Stephen Clark Russell

My name is Dr. Stephen Russell, and I work in the Department of Greek and Roman Studies at McMaster University. I received my PhD in 2011 (in Classics, with a focus on Latin literature) and have been leading our medical language programme since 2013.

My main interest now lies in medical language, whether it is the Latin of anatomy or the formulas that are applied to the Greek-based clinical terms. There are many fascinating unexplored areas of medical language that require study, and I find it particularly exciting since there is an opening for people who both know formulaic and practical etymology, and can apply this knowledge to the predictable world of medical language.