Emily E. Anderson
Fellow, 2006-2007
Emily Anderson joined the AMA’s Institute for Ethics in August as a senior fellow. Emily has a BA from the University of Notre Dame and an MPH from the University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC). She is currently completing a PhD in health care ethics at Saint Louis University. Her dissertation addresses public participation in research ethics oversight, specifically the role of non-affiliated, non-scientist institutional review board members. Primary interests include research ethics, public health ethics, and empirical research on ethics. In addition to an article based on empirical research conducted as part of her dissertation, Emily has also recently had articles published on public perceptions of brain death and ethical issues in substance abuse research.
Prior to entering the PhD program in 2003, Emily was center coordinator for the Illinois Prevention Research Center (affiliated with the UIC School of Public Health), managing projects focused on community-based chronic disease prevention in minority populations.
Sarah Maitre
Fellow, 2006-2007
Sarah Maitre joined the AMA’s Institute for Ethics in July as a medical ethics fellow. A transplant from Portland, Oregon, she is currently on leave from the School of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). She anticipates receiving her MD in June of 2007 and is planning to pursue a residency in Internal Medicine. Throughout medical school she was active in several organizations, many of which tackled challenging issues, including reproductive rights, physician-assisted suicide and healthcare coverage for the uninsured. She received the School of Medicine Alliance Award for Community Service in 2005 and was the Edward Stanley Scholar in Psychiatry from 2003-05, during which time she studied end-of life care issues for Parkinson’s patients and their families.
Sarah has a BA in history from Reed College and pursued her postgraduate medical prerequisite coursework at Portland State University, both in Portland, Oregon. She has a strong background in research and was a Research Coordinator at The Layton Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at OHSU from 2000-02. She participated in projects ranging from brain tissue donation to studying the effects of gingko biloba in the elderly population. She will receive her medical degree from Oregon Health & Sciences University in June 2007.
Kelly A. Carroll
Fellow, 2005-2006
Kelly Carroll joined the AMA’s Institute for Ethics in June, as a junior fellow. Kelly most recently served as the Executive Managing Editor of The American Journal of Bioethics, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal fostering interdisciplinary debate in bioethics. During her three-year tenure at AJOB (2002-2005), the Council of Editors of Learned Journals named AJOB “Best New Journal,” and the Journal successfully transitioned from a quarterly to bi-monthly print & online publication as readership doubled.
In conjunction with and prior to her work on AJOB, Kelly was a Research Coordinator with the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Bioethics. Her work ranged from the development of high school bioethics curriculum to exploring the causes of stigma in genetic disease. Kelly holds a BA in Religion from Haverford College, and is currently completing a Master’s degree in Bioethics (MBe) from the University of Pennsylvania. She frequently locates her research at the intersection where the developing professional encounters the diverse public interest.
Abraham P. Schwab
Fellow, 2005-2006
Abraham (Abe) Schwab, PhD, worked in the Ethics Resource Center at the AMA as a part-time researcher from June 2004 to May 2005. During this time he was editor of the October 2004 and June 2005 issues of Virtual Mentor co-editor of the August 2005 issue, and the primary writer and designer of the January 2005 special issue for internal medicine residents. He became a senior fellow at the Institute for Ethics in June 2005.
Abe has a BA from Drake University in Des Moines, IA, an MA in applied philosophy and a PhD in philosophy from Loyola University Chicago. He has been teaching consistently since the summer of 2000, with courses ranging from introduction to philosophy to dental ethics to a graduate level course in bioethics. He has done a great deal of writing and substantially less publishing, though you can find his work in AJOB. His interests are more diverse than his time can sustain and they range from epistemology and psychology to public policy and good non-fiction. He also has trouble turning down an opportunity to go fishing.
