Margaret Wardlaw, M.D., Ph.D., FAAP, DABSM
Richmond, VA 23220
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Pediatrician and sleep medicine physician with PhD in medical humanities. Board certified in sleep medicine and pediatrics. Licensed in Texas and Washington. Educator and physician writer.
Education
M.D., University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
08/2004 - 06/2012
Ph.D., Medical Humanities, Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
08/2004 - 06/2012
B.A., Plan II (Phi Beta Kappa), University of Texas at Austin
08/1999 - 05/2003
Postdoctoral Training
Sleep Medicine Fellowship, University of Washington
07/2017-09/2018
Pediatrics Residency, Dell Medical School, Austin, TX
07/2012-07/2015
Employment
Sleep Medicine Physician, contract PSG interpretation, VA Puget sound
09/2018-present
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Complex Care Pediatrician, Dell Medical School, Austin, TX
10/2015-10/2016
Teaching
The University of Washington School of Medicine, Introduction to the Medical Humanities
Spring 2020
University of Texas at Austin, Narrative, Theater, and the Illness Experience
Fall 2016
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Humanities, Ethics and Professionalism
Spring 2008, 2010
Baylor College of Medicine, Medical Ethics
Spring 2008
Publications
Peer-reviewed publications
1.Lucas M. Donovan, Ken He, Margaret Wardlaw, and Vishesh K. Kapur. Getting to the Root of the Matter. Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 15(4) (Apr 01, 2018)
2.Margaret Wardlaw. American Medicine as Religious Practice: Care of the Sick as a Sacred Obligation and the Unholy Descent into Secularization. The Journal of Religion and Health 50(1): 62-74.
3.Margaret Wardlaw. The Right To Die Exception: How the Discourse of Individual Rights Impoverishes Bioethical Discussions of Disability and What We Can Do About It. The International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. 3(2): 43-62 (2010).
4.H. Brody, Margaret Wardlaw. Two gorillas in the death penalty room. The American Journal of Bioethics. Reader response. 8(10): 53-54 (2008).
Books & Chapters
5.Maida Chen, MD, Margaret Wardlaw, MD, PhD, Mark Stein, PhD. ADHD Medications and Sleep. Sleep and ADHD: An Evidence Based Guide to Assessment and Treatment. Elsevier (2019).
6.Katie Kucera Ray M.D., Margaret Wardlaw M.D. Ph.D. The Sacred Cord: Osler, Antivivisection and Human Subjects Research. The Persisting Osler IV. (2011).
Other publications
7.Margaret Wardlaw, MD, PhD, “What the Doctor Ordered,” Guernica, December 2019. https://www.guernicamag.com/what-the-doctor-ordered/.
8.Margaret Wardlaw, MD, PhD, “Monsters,” Creative Nonfiction, Issue 66, Spring 2018, Grand Prize winner of Frankenstein Bicentennial Project Essay Contest, sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
9.https://www.creativenonfiction.org/online-reading/dangerous-creations
10.Margaret Wardlaw, MD, PhD, “Nativity in Blue,” US Catholic. December 2017.
11.Margaret Wardlaw, MD, PhD, Religion, Emotion, and Spirituality in American Hospital Childbirth. Dissertation.
12.Margaret Wardlaw, MD, PhD, Billing the Victim: The Retooling of Endemic Poverty as ‘Lifestyle Choice.' The Virtual Mentor: American Medical Association Journal of Ethics. John Conley Ethics Essay Contest for Medical Students. (2008)
Other research projects
13.“Evaluation and Improvement of Decisional Uncertainty in Infant Chronic Dialysis", Toni Wakefield, MD. Primary Investigator, 2016-present.
Invited Presentations, Posters & Abstracts
International
Margaret Wardlaw, MD, PhD, “‘Monstrous Birth’: Historical and Contemporary Conceptions of Congenital Anomalies,” American Osler Society Annual Meeting, Oxford, UK, Presenter.
May 2014
Jin-Yu Chen Ph.D., Randall Horton Ph.D., Julie Kutac, Ph.D., Margaret Wardlaw, MD, PhD, “Practicing Moral Medicine: Reflections on Directions for the Medical Humanities,” New Directions in the Humanities, Beijing, China, (Presented in absentia.)
June 2009
Margaret Wardlaw, MD, PhD, “Inclusion and Radicalism in Tension: The Changing Relationship with Biomedicine in Our Bodies, Ourselves,” Science and the Public, Manchester, England, Presenter.
