Faculty & Staff
Henry N. Claman, MD - Distinguished Professor
Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Immunology
Division of Allergy & Clinical Immunology
Director, Medical Humanities program, UCD
4200 East Ninth Ave, B164
Denver, CO 80262
Phone: (303) 315 6978
Fax: (303) 315 7642
Henry.Claman@uchsc.edu
- Education:
- 1952 Harvard College, A.B. Cum Laude
- 1955 M.D., New York University School of Medicine
- Internship 1955-1956: Barnes Hospital, St. Louis (Medical)
- Residency 1956-1957 Barnes Hospital, St. Louis (Medical)
- Residency 1957-1958 Massachusetts General Hospital (Medical)
- Board Certification:
- American Board of Medical Specialties - Internal Medicine 10/1/65
- American Board of Medical Specialties - Allergy and Immunology 3/17/67
- American Board of Medical Specialties - Diagnostic Laboratory 10/7/88
- Areas of Clinical Interest:
- Asthma, allergic rhinitis, urticaria, immunodeficiency
- Clinic Location:
- Anschutz Outpatient Pavilion, Fitzsimons Campus, Aurora
- Clinic Days:
- Wednesday Afternoons
- Appointment Contact:
- Tianna Johnson, 720-848-1940
- Former Research Activities:
- Immunologic tolerance, T cell-B cell interactions (first demonstration), Mechanisms of corticosteroid action, contact sensitivity and its control, suppressor T cells, natural suppressor cells, graft vs. host disease, mast cells and fibrosis, pathogenesis of scleroderma, immunology of human pregnancy
- Dr. Claman has over 175 research publications, and 30 chapters in texts
- Current Research Interests:
- Art History, Medical Humanities:
- Author, Jewish Images in the Christian Church, Mercer University Press, Fall 2000
- Claman HN: Medicine and the Two Brains The Pharos of A.O.A., Fall, 1999, Vol. 62, 37-39
- Claman HN: Creativity and Illness. Christopher Smart and Samuel Johnson The Pharos of A.O.A., Vol. 64(3), 4-7.
- Claman HN: Billroth and Brahms: A Musical Friendship The Pharos of A.O.A. Summer 2003, Vol 66(3), 28-33.
- Claman HN: Medicine in Art: Looking at "The Doctor". The Pharos of A.O.A., Spring 2004.
- Claman HN and Bellofatto, L. Alexander W. Thayer, Beethoven's Biographer, Harvard Magazine, 109(3), 2007.
- Other:
- Dr. Claman is Director of the Medical Humanities program at UCD. The Program integrates the arts, literature, reflective writing, etc into the medical education curriculum. The Program has been awarded a grant from the Price Foundation which should allow us to recruit a credentialed medical humanist to carry the Program forward. The UCD Medical Humanitites' Website is at www.uchsc.edu/artsinmedicine/
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