Fellows, 2004-2005
Fritz Allhoff
Justin List, MAR
Fellows, 2003-2004
Shane Green, PhD
Richard Morse, MA
Jacob Kurlander
Renee Witlen
Chalmers C. Clark, PhD
Visiting Scholar, 2002-2003
Dr. Chalmers Clark received his BS in philosophy and biology from Union College, and his MA and PhD in philosophy from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He has taught philosophy at Hunter College, Hofstra University, the College of Staten Island (CUNY), and Union College. His primary expertise is in the naturalized epistemology of W. V. Quine and in his research, Chalmers has broken new ground by applying Quine's naturalistic and pragmatist approach in philosophy to applied ethics. He has published articles in both applied ethics and naturalized epistemology. After authoring an article titled "Trust in Medicine," for the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, he became interested in exploring the integral role of the medical profession, and the professions generally, in what John Rawls has called 'the basic structure of society'. These are the themes he is working to develop while a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Ethics at the AMA. Chalmers has been a fellow at the Mount Sinai College of Medicine and a member of the hospital ethics committee at the Coney Island Hospital. He also received a PSC-CUNY Research Grant to travel to the Netherlands to explore physician attitudes and responses to end of life issues. Chalmers serves as the secretary-treasurer of the American Society of Value Inquiry (ASVI).
Timothy F. Murphy, PhD
Visiting Scholar, 2002-2003
Timothy F. Murphy is Professor of Philosophy in the Biomedical Sciences at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from Boston College and is the author or editor of eight books, including Case Studies in Biomedical Research Ethics (MIT Press, 2004) and Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research (Columbia University Press, 1997). He serves on a variety of ethics advisory committees, including the ethics committee of the American College of Surgical Oncology and the American Academy of Pain Medicine. He has held grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense. His current book project is: Ethics in Military Medicine: A Case Reader.
Linda MacDonald Glenn, JD, LLM
Fellow, 2002-2003
Linda MacDonald Glenn recently graduated with an LL.M. in Biomedical Ethics from McGill University in Montreal. Her thesis was entitled, "Biotechnology At The Margins of Personhood: An Evolving Legal Paradigm." Prior to returning to an academic setting, she consulted and practiced as a trial attorney with an emphasis in patient advocacy, bioethical and biotechnology issues, end of life decision-making, reproductive rights, genetics, parental/biological "nature vs. nurture", and animal rights issues. She was the lead attorney in several "cutting edge" bioethics legal cases, including Gray v. Romeo (697 F.Supp. 580, District of Rhode Island, 1988). She has advised governmental leaders and agencies, published numerous articles in professional journals, and has a book chapter in Nursing Malpractice: Sidestepping Legal Minefields (Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins Publishers, 2002.). She has taught at the University of Vermont School of Nursing and the Community College of Vermont, and addressed public and professional groups internationally. Her extensive experience and passion for the issues facing the legal and medical professions make her a compelling and thought-provoking lecturer. Her current research areas encompass End-of-Life Care and evolving notions of personhood.
Swathi Arekapudi
Fellow, 2002-2003
Swathi Arekapudi received her BA (magna cum laude) with majors in philosophy and biology from Washington University in St. Louis in May 2002. Ms. Arekapudi's senior honors thesis, entitled "Physician-Assisted Suicide: Questioning the Courts," (PDF, 42.8KB) analyzed recent Supreme Court rulings on the subject. She has experience in both field and bench research; for two years as an undergraduate she worked in two different research laboratories and was a field health technician for the Harvard Heart Health Study. Ms. Arekapudi attends Northwestern University Medical School.
Ken Kipnis, PhD
Visiting Scholar, 2001-2002
Ken Kipnis, PhD, received his BA in philosophy from Reed College, his MA in philosophy from the University of Chicago, and his PhD from Brandeis University. He has taught at MIT, Purdue University, Lake Forest College, and the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where he is currently Professor of Philosophy. He has authored numerous articles, co-edited several books, and written one on legal ethics (entitled Legal Ethics). He has done work in clinical ethics, correctional health ethics, bioethics, and professional ethics. He worked on the development of a code of ethics for the 45,000 member National Association for the Education of Young Children. He has authored a paper on vulnerability in human research subjects for NBAC. He worked as an expert witness in the well-known Mayfield v. Dalton case where two Marines were court-martialed for refusing to turn over samples of their genetic material for a Pentagon "DNA dogtag" program. Professor Kipnis is interested in writing about the professional role of the ethicist during his stay with us, in addition to teaching a series of seminars and providing consultation on a variety of issues.
