Main Campus and GUMC join forces with NEH grant to new faculty member
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April 23, 2021
Lakshmi Krishnan, Assistant Professor of Medicine at GUMC and faculty affiliate of the English Department on the Main Campus, led a team including co-PIs Nicoletta Pireddu of the Department of Italian and Daniel Marchalik at MedStar Health that has been awarded a $100,000 NEH grant to create a new Medical Humanities minor. A Faculty Fellow of the Georgetown Humanities Initiative, and the Faculty Director of the Georgetown Medical Humanities Initiative, Professor Krishnan was also awarded a 2020 NEH fellowship to craft her history of medicine book, The Doctor and the Detective: A Cultural History of Diagnosis (Forthcoming, Johns Hopkins University Press).