Members of CEJA
Dr. Greene practices hematology-oncology at the Lima Cancer and Blood Disease Center, he also serves as a palliative care consultant for Kindred Hospital both in Lima, Ohio. He received a medical degree from the University of California Irvine Medical School in 1969 and completed his residency-fellowship at LA County-USC. Dr. Greene served as a Clinical Professor of Medicine USC-Keck School of Medicine Pasadena, CA from 1975-98. Dr. Greene has served a number of administrative roles including as a trustee from Los Angeles on the CMA BOT, Physician Director City of Hope National Medical, Director at the Dorothy E. Schneider Cancer Center and as Director of Palliative Care and Integrative Medicine at Mills-Peninsula Health Services. Since completing the EPEC (Education for Physicians on End-of-Life Care) training program in 1999 he has been a busy lecturer on pain management and end-of-life care.
Dr. Greene’s passion in medicine lies is in the arena of ethics and especially palliative medicine. Dr. Greene joined the Hastings Center during his residency training and has remained an associate member ever since, has been a consultant to the CMA’s Council on Ethical Affairs and chaired the bioethics committee at Huntington Memorial Hospital for ten years and had a great deal of hands on experience mediating ethical disputes.
In 1973-75 Dr. Greene was the sole resident to the AMA HOD. He returned as part of the California delegation in 1987 and served as alternate and delegate until 2003. Dr. Greene was elected to CEJA in 2006.
Dr. Goold earned her medical degree at the University of Michigan in 1987, then completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of Pittsburgh in 1990, and a general medicine-health services research fellowship at the University of Michigan Medical School. She earned a master's degree in health management and policy from the University of Michigan School of Public Health in 1992 and a master's degree in philosophy from Michigan State University in 1994. Currently, Dr. Goold is Professor of Internal Medicine and Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan Medical School and School of Public Health. Dr. Goold brings a variety of methods of inquiry, empirical and theoretical, to study issues of justice in health and health care, public deliberations about health, health care and health research priorities, and trust relationships in health and health care. Her research emphasizes patient and public perspectives on ethical questions.
Dr. Goold has served on the bioethics committees of the Michigan State Medical Society, the American College of Physicians, and the Society of General Internal Medicine. She was a member of the American Medical Association's Working Group on Institutional Ethics (1998-2000). She has served on editorial boards of the Annals of Internal Medicine, the American Journal of Bioethics , the MIT Press, and Rowman and Littlefield, and on the boards for the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and the International Society on Priorities in Health Care.
Dr. Agliano is a facial plastic surgeon in Tampa, Florida and also specializes in ear, nose and throat, with a special interest in nasal and sinus surgery, allergy. He is Assistant Professor of otolaryngology at the University of South Florida.
Dr. Agliano graduated from Tulane University with a B.S. in biology and from the University of Miami Medical School, from which he received a Distinguished Alumnus award in 1997. He completed his residency in the Tulane Division of Ear, Nose, and Throat and Ochsner Baptist Medical Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Agliano also rose to the rank of Major serving in the United States Air Force.
Dr. Agliano is past President of the Florida Medical Association (2004-2005) and the Florida Medical Foundation (2004-2009) and has served for ten years as FMA Delegate to the AMA. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Facial, Plastic, and Reconstructive Surgery, the American College of Surgeons, and the American Academy of Otolaryngology and currently serves on the boards of several healthcare organizations. He is also ENT medical consultant for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the New York Yankees. Dr. Agliano was elected to CEJA in 2011.
Dr. Brotherton joined The Fort Worth Bone and Joint Clinic, the precursor to Texas Health Care Bone and Joint Clinic, in 1987, after completing a Bachelor’s degree at Texas Christian University in 1978, a Doctor of Medicine degree at UT Southwestern in 1982, and an Orthopedic Surgery Residency at Emory University and Affiliated Hospitals, in Atlanta, in 1987. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery and a Fellow in the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery. His areas of emphasis are sports medicine, dance and performance medicine, foot and ankle, and lower extremity joint replacement.
Dr. Brotherton became an orthopedic consultant to TCU in 1987 and the senior orthopedic consultant in 1994; he continues in both capacities today with his partner Dr. Joseph Milne and others. Along with Dr. James Beckley, Dr Bert Franks, and Head Trainer Ross Bailey, he developed the Sports Medicine Advisory Team at TCU, which has become a model in many other institutions.
Interested in applying sports medicine principals to dancers and other performers, Dr. Brotherton implemented a program for the Casa Manana resident company in 1988 with then-choreographer Francis Fuller. He became Company Physician for The Fort Worth Ballet (now Texas Ballet Theater) in 1990, as well as serving in that role with the Arlington Ballet (now Metroplex Classical Ballet) since its inception.
Dr. Brotherton holds adjunct/clinical faculty positions with TCU and Ft. Worth Affiliated Hospitals Orthopedic Residency Program (“JPS”). He was recognized for teaching by the American Academy of Family Physicians in 2002, and was selected Educator of the Year 2004 by the JPS orthopedic residency program.
Dr. Brotherton has served in various capacities with the Tarrant County Medical Society and the Texas Medical Association. In addition to work with community arts programs, he ran a homeless clinic for 12 years, then began serving at a free clinic at Cornerstone Missions in spring, 2007. He has attended mission trips both within and outside the U.S., especially in Nicaragua. He frequently teaches adult Bible study classes.