Amber Orr, JD, MPH
Fellow, 2001-2002
Amber received her BA from Newcomb College of Tulane University, her JD from the University of Houston Law Center (concentrating in health law) and her MPH at the University of Texas School of Public Health. She completed a fellowship in the department of clinical ethics at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and has also worked as a research assistant to Dean Laura Rothstein, a nationally recognized expert in the area of disability law. She became a qualified mediator and worked in Houston to settle cases as a court-appointed mediator. Amber has also clerked in a law firm and is a member of the State Bar of Texas, having been admitted to the Texas bar in November 2000. In addition, she has received several distinctions from the University of Houston Law Center, including a Public Interest Law Organization Grant (1999-2000) for outstanding commitment to public interest, the Irving J. Weiner Memorial Scholarship (March 2000) for outstanding service to the legal aid clinic, and the John B. Neibel Scholarship (March 1999) for demonstrating excellence in health law. Amber’s interests include reproductive ethics, medical futility, end of life care issues, mediation, and the professional role of ethicists.
Sam Huber
Fellow, 2001-2002
Sam Huber, MD is currently a resident in Psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis. He received BA (Religion and Classics, Biology) and MD degrees from the University of Rochester. During his fellowship time at the Institute for Ethics, he participated in projects on teaching professionalism and investigating historical and current physician responsibilities in epidemics. Currently, he is interested in personality and other factors involved in specialty choice, operationalizing and assessing medical and residency curricula, quality assessment, and health services outcomes research. In his spare time, he enjoys hiking and the outdoors as much as possible.
Keith Bauer, PhD
Fellow, 2000-2001
Keith received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Tennesse--Knoxville. He received his BA in philosophy and classical history from Mary Washington College, his MSW from Virginia Commonwealth University and his MA in Philosophy from Duquesne University. His dissertation, Ethical and Social Dimensions of Home-Based Telemedicine, addresses the implications of employing information and communication technologies to deliver healthcare services to the homes of patients and family caregivers.
As a member of a taskforce sponsored by the FDA and NSF in April 1999, Keith helped to author "Appropriate Design of Home Health Technologies: Ethical, Legal, and Policy Considerations," which can be found in The Report of the Workshop on Home Care Technologies for the 21st Century (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1999). From January through June 2000, he worked on a National Library of Medicine grant as a research associate for the Imaging Science and Information Systems Center at the Georgetown University Medical Center. Part of the grant examined ethical issues associated with home-based, telemedicine-supported peritoneal dialysis. He was responsible for conducting interviews with patients and family caregivers and for writing a report about patient and caregiver experiences with telemedicine technology in the home. His paper Home-Based Telemedicine: A Survey of Ethical Issues will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. Additional ethics research activity includes a 1998-1999 IRB approved research project at the University of Tennessee titled "Toward an Ethical Assessment of Managed Mental Health Care in Tennessee." With co-principal investigator, James L. Nelson, PhD, Keith interviewed patients and healthcare professionals about their experiences of receiving and providing managed mental healthcare services.
Faith Lagay, PhD
Fellow, 2000-2001
Faith Lagay received her bachelor's degree from Louisiana State University, her master's in English from the University of Houston, and her PhD in medical humanities from the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in December of 1999. Her dissertation is A Humanist Analysis of Ethical Arguments Concerning Germline Genetic Engineering, and she was the recipient of the Ransom Dissertation Award for 1998. She has years of experience as a technical writer, development writer and medical editor. She has published articles in the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics and Medical Humanities Review, has a book chapter in Reading Engelhardt: Essays on the Thought of H. Tristram Engelhardt (Boston: Kluwer Press, 1997), and has presented and published in China as well as in the U.S. She is also the manuscript editor for Medical Humanities Review and has taught composition and literature at the college level and technical writing in the corporate setting.
