Associate Faculty
Benjamin C. Amick III
Dr. Benjamin C. Amick III is an Associate Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Epidemiology in the UT School of Public Health. He conducts research on how to make workplaces and communities healthy and productive. He has co-developed the Sacred Vocation Program with Rabbi Samuel Karff. His other research focuses on the meaning of work and vocation among artists, the connections between health and productivity and working with communities to build healthy labor markets and reduce health disparities.
Jose Bayona
Dr. Jose Bayona is the Director of the Urban Family Medicine Program in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Texas-Houston Medical School. Dr. Bayona is also the Assistant Chief of Staff of the Harris County Hospital District Community Programs. Dr. Bayona was chosen as one of the first master teachers that enabled him to implement the Healer's Art. The Healer's Art is a course that aims to help students to recognize, value, enhance and preserve the human dimension in health care and to develop the capacity to find lifelong meaning in the same way in which we now foster technical expertise. Dr. Bayona is a Board-Certified family physician. He oversees the faculty in the community health clinics and the Lyndon B. Johnson Community Hospital that are part of a large network of community health clinics and hospitals in the Harris County Hospital District. He is actively involved in the teaching of medical students and residents as well as maintaining an active clinical practice. Dr. Bayona has dedicated most of his professional career in underserved communities, and has developed and strongly advocates for programs that integrate mental health into primary care.
Bryant Boutwell
Dr. Bryant Boutwell has spent the last three decades in Houston's Texas Medical Center. He is the Associate Dean in charge of Community Affairs at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston and the first holder of The John P. McGovern, M.D. Professor of Oslerian Medicine (Medical Humanities and Communications) in the Medical School's Department of Family and Community Medicine. A former news journalist, he has written award-winning newspaper columns, radio programs, and videotape presentations including scripts narrated by Walter Cronkite. In recent years, he and his co-author, Dr. John P. McGovern, have published a history of the UT Medical School at Houston and the Texas Medical Center. Sales from that book support an endowed scholarship fund to assist medical students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Dr. Boutwell has journalism and biology degrees from The University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Public Health and Doctor of Public Health degree from the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston. In addition to his current Associate Dean responsibilities at the UT Medical School, he teaches medical students in the areas of communications, ethics, humanism, and behavioral medicine. Active in the community, he is currently on the board of directors of Leadership Houston.
Thelma Jean Goodrich
Thelma Jean Goodrich, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Behavioral Science at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. Her major responsibility is to design and direct a program to support the health of the 1200 faculty members at M. D. Anderson. The program includes initiatives for preserving, restoring, and enhancing faculty well-being. Until November, 2005, Dr. Goodrich was Director of Behavioral Science for the Residency Program in Family Medicine at UT-Houston Medical School. She has published and presented widely in family therapy as well as in family medicine.
Judianne Kellaway
Judianne Kellaway is Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Residency Program Director in the Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Science. She began her career in education after obtaining a M.Ed from the University of Houston. She then graduated from The University of Texas Medical School at Houston and completed a year in Internal Medicine at the Robert Woods Johnson Cooper Hospital in Camden, N.J. She came back to the University of Texas- Houston to complete her ophthalmology residency and received subspecialty training in diseases and surgery of the retina and vitreous. Dr. Kellaway has created and directs a 4th year elective, Essentials of Medicine that provides students the opportunity to re-evaluate and connect with their chosen vocation. In addition to her clinical and teaching obligations she has served on the board of the Museum of Health & Medical Science. She lectures to high school and college groups about common eye disorders and eye safety and teaches astronauts from the Johnson Space Center. She is serves on the advisory board for the National Youth Leadership Forum in Medicine that sends thousands of high school seniors to medical schools around the country and is the faculty sponsor of the Health and Human Spirit Student Advisory Committee.
Paula Knudson
Paula Knudson, CIP is the Special Advisor for human subject research at The University of Texas-Houston Medical School. With almost 30 years of experience, Ms. Knudson directs all activities of Institutional Review Board (IRB) and the Animal Welfare Committee (IACUC). An expert in the field of human subject protection, Ms. Knudson teaches extensively in all of the schools including Grand Rounds and meetings with Residents and Fellows. In the areas of research, Ms. Knudson has published several articles and serves on the board of many institutions including Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research. She recently received the McGovern Award for Excellence in the Field of Medicine. Her primary interests are in the area of vulnerable subjects, women and children in research, the consent process and educating and sensitizing investigators.
Sharon K. Ostwald
Dr. Sharon K. Ostwald is Professor and Isla Carroll Turner Chair in Gerontological Nursing in the School of Nursing, in the Center on Aging at The University of Texas-School of Nursing at Houston. She is also Adjunct Professor in Behavioral Sciences at the School of Public Health, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine at the School of Medicine at UT-Houston. Previously, she held faculty positions in the School of Nursing and School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Ostwald received her B.S. from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota. She has had over 30 years of experience as an adult and geriatric educator, clinician, and researcher. She has conducted externally funded research on frail elderly and their family caregivers, and is currently conducting a randomized clinical trial comparing a mild intervention (mailed information) with a home-based intervention with stroke survivors and their spouses post hospital discharge. She has numerous publications, and has presented at a number of local, national and international conferences on aging-related topics.
Jacquelyn Slomka
Jacquelyn Slomka, Ph.D., received her B.S. in Nursing from the Ohio State University and her doctorate in cultural anthropology from the University of Michigan. Her research and writing interests include culture and bioethics, the processes of health care decision making, and issues in research ethics. She has published in a number of medical and bioethics journals and has more than a decade of experience as a clinical ethicist and medical educator. She currently is Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, where she teaches courses in health care ethics and research ethics.