Dr. Clearfield graduated from the Hahnemann University School of Medicine, followed by residency training in Radiology at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Radiology and a Fellow of the American College of Radiology. He chaired the Department of Radiology at Citizens General Hospital in New Kensington, PA for over thirty years, before becoming Clinical Assistant Professor of Radiology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Magee Womens Hospital.
Dr. Clearfield has been President of the Pittsburgh Roentgen Society and the Pennsylvania Radiological Society and served as a Councilor to the American College of Radiology. He has been Vice Speaker and Speaker of the House of Delegates of the Pennsylvania Medical Society and served on the PMS Board of Trustees. He served as a Delegate to the AMA House of Delegates for twelve years and was a member of the AMA Council on Constitution and Bylaws for eight years, serving two as Chair. He was a member of the Federation Coordination Team and a member of the AMA Board of Trustees Committee on Roles, Responsibilities, and Relationships, studying the ethical relationships between the AMA Board, Councils, House, and Staff. He chaired the AMA House Select Investigation Committee in 2001.
Dr. Clearfield chaired his hospital’s Committee on Ethics for over twenty years, also chaired the Pennsylvania Medical Society Task Force on Ethical Corporate Endorsements and recently served on the Bonita Springs Charter Review Committee. He is currently a member of the Florida Medical Association and the Outreach Committee of the Naples Council on World Affairs. Dr Clearfield was elected to CEJA in 2010.
Dr. Harvey has been active in organized medicine throughout her career, holding various leadership positions at local, state, and national levels as a medical student at the University of Connecticut and resident in internal medicine at the University of Massachusetts in Worcester. She earned a Masters in Public Health with a focus in quantitative methods and decision sciences from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2012 and is currently doing her medical oncology and hematology fellowship at the Yale Cancer Center in New Haven, Connecticut. Her interests include outcomes research and how evidence-based medicine will shape health policy, along with ethical issues surrounding treatment decisions, end of life care, and the profession of medicine in general as it negotiates the balance between population health and that of individual patients. Dr. Harvey was elected to CEJA in 2012.
Dr. McCormick is a board certified Neurosurgeon and practicing partner of the Neurosurgical Network, Inc. in Toledo Ohio. Currently, he is also the Section Head of Neurosurgery at St. Luke's Hospital, serves a clinical appointment in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Henry Ford Hospital, and is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery-Division of Neurosurgery at the Medical College of Ohio School of Medicine.
In 1984, Dr. McCormick graduated from University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and completed his internship and residency training in Neurosurgery at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. He also completed a fellowship in Cerebrovascular and Skull Base Surgery at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. McCormick earned an MBA from the University of Michigan School of Business and completed Bioethics Graduate Studies as an AMA/MCW Fellow at the Medical College of Wisconsin and AMA.
Organized medicine has played a significant role in Dr. McCormick's career. Since 1995, he has represented Ohio as the Alternate Delegate to the American Medical Association-House of Delegates and represented the Lucas County Medical Association as a Delegate to the Ohio Sate Medical Association. Dr. McCormick was also president of the Academy of Medicine of Toledo and Lucas County.
Dr. McCormick is a past chairman of the Professional Affairs Committee of The Academy of Medicine of Toledo and Lucas County. Since 2003, he has been a Regional Ethics Committee Member at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center and recently was appointed an Ethics Committee Member at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.
While Dr. McCormick serves in diverse roles in education, clinical practice, ethics, and organized medicine, the vast majority of his time is dedicated to evaluating and treating patients in his private community practice. As a neurosurgeon, he also covers a Level I trauma center 70 days each year. Dr. McCormick was elected to CEJA in 2008.
Dr. Sabin is Clinical Professor in the Departments of Population Medicine and Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Ethics Program. After graduating from Harvard Medical School he did a medical internship at UCLA, residency in psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, and a two year fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health. His clinical work has included public sector psychiatry, solo fee-for-service practice, and group practice at Harvard Community Health Plan/Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates. His major research interests are in the clinical and theoretical aspects of fair resource allocation, the role of consumers in overseeing health policy and practice, and the ways in which organizations can best deal with the ethical dimensions of their work. He has written more than 140 articles and chapters on organizational ethics, resource allocation, and clinical practice. A second edition of "Setting Limits Fairly," written with Norman Daniels, was published by Oxford University Press 2008. "No Margin, No Mission: Health Care Organizations and the Quest for Ethical Excellence," written with Steven Pearson and Ezekiel Emanuel, was published by Oxford University Press in 2003. Dr. Sabin was elected to CEJA in 2012.
Leon Vorobeichik is a student at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. Prior to medical school, he earned his undergraduate degree First Class with Distinction from York University, Toronto, ON. Leon has served as Co-President of the SLU Chapter of the AMA Medical Student Section and also as a steering committee member for the American Medical Student Association. For his work with a local juvenile detention center, Mr. Vorobeichik received a 2011 American Academy of Family Physicians Community Outreach Award. He has also earned recognition for his own research exploring risk factors for diabetes and cardiovascular disease in kidney transplant recipients. Mr. Vorobeichik was elected to CEJA in 2011.
