Biography:

Tom Koch is the author of over 250 papers and 15 books, most dealing with issues of bioethics, medical humanities, and disease studies. Much of that work is filtered through the lens of medical cartography as a tool to explore both the dynamics of disease events and the sociocultural elements promoting or impeding their advance. Tom Koch holds an interdisciplinary PhD (2001) from the University of British Columbia qualifying in medicine, ethics/philosophy, and geography.