After medical school, she accepted a clinical research fellowship from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Cancer Institute (NCI) to help investigate the minority health disparities seen in prostate and breast cancer where she helped develop several outreach and education programs to help bridge the gap. She received her Doctor of Medicine degree at the University of Texas Medical School in San Antonio in 2003. She is a TTU/TTUHSC alumni who majored in biochemistry at TTU and worked in cell biology/biochemistry research. She has published articles in Feminist Media Studies, Journal of Media Psychology, Women's Studies in Communication, Newspaper Research Journal, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Atlantic Journal of Communication, Forum: Qualitative Social Research, Media Report to Women, Journal of Magazine & New Media Research, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Journal of Media Education.Īn Internal Medicine physician currently practicing in Lubbock, Texas. Sternadori is the author of Mediated Eros: Sexual Scripts Within and Across Cultures (Peter Lang, 2015) and co-editor of Gender and Work: Exploring Intersectionality, Resistance, and Identity (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016). She currently serves as the head of the Magazine Media division of the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and the book review editor for the Journal of Magazine & New Media Research. She’s the recipient of numerous awards including a national human rights award, social justice anti-oppression award, and a research award.Ī member of the “first class” of young journalists after the fall of Communism in her native Bulgaria, she is an associate professor in the Department of Journalism & Electronic Media at Texas Tech. As a helper, healer, and advocate for those marginalized and minoritized, she critically examines the intersectionality of multiple social identities and listens to the experiences, voices, and counternarratives of marginalized women, communities, and people in oppressive social structures, locations, and statuses. Biomedical Ethics or Bioethics covers a diverse range of topics, including doctor-patient relationships and genetic research, both of which are major themes of “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.”Ī Professor and Director of Clinical Mental Health Counseling in Counselor Education at Texas Tech University she’s a critical global multicultural-social justice womanist activist, scholar, storyteller, and servant whose work has spanned four decades. He is currently teaching the course “Biomedical Ethics” where he uses “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” for the course.

He is a prolific writer, lecturer, and researcher and his work had been published in philosophical and law journals. His academic interesst include aesthetics, metaphysics, and ethics. from the University of Maryland at College Park where he wrote “The Metaphysics and Ethics of Copyright” as his dissertation. He is an Assistant Visiting Professor in the Philosophy Department.

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