The Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics

Faculty and Staff

Jerald WinakurJerald Winakur, MD, FACP, CMD

jwinakur@aol.com

www.jeraldwinakur.com

 

Jerry Winakur graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1973, completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) in 1976 and has practiced internal and geriatric medicine in San Antonio for over thirty years, currently with Pasteur Medical Associates, the group he founded in 1990. He is also a Certified Medical Director for long-term care institutions and is credentialed by the American Medical Directors Association. He serves on the Ethics Committee of this organization.


Dr. Winakur is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at UTHSCSA where he is also an Associate Faculty member at the Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics where he helps teach the core curriculum. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.


He and his wife, the lawyer-poet Lee Robinson, have co-taught their seminar, " Being Human: Contemporary Issues in Science, Medicine and Society," to undergraduates at UTSA and Trinity University, and currently teach an ongoing Literature and Medicine elective to second- and fourth-year medical students at UTHSCSA.


In 2005, Dr. Winakur's essay, "What Are We Going To Do With Dad," appeared in Health Affairs and The Washington Post and was syndicated in newspapers across America. He has been interviewed on The Diane Rehm Show and Fresh Air with Terry Gross as well as other syndicated radio shows. He has authored a monthly column, "Meditations on Medicine," in LifeTimes, and regularly speaks to lay audiences and health care professionals on the ethical caregiving of our senior citizens.


His book, Memory Lessons: A Doctor's Story, which he describes as a "memoir-manifesto," is forthcoming from Hyperion in January, 2009. It is about his life as a geriatrician, a commentary on aging and medical care in America, and the trials and joys of being the son of an old, old man.

 

Faculty Associates

Aguirre, Gilbert, MD

Alford, Cynthia, PhD

Anstead, Gregory, MD, PhD

Austad, Steve, PhD

Baruch-Bienen, Deborah, MD, FACP

Boldt, David, MD

Brey, Robin, MD

Briones, Tina, EdD, RN, CNA

Brown, Julie K., PhD

Brzyski, Robert G., MD, PhD

Campbell, Jr., Fred C., MD, FACP

Cody, Jannine, PhD

Combest, Sally, MD

Contreras, Salvador, MD

Coppola, Chris, MD

Crawford, George, MD

Cusi, Kenneth, MD

De la Torre, Magda, BS, RDH, MPH

Doran, Terrence, MD, PhD

Ferguson, Richard B., MD

Ferrer, Robert, MD

Finley, M. Rosina, MD

Fisch, Stan, MD

Getz, Andrew, PhD

Gong, Alice Kim, MD

Graybill, Dick

Gregerman, Robert, MD

Hazuda, Helen, PhD

Henrich, Mary

Holcomb, Phillip, PhD

Holt, Richard, MD, MSE, MPH

Horton, Monica

Jarvis, Susan, JD

Jones, Carolyn McGee, MD

Kosub, Kristy Y., MD

Kumar, K. Ashok, MD

Kunau, Robert, MD

Larme, Anne, PhD

Lawler, Ross, MD

Lee, Fletcher, MD

Leykum, Luci, MD

Longfield, Jenice, MD, MPH

Martinez, Diane Lawson, MD

McFarlane, Joe Robert, MD, JD

McMaines, Chris, MD

Medellin, Glen, MD

Medrano, Martha, MD, MPH

Miner-Williams, Denise, PhD, RN

Moore, Charleen, PhD

Peel, Jennifer, PhD

Peters, Jay, MD

Roberts, Bertram MD, MPH

Robinson, Lee, JD

Ross, Jeanette, MD

Sanchez-Reilly, Sandra, MD

Tamayo, Edwin, MD

Thames, Todd A., MD, FAAFP

Verghese, Abraham, MD

Vince, Alan, PhD