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Specialties
Global child health; native american child health; medical education; cross-cultural medicine; medical ethics; poverty, justice and health
Biography
Brian E. Volck, MD, was born in Cincinnati. He worked as a general pediatrician for the Indian Health Service from 1989-1994, at a Federally Qualified Community Health Center from 1994-1996, and with a university-based medicine/pediatrics residency program from 1996-2009. Heregularly travels to rural Honduras on medical mission.
His medical education innovations include: founding and teaching a medical student elective on literature and medicine; planning and serving as co-founding faculty in the Initiative in Poverty, Justice and Health, which introduces medical students and primary-care residents to the care of persons in poverty; and assisting in the development of a global child health track within the pediatric residency program.
He is currently researching and writing a book on inherited diseases and the intersection of culture, health, and history in the Navajo.
Education and Training
MD: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1985
Residency: Pediatrics, Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Cleveland, OH
Certification: Pediatrics, 1988
Publications
Diers C, Volck B, Kiesler J, Klein M. Competencies for the Adaptable Physician: Training Residents to Care for Vulnerable Populations. The Open Medical Education Journal. 2009;2:26-35.
Schubert C, Volck B, Kiesler J, Klein M. Teaching Advocacy to Physicians in Multicultural Settings. Open Medical Education Journal. 2009;2:1.