June 2008
Margaret Wardlaw, MD, PhD, “The Primacy of the Interpersonal: William Osler and Women Medical Students at Johns Hopkins,” American Osler Society Annual Meeting, Halifax, Nova Scotia, March 2006. David Martin-Rider M.D. Presenter.
March 2006
National
Margaret Wardlaw, MD, PhD, “Behavioral Insomnias of Childhood,” Idaho Sleep Professionals Association. Boise Idaho, Presenter.
October 2018
Margaret Wardlaw, MD, PhD, “‘Do Absolutely Everything’: The Technological Imperative and Perinatal Hospice Care in the United Kingdom,” National Conference for Physician-Scholars in the Social Sciences and Humanities, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, (Based on research conducted at freestanding children’s hospices and NICUs in 5 British cities during a month-long 3rd-year elective.) Presenter.
Spring 2015
Margaret Wardlaw, MD, PhD, “Religion, Emotion, and Spirituality in American Hospital Childbirth," National Conference for Physician-Scholars in the Social Sciences and Humanities, The University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, Presenter.
Spring 2015
Margaret Wardlaw, MD, PhD, “Osler’s Martha: The Role of the Doctor’s Wife in Historical and Contemporary Medical Practice,” American Osler Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Presenter.
May 2011
Margaret Wardlaw, MD, PhD, “Questionable Benefits, Identifiable Harms, and Mandatory Reporting: Translational Issues in Public Health and Medicine,” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, Presenter.
October 2009
Margaret Wardlaw, MD, PhD, “Self Experimentation: A Thing of the Past?”, American Osler Society Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Presenter.
April 2009
Margaret Wardlaw, MD, PhD, “Inclusion and Radicalism in Tension: The Changing Relationship with Biomedicine in Our Bodies, Ourselves,” Updated with Oral History Interviews, National Conference for Physician-Scholars in the Social Sciences and Humanities, The University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA, Presenter.
Spring 2009
Katie Kuchera Ray MD, Margaret Wardlaw, MD, PhD, “The Sacred Cord: William Osler and Research Ethics,” American Osler Society Annual Meeting, Boston, Presenter.
May 2008
Regional
“Medical Narratives: What Gets Left Out, and Why?” Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative, Seattle, WA.
October 2019
“Klein Levin Syndrome,” Chest Grand Rounds, University of Washington.
October 2017
“ADHD, Sleep, and Sleep Disorders,” Sleep Medicine Conference, University of Washington.
August 2017
“Behavioral Insomnias of Childhood,” Sleep Medicine Conference, University of Washington.
December 2017
Anne Claire Hickman, MA, Rachael E. Massell, Allison Moore, Margaret P. Wardlaw, M.D., Ph.D., “Innovative Integration of Psychosocial Support and Behavioral Health in a Medical Home for Children with Medical Complexity Children’s Comprehensive Care” McCombs School of Business Healthcare Initiative Symposium. University of Texas at Austin.
2016
Margaret Wardlaw, MD, PhD, “Shakespeare, Medicine, and Pediatric Palliative Care” University of Texas at Austin.
April 2016
Brian Brindall MD, Margaret Wardlaw, MD, PhD, “Eugenics, Nazi Experimentation and the Doctor-Patient Relationship,” Osler Club, Galveston.
April 2008
Editorial Responsibilities
American Journal of Bioethics, Reviewer
2010-2012
Journal of Religion and Health, Reviewer
2010-2012
Community Service
Schwartz Center Rounds at Dell Children’s Medical Center, Planning Committee
07/2014 – 09/2016
C.D. Doyle Clinic of Austin (student-run free clinic), Founder
08/2010 - 06/2012
St. Vincent’s House Free Clinic, Student Director
04/2007 - 04/2010
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Gulf Coast, Mentor
08/2003 - 06/2011
Additional Coursework and Training
“Clinical Hypnosis,” University of Washington.
07/2017-12/ 2017
American Society for Clinical Hypnosis Basic Workshop, Austin, TX
2014
Honors and Awards
Pushcart Prize (Literary Award)
2020
Excellence in Teaching Award
2014
Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence
2012
Outstanding Dissertation Award
2012
Harry Huntt Ransom Fellowship Award in the Medical Humanities
2012
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Associates Scholarship
2010
Chester R. Burns Institute for the Medical Humanities Alumni Award Scholarship
2009
David C. Eiland, Jr. Scholarship Award in Health Care and Humanities
2008
John P. McGovern Student Scholarship in Oslerian Medicine
2004-2012