Medical Ethics

Program Highlights

Program Highlights, 1989 - 2006

º Annual Conference     1989-
º Monthly Literature and Medicine Discussion Group     1989-
º Thrice Monthly Internal Medicine Resident Ethics Conferences     1989-
º Monthly Newsletter - Medical Ethics in Utah     1989-

º Monthly Evening Ethics Discussion Group
  · Weitzel Case
  · Pain Management in Nursing Homes
  · Stem Cell Discussions
  · National Health Issues with Congressman Matheson
  · The Jensen Case
  · Massachusetts Health Plan for Utah
    1989-





º Dialogue to Action Program     1990-2002
º Utah Personal Choice & Living Will Act Amendment     1993 -
º Senior Medical Student Ethics Course     1993 -
º Medical Humanities Electives for 4th year Medical Students
  · Perspectives on Medicine: The Doctor-Patient Relationship in Literature and Film
  · Writing the Doctor-Patient Relationship
  · The Doctor Patient Relationship in Literature and the Arts: Reel Psychiatry-Cinematic Representations of Mental Illness     2005 -




º Added Therese Jones, Ph.D. as a new faculty member in the area of Medical Humanities     2006 -

º Division Website - Current, complete, resource links     1996 -
º Annual Ethics Committee Conference    1997-2001
º Visiting Faculty Program in Literature and Medicine     1998-2000
Partnership to Improve End-of-Life Care in Utah
   · Quality Care at End-of-Life Week in Utah ·· · Survey of survivors
   · Report Card on End-of-Life Care in Utah     1998-2002



Portable Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment in Utah     1999-2003
Monthly Student Literature and Medicine Discussion Group     1999 -

U of U Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence - Peggy Battin and Leslie Francis
    2000
Nominated for the AAMC Humanism in Medicine Award, Jay Jacobson    2006

 
Distinguished Visitors - Annual Conferences, Cowan and Green Memorial Lectures, Grand Rounds and special courses and events

John Armstrong, M.D.
    
2003
    


Assistant Director Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center


Mila Aroskar, R.N., Ph.D.
    


1990
    


University of Minnesota, Hastings Fellow

Joanne Trautman Banks, Ph.D.
    

1996
    


Pennsylvania State College of Medicine, nationally known scholar in Literature and Medicine


David Bennahum, M.D.
    


1997
    


University of New Mexico, Health Sciences Center

Sandra Bertman, Ph.D.
    

1999
    


Professor, Humanities in Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical Center


Dan Branda
    


1991
    


Executive, Merck Sharpe & Dohme


Troyen A. Brennan, M.D.
    


1993
    


Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Baruch Brody, Ph.D.
    

1990
    


Director, Center for Ethics, Medicine & Public Issues, Baylor College of Medicine

Robert A. Buckman, M.D.
    

2002
    


University of Toronto School of Medicine; Author, How to Break Bad News

Allen E. Buchanan, Ph.D.
    

1996
    


Professor, Philosophy and Business Ethics, Medical Ethics Program, University of Wisconsin


Eric Cassel, M.D.


    


1997


    


Author of "The Place of Humanities in Medicine", "Changing Values in Medicine", "Talking with Patients", "The Nature of Suffering", and "Doctoring: The Nature of Primary Care Medicine"


Rita Charon, M.D., Ph.D.
    


1995
    


Columbia University


Julia Connelly, M.D.
    


1997
    


Co-Director, Program for Medical Humanities, University of Virginia


Nancy Crumpacker, M.D.
    


2000
    


Oncologist, Oregon


Jennifer Daley, M.D.

    


1997

    


Harvard University Medical School, Medical Director for Health Care Quality at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center


Nancy, Dubler, LL.B.


    


2005


    


Director, Bioethics, Montefiore Medical Center; Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Author of "Bioethics Mediation: A Guide to Shaping Shared Solutions "


Carl Elliott, M.D.
    


2004
    


Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota School of Medicine


Ezekial Emmanuel, M.D.
    


