Kirsten Ostherr, the founding director of the Medical Humanities Program at Rice and chair of the Department of English, has been awarded a 2021 Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine, which supports research at the world’s largest medical library: the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.
Medical Humanities exists at the intersection of multiple disciplines, a plurality also explored by Ostherr’s fellowship-winning research project: “The Visual History of Computational Health.”
Kirsten Ostherr is chair of the Department of English and founding director of the Medical Humanities program at Rice.
Computational health seeks to communicate information to people across fields — computer scientists to medical doctors, social scientists to communicators — in pursuit of creating technologies that support…
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