Short biography
Holmes completed a BS in Biology and Spanish at the U. of Washington followed by a PhD in anthropology joint between UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco and an MD in the School of Medicine at UC San Francisco. He was part of the Physician Scientist Program in the Internal Medicine Residency at the U. of Pennsylvania and then Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar at Columbia U. He taught in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard U. He joined the faculty at UC Berkeley where he founded the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, co-directed the MD/PhD Track in Medical Anthropology and was promoted to Chancellor's Professor. His research has been funded by multiple organizations, including the European Research Council and the National Science Foundation, and has received national and international awards from the fields of anthropology, sociology, geography, Latin American Studies and documentary film.
