Ruby Roy, M.D.
Department of Pediatrics
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
2160 S. First Ave., Bldg. 105, Room 3301
Maywood, IL 60153

Dr. Ruby Roy joined the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy in September 2006 to assist in further integrating the humanities into the LUC Stritch Bioethics & Professionalism curriculum. She received her A.B at Harvard-Radcliffe University in biology and developed interest in literature and philosophy. She is a graduate of the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine where her interest in the medical humanities, especially literature, was fostered in a course on AIDS and Literature.  She did her Pediatrics residency at Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati and has been an attending physician at Loyola since 1992. She is committed to social justice and care for the underserved and has worked in the field of child advocacy. She has previously served as clinical pediatrician on the Pediatric Mobile Health Unit, and has currently been medical director of the Community Nurse Health Association pediatric clinic in La Grange since 2001. In 2005, she founded and currently directs the Healer’s Art course which is an interactive and reflective curriculum exploring the human dimension of medicine. She designed and will pilot a course on culture and literature in January 2007. Her interests are relationship centered care, child advocacy, feeding interactions, humane treatment of patients, physicians and students, reflective practice, and narrative medicine and literature.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Roy, R.  (1997) Development of a Breastfeeding Curriculum, Academic Medicine, 72(5): 452.