Dr. Andrea Charise

Biography

Andrea Charise is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto Scarborough. She is recognized for her contributions to health studies and the humanities, particularly through her work as a founding supervisor of Canada’s undergraduate Minor program in Health Humanities. Charise completed her Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Iowa’s Obermann Center for Advanced Studies. In addition to her primary role, she holds appointments in the Graduate Department of English at the University of Toronto and at the Women’s College Research Institute. Charise has been awarded the John Charles Polanyi Prize for her teaching and literature scholarship, and she has published extensively in clinical epidemiology and geriatrics in notable journals such as Health Expectations and the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. She is the Founding Director and Principal Investigator of the SCOPE: Health Humanities Learning Lab, focusing on integrating humanities disciplines with health knowledge and research. In April 2016, she was honored as the “Professor of the Year” by the UTSC student journal, Underground. Charise is actively involved in the Medical Humanities and Health Studies forums and serves on the International Advisory Board for the International Health Humanities Network.

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