1994
    


Harvard University School of Medicine; Director, Ethics Program, NIH


Linda Emmanuel, M.D.
    


1994
    


Harvard University School of Medicine; Vice President for Ethics, AMA


Paul Farmer, M.D., Ph.D.
    


2005
    


Tanner Lecturer

Chris Feudtner, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.     2007      University of Pennsylvania


Alan Fleischman, M.D.
    


1999
    


Albert Einstein College of Medicine


Norman C. Fost, M.D., M.P.H.

    


2002

    


Director of Program in Medical Ethics, School of Medicine, University of Wisconsin


Joel E. Frader, M.D.
    


1998
    


Program in Medical Ethics and Humanities, Northwestern University


Jodi Halpern, M.D., Ph.D.

    


2004

    


Joint Medical Program of School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley


Michael Garland, D.Sci Rel.
    


1994
    


Oregon Health Sciences University


Peter Goodwin, M.D.
    


1995
    


Oregon Health Sciences Center


Elisa Gordon, Ph.D.

    


2001

    


Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, Strictch School of Medicine, Loyola University of Chicago


Samuel Gorovitz, Ph.D.
    


1994
    


Former Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University


Bernard Hammes, Ph.D.
    


1999
    


Director, Medical Humanities, Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center


Kathryn M. Hunter, Ph.D.

    


1991

    


Co-Director, Ethics & Human Values Program, Northwestern University School of Medicine


Ken Iserson, M.D.

    


2002

    


Director, Arizona Bioethics Program, University of Arizona College of Medicine


Albert Jonsen, Ph.D.

    


1993

    


University of Washington School of Medicine; author, "The Birth of Bioethics, Clinical Ethics"


Gerrit Kimsma, M.D., M.P.H.
    


1995
    


Free University, Amsterdam


David Kessler, R.N.

    


2000

    


Author of "The Rights of the Dying: A Companion for Life’s Final Moments"


Eric D. Kodish, M.D.


    


2003


    


Director, Rainbow Center for Pediatric Ethics, Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine


Barbara Koenig, Ph.D.

    


2001

    


Director, Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University School of Medicine


Loretta M. Kopelman, Ph.D.
    


2001
    


East Carolina, University School of Medicine


Harold S. Kushner

    


1990

    


Rabbi emeritus at Temple Israel in Natick, Massachusetts, Author of many bestselling books -"When Bad Things Happen to Good People"


John Lantos, M.D.

    


1991 2005
    


Asistant Director Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago; Co-Director, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program


Martha Lear
    


1991
    


Author of Heart Sounds


Marcia Levetown, M.D.

    


2004 2005
    

Director, Palliative Care at The Methodist Hospital, Houston


Mary Mahowald, Ph.D.
    


1992
    


Senior Scholar, Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago


Bill Meadow, M.D.
    


2000
    


MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago


Felicia A. Miedema, R.N.
    


1992
    


Center for Clinical Ethics, Lutheran General Hospital, Chicago


Martha Montello, Ph.D.
    


1996
    


Harvard University

Jonathan D. Moreno, Ph.D.






    


2006






    

Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Professor of Biomedical Ethics; Director, Center for Biomedical Ethics, University of Virginia; Fellow of Hastings Center; Author, "Mind Wars: National Security and the Brain", "Is There an Ethicist in the House"?, "In the Wake of Terror: Medicine and Morality in a Time of Crisis", "Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Research" and "Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans "


E. Haavi Morreim, Ph.D.
    


2002
    


University of Tennessee College of Medicine


Barbara Mossberg, Ph.D.

    


2005

    

Dean, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, California State University at Monterey Bay


Lynn M. Peterson, M.D.
    


1995
    


Harvard University School of Medicine


Suzanne Poirier, Ph.D.
    


1993
    


University of Illinois School of Medicine


Gail Povar, M.D.
    


1999
    


George Washington University School of Medicine Health Science


Timothy E. Quill, M.D.


