Story-Based Health Policy: An Interview with Fitzhugh Mullan, MD

Story-based health policy: an interview with fitzhugh mullan, MD.

Pediatrician, writer, editor, and health policy expert Fitzhugh Mullan, MD, is perhaps best known as the founding editor of (and contributor to) the popular column “Narrative Matters” in the influential health policy journal Health Affairs. For many readers of the journal, the column—which features first-person narratives, or stories, that illuminate often-complex health policy issues—is the fi...

Medicinal Cannabis in California: An Interview with Igor Grant, MD

Dr. Igor Grant, MD, is distinguished professor and chair of psychiatry and director of the HIV Neurobehavioral Research Program and the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Grant is a neuropsychiatrist who graduated from the University of British Columbia School of Medicine (1966), and received specialty training in psychiatry at the University ...

Curling Up with a Story: An Interview with Sean Carroll

To meet Sean Carroll on his home turf in the early spring of Wisconsin is like encountering a bear cuddled up in his lair, waiting out the cold winter. I burrowed into the softly lit cave of small offices, with stalactites of yellow post-its dripping from every imaginable surface. Tiptoeing over misaligned stacks of books and reprints, I had to resist the urge to pick up one of the worn works, ...

William Clifford Roberts, MD: an interview by W. Bruce Fye, MD.

Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent) 2007;20(3):269–292 B ill Roberts (Figure 1) was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 11, 1932, and he grew up there. In 1954, Bill graduated from Southern Methodist University (SMU) and in 1958, from Emory University School of Medicine. His internship was in internal medicine at the Boston City Hospital. After a 3-year residency in anatomic pathology at the National ...

Interview with Richard Gilfillan, MD. How leadership will empower ministry's move to population health.