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.

Tarris Rosell, Ph.D., D.Min., M.Div.
Clinical Associate Professor
Tarris Rosell joined the Department of History and Philosophy of Medicine in 2009. He lectures in the School of Medicine and beyond on many topics within the field of biomedical ethics. Dr. Rosell provides ethics consultation for the University of Kansas Hospital, where he co-chairs the Hospital Ethics Committee and ethics consult service. Expertise in clinical ethics began with health disparities work in refugee resettlement from 1984-94. From 1995-99, he completed a two year internship followed by a two year fellowship in Clinical Ethics at Vanderbilt’s Center for Clinical and Research Ethics and the VUMC Transplant Center. His PhD dissertation project explored “responsibility ethics” and cases in living donor kidney transplantation.» more

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, MA
Researcher
Matthew has a MA in Japanese Art History. His interests are specifically, Japanese Art, and Ukiyoe with the subject of medicine and the body. Matt also designs print and websites for the History of Medicine and AAHM » 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, LMSW
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.

Julie Stark
Julie received her BA in Sociology from the University of Iowa in 1992 and her BA in Computer Graphic Design from College of St. Mary in 2000.

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