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J. Owens, PhD (L), M. Plews-Ogan, MD (R)
Photo by Tom Cogill<\/p><\/div>\n

Margaret Plews-Ogan, MD, MS<\/a>
\nPrincipal Investigator<\/strong><\/p>\n

Associate Professor of Medicine
\nDepartment of Medicine
\nDivision of General, Geriatric, Palliative and Hospital Medicine
\nUniversity of Virginia
\nCharlottesville, VA<\/p>\n

Dr. Plews-Ogan holds an undergraduate degree in philosophy and was a Rockefeller Fellow in Theology at Yale University Divinity School. She received her M.D. degree from Harvard University and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Dr. Plews-Ogan has\u00a0expertise in\u00a0patient safety and medical errors, and integrative medicine including mindfulness.\u00a0She is Director of the\u00a0UVA Center for Appreciative Practice, a positive culture transformation initiative across the Schools of Medicine and Nursing, the Medical Center, and the Health Services Foundation physician group practice.<\/p>\n

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Justine Owens, PhD
\nCo-Principal Investigator<\/strong><\/p>\n

Associate Professor of Research
\nDepartment of Medicine
\nUniversity of Virginia
\nCharlottesville, VA<\/p>\n

Dr. Owens is a cognitive psychologist with a focus on the interaction of emotion, cognition, memory and narrative studies. She received her doctorate in psychology from Stanford University and completed post-doctoral studies in the Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Owens has expertise in personality assessment including recent advancements in positive psychology and spirituality; integrative medicine; content analysis; research design; and data analysis. Dr. Owens has studied the life transformations associated with Near-Death Experience (NDE) and the effects of medical condition on NDE reports, published in the Lancet. Most recently, she has conducted studies of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and massage for pain management, and MBSR for heart palpitations (in collaboration with University of Virginia cardiologists). She has investigated use of many complementary and alternative therapies while Research Director of the Center for Complementary and Alternative Therapies at UVA (funded by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine for study of CAM for pain management).<\/p>\n

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Natalie May, PhD<\/strong>
\nCo-Investigator<\/p>\n

Associate Professor of Research
\nDepartment of Medicine
\nDivision of General, Geriatric, Palliative and Hospital\u00a0Medicine
\nUniversity of Virginia
\nCharlottesville, VA<\/p>\n

Dr. May holds a Bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College, an M.A. from Boston University, and a Ph.D. from the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. She has extensive grant writing, program development, qualitative research and program evaluation experience. Dr. May is currently a faculty member in the\u00a0UVA Center for Appreciative Practice and co-author of the book Appreciative Inquiry in Healthcare: Positive Questions to Bring Out the Best<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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Martha Brown Menard, PhD, CMT<\/strong>
\nConsultant<\/p>\n

Dr. Menard is a research scientist, author and educator. Much of her clinical work over 25 years has focused on pain management, and her research interests have focused on complementary and alternative therapies for symptom management. She received her Ph.D. in education and M.Ed. in clinical psychology from the University of Virginia. Dr. Menard is currently the principal of Sigma Applied Research, a consulting firm providing research design, data analysis, and program evaluation services. She is the author of Making Sense of Research<\/i>, a textbook on research literacy for healthcare professionals.<\/p>\n

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David Morris, PhD<\/strong>
\nCo-Investigator<\/p>\n

Professor, Emeritus
\nUniversity of Virginia
\nCharlottesville, VA<\/p>\n

Dr. Morris is recently retired as University Professor at the University of Virginia, where he held appointments in English and Medicine. He has written two prize-winning books on British literature\u2014including Alexander Pope: The Genius of Sense<\/i> (1984), which won the annual award for best book by the American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies\u2014and The Culture of Pain<\/i> (1991), which won a PEN prize. He has subsequently lectured and written widely in the field of pain medicine\u2014including chapters in Evidence-Based Chronic Pain Management (2010) and in Bonica\u2019s Management of Pain (4th ed). His work in pain has expanded to include a broader interest in so-called biocultural studies, which he explores further in three texts: Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age<\/i> (1998); Narrative, Pain, and Suffering<\/i> (2005), co-edited with pain specialists Daniel Carr and John Loeser; and in \u201cUnforgetting Asclepius: An Erotics of Illness<\/i>,\u201d in New Literary History (2007). The entire summer 2007 issue of New Literary History, co-edited with Lennard J. Davis (founder of disability studies), focuses on the possibilities of thinking about biocultures.<\/p>\n

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Daniel Becker, MD, MPH, MFA<\/strong><\/a>
\nSignificant Contributor<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tussi and John Kluge Professor of Palliative Medicine
\nDepartment of Medicine
\nDivision of General, Geriatric, Palliative and Hospital Medicine
\nUniversity of Virginia
\nCharlottesville, VA<\/p>\n

Dr. Becker is a nationally-recognized physician-writer and current Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities at the University of Virginia. He also edits Hospital Drive<\/i> magazine and practices and teaches primary care internal medicine.<\/p>\n

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Monika Ardelt, PhD<\/a><\/strong>
\nCollaborator<\/p>\n

Associate Professor of Sociology
\n2008 Colonel Allan R. and Margaret G. Crow Term Professor
\nDepartment of Sociology and Criminology & Law
\nUniversity of Florida
\nGainesville, FL<\/p>\n

Dr. Ardelt is a 1999 Brookdale National Fellow and a 2005 Positive Psychology Templeton Senior Fellow. She is a Founding Faculty Member and Member of the Advisory Committee of the Center for Spirituality and Health at the University of Florida. Dr. Ardelt received her Diplom (M.A.) in Sociology from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University of Frankfurt\/Main in Germany and her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on successful human development across the life course with particular emphasis on the relations between wisdom, religion, spirituality, aging well, and dying well.<\/p>\n

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Lawrence\u00a0Calhoun, PhD<\/a><\/strong>
\nCollaborator<\/p>\n

Professor
\nDepartment of Psychology
\nUniversity of North Carolina
\nCharlotte, NC<\/p>\n

Dr. Calhoun is a Licensed Psychologist. Although his parents were North American, he was born and raised in Brazil. He is co-author\/co-editor of eight books and more than 100 articles published in professional journals. He teaches undergraduate and graduate students, and is a recipient of the Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence<\/i> and of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching<\/i>. Dr. Calhoun received the B.A. from St. Andrews College, the M. A. from Xavier University, and the Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. For many years his scholarly work has been focused on the responses of persons encountering major life crises, particularly the phenomenon of posttraumatic growth. His wife, Mary Lynne, is Dean of the College of Education at UNC Charlotte. They have two daughters, Eliza, a social worker in Brooklyn, NY, and Mary Laura, a prekindergarten teacher in the Washington, D.C. Public Schools.<\/p>\n

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Thomas Gallagher, MD<\/strong>
\nCollaborator<\/p>\n

Associate Professor of Medicine
\nDepartment of Medicine
\nDivision of General Internal Medicine
\nDepartment of Bioethics & Humanities
\nUniversity of Washington<\/p>\n

Dr. Gallagher completed his M.D. at Harvard University, a residency in Internal Medicine at Barnes Hospital, Washington University, St. Louis, and a fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at the University of California at San Francisco. He is a practicing general internist and conducts research and is widely published in the areas of ethical and communication issues in conflicts of interest, research ethics, and the disclosure of medical errors and adverse events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Margaret Plews-Ogan, MD, MS Principal Investigator Associate Professor of Medicine Department of Medicine Division of General, Geriatric, Palliative and Hospital Medicine University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA Dr. Plews-Ogan holds an undergraduate degree in philosophy and was a Rockefeller Fellow in Theology at Yale University Divinity School. 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