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Wylie Burke,
MD, PhD, Genetics
Professor and Chair
Adjunct Professor, Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology
Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research
Center
wburke@u.washington.edu
General interest in the social, ethical, and policy implications of genetic
information. Recent work includes studies of genetic counseling and the clinical
utility to pharmacogenetic and other genetic tests, and the implications of
genomic health care for medically underserved populations. Dr. Burke is PI
of the Center for Genomics and Healthcare Equality, an NIH-funded Center of
Excellence in Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) research.
Denise M. Dudzinski,
PhD, MTS, Ethics
Associate Professor
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine
Director of Graduate Studies
dudzin@u.washington.edu
General interests include bioethics, clinical ethics, and the philosophical
and theological foundation of values and value systems. Special interests include
ethics consultation, transplant ethics, care for the dying, interdisciplinary
ethics education, ethical dimensions of assisted reproductive technologies,
policy development and analysis, and the impact of illness on personal identity.
Kelly Fryer-Edwards,
PhD, Education
Associate Professor
Core Faculty, Institute for Public Health Genetics
edwards@u.washington.edu
General interest in ethics education and bioethics. Special interests include
physician-patient relationships, communication, informed decision-making, ethics
of medical education, physician career satisfaction, research integrity issues,
ethical issues with new technologies, and feminist ethics.
Stephanie Malia Fullerton,
PhD, Genetics
Assistant Professor
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Genome Sciences
Director, Biomedical Research Integrity Program
Core Faculty, Institute for Public Health Genetics
smfllrtn@u.washington.edu
General research interests include scientific decision-making, the relationship
of basic research to clinical research and practice (especially as it
pertains to use of racial and/or ethnic identification), and research
ethics. Recent work has focused on genome scientists' understandings
of the genetic basis of common complex traits and diseases.
Thomas H. Gallagher,
MD,
Ethics
Associate Professor, Medical History & Ethics and
Medicine,
Division of General Internal Medicine
thomasg@u.washington.edu
General interest in ethical issues related to the doctor-patient relationship
and to biomedical research. Special interests include conflicts of interest,
managed care, medical errors, doctor-patient communication, and adverse events
in biomedical research.
Nancy S. Jecker, PhD,
Philosophy
Professor, Medical History and Ethics
Adjunct Professor, Department of Philosophy
Adjunct Professor, School of Law
nsjecker@u.washington.edu
General interest in biomedical ethics and ethical theory. Special interests
include justice theory and the allocation of health care resources, ethics
and aging, and clinical ethical decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining
treatments.
Albert R. Jonsen, PhD, Ethics
Professor Emeritus
General interest in medical ethics: the philosophical and historical
study of values affecting the practice of medicine and delivery of health
care. Special interests include the ethics of care of the dying patient,
ethical issues raised by research with human subjects, the development
of new technologies, ethics and public policy, the ethical implications
of the human genome project, and the history of medical ethics.
Thomas
R. McCormick, DMin, Ethics
Senior Lecturer Emeritus
School of Medicine
mccormic@u.washington.edu
General interest in biomedical ethics, including both particular medical-ethical
problems arising in the clinical context and general issues which arise in
the broader society and culture. Special interests include topics related to
caring for patients with life threatening illness, perinatology, issues related
to reproductive technologies, cross-cultural similarities and differences in
patient/provider communication.
Ingra Schellenberg, PhD, Philosophy
Assistant Professor, Medical History and Ethics and
Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Program on Values in Society
ingra@u.washington.edu
General interest in ethics, medical ethics and moral psychology. Special interests include clinical ethics consultation, philosophy of medicine, philosophy of affect, ethical and epistemological issues arising in assessment of psychopathology, and ethical concerns related to gender.
Helene Starks,
PhD MPH, Ethics
Assistant Professor, Medical History and Ethics
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Health Services
tigiba@u.washington.edu
Research interests include issues related
to the end-of-life for patients, their family members, clinicians, and
health systems; also qualitative and mixed methods
research, surrogate decision-maker and family caregiver issues, utility
assessment, medical decision-making, and clinician-patient communication.
Special interests include feminist and narrative approaches to bioethics,
and research ethics, especially involving vulnerable human subjects in
research.
Jack
W. Berryman, PhD, History
Professor
Adjunct Professor, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Undergraduate Minor Advisor
berryman@u.washington.edu
General interest in the history of preventive medicine and health education,
with specific interests in the history of medical aspects of various forms
of exercise and sport, the ideas of fitness and wellness for all age groups, "ideal" body
types, and sports medicine as an area of medical training and specialization.
James
C. Whorton, PhD, History of Medicine
Professor
Emeritus
jwhorton@u.washington.edu
General interest in the intellectual and social history of medicine in the
United States and Europe, with special interests in the history of public health
and preventive medicine, health promotion, self-care, and alternative healing.
Melissa Austin, PhD
Professor, Department of
Epidemiology, School of Public Health
Director,
Institute for Public Health Genetics
maustin@u.washington.edu
Interests include genetic epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes,
and pancreatic cancer, and ethical, legal and social issues related to
population-based genomic research.
