Lois LaCivita Nixon, Ph.D, M.P.H.

Lois LaCivita Nixon has graduate degrees from Rollins College (M.A.T.), Middlebury College (M.Litt.), and the University of South Florida (Ph.D., M.P.H.). Her area of study includes medical ethics and humanities, women’s issues, aging, and the impact of globalism on health care. In addition to co-editing two books on health care (On Doctoring and Trials, Tribulations, and Celebrations) and co-authoring one (Literary Anatomies), Dr. Nixon has published in The Journal of Clinical Ethics, Law, Medicine & Health Care, The Journal of Medical Humanities, Pharos, The Journal of Aging and Identity, and Academic Medicine. Recent articles include “Pyramids and Rhomboids in the Rationalist World of Medicine” and “Emerging Issues in International Health Systems Organization.” For two years, she served as Chair of the Hillsborough County Hospital Authority and has been a member of the Committee on Governance and Circle of Life Committee for the American Hospital Association, and has been active in the National Association of Public Hospitals. She is a former Peace Corps Volunteer (Togo), a three-time NEH Fellow, a PEW Trust Fellow, and a Fulbright scholar (Jordan). She has been an editor of NYU’s Literature, Arts, and Medicine database since 1993.