About Camille
I have a transdisciplinary academic background spanning biology, the medical humanities, bioethics, and public health. Prior to entering the PhD program at UNC in Fall 2023, I obtained eight years of healthcare-related employment, including medical scribing, serving as chief operating officer of a medical scribe company, and working as a medical malpractice paralegal.
Research Interests
Medical anthropology: United States; chronic pain; U.S. “opioid epidemic”; gender, race, and class-based health disparities; moral economy of health; cultural health capital; culture of biomedicine and its clinical enactment; semiotics of medical charts; ethnography
Research Background
I am a sociocultural medical anthropologist researching how structural factors – such as the commodification of U.S. healthcare, moral economies of health that dictate norms of reciprocity, insurance barriers, and federal and state opioid prescribing policies – circumscribe chronic pain’s construction during the primary care clinical encounter and limit its ontological possibilities. Relatedly, I am interested in how racial, gender, and class inequity in the treatment of chronic pain and responses to the U.S. “opioid epidemic” writ large are reproduced, normalized, and propagated in the primary care visit.
Education
MPH, Washington University in St. Louis, 2023; MA in Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Northwestern University, 2020; BA in Biology, Macalester College, 2014
Publications
Kroll, Camille, Mikayla A. Johnson, Maura M. Kepper, Niko Verdecias, and Matthew W. Kreuter. 2023. “An Exploratory Qualitative Analysis for COVID-19-Related Racial Disparities Among St. Louis Residents: ‘I Don’t Really Pay Attention to the Racial Stuff Very Much.’” Preventing Chronic Disease 20: 230103. https://doi.org/10.5888/pcd20.230103.
Kroll, Camille, Amy McQueen, Victoria de la Vega, Alexis K. Marsh, Tim Poor, Niko Verdecias, Charlene Caburnay, and Matthew W. Kreuter. 2023. “Trusted Sources for COVID-19 Testing and Vaccination: Lessons for Future Health Communication.” Journal of Communication in Healthcare 16 (4): 350-357. https://doi.org/10.1080/17538068.2023.2255408.
Kroll, Camille, Julia Murphy, Lindsay Poston, Whitney You, and Ashish Premkumar. 2022. “Cultivating the Ideal Obstetrical Patient: How Physicians-in-Training Describe Pain Associated with Childbirth.” Social Science and Medicine 312: 115365. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115365.
Kroll, Camille. 2021. “Questioning Biomedicine’s Privileging of Disease and Measurability.” AMA Journal of Ethics 23 (7): E537-541, https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/questioning-biomedicines-privileging-disease-and-measurability/2021-07. https://doi.org/10.1001/amajethics.2021.537.
Wirpsa, Jeanne, Louanne Carabini, Kathy Johnson Neely, Camille Kroll, and Lucia Wocial. 2021. “Mitigating Ethical Conflict and Moral Distress in the Care of ECMO Patients: The Impact of an Automatic Ethics Consultation Protocol.” Journal of Medical Ethics, 47: e63. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2020-106881.
Presentations
Kroll, Camille. Jan. 2023. “Countering Medical Bias and Racism: Individuals and Institutions.” Didactic Sessions for Family Medicine Residents at Firelands Regional Medical Center. Sandusky, OH.
McQueen, Amy, Alexis Marsh, Camille Kroll, Victoria de la Vega, Matthew Kreuter. Oct. 2022. “COVID Vaccine Concerns: ‘You Can Still Carry It. You Can Still Transmit It. It’s Not a Vaccine.’” Addressing COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Promoting Uptake Among Populations Who Experience Health Disparities Grantee Meeting. Virtual Format.
Kroll, Camille. Aug. 2022. “Family Health Services’ Role in Addressing Social Determinants of Health.” Didactic Sessions for Family Medicine Residents at Firelands Regional Medical Center. Sandusky, OH.
Kroll, Camille. May 2022. “The Narrative Unmaking and Remaking of a Diagnosis Deferred.” Northwestern University’s 5th Annual Bioethics and Medical Humanities Conference. Chicago, IL.
Kroll, Camille. Jan. 2022. “Clinical Ethics: From Principlism to Narrative Ethics.” Didactic Sessions for Family Medicine Residents at Firelands Regional Medical Center. Sandusky, OH.
Kroll, Camille. Oct. 2021. “Addressing Gender Disparities in Functional Somatic Syndrome Diagnoses.” The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Conference. Virtual Format.
Kroll, Camille. July 2021. “Disparities in the Clinical Management of Pain.” Didactic Sessions for Family Medicine Residents at Firelands Regional Medical Center. Sandusky, OH.
Kroll, Camille. Oct. 2020. “Enfreakment in the Medicalization of Difference.” The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Conference. Virtual Format.
Kroll, Camille. Feb. 2020. “Illness without Disease: A Paranormal Phenomenon?” Northwestern University’s Montgomery Lecture Series. Chicago, IL.
Kroll, Camille. Feb. 2019. “Finding ‘Fun’ in Enfreakment: The Historical and Contemporary Sideshow.” Northwestern University’s Montgomery Lecture Series. Chicago, IL.