Her primary interest is in educating the American public about genetic issues so there can be broad, informed participation in national deliberation leading to policy governing genetic research, genetic testing, gene therapy, and genetic engineering. Pursuing this goal entails commitment to the principles of deliberative democracy and their roots in the humanist tradition.
Dr. Lagay is currently Director of the Ethics Resource Center at the AMA.
Sara Taub, MBe
Fellow, 2000-2001
In 2003, Sara Taub completed a master's degree in bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania. In lieu of a thesis, she did a clinical internship at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. She first became interested in medical ethics at a summer program for high school students at Wellesley College. Subsequently, she earned a bachelor's degree with honors in medical ethics from Brown University in 1997, where her senior thesis was ‘Adolescents with Life-Threatening Illnesses: What Degree of Autonomy in Medical Decision-Making?'
Ms. Taub worked as a research assistant at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania for the 1999-2000 academic year and at the Division of Medical Ethics at the University of Utah from 1997 to 1999. During the summer of 1996, she served as an international attaché at the Committee on Science and Technology in Developing Countries in Chennai, India.
She has been a member on several hospital ethics committees, including that of the University Hospital in Salt Lake City, where she helped develop the ethics consultation service. She has also participated in several initiatives that aim to bridge medicine and the humanities: as a member of literature and medicine discussion groups and as an actress in several performances of "Alzheimer's On Stage: Readers' Theater Production of Three Short Plays by Caregivers of Alzheimer's Patients."
Mary Ann Baily, PhD
Fellow, 1999-2000
Mary Ann Baily received a BA in mathematics from Harvard University, a MA in economics from Northwestern University, and a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1973 to 1979, she was a member of the economics faculty of Yale University. From 1980 to 1983, she served as the Staff Economist for the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research. After the Commission, she became Adjunct Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy at George Washington University in Washington, DC, where she taught health economics and carried out research in health economics, bioethics and health policy.
Dr. Baily's research and policy interests have included health care rationing, access to care, prenatal testing for genetic disabilities, privacy and confidentiality in medical information, and the implications of HIV infection, organ transplantation, and Alzheimer's Disease for health care financing. She has worked on policy issues for the Office of Technology Assessment, the Health Care Financing Administration, the Institute of Medicine, American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Red Cross, the Hastings Center, and the Committee on National Statistics of the National Research Council. She has also served on the Ethics Task Force of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and is a Fellow of the Hastings Center. During her Fellowship year, she worked on issues at the intersection of economics and ethics, especially issues relating to physician ethics in the context of managed care.
Dr. Baily is currently a research associate at the Hastings Center in Garrison, New York.
David Block
Fellow, 1999-2000
Dr. Block received his BA with honors from Brown University in May 1999, with concentrations in biomedical ethics and biology. He began his honors thesis, "Ethical Aspects of Treatment and Prevention of Tuberculosis," while a Student Scholar at the Hastings Center during the summer of 1998 and presented an early version of the project at the 10th Annual Canadian Bioethics Society Conference in October 1998.
During the summer of 1997, Dr. Block served as an intern for Dr. Glenn McGee of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics. He provided support for the Center's web site and aided in the final stages of production for Pragmatic Bioethics, a collection of essays edited by Dr. McGee. The following year, he completed an independent study, "Human Subjects Experimentation Since World War II," an ethical and historical examination of research ethics in the past half century. In April 1999, Dr. Block was selected to present "No Man Is An Island: The Role of Family in Medical Decision Making" at the Mendel Society Annual Undergraduate Bioethics Conference at Boston College.
Dr. Block's research interests are in public health ethics (especially the conflict between the rights of society and those of individuals as well as expanding moral boundaries in global health issues), pediatric ethics, and the changing role of autonomy in medicine.
