Beth Ellers is an Adjunct Faculty member of Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, North Carolina where she teaches film studies. Before moving to North Carolina, Beth was a facilitator for two different hospitals hosting a Literature & Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Health CareŽ program in Maine. She also taught undergraduate film criticism courses in American Independent Film and Film Appreciation at the University of Southern Maine and was involved in designing curriculum development for behavioral medicine and medical humanities at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine. Beth also served as Director of Faculty Development at UNE, in charge of development, implementation, and teaching of faculty development workshop series to improve the teaching skills of community-based physicians and curriculum development, and taught medical humanities courses for medical students.
Beth has an MFA in Film Studies from the College of Communication at Boston University, where her coursework included American and International Film Criticism and History and Screenwriting. She was awarded the Fleder-Rosenberg Short Screenplay Contest by the college. She received an MPH from Harvard School of Public Health, where she concentrated on Maternal and Child Health, and received her MD from Medical College of Pennsylvania.