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BIENNIAL REPORT OF THE CENTER FOR MEDICAL HUMANITIES, COMPASSIONATE CARE AND BIOETHICS (TO JUNE 30, 2010) I. OUR VISION There is a place where the human side of medicine is elevated, examined, and revered. Our Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics, situated in the Department of Preventive Medicine in the School of Medicine, is devoted to training medical students and health professionals as well as conducting high impact research and scholarship in the three thematic components reflected in its name. While we maintain and develop curricula on these three themes with a primary focus on the medical school, we are also actively engaged in undergraduate and graduate teaching across the university. We maintain a productive research portfolio combining work in the traditional humanities including bioethics, narrative medicine, and history; clinically-oriented scholarship centered on compassion, altruism, and palliative care; and NIH and NSF funded scientific research. Building on a rich legacy of four decades of exemplary medical humanism at the Stony Brook University School of Medicine, the Center was founded in August of 2008. Our website address is /bioethics. Medical Humanities The medical humanities, including literature, history, philosophy, and the arts, sensitize students and health professionals to the patient as a person who deserves to be treated with dignity against the background of a healthcare system that can be de-humanizing, impersonal, and lacking care in the most fundamental sense of the term. Through novels, short stories and poems, those who have experienced illness illustrate our common humanity, while those who provide care are able to reflect on the meaning of their professional calling. In a time when many patients complain that they are treated more like biological specimens than human beings, the medical humanities play a critical role in the education of medical professionals. Appreciatio