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Carl Wickland

Carl Wickland

Carl August Wickland (born Carl August Wicklund, 14 February 1861 – 13 November 1945)[1] was a 20th-century Swedish-American psychiatrist and psychical researcher. Wickland turned away from conventional medical psychology and toward the belief that psychiatric illnesses were the result of influence by spirits of the dead. Wickland came to believe that a large number of his patients had become possessed by what he called "obsessing spirits", Read more [...]
Michael Crichton

Michael Crichton

4/11/02 Michael Crichton '64, HMS '69 speaks on "The Media and Medicine" at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA on Thursday, April 11, 2002. staff photo by Jon Chase/Harvard University News Office John Michael Crichton (/ˈkraɪtən/; October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American writer and filmmaker. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films. His literary works heavily feature technology and are usually within the science Read more [...]
Ben Schwartz

Ben Schwartz

Ben Schwartz’s path to cartooning happened by way of a long flirtation with a medical career. He entered college planning to fulfil his premed requirements, dropped that after a year (opting for a psychology major), then returned to the sciences just in time to prepare for admission to Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. Through all of his studies, one thing stayed constant: He drew. Schwartz made it all the way through his first year as a resident in Read more [...]
Ian Williams

Ian Williams

Graphic medicine connotes use of comics in medical education and patient care.[1][2] Overview[edit] The phrase graphic medicine was coined by Dr. Ian Williams,[3][4] founder of GraphicMedicine.org, to denote "the intersection between the medium of comics and the discourse of healthcare".[5] Comics offer an engaging, powerful, and accessible method of delivering illness narratives.[6] The academic appraisal of Read more [...]
Pardis Sabeti

Pardis Sabeti

Pardis Christine Sabeti (Persian: پردیس ثابتی; born December 25, 1975) is an Iranian Americancomputational biologist, medical geneticist (MD), and evolutionary geneticist.[2] She developed a bioinformatic statistical method which identifies sections of the genome that have been subject to natural selection and an algorithm which explains the effects of genetics on the evolution of disease. Sabeti, who grew up listening to Pearl Jam and Nine Inch Nails, fronts Read more [...]
Eve Reaven

Eve Reaven

The scarves from this (ex-) company are designed by Eve Reaven who is a cell biologist in Palo Alto, California. Dr. Reaven has used an electron microscope for much of her professional life and has continuously marveled at the intricacy and beauty of the natural patterns found inside cells. She shares what she has seen with others through designs for scarves and other textiles. In the current selection, she captures the essence of structures related to cell movement, cell traffic, energy and Read more [...]
Dennis Novack

Dennis Novack

Dennis Novack is Rock musician and has performed @ Drexel University with many students in rock formations. As you can see in the video he is full of energy! Wolfgang, Thanks for your e-mail.  It's fun that you have put together this website!  I have been in rock bands with medical students and residents for the past 20 years.  At Drexel, we have just finished performing at our 14th annual pediatric AIDS benefit and this year raised almost $65,000.I've been traveling quite Read more [...]
Richard Kogan

Richard Kogan

Richard Kogan has a distinguished career both as a psychiatrist and as a concert pianist. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and Artistic Director of the Weill Cornell Music and Medicine Program, he has been praised for his “exquisite playing” by the New York Times, and the Boston Globe wrote that “Kogan has somehow managed to excel at the world’s two most demanding professions.” Dr. Kogan has gained renown for his lecture/concerts that explore Read more [...]
Alexie Puran

Alexie Puran

"With JetBlue Airways’ Inflight Buddy Program, I was able to work part-time as a flight attendant while simultaneously attend medical school. My experiences as a flight attendant have helped shape the physician who I am today, a better physician." article: How working as a flight attendant made me a better physician profile Read more [...]