Council on Ethical & Judicial Affairs

Dr. Stewart is a board certified psychiatrist in private practice in New Orleans for the past 30 years, graduating from the University of Mississippi in 1967. He served as President of the Louisiana Psychiatric Medical Association and was voted "Psychiatrist of the Year," and received the Edward H. Knight MD Lifetime Achievement Award from his colleagues. He was the first psychiatrist to be elected as President of the Orleans Parish Medical Society, and went on to be elected to the office of President of the Louisiana State Medical Society. Currently he serves in the Assembly of the American Psychiatric Association. He served as an Alternate Delegate to the AMA House until his election to CEJA in 2003.

Following over thirty years of active surgical practice in Thoracic, Vascular and General Surgery in Helena, Montana, Dr. McMahon is currently the Corporate Medical Director and Principal Clinical Coordinator of the Mountain-Pacific Quality Health Foundation. Dr. McMahon also serves as part-time general medical officer at Shodair Pediatric Psychiatric Hospital in Helena. In 1957 he graduated from St. Louis University School of Medicine, and subsequently completed a residency at St. Louis University in Surgery. Prior to being elected to CEJA in 2004, Dr. McMahon served as President, AMA Delegate, and Legislative Chairman of the Montana Medical Association.

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. Douglas is Associate Professor of Medicine and Assistant Dean for VA Education at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine. She graduated from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine, where she also did residency training in Internal Medicine and fellowship training in Pulmonary Medicine. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians. At the G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center she is Staff Pulmonologist, ICU/Pulmonary clinician and teacher, and Associate Chief of Staff for Education and Ethics. Dr. Douglas received a Certificate in Healthcare Ethics from the University of Washington, Seattle. She currently teaches ethics to the medical students, internal medicine residents, and pulmonary fellows at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine. She serves as Co-Chair of the VA Medical Center Ethics Committee and is a member of the National Ethics Committee for the Veterans Healthcare Administration. Her main ethical interest is in end of life ethics. She gives community talks to local groups on Mississippi Advance Directives. Dr. Douglas is also an EPEC Trainer (Education for Physicians on End-of-life Care) for the AMA. As well she is an instructor for the Bayer Institute of Healthcare Communication. She is certified in and an instructor for ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support). She also has a special interest in palliative care. Dr. Douglas was elected to CEJA in 2005.

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 an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan and Director of the Medical School 's Bioethics Program.

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. Goold's conceptual and empirical research focuses on the allocation of scarce health care resources, especially the priorities of patients and the public. Research and policy projects using the allocation simulation exercise CHAT (Choosing Healthplans All Together) have involved educators, community-based organizations, employer groups, and others in more than 20 states and several countries to obtain public input on health spending priorities. Dr. Goold received the 2003 Paul Ellwood Award and the 2002 Mark S. Ehrenreich Prize for Research in Healthcare Ethics and will be a visiting researcher at the Fondation Brocher in July 2009. Dr. Goold also pursues the philosophical and empirical study of trust relationships in health care settings, the impact of financing, care organization, and reimbursement on the doctor-patient relationship, and academic-industry relationships. Dr. Goold was elected to CEJA in 2007.

Dr. Greene practices hematology-oncology 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.

Julia Halsey will graduate from the University of Missouri – Columbia School of Medicine in 2011. She graduated from Truman State University in 2006 with a degree in biology and then earned her Master's degree in Bioethics from Trinity International University in Chicago in 2007. Julia has been a member of her hospital's Ethics Committee for the past 2 years, which has been a great opportunity to see some real life examples of ethical dilemmas and how they are resolved. She has been a member of the medical student section Committee on Bioethics and Medical Humanities for the past year. Julia looks forward to being involved with medical ethics throughout her medical career. In particular, she is interested in the ethical complexities surrounding genetic testing as well as palliative care and end-of-life issues.

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 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. Shah concurrently earned her medical degree from Jefferson Medical College as well as a masters of bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009. She is currently a resident in obstetrics and gynecology at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has been actively involved in organized medicine throughout her career, holding various positions as a medical student including serving as the student member of CEJA from 2007-2009. She has a particular interest in reproductive ethics, primarily infertility, HIV/AIDS, genetics, and global reproductive health disparities. Dr. Shah was reappointed to CEJA in 2009.