Martin Sisters Endowed Chair Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology and Public Health at the University of California Berkeley. He also serves as founding co-chair (with Charles L. Briggs) of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, co-director (with Ian Whitmarsh) of the MD/PhD Involved in Medical Anthropology coordinated between UC Berkeley and UCSF as medical assistant in the Department of Medicine in the Alameda County Medical Center. As a cultural anthropologist and physician, Holmes focuses on social inequalities, immigration, ethnic hierarchies, health and medical assistance. His work has provided a particularly strong ethnographic critique of behaviorism in medicine.