Dr. Karen Drummond
Stabler Hall 405
Office Phone: 569-3406
Email: kldrummond@ualr.edu
Karen Dalzell Drummond is a medical anthropologist with a research focus upon the culture of biomedicine in the U.S. and a commitment to partnering with physician educators in their efforts to improve medical education and transform academic medical culture. Her research interests include: innovations in medical training; palliative medicine; relationship-centered medical care; transformations in medical culture; translational medicine; and the use of medical humanities in medical education.
Dr. Drummond received her Ph.D. in Anthropology in 2007 from the University of California, Irvine. Her doctoral dissertation, “Learning to Care for the Dying: An Anthropological Examination of Palliative Care Education in American Biomedicine,” was an ethnographic investigation of an innovative longitudinal training rotation in palliative medicine in an internal medicine residency program.
Dr. Drummond teaches courses in cultural anthropology; medical anthropology; anthropological theory; sex, gender, and sexuality; & kinship, marriage, and family. She also coordinates the Medical Anthropology/Sociology minor.