Brian Callender, MD
University of Chicago Hospitalist and Associate Professor of Medicine
Brian Callender, MD is a hospitalist and associate professor of medicine at the University of Chicago. His academic interests focus on the intersection of the medical humanities, graphic medicine, and the illness experience. He regularly conducts graphic medicine workshops and regularly teaches about comics and medicine. Courses he teaches include The Body in Medicine and the Performing Arts, Graphic Medicine: Concepts and Practice, Death Panels: Exploring Death and Dying Through Comics, and Graphic Medicine: Comics Creation as Knowledge Formation. In addition, he is co-curating of the upcoming exhibition, [Re]Framing Graphic Medicine: Comics and the History of Medicine, and is teaching a course based on the exhibition.