Dr. Craig Irvine holds a PhD in Philosophy. He is Co-Founder of the Division of Narrative Medicine, Columbia University, New York. For over 25 years, he has been designing and teaching cultural competency, ethics, Narrative Medicine, and Humanities and Medicine curricula for residents, medical students, physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, dentists, and other health professionals. He has over 30 years of experience researching and teaching the history of philosophy, phenomenology, ethics, and narrative medicine. Craig is co-author of The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine and has published articles in the areas of ethics, narrative medicine, residency education, and literature and medicine. He has presented at numerous national and international conferences on these and other topics.