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Abraham M. Nussbaum

University of Colorado School of Medicine

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Affiliations

  • Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA

  • Senior Medical Director of Humanities and Bioethics, Denver Health

Biography

Abraham M. Nussbaum, MD, MTS, is a psychiatrist, writer, and educator. He practices clinically at Denver Health, an academic safety-net system, where he is the Senior Medical Director for Humanities and Bioethics. He is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where he directs the psychiatric basic sciences curriculum. He is the author, or co-author, of nine books, most recently On Service: A Prayerbook of the Clinical Hours.

Research Focus

  • Medical education
  • Care of persons with mental illness
  • Catholic social teaching
  • Narrative medicine
  • Human flourishing