's writings at his website and blog.
Robert S. Rosson, M.D. — "Gut Feelings"
Bob Rosson graduated from Wesleyan University in 1954 and Harvard Medical School in 1958. His residencies in internal medicine were at the Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, and Hartford Hospital, and his GI fellowship was at Yale under Dr. Howard Spiro. He retired in 2002 after nearly 40 years of practicing gastroenterology at Hartford Hospital. When he is not writing “Gut Feelings”, Bob teaches part-time at the UConn School of Medicine. He and his wife, Eileen, have three children and five grandchildren. They divide their time between West Hartford, CT and Lake Winnisquam in Meredith, NH.