Jonathan L. Temte
Credentials: MD, PhD
Position title: Professor (CHS), Associate Dean of Community Engagement
Email: jon.temte@fammed.wisc.edu
Website: Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
Phone: (608) 263-3111
It is the humanities, that sense of individual, cultural, societal, and experiential, that bring us in and bring us together. I come from a blended background. My father was a mathematician; his passion, however, was in music. My mother was accepted into the University of Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop (but deferred to start a family). She finished her master’s degree in literature (focused on T.S. Eliot) shortly before her death of ALS at age 52. I am a family doc and a quantitative biologist… I work with numbers and analytics, odds ratios and p-values. I have also dabbled in poetry and narrative writing, publishing a few things, and receiving eight John J Frey Writing Awards since 2010.