The second Claman Endowed Professorship in the Medical Humanities brought Jonathan Metzl, MD, PhD, who ​presented, "Mental Illness, Mass Shootings and the Politics of American Firearms," to a standing-room only audience at the Fulginiti Pavilion on October 23, 2014.  An article on his research was recently published in the American Journal of Public Health. Dr. Metzl (below, left) is the Director of the Center for Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University.