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KELLY FRYER-EDWARDS, PhD
Associate Professor

Office: A-204A-1 Health Sciences Building
Phone: 206-221-6622
Email: edwards@u.washington.edu

Bio | Recent Publications | Recent Talks | Honors, Awards, Grants | Courses | Curriculum Vita (PDF)

Kelly Fryer-Edwards, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medical History and Ethics at the University of Washington School of Medicine, and core faculty for the Institute for Public Health Genetics and the Critical Medical Humanities Research Cluster.  She received an M.A. in Medical Ethics and a PhD in Philosophy of Education from the University of Washington.   Her teaching programs for medical students, faculty, and graduate students utilize narratives and story to teach ethics and professionalism.  Special interests include community-based research practices, environmental justice, everyday ethics in research practice, feminist and narrative approaches to bioethics, and integrating ethics into training programs and public policy.

 

Select Recent Publications:

  • Fryer-Edwards K, Van Eaton E, Goldstein EA, Kimball HR,  Veith RC, Pellegrini CA, Ramsey PG. Overcoming Institutional Challenges through Continuous Professionalism Improvement. Acad Med. Forthcoming, November 2007.
  • Trinidad SB, Fryer-Edwards K, Crest A, Kyler P, Puryear M, Burke W.  Educational Needs in Genetic Medicine: Primary Care Perspectives. Community Genetics. Forthcoming.
  • Vig EK, Starks H, Taylor JS, Hopley EK, Fryer-Edwards K, Surviving Surrogate Decision-Making: What Helps and Hampers the Experience of Making Medical Decisions for Others. JGIM. Forthcoming.
  • Berg C, Fryer-Edwards K. Ethical challenges of direct-to-consumer genetic testing. Journal of Business Ethics. Online Accessible, March 2007. In press, 2007.
  • Back T, Arnold R, Baile W, Fryer-Edwards K, Alexander S, Barley G, Gooly T, Tulsky J.  Efficacy of communication skills training for giving bad news and discussing transitions to palliative care. Arch Intern Med. 2007 Mar 12;167(5):453-60.
  • Deming D, Fryer-Edwards K, Dudzinski D, Starks H, Culver J, Robins L, Burke W. Incorporating principles and practical wisdom in research ethics education. Academic Medicine. 2007 Jan;82(1):18-23. .
  • Berg C, Fryer-Edwards K. Ethical challenges of direct-to-consumer genetic testing. Journal of Business Ethics. In press.
  • Vig EK, Starks H, Taylor JS, Hopley EK, Fryer-Edwards K. Beyond substituted judgment: how surrogates navigate end-of-life decision-making. Journal of American Geriatric Society. 2006; 54: 1688-1693.
  • Goldstein EA, Maestas RR, Fryer-Edwards K, Wenrich MD, Oelschlager A-M, Baernstein A, Kimball HR.  Professionalism in medical education: an institutional challenge.  Academic Medicine.  2006; 81:871-6.
  • Fryer-Edwards K, Arnold RA, Baile W, Tulsky JA, Petracca F, Back A. Teaching communication skills:  a qualitative study of reflective teaching practices. Academic Medicine. 2006;81:638-644.
  • Fryer-Edwards K, Wilkins MD, Baernstein A, Braddock CH. Counteracting ethical erosion with ward ethics. Academic Medicine. 2006;81:626-631.
  • Fryer-Edwards K. On casseroles and cattle. American Journal of Bioethics. 2006; 6(2): 55-6.
  • Fryer-Edwards K, Calogero C. The challenge of the other. American Journal of Bioethics. 2005 Nov/Dec: 65-66.

Select Invited Talks and Seminars

  • “Ethics of Results Disclosure: Empirical and Conceptual Arguments,” Center for Alaska Native Health Research, Fairbanks, AK.  March 2007
  • “Community-based Participatory Research: Ethical and Practical Challenges” Environmental Anthropology IGERT Seminar. January 2007
  • “Frameworks for Thinking about Research Ethics,” Urban Ecology IGERT seminar. November 2006
  • “Ethics, Ecogenetics, and Environmental Health,” Department of Environmental Health seminar, October 2006
  • “Developing a Core Curriculum in Ethics and Humanities for Undergraduate Medical Education,” Precourse for American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting, October 2006
  • Grad School – Prof Development Workshop – 11/17
  • “Dilemmas in clinical ethics,” Office of Multicultural Affairs Summer Programs, July 2006
  • “Narrative ethics: what can we learn from film?” GeNOM Program, July 2006
  • “Professionalism: why now?” VA Puget Sound Health System, Ethics Rounds, May 2006
  • “Stem cells, cloning, and scandals: Can we control science? University of Washington Biology Club, May 2006
  • “In the wake of the Korean stem cell scandal:  has anything changed?” University of Washington, Forum on Science, Ethics, and Policy Panel, May 2006

Awards, Honors and Grants Received:

  • PI, Greenwall Foundation Presidential Award, July 2005-June 2007, "Testing Justice: A Normative Framework for Genetic Research and Practice"
  • CDC 1-U48-DP-000050, September 2005-2007 "Feasibility of Physician Education for Informed Decision-Making"

Courses

  • MHE 515/PHG 525, Public Commentary on Ethical Issues in Public Health Genetics (alternate years)

Miscellaneous:

Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, Hula Hula River, Summer 2006

 
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