Dr. Mark Gilbert, Arts Editor

Dr. Mark Gilbert (he/him/his) is Associate with The School of Art and Art History at The University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he is participating faculty in UNO’s Medical Humanities program.

As an artist, teacher, and researcher, he has worked on a number of high-profile art-based research projects using portraiture to illuminate patient and caregiver experience of illness, recovery, and care. These studies include Saving Faces at The Royal London Hospital and Portraits of Care at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. The resultant artworks were exhibited widely in venues across Europe and the US, including the National Portrait Gallery, London.

In 2014, he was awarded his Ph.D at UNMC. His research focused on the interdisciplinary field of Art and Medicine and recognized that the arts in all their forms can be forms of research.

His most recent study was a two-year collaboration with geriatrician Dr. Kenneth Rockwood on an arts-based research study exploring the relationships and interactions between patients living with dementia and their partners in care attending the Memory Clinic at Veterans Memorial Hospital, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.