Leadership

Director and Founder
Department of Medicine
College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University

Faculty Director, Arts in Medicine Project
Department of Medicine
Columbia University and Cornell University

Craig Irvine, Ph.D.

Director of Education
Center for Family Medicine
Columbia University Medical Center

Core Faculty

Syantani DasGupta, M.D., M.P.H.

Department of Pediatrics
College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University
Patient Advocacy Program
Sarah Lawrence College

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Center for Family Medicine
Columbia University Medical Center

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Eric R. Marcus, M.D.

Department of Psychiatry
Director, Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
Columbia University

Dr. Eric R. Marcus is the Director of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, where he is also a training and supervising analyst. He is a clinical professor of psychiatry and social medicine at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

He is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, the American College of Psychoanalysts, and a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is an elected member of the New York Psychiatric Society and the Center for Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies.

His teaching awards include the Columbia University President’s Teaching Award, the first Roeske teaching award of the American Psychiatric Association, the Shabshin teaching award of the American Psychoanalytic Association, the regional teaching award of the Association for Academic Psychiatry, and numerous College of Physicians and Surgeons teaching awards including Commencement Speaker. He was for 26 years, the Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry and the Behavior Sciences Curriculum at the College of Physicians and Surgeons.

He is a past president of the New York County district branch of the American Psychiatric Association and a past president of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine. He was a counselor-at-large to the executive committee and chair of the University and Medical Education Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

The author and editor of papers, chapters and books, his book Psychosis and Near Psychosis won the Hartmann Prize of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and is in a revised second edition.

His research, going back to his days as a graduate student in cultural anthropology, is on symbolic alterations of reality manifested in medical student dreams about medical school culture and in psychosis. He is interested in symbolic representations as an important organizing function of the ego, elaborated in a modern ego psychology, an area of clinical theory he is developing.

Cites:
1) Marcus, E.R.,(2003) Psychosis and Near Psychosis: Ego function, symbol structure, treatment.  revised second edition.
                           International Universities Press, Madison; Conn.
2) Marcus, E.R. (2003) Medical student dreams about medical school: The unconscious, developmental process of
                           becoming a physician.         Intl. J. Psa., 84: 367-386
3) Marcus, E.R., (1999) Empathy, humanism and the professionalization process of medical education.
                           Aca. Med., 74 #11

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Maura Spiegel, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of English and Comparative Literature
Columbia University

Maura Spiegel, Ph. D. is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University where she teaches courses on fiction and film.  She is the co-author of The Grim Reader: Writings on Death, Dying and Living on (Anchor/Doubleday), The Breast Book: An Intimate and Curious History (Workman), which was a Book-of-the-Month Club-Quality Paperbacks selections. She co-edited the journal Literature and Medicine (Johns Hopkins University press) with Rita Charon, MD, PhD, for seven years.  She has written for The New York Times, and has published essays on the history of the emotions,  Charles Dickens,  diamonds in the movies, among many other topics. She is currently writing a book about the films of Sidney Lumet. 

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Patricia Stanley, M.A.

Patient Advocacy
Sarah Lawrence College

 Pat Stanley, MBA, MA has an MBA in finance and an MA in Health Advocacy.  She is a faculty member of the Program in Narrative Medicine and serves on the Board of Trustees for Blythedale Children’s Hospital in Valhalla, NY and is Vice-President of the Board of Trustees for the Mt. Pleasant Blythedale School.   She has two essays published:  “The Patient’s Voice: A Cry in Solitude or a Call for Community ” in Literature and Medicine, (Vol.23, Fall 2004) and “The Female Voice in Illness: an Antidote to Alienation, a Call for Connection” in Stories of Illness and Healing:  Women Write Their Bodies, (2007) ed. by Marsha Hurst and Sayantani DasGupta.

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Seminar Faculty

Department of Pediatrics & Institute of Human Nutrition
College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University

Department of Environmental Health Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University

Department of Medicine
Columbia University Medical Cener

Jane Fried, M.D.

Department of Pediatrics
College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University

David Hellerstein, M.D.

Department of Psychiatry
College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University

School of the Arts
Creative Writing Division
Columbia University

Artist-in-Residence
Arts in Medicine Project
Columbia University

Office of the Dean
College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University

Department of Art History
Museum of Modern Art

Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Student Health Services
Columbia University Medical Center

Arts Education Department
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Staff

PH 9E  Room 105
212 305-4975
jr2621@columbia.edu