Allan Peterkin MD, Health, Arts & Humanities Director
Allan Peterkin is a full Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at the University of Toronto, where he heads the Program In Health, Arts and Humanities (www.health-humanities.com) and serves as Humanities Faculty Lead in both Undergraduate Medical Education and Post-MD Education.
He is the author of 15 books for adults on medical humanities, cultural history ,narrative medicine, human sexuality and physician wellness including “Staying Human During Residency Training-How To Survive and Thrive After Medical School” (now in its sixth North American edition and a first UK edition).
His recent textbooks in the medical humanities include “Portfolio To Go: 1000 Writing Prompts and Provocations for Clinical Learners” (University of Toronto Press), “Keeping Reflection Fresh : A Practical Guide For Clinical Educators” (Kent State Press) and “Health Humanities In Postgraduate Education : A Handbook To The Heart of Medicine” (Oxford University Press). He has published 4 picture books for children , including “The Flyaway Blanket” ( Magination Press) and National Geographic “Kids’ Dream Journal” .
Dr. Peterkin is a founding editor of ARS MEDICA: A Journal of Medicine, The Arts and Humanities (www.ars-medica.ca) and has been a humanities editor with the CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) and Medical Humanities (BMJ). He sits on advisory boards with the International Health Humanities Network, AMH (The Association of Medical Humanities-UK) and was a co-founder of CREATING SPACE (Canada’s annual, national health humanities conference.)
He was also instrumental in founding the Canadian Association For Health Humanities (www.cahh.ca)
Contact : allan.peterkin@utoronto.ca
- Lisa Andermann, MD
- Bruce Ballon, MD
- Suze Berkhout, MD (1)
- Ronna Bloom, MEd, Poet in Residence (2)
- Monica Branigan, MD
- Sarah Coleman, RN, PhD
- Allison Crawford, MD
- Bill Gayner, MSW (3)
- Debra Hamer, MD
- Julie Hann, OT
- Afarin Hosseini, MD
- Jon Hunter, MD
- Alisha Kaplan, MA
- Rex Kay, MD
- Louise Kinross
- Suvendrini Lena, MD, Playwright in Residence (2)
- Elysse Leonard, MA (1, 3)
- Robert Maunder, MD
- Nancy McNaughton, PhD
- Nick Pimlott, MD
- Paula Ravitz, MD (1)
- Michael Roberts, MD (1)
- Robin Roger, MA
- Donna Romano, RN, PhD
- Ronald Ruskin, MD (1)
- Tilda Shalof, RN
- Miriam Shuchman, MD
- Anna Skorzewska, MD
- Eva-Marie Stern, Art Therapist (1, 3)
- Damian Tarnopolsky, PHD, Writer In Residence (1, 2)
- Michael Tau, MD
- Paul Uy, MD
- Shelly Wall, PhD, Illustrator in Residence (1, 2)
- Michael Weinberg, MD