Audrey Shafer

Emeritum Faculty-Med Ctr Line, Miscellaneous

Academic Appointments

Emeritus (Active) Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Emeritum Faculty-Med Ctr Line, Miscellaneous

Administrative Appointments

Staff Anesthesiologist, VA Palo Alto HCS (1989 - Present)
Faculty, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics (2003 - Present)
Founding Co-Director, Biomedical Ethics & Medical Humanities Scholarly Concentration (2003 - 2021)
Founder, Medicine and the Muse Program: Medical Humanities and the Arts (2003 - Present)

Honors & Awards

Leadership and Service Award, inaugural recipient, Health Humanities Consortium (2022)
Ellis N. Cohen MD Achievement Award, Stanford Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine (2018)
Henry J. Kaiser Foundation Award - Outstanding & Innovative Contributions to Medical Education, Stanford University School of Medicine (2007)

Professional Education

AB, Harvard University, Biochemistry
MD, Stanford University, Medicine

Current Research and Scholarly Interests

literature and medicine, humanistic aspects of medicine and anesthesia care, language and medicine, communication, medical humanities, creative writing, arts and healthcare

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