Staff

Stacy Gallin, Founder and Director

Stacy Gallin, D.M.H., is the Founder and Director of the Maimonides Institute for Medicine, Ethics and the Holocaust. She earned her doctoral degree in Medical Humanities from Drew University in 2012, and subsequently taught courses on Bioethics and the Holocaust and Human Subject Research Ethics. Dr. Gallin founded MIMEH in 2015 as a way to transcend the generational, religious, geographical and professional boundaries in Holocaust education and protect the legacy of those whose lives were changed irrevocably by the horrendous events that took place during the Holocaust.

Dr. Gallin is the Director of the Center for Human Dignity in Bioethics, Health, and the Holocaust at Misericordia University, the Co-Chair of the Department of Bioethics and the Holocaust of the UNESCO Chair of Bioethics (Haifa) and the Medical Ethics Project Liaison for CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center. In addition, she works closely with several national and internationally recognized organizations to raise awareness regarding the relevance of medicine, ethics and the Holocaust for modern medical practice, healthcare policy and human rights endeavors.

Allen Menkin, Chairman of the Board of Trustees

Dr. Menkin has a BA from Drew University and an MS from Rutgers University. He received his M.D. from The Bowman Gray/Wake Forest University School of Medicine, where he published one of the first papers detailing the broad complicity of German physicians in Nazi medical war crimes. He did his post-graduate training at Bellevue Hospital/NYU Medical Center, where he was also an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics.

Dr. Menkin is a decorated Vietnam era veteran, has done missionary work in Ethiopia, and initiated the Taglit/Birthright medical student program. Prior to his retirement in 2015, he practiced pediatrics and developmental medicine for 44 years.

Tessa Chelouche, Co-Director

Tessa Chelouche, M.D, is the Co-Director of the Maimonides Institute for Medicine, Ethics and the Holocaust. She is a family physician and renowned scholar of medical history. Originally from South Africa, Dr. Chelouche has lived in Israel for the past 38 years working as a family physician and director of a primary care family medical practice.

Dr. Chelouche has served as Co-Director and Lecturer of a pre-graduate course on "The Study of Medicine and the Holocaust" for medical students as part of the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion Institute in Haifa, Israel for the past 10 years. She has published numerous articles on the subject of Medicine and the Holocaust including a "Casebook on Bioethics And the Holocaust" as part of a program for the UNESCO Chair of Bioethics. Dr. Chelouche is also the Co-Chair of the Department of Bioethics and the Holocaust of the UNESCO Chair of Bioethics (Haifa).

Ira Bedzow, Educational Consultant

Ira Bedzow, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of medicine and the director of the Biomedical Ethics and Humanities Program at New York Medical College. He is also a senior scholar at the Aspen Center for Social Values. Dr. Bedzow received his Ph.D. from Emory University, an M.A. from Touro College, an M.A. from the University of Chicago and a B.A. from Princeton University, as well as rabbinic ordination (Yoreh Yoreh and Yadin Yadin). He is the author of six books, and numerous articles and chapters on law, medical ethics, and philosophy.

Amanda Caleb, Educational Consultant

Amanda M. Caleb, PhD, is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Medical and Health Humanities program at Misericordia University. She received her PhD in English and MA in Nineteenth-Century Studies from the University of Sheffield and her BA in English from Davidson College. She specializes in the intersection of literature, medicine, and science, specifically in the nineteenth- and twentieth centuries. She has published several articles on science, medicine, and literature, specifically on the works of H.G. Wells, Arthur Machen, and Robert Louis Stevenson, and was editor of (Re)creating Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007).

Emerging Scholars

Sidney Kabinoff, Emerging Scholar 2020-2021

Cal Freundlich, Inaugural Emerging Scholar

Sidney Kabinoff is a senior at Misericordia University double majoring in Medical and Health Humanities and Philosophy. He has been a member of the Advisory Board for the Center for Human Dignity in Bioethics, Health, and the Holocaust at Misericordia for two years, where he has taken an active role in programs such as the Reading of the Names of the Victims of the Holocaust. Sid believes that, "Given all that can be misconstrued in contemporary political climates and the media, using the Holocaust to demonstrate the necessity of an objective human dignity is absolutely paramount." Sid will be working with MIMEH to develop resources to engage the younger generation and help encourage them to take an active role in education and issues of social justice regarding bioethics and the Holocaust.

MIMEH is pleased to introduce Cal Freundlich, our Inaugural Emerging Scholar. Cal is a rising junior at Davidson College in North Carolina. He is a Music and Media major and a member of Davidson's Division I basketball team. Cal joined MIMEH on our summer 2018 trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he was "reminded of the responsibility that we, as young people, have to be leaders of our generation and ensure that human dignity and equality are protected." Cal will be scoring the music for the documentary MIMEH is producing based on our trip. In addition, he will be contributing posts to MIMEH's blog and working with established scholars in the field to help foster his desire to become an active agent of social change.