Karen E. Geraghty, PhD (c)
Fellow, 1999-2000
Karen graduated from the University of Chicago with her BA in the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science and Medicine Program. Her BA thesis was entitled "If Not to Cure, at Least to Care: A Brief History of Medieval Medical Ethics". She completed her MA in philosophy with a concentration in medical ethics at the University of Tennessee and was the recipient of the Graduate Prize in Medical Ethics from the College of Medicine, where she completed a pre-doctoral clinical practicum in medical ethics. Her MA thesis was entitled, "Beyond the Hippocratic Oath: The Need for Ethics Courses in Medical School Curriculum". She pursued her doctoral studies in philosophy at Boston University where her research interests focused on bioethics and the philosophy of medicine. Her doctoral thesis is entitled, "A Philosophical Critique of Bioethics: Toward a Phenomenological Methodology in Bioethics". At Boston University she held numerous teaching fellowships, winning the Graduate Prize for Excellence in Teaching from the College of Liberal Arts. As a Fulbright Scholar, Karen conducted research in ethics and medicine at the University of Vienna and the Institut für Geschichte der Medizin. Upon her return from Vienna she pursued clinical research as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. Seeking to combine a philosophical and historical understanding of the developments in modern medicine, she is completing a PhD in the history of medicine at the University of Chicago Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine. Her research interests include the development of professional and organizational ethics, the role of the American Medical Association's Code of Medical Ethics in shaping professional conduct, the history of the American bioethics movement, and the history of nineteenth and twentieth century medicine.
Walter Glannon, PhD
Fellow, 1998-1999
Walter Glannon has a PhD in Spanish Literature from the Johns Hopkins University and a PhD in Philosophy from Yale University. Dr. Glannon has taught literature, philosophy, and biomedical ethics at Smith College, Simon Fraser University, the University of Calgary, and McGill University. His research interests in biomedical ethics include death and dying, allocation of scarce medical resources, and genetics. He has published papers recently in journals such as Bioethics, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, and Economics and Philosophy, and is working on a book about the role of individual responsibility in people's claims to health care.
Dr. Glannon is currently an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia where he teaches biomedical ethics.
Brian Davidson
Fellow, 1998-1999
Brian Davidson graduated with honors from Stanford University in 1998 with a BS in biological sciences and a minor in philosophy. Dr. Davidson was a student research assistant on a study of affirmative action admissions that was published in the October 8, 1997 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association entitled "Affirmative Action and Other Special Consideration Admissions at the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine". He also served as a researcher for the Pangene Corporation from 1996-1998. During his fellowship year, Dr. Davidson's research focused on Setting Priorities in Health Science Research.
Kayhan Parsi JD, PhD
Fellow, 1997-1998
Kayhan P. Parsi was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up in New York, New Jersey and Texas. He received a BA in history from Rice University in 1987 and later received a JD from the University of Houston Law Center in 1993. He received his PhD in medical humanities from UTMB-Galveston in August of 1998. During graduate school at the Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston, he worked as an associate for the Galveston law firm of McLeod, Alexander, Powel and Apffel from 1993 to 1995, concentrating on medical malpractice litigation. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas.
From 1995 to 1996, he was a graduate assistant at the Institute for the Medical Humanities, providing research support for the Program on Legal and Ethical Issues in Correctional Health. In the fall of 1996, he acted as a consultant-in-residence for the Division of Bioethics, Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France. He held the Medical Jurisprudence Fellowship at the Institute for the Medical Humanities from 1996 to 1997. During this fellowship, he taught medical jurisprudence to third-year medical students. He also sat on a UTMB committee devoted to developing a campus policy for students with disabilities. In May of 1997, he received the James E. Beall II Memorial Scholarship from the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UTMB.
Dr. Parsi is currently an assistant professor of Bioethics and Health Policy at Loyola University of Chicago.
Anil Shivaram
Fellow, 1997-1998
Anil Shivaram received his AB with honors from Columbia College of Columbia University where he majored in Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures with a concentration in Sanskrit. He pursued graduate studies in Classical Indian Religion & Philosophy at Oxford University, focusing much of his time on the South Indian village deity of smallpox and epidemic disease.
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