Program Highlights
Program Highlights, 1989 - 2006º 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
