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Dr. Dudzinski is Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical History and Ethics. She received her PhD in Ethics from Vanderbilt University and her Masters of Theological Studies (MTS) from Vanderbilt Divinity School. She is Chief of the Ethics Consultation Service, Associate Chair of the Ethics Advisory Committee, an organizational ethics consultant, and a member of the Palliative Care Service at the University of Washington Medical Center. She has developed an ethics curriculum for residency programs and teaches clinical ethics to health care providers, graduate, and undergraduate students at the University of Washington and affiliated hospitals. She is co-editing a book for Cambridge University Press entitled, "Complex Ethics Consultations: Cases that Haunt Us".

Dr. Dudzinski also serves on ethics committees at Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center and Harborview Medical Center. She was a Senior Fellow in Clinical and Research Ethics at Vanderbilt Center for Clinical and Research Ethics and a Fellow in Transplant Ethics and Policy at Vanderbilt Transplant Center.

Her research includes: ethical issues in transplantation and destination therapy, ethics curriculum development for residents and clinical faculty; methods and practices in clinical ethics consultation, competent refusal of nursing care, organizational ethics, and ethical and communication issues in improving care for the dying.

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