Anthony Back, MD
Professor, VAMC, Department of Medicine, Division
of Oncology
Adjunct Professor, Department of Medical History and Ethics
tonyback@u.washington.edu
Oncology; special interest in ethics and palliative care at the end of life.
Alex Cahana, MD, DAAPM, MEthics
Professor, Deptartment of Anesthesiology
Chief, Division of Pain Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Department of Medical History and Ethics
acahana@u.washington.edu
Lynn Carrigan, ABJ, MSW, LICSW
Lecturer and Practicum Coordinator, School
of Social Work
Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Medical History & Ethics
ltc@u.washington.edu
Research interests include medical and cross-cultural social
work practice, health care policy, ethics, spirituality, grief, and leadership.
J. Randall Curtis,
MD
Professor, HMC, Department of Medicine,
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Department of Medical History and Ethics
Adjunct Professor, Department of Health Services
Adjunct Professor, Biohavioral Nursing and Health Systems
jrc@u.washington.edu
Research interests include the ethical dimensions
of end-of-life care and palliative care in the intensive care unit and for
patients with chronic life-limiting diseases.
Douglas S. Diekema,
MD, MPH
Professor, Pediatrics
Adjunct Professor, Department of Medical History and Ethics
Adjunct
Professor, Department of Health Services, School of Public Health
Director
of Education, Trueman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics at Children's
Hospital
Attending Physician, Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital & Regional
Medical Center
douglas.diekema@seattlechildrens.org
General interest in bioethical issues, especially those pertaining to children
and adolescents. Special interests include consent and confidentiality
issues in pediatrics, the limits of parental medical decision-making authority
for children, ethics and child health policy, ethics in emergency medicine,
ethical issues that arise in medical training, teaching of ethics to residents
and students, and ethics in pediatric research.
Stuart Farber, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine
Adjunct Associate Professor, Medical History and Ethics
sfarber@u.washington.edu
Research interests include qualitative investigations of the patient/family/physician
perspectives on the transition to palliative care through the end of life and
the design and evaluation of innovative methods in palliative and end-of-life
care education.
Sara Goering, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Medical History and Ethics
sgoering@u.washington.edu
General interest in biomedical ethics and ethical theory. Special interests include
philosophy of disability, genetic engineering, feminist bioethics, and justice
in health care.
Leonard Hudson, MD
Professor of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Department of Medical History and Ethics
njschwab@u.washington.edu
Interests include clinical investigation of acute lung injury and the acute
respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), medicine and literature.
Assistant Professor, Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics
Division of Bioethics, Department of Pediatrics
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Medical History and Ethics
mckelley@u.washington.edu
Professor Kelley conducts research on ethical issues in pediatric global health and international research ethics. She is a member of the ethics committee and ethics consult service at Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center.
Patricia C. Kuszler, MD, JD
Charles I. Stone Professor of Law, School of Law
Adjunct Professor, Department
of Medical History and Ethics
Adjunct Professor, Department of Health Services
kuszler@u.washington.edu
Interests include the impact of law and regulation upon health care delivery,
health care finance, emerging integrated delivery systems, health insurance
fraud and abuse, research standards and misconduct, and legal, ethical and
policy issues presented by genetic information and the biotechnology industry.
Anna
Mastroianni, JD, MPH
Associate Professor, School of Law & Institute for
Public Health Genetics
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Medical History and Ethics
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Health Services, School of Public
Health and Community Medicine
amastroi@u.washington.edu
Interests include law, ethics and policy issues related to genetics, reproduction,
and human subjects research.
Robert A. Pearlman, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine, Geriatric Medicine & Gerontology
Adjunct Professor, Department of Medical History and Ethics
Adjunct Professor, Department of Health Services
Chief, Ethics Evaluation Service, National Center for Ethics in Health Care
(VHA)
Director, Ethics Program, VA Puget Sound Health Care System
rap@u.washington.edu
General interest in medical ethics, especially ethics in end-of-life care including
role of patient quality of life in medical decision making, advance care planning,
and assisted suicide issues.
Nancy Stevens, MD, MPH
Professor, Department of Family Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology
Adjunct Professor, Medical History and Ethics
nancyste@u.washington.edu
Interests include developing clinical epidemiology (evidence based decision making)
skills in family physician faculty and residents including enhancing physician
access to knowledge at the point of care, adaptation/interpretation of advances
in medical knowledge to direct care of patients-currently genetics and oral health,
and creation of information systems that allow more systematic evaluation of
clinical training across the region.
Sarah
Shannon, RN, PhD
Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Medical History and Ethics
sshannon@u.washington.edu
General interest in ethics, in particular end-of-life decison-making, nursing
ethics, feminist ethics, and the intersection between professional ethics and
errors in health care.
Mark D. Sullivan, MD, PhD
Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences
Adjunct Professor, Department of Medical History and Ethics
sullimar@u.washington.edu
Interest in clinical and ethical dimensions of interaction between physical
and mental illness. Specific interests include: depression and chronic pain,
palliative care, end-of-life decision making. Interested in conceptual and
ethical issues concerning quality of life as a medical outcome.