    


1993 2002

    


Director, Palliative Care Programs; Director, Program for Biopsychosocial Studies, University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry


Tom Rice, Ph.D.
    


1995
    


UCLA School of Public Health


John Robertson, J.D.
    


1992
    


University of Texas


Paddy Rodney, R.N., Ph.D.
    


1995
    


Center for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia


Mary V. Rorty, Ph.D., M.A.
    


2000
    


Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics


Janet Rose, R.N., J.D.
    


1996
    


CEO VNS Health Services, Santa Fe, NM


Judith W. Ross, M.A.
    


1992
    


Asistant Director, Program in Medical Ethics, UCLA Medical Center


Laine Ross, M.D.

    


2006

    


Asistant Director, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago

Mark Rothstein, J.D.


    

2004
2007
    

Director, Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy & Law, School of Medicine and Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville; Director, Center for Public Health Law Partnerships


Mette Rurup, Ph.D.
    


2006
    


VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam


Pamela Sankar, Ph.D.

    


2004

    


Fellow, Center for Bioethics and Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania


David Schiedermayer, M.D.
    


1996
    


Medical College of Wisconsin


Robert Schwartz, J.D.

    


1995 1998
    

University of New Mexico Law School and School of Medicine


Mark Siegler, M.D.

    


1990

    


Director, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago; author, Clinical Ethics


Jeremy Sugarman

    


2000

    


Director, Study of Ethics and Humanities, Duke University Medical Center


Susan Tolle, M.D.

    


1998

    


Director, Center for Ethics in Health Care, Oregon Health Sciences University


Abraham Verghese, M.D.
    


1999
    


Texas Tech University Health Center; Author of My Own Country


Mary Wakefield, Ph.D., R.N.

    


2000

    


Director, Center for Health Policy at George Mason University, Member of IOM Committee on Quality of Health Care in America


Barbara L. Weber, M.D.
    


1993
    


University of Michigan Medical Center


Frederick Wiseman
    


1991
    


Zipporah Films, Producer of documentary, Near Death


Albert Wu, M.D.

    


2000

    


John Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health and School of Medicine


Mathew Wynia, M.D., Ph.D.
    


2004
    


Director, Institute for Ethics, AMA; University of Chicago


Stuart J. Youngner, M.D.

    


1992 2006
    


Susan E. Watson Professor of Bioethics and Chair, Department of Bioethics Case Western Reserve University


Noam Zohar
    


1997
    


Scholar, Bar Ilan University and Shalom Hartman Institute, Israel


Laurie Zoloth, Ph.D.



    


1991 1993 2006

    


Bioethics Consultation Group, Berkeley; Professor of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Feinberg School of Medicine and of Religion, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University; Director, Center for Bioethics, Science and Society

 
Visiting Scholars

Joe Cady, Ph.D.
    

1999
    

University of Rochester School of Medicine, New York

Ann Hudson Jones, Ph.D.
    

1998
    

Institute for Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston

Monica Maillet, Ph.D.
    

2000
    

Institute for Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston

Suzanne Poirier, Ph.D.
    

1999
    

University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine

 
Research Assistants

Barbara White .     MA, Philosophy, Nursing Assistant
Chris Grammes     Ph.D., Philosophy, Public Policy, NFP, Washington, D.C.
Jennifer Gully     JD, UC Berkely, MA,Philosophy (ethics), U of Utah, practice LA, Medical School
Jan Van Riper     JD, Health & end-of-life law, Montana
Sarah Taub     MA, Ethics, U of PA, staff AMA, CEJA
Sid Johnson     MD, Pediatric surgery, Harvard
Douglas Kondo     MD, Psychiatry residency, Duke
Brian Warnick     PhD, Philosophy of Education, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Christopher Weight     MSIV, Editor, Eklektikos
Will Martinez     MD/PhD Program, UCSF Berkeley
Beverly Hawkins     Utah Symphony, Education Activities Coordinator
Linda Carr-Lee    MA, PhC, Philosophy (ethics) UC Davis; Currently with DMEH as program manager