UPENN SOM || Cultural Competency Medical Education Program || Horace Delisser, MD

Horace Delisser, MD

After receiving his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985, Horace DeLisser, MD remained at the University to complete his internal medicine residency and pulmonary medicine fellowship, as well as post-doctoral research training. He is currently a pulmonary and critical care specialist and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine. Scientifically, Dr. DeLisser has a program of independently funded research that is focused on the cells that line blood vessels (endothelial cells) and their activity during inflammation and the formation of new vessels. Dr. DeLisser has been also been very active in medical education with a particular interest in cultural competency. He is a course director of the first year medical student course, "Culture and Communication" and is the Co- investigator for the NIH, NHLBI funded grant "Cultural Competence Health Disparities Training Program". He precepts and teaches in several of the medical school's courses on humanism and professional. Additionally, Dr. DeLisser helped to develop the course, Spirituality in Medicine. In recognition of his contributions to medical education, he earned the Leonard Berwick Memorial Teaching Award, a First Year Medical School, Class, Outstanding Teacher Award, a Penn Pearls Teaching Award and the 2005 Robert L. Mayock - Alfred P. Fishman Teaching Award.