Mark Tonelli, MD, MA
Associate Professor, Pulmonary and Critical Care
Medicine
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Medical History and Ethics
tonelli@u.washington.edu
General interest in medical ethics and philosophy of medicine. Specific interests
in ethics include advance directives, withholding and withdrawing intensive
care and ethical issues arising in the care of persons with cystic fibrosis;
in philosophy of medicine, the limits of evidence-based medicine and understanding
tacit aspects of clinical judgment.
Gail Van Norman, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology
Adjunct Professor, Department of Medical History and Ethics
gvn@u.washington.edu
General interest in clinical medical ethics and clinical ethics education;
informed consent, and coercion. Recent publications concern the implications
of brain death in organ donation, the non-heart-beating donor, and ethical
care of elderly patients.
Benjamin Wilfond, MD
Professor and Head, Division of Bioethics, Department of Pediatrics
Adjunct Professor, Department of Medical History and Ethics
Director, Treuman Katz Center For Pediatric Bioethics, Seattle Children’s Hospital
bwilfond@u.washington.edu
Interests related to ethical issues in clinical pediatrics and pediatrics research; clinical genetics and genetics research; with an emphasis on the ethical and policy issues related from the transition of new technologies from the research to the clinical setting.
Clarence. H. Braddock, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Stanford
University
Affiliate Associate Professor, Department of Medical History and Ethics
cbrad@stanford.edu
Research interests include doctor-patient communication, particularly around
medical decision making in outpatient practice settings and the design and
evaluation of innovative methods in bioethics education.
Thomas G. Buller, PhD
Associate Professor and Chair, Philosophy Department, University of Alaska Anchorage
Affiliate Associate Professor, Department of Medical
History and Ethics
aftgb@uaa.alaska.edu
Philosophical issues in genetics, particularly the concepts of nature, identity
and design, and the social implications of the "new genetics"; bioethics;
philosophy of biology; research ethics; and the history of philosophy.
Mary Beth Foglia, RN, PhD, MA
Clinical Instructor, Department of Health Services, University
of Washington
Affiliate Instructor, Department of Medical History and Ethics
marybeth.foglia@va.gov
Consultant and Evaluation Specialist, National Center for Ethics in Health
Care (VHA) Research interests include mixed method approaches to studying
the intersection of clinical and organizational ethics especially the application
of quality improvement methodology to improve ethical health care practices
and the application of technology to improve the quality of ethics consultation.
David Forster, JD,
MA, CIP
Vice President, Office of Compliance, Western Institutional Review Board
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Department of Medical
History and Ethics
dforster@wirb.com
General interest in the ethical and legal issues in human research subject
protection and Institutional Review Board (IRB) activities.
George H. Grant, MDiv,
PhD, DAPA
Clinical Assistant Professor & Director of Research in Faith and Health,
Faculty in Medicine, Nursing and Theology
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Department of Medical History and Ethics
ghgrant@u.washington.edu
Psychology of Religion, Spiritual Assessment in Medicine, Healthcare Stress,
Clinical Ethics
Suzanne Holland, PhD
Associate Professor of Religious and Social Ethics and Chair of the Department
of Religious Studies, University of Puget Sound
Affiliate Associate Professor, Department of Medical
History and Ethics
sholland@ups.edu
Research interests range from the ethics of human genetics and stem cell research,
biotechnology and commodification, as well as broader issues in religion, culture
and public policy.
Paul T. Menzel,
PhD
Professor, Department of Philosophy, Pacific Lutheran University
Affiliate Professor, Department of Medical History and
Ethics
menzelpt@plu.edu
Research interests include philosophy of health care economics (rationing and
prioritizing generally, and measurement models and techniques for use in cost-effectiveness
analysis in particular) and philosophical views about equity of access and
their relationship to political strategies.
Steve Milam, JD
Director of Regulatory Compliance
University of Washington Physicians and Children’s University Medical
Group
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Department of Medical
History and Ethics
Privacy Coordinator, University of Washington Physicians
Privacy Official, Children’s University Medical Group
smilam@u.washington.edu
Research interests include legal and ethical issues related to 1) End of Life,
Termination of Care and, Aid in Dying; 2) Transplant Criteria and Eligibility;
3) Consent for Health Care; 4) Evaluation of Medical Students and Resident
Clinical Performance; and 5) Academic Dismissal of Medical Students and Residents.
Guenter B. Risse,
MD, PhD
Professor Emeritus of the History of Medicine, University of California, San
Francisco
Affiliate Professor, Department of Medical History and Ethics
profgrisse@comcast.net
Research interests include the history of clinical medicine, patient/physician
relationships, as well as the history and architecture of hospitals.
Diane Timberlake, MD, MA
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Department of Medical History and Ethics,
dtimberl@u.washington.edu
General interest in medical ethics and ethics education.
Special interests include clinical ethics consultation, professionalism
in medicine and methods of teaching ethics to medical students.
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July 1, 2008
