Faculty and Staff

Christopher Crenner, MD, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair of History and Philosophy of Medicine
Chris Crenner's research and teaching focus on the history of medicine, chiefly American medicine from the 18th through the 20th centuries, with an emphasis on the development of scientific medical practice. He is interested in the ways that formal systems of medical knowledge, especially the biomedical sciences, are related to conventional medical practice. He has just completed a book titled Private Practice (Johns Hopkins, 2005) which investigates daily medical practice and patient-doctor interactions in the office of the eminent Boston physician, Richard Cabot. Cabot kept detailed collections of patient correspondence that reveal the dilemmas that arose for doctors and patients in negotiating the use and limitations of a new, rigorously technical medical practice. Cabot was an early convert to and later controversial public critic of a new scientific medicine, during a period of rapid change in his profession in the early twentieth century.» more

Martha Montello, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dr. Montello is assistant professor of History and Philosophy of Medicine and assistant professor of Pediatrics at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. She took her doctorate in Literature from the University of Maryland in 1987. She has taught at Yale Medical School and Harvard Medical School before coming to KUMC in 1997. She co-chairs the Pediatrics Ethics Committee, directs and teaches courses in medical ethics, publishes research work in the areas of medical ethics, literature and medicine, and patient-physician relationship.

Jerry Menikoff, MD, JD
Associate Professor

Jerry Menikoff is a law professor and bioethicist who is also trained in ophthalmology. His book, Law and Bioethics: An Introduction (Georgetown University Press 2001), is currently in its second printing, and was selected in 2002 by the Association of American University Presses as one of “The Best of the Best from the University Presses: Books You Should Know About.” He is a co-author of the recently published textbook, The Ethics and Regulation of Research with Human Subjects (LexisNexis 2005). In 2006, Oxford University Press published his book What the Doctor Didn't Say: The Hidden Truth about Medical Research, which explores the consequences of the difference between being a patient and being a research subject.

Kirby Randolph, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
I am pleased to join the faculty in the Department of History and Philosophy of Medicine at KUMC. I came here from Philadelphia, where I earned my Ph.D. in History from the University of Pennsylvania. My dissertation research was on race and psychiatry in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. Prior to coming to KUMC, I held a NIMH Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mental Health Services at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research at Rutgers, New Brunswick and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. I am also the Director of the Office of Cultural Enhancement and Diversity for the Medical School.

Dawn McInnis
Rare Book Librarian
Dawn McInnis has been licensed as a registered dental hygienist since 1974. She began her library career as an assistant librarian in the reference section at Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center in 1992. Her present position as the Rare Book Librarian at the Clendening History of Medicine Library started in late June, 2001. She is interested in the parallels of current and historical medicine. » more

Nancy Hulston, MA
Archives Director
Nancy Hulston is the Director of the University of Kansas Medical Center Archives and the Clendening History of Medicine Museum. She holds a master’s degree in American History/Historical Agency Management from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Before coming to KUMC in 1988, Hulston was an archivist specializing in document preservation at the National Archives-Central Plains Region. » more

Matthew Scanlon
Researcher
Currently Matthew is in the graduate program in the East Asian Art History and is interested in the History of Medicine and Art and how they relate. Images of medicine penetrate all field of art and provide insight into both fields. His interests are specifically, Japanese Ukiyoe with the subject of medicine and the body and were developed when discovering a collection housed in the Clendening. » more

Ryan Fagan , MA
Researcher
Ryan is a doctoral candidate in the department of history at the University of Kansas, studying principally under the direction of Jonathan and Katherine Clark. He is interested in English intellectual history from 1500-1730, with foci on late seventeenth-century natural philosophy, as well as Restoration political and religious thought. Before coming to the Department of the History and Philosophy of Medicine in January of 2004, Ryan served as a researcher for the Cultural Heritage Language Technologies Consortium which, among its many projects, digitized several early works in the history of mechanics. » more

Glenda Gochenour
Administrative Officer
I have been employed with the medical center since March, 1984. I have been a part of the Department of History and Philosophy of Medicine since September, 2000. I received my Bachelors of Science degree in Human Resource Management in the fall of 1996 and my Masters of Social Work in the Spring of 2003.

When I am not at work I enjoy spending my time with my family, which includes my Husband Joe, son’s David and Chad and my daughter Tisha. We spend much of our free time doing family outings and when we are not out we stay home and enjoy our many pets.

Sally Heaston
Administrative Assistant
My responsibilities include providing support for the departmental faculty and the Administrative Officer. I have a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting and have been involved in financial record keeping for many years. My time away from KUMC is spent enjoying family and pets and extremely amateur needlepoint work.

Frederick Holmes, MD
Frederick Holmes graduated from the School of Medicine of the University of Washington in Seattle in 1957 and first came to the University of Kansas Medical Center as an intern that same year. Following internship he pursued studies in mission theology, tropical medicine, and Chinese language and was a medical missionary in Malaya. Returning to the medical center in 1963.>>more

Allen Greiner, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Dr. Greiner is a fourth generation Kansan and attended undergraduate school at Brown University, majoring in Cultural Anthropology. He completed Medical School and a Family Practice Residency at the University of Kansas Kansas City. He completed a 2-year primary care research fellowship at KU Medical Center that included a Masters in Public Health Degree. His thesis focused on the history of public health in Kansas.>> more