Current MD-PhD Student - Rimma Osipov
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Name: Rimma Osipov Year in Program: GY3 Undergrad University: University of California-Los Angeles Mentor: Jason E. Glenn, Ph.D. Graduate Program: Institute for Medical Humanities |
Research Interests
Medical humanities, history of medicine, narrative and medicine, and medical education
Medical humanities, history of medicine, narrative and medicine, and medical education
Honors and Awards
- Blocker/Herzog scholar (2009)
- Dr. David C. Eiland, Jr. Scholarship Award in Health Care and Humanities (2011)
- UTMB President’s Cabinet Award grant for STS student service projects (2012)
- Chester R. Burns Institute for the Medical Humanities Alumni Award (2012)
Publications:
- “Healing Narrative—Ethics and Writing about Patients” Virtual Mentor. 2011; 13:420-424
- "You are what your grandmother ate": Epigenetics in Popular Science; Presented at the National Conference for Physician Scholars in the Social Sciences and Humanities, 2009.
Presentations:
- American Society for Bioethics and Humanities: Panel presenter: Military Medical Ethics: Standing at the Medico-Military Intersection (2012)
- American Society for Bioethics and Humanities: Paper presentation: Medicine’s Favorite Doctor: “Oslermania,” Bioethics, and the Medical Humanities (2012)
- UTMB Institutional Ethics committee presentation: Helping Patients, Helping Learners: an exercise in developing a palliative Care, hospice, and end-of-life care curriculum for medical students (2012)
- 13th annual UTMB student Colloquium Local Actions, National Concerns: Human Radiation Experiments at UTMB 1949-1963 (2012)
- American Physician Scientists Association 2011, South Regional Meeting Panelist: Social Sciences and Humanities Panel (2011)
- UTMB Bow Tie Social Club The Fruit Fly and the New Soviet Man: Ideology and Genetics in the USSR (2011)
- 12th annual IMH student colloquium Medicine’s Favorite Doctor: William Osler’s Posthumous Career (2011)
- National Conference for Physician Scholars in the Social Sciences and Humanities; Philadelphia, PA; presenter and panel member (2009)
- IMH Brown Bag presenter; original research: “You are what your Grandmother Ate:” Epigenetics in Popular Science (2009)
Hobbies or just something about yourself in general:
Rimma first became interested in the medical humanities/history of medicine as an intern at the Smithsonian institution in Washington D.C. Her undergraduate research focused on the NIH and the impact of the War on Cancer. Outside of school, Rimma enjoys traveling and fixing up her old Galveston house.
Rimma first became interested in the medical humanities/history of medicine as an intern at the Smithsonian institution in Washington D.C. Her undergraduate research focused on the NIH and the impact of the War on Cancer. Outside of school, Rimma enjoys traveling and fixing up her old Galveston house.
