Christopher Stawski, PhD
Assistant Professor, Senior Program Director and Senior Fellow at the Kern Family Foundation
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Christopher Stawski is an adjunct assistant professor in the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities in the Institute for Health and Equity at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is senior program director and senior fellow at the Kern Family Foundation. He works to build relational networks and co-develop strategic directions to integrate the Foundation’s focus areas in character, entrepreneurial mindset, and creating value for others.
Stawski has been a faculty member at MCW since 2018, working to advance the integration of character, practical wisdom, and flourishing in medical education.. He works with the Kern National Network for Flourishing in Medicine (KNN) on several workgroups and projects, including co-creating the Mobilizing Character faculty development program, which is a collaboration among MCW, the University of Texas-Dell Medical School, and the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Stawski has been a program and strategy consultant and previously served for ten years at the John Templeton Foundation, where he was a Vice President.
Stawski is a high honors graduate of Swarthmore College, with a master’s degree from Harvard University and a doctoral degree from the University of Pennsylvania in the study of religion.