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The Center for Health Ethics, Arts, and Humanities

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The Center for Health Ethics, Arts, and Humanities

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The Center for Health Ethics, Arts, and Humanities produces new teaching, scholarship, and outreach work, bringing insights from the humanities, arts, law, and social sciences into healthcare education and practice. We seek to prepare tomorrow's healers to act with compassion and justice. Together, we can educate health professionals in bioethics, research ethics, and health humanities, and nurture empathy and humanitarian values. 

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Center Director's Message

We have been delighted lately to have more people find us at CHEETAH and to keep hearing from all of you who’ve been with us for a while. Even if you think you know us, you might be surprised by how much we’ve got going on at the Center. 


Did you know we are hiring another clinical ethicist as the demand for our clinical ethics consultation program grows? We’ve also been able to send Sasha Trinkaus and Shannon Gadd to trainings that expand expertise at the U in clinical ethics and arts-based healthcare education.


Did you know that we are again co-producing the live storytelling event Healthcare Stories on February 11, 2027, at Kingsbury Hall, with the Resiliency Center and UtahPresents? This year’s theme is “GUTS!” and the call for stories is open now through September 25.


Did you know that on March 10-13, 2027, we are hosting the annual meeting of the Health Humanities Consortium, for the first time in the Mountain West? The call for papers will go out mid-September, and we hope to have many submissions from local folks for this nationally known conference exploring the intersections of the arts and humanities with healthcare and health sciences education. 


Did you know that Mark Matheson will lead his final Literature & Healthcare session in December? Please join us for a special in-person discussion on December 9, 2026, from 6:00 to 7:30 PM in the Sterling Sill Center conference room to celebrate Dr. Matheson’s extraordinary gift of leading us through literature. Please RSVP to ethicshum@hsc.utah.edu by November 18, 2026. 


If you are reading this newsletter for the first time, make sure to take note of our ongoing series: Ethics Explored, where we discuss challenging issues in medical ethics, and the Literature & Healthcare discussion group, which meets each month to discuss a book that reflects on health and medicine. We also host nationally known speakers: Patrick Smith for this year’s Cowan-Mayden Lecture and Tyler Tate for the David Green Memorial Lecture. We collaborate with partners across campus like our sustained work with the Center for Law and Biomedical Sciences (LABS) and to hold special events that wouldn’t be possible without all our friends and supporters (like Kate Bowler in 2025). 


Join us at an event, reach out to our faculty, suggest an idea, sponsor an initiative. Welcome! 

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Gretchen Case
Gretchen Case, PhD, MA Center Director

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FACULTY in the NEWS

James Tabery

James Tabery, PhD, MA

Congratulations to Jim Tabery! Dr. Tabery published research in JAMA, co-authored an op-ed in Scientific American, and shared his expertise through media interviews with outlets like the AMA Journal of Ethics, Science, the Chicago Tribune, and Radio Canada. He also spoke at national and international conferences on precision medicine, bioethics, disability, and health equity—and helped launch the new Medical Humanities major this year.

Gretchen Case

Gretchen Case, PhD, MA

Gretchen Case co-presented a theatre-based workshop on family-provider communication and performed Legacy, a nine-hour durational performance on teaching in medicine, at the annual meeting of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities in Portland, OR. She also led a workshop on stories for “Meaning in Medicine,” a professional retreat hosted by the Mayo Clinic at Sundance. 

Madison Kilbride

Madison Kilbride, PhD

Congratulations to Madison Kilbride on her recent publications in 2025. Dr. Kilbride co-authored “Outcomes from a Novel Approach to Studying Consumer Genetic Testing for Germline Cancer and Cardiovascular Risk” in American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A. She also co-authored “Physician-mediated genetic testing is direct to consumer in all but name” in Nature Medicine, exploring the evolving landscape of genetic testing and its delivery models.

Candace Chow, PhD

Candace Chow, PhD

Congratulations to Candace Chow! In 2025, Dr. Candace Chow co-authored several peer-reviewed articles in BMC Medical Education, Teaching and Learning in Medicine, and Family Medicine, with a focus on educational equity, social justice, and supporting trainees. She will also be presenting this work at the AAMC Learn Serve Lead Conference in San Antonio and the 2025 AMEE Conference in Barcelona.