The Bray Visiting Scholar/Creative Artists Fellowship (VSCAs) support scholars and creative artists with a record of significant accomplishment, or who demonstrate great promise in their field. During their six-month fellowship, VSCAs develop, implement and teach a course or seminar series at the medical school, and give a public talk that brings interdisciplinary perspectives to the experience of healthcare. 

Deb Salem Smith, MFA, is the playwright-in-residence at Trinity Repertory Company.  Her new play Love Alone received an Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award as well as an Honorable Mention by the National Jane Chambers Playwriting Award. This fall, she'll teach BIOL 3715: (Play)writing and Medicine 

Liz Tobin Tyler, JD, MA, is director of Public Service and Community Partnerships and a lecturer in public interest law at Roger Williams University School of Law. She also serves as the co-director of the Scholarly Concentration in Advocacy and Activism at the Alpert Medical School at Brown University.  This winter she'll be teaching the Medical-Legal Narratives seminar series. Visit the Faculty page for her full bio.