Todd L. Savitt, Ph.D.

Todd L. Savitt is a historian of medicine. He received his bachelor’s degree from Colgate University, attended the University of Rochester School of Medicine and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia. After teaching the history of medicine and medical humanities at the University of Florida College of Medicine he joined the faculty of the Department of Medical Humanities at East Carolina University School of Medicine, where he presently teaches history and medical ethics. In 1988, Savitt organized ECU’s medical readers’ theater program, taking medical student readers into local communities to perform stories about medicine and hold discussions about the stories with the audience. His publications include Medical Readers’ Theater: A Guide and Scripts.