This generous endowment by Drs. Henry N. and Janet S. Claman, provides annual support for a visiting professor in the field of medical humanities and arts, bringing new perspectives and voices to our campus.
The second annual Claman Endowed Professorship in the Medical Humanities brought Jonathan Metzl, MD, PhD, who presented, "Mental Illness, Mass Shootings and the Politics of American Firearms," to a standing-room only audience at the Fulginiti Pavilion on October 23rd, 2014. An article on his research was recently published in the American Journal of Public Health. Dr. Metzl (below, left) is the Director of the Center for Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University. 
The Inaugural Claman Professorship on February 7, 2013 brought poet and essayist,
Rafael Campo, MA, MD, D.Lit. Hon. (right) who teaches and practices internal
medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center in Boston.
View the recording of Rafael Campo's presentation.