Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of “Bioethics”

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Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of “Bioethics”

-1809 Ashland Avenue; Baltimore, MD 21205 | Office: 410-614-5550 | Fax: 410-614-5360 | bioethics@jhu.edu | http://www.bioethicsinstitute.org/index.asp

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From their “About“: http://www.bioethicsinstitute.org/web/page/869/sectionid/387/pagelevel/2/interior.asp - The mission of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics is to conduct advanced scholarship on the ethics of clinical practice, biomedical science, and public health, both locally and globally, and to engage students, trainees, the public, and policy-makers in “serious” discourse about these issues. …

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Advisory Board

[SEE this page: http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/private/relationship.asp?personId=28607217]

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Alexander H. Levi – Chair

NYC “Clinical psychologist.” Son of Robert Henry Levi and Ryda Hecht Levy.

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Harvey M. Meyerhoff – Chair Emeritus

<–w/ Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of “Bioethics” director Ruth Faden. | American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) « Fed up USA * United States Holocau$t Memorial Muscam « Fed up USA | Concord Coalition – director; Johns Hopkins University- emeritus trustee. Past: Magna Holdings, Inc. – chairman; United States Holocaust Memorial Council – chairman.

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Lynn Deering – Chair, Development Committee

http://www.mdarts.org/about_us/board/ - President of The Charlesmead Foundation and a trustee of the Baltimore Museum of Art, as well as a member of the National Advisory Board for the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and an active volunteer at the Joseph Richey Hospice in Baltimore, etc.

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Christopher C. Angell

http://www.pbwt.com/angell_christopher_bio/ - NYC lawyer.

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Robert B. Bank

* http://investors.bonton.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=260683 - Robert B. Bank, 55 [in 2003], is president of Robert B. Bank Investment and Advisory Services, a private capital investment and consulting firm. Prior to establishing his own firm in 1982, Mr. Bank was principal and chief merchandising officer at Jos. A. Bank Clothiers. He also was a partner with Alex Brown Ventures Partners from 1985 to 1990. Mr. Bank serves on the board of directors of Nautica Enterprises, Inc. and is the chairman of the Executive Investment Committee of Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore, Maryland. …is a graduate of Princeton University and Johns Hopkins University. …Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. board of directors, etc.

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George Lloyd Bunting, Jr.

http://webapps.jhu.edu/namedprofessorships/professorshipdetail.cfm? Image Credit: Robert J. Smith

professorshipid=192 -”The NOXELL COMPANY, manufacturer of Noxema Skin Cream and Cover Girl cosmetics, was founded in 1920 by pharmacist GEORGE AVERY BUNTING. …His son, G. LLOYD BUNTING SR., and then his grandson, GEORGE L. BUNTING JR. (pictured), led the company in turn until 1990, when it merged with Procter & Gamble, etc. | George Lloyd Bunting, Jr.: 1940. PRIM CORP EMPL president, chief executive; officer: Bunting Management Group. CORP AFFIL; director: Mercantile Safe Deposit Trust Co.; director: USF&G Corp.; director: Crown Central Petroleum Corp.

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Richard M. Danziger

* Richard Danziger: Executive Profile & Biography – BusinessWeek - Johns Hopkins.

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Andreas C. Dracopoulos

http://csis.org/experts/browse?page=1 - ..is a trustee of the Rockefeller University, a member of the Board of Directors of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a member of the International Councillors of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, etc.

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Stephanie Cooper Greenberg

http://www.nctdinc.org/general/index.php - National Capital Therapy Dogs, Inc.

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Ellen M. Heller

<–husband Shale D. Stiller. | http://fedupusa.wordpress.com/new-posts-pages/american-jewish-joint-distribution-committee-jdc/ | Maryland judge.

-Shale D Stiller 807 W Saint Georges Rd; Baltimore, MD 21210-1408 (410) 435-2526 [65+ / Ellen M Stiller]

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Leslie J. Levinson

http://www.eapdlaw.com/professionals/detail.aspx?attorney=936 - NYC lawyer, “serves as Chair of the firm’s Healthcare Practice Group.”

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Walter G. Lohr, Jr.

http://www.hoganlovells.com/walter-lohr/ - Baltimore lawyer.

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Morris W. Offit

http://www.jewishfederations.org/page.aspx?id=163295 - Vice Chair of the UJC Board of Trustees and chairs he UJC Center for Jewish Philanthropy. He is the immediate past President of UJA-Federation of New York, etc. | Age in 2011: 73. American International Group, Inc. – director; American Museum of Natural History – honorary trustee; Johns Hopkins University – emeritus trustee; Offit Capital Advisors LLC – chairman; UJA-Federation of New York – director; United Jewish Communities – trustee; WNET.org- life trustee. Past: China Institute in America – trustee; Offit Hall Capital Management LLC – co-CEO; OFFITBANK- founder & CEO. David H. Bernstein – friend; Daniel W. Offit – father; Nancy Offit – spouse; Ned S. Offit – father.

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Diana Gribbon Motz

http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/mdmanual/39fed/01usa/html/msa12028.html - Maryland circuit judge.

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Fredric Newman

http://www.linkedin.com/in/fredricnewmanmd - Owner, The Aesthetic Surgery Center. “The Aesthetic Surgery Center is one of the premier plastic surgery centers serving New York- and Connecticut-area patients, etc.” NYC.

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Laura A. Parsons - Chair, Executive Committee

<—Richard and Laura Parsons. (Richard Parsons is Chairman of Citigroup, etc.)

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Michael F. Price

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/54/biz_06rich400_Michael-F-Price_7GJH.html - “The 400 Richest Americans, #278 Michael F Price, 09.21.06, 10:00 AM ET. Net Worth $1.4 billion

Brash leader of money management outfit MFP Investors: more than $1.6 billion under management, at least half believed to be his. Today bets include Sears, Conseco, Tyco, AIG. Started at Heine Securities 1975; sole owner by 1988. Sold company in 1996 to Franklin Resources for $670 million and 5-year employment contract, etc.”

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Ellen J. Rosenthal

Chief Counsel Pfizer Legal Alliance; Pfizer Inc.

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James F. P. Wagley

http://www.crittendenmultifamily.com/James-Wagley.html - Wagley oversees CBRE Capital Markets investment advisory and debt recapitalization efforts in Dallas. Mr. Wagley has been recognized as a member of Colbert Coldwell Circle as one of the highest producing employees within the CB Richard Ellis Company. Prior to joining CBRE Capital Markets, Mr. Wagley was a commercial lending officer in the World Banking Group of Chemical Bank and a senior consultant for Kenneth Leventhal & Company where he assisted real estate firms in various consulting engagements. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS / accreditations: Licensed Broker in the State of Texas; Mr. Wagley currently serves on the Board of The Partnership Foundation; Mr. Wagley currently serves on the Board of the St. Philip’s Foundation; Freddie Mac Multifamily Advisory Board.

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L. John Wilkerson

http://www.galen.com/team-members/L-John-Wilkerson - Wilkerson is a Founder, Senior Advisor at Galen, which he co-founded in 1990. His entire career has been focused on healthcare. John was formerly the Chairman of the Wilkerson Group, a leading healthcare consultancy, which was acquired by IBM in 1998. Prior to the Wilkerson Group, John was a Vice President at Smith Barney research, specializing in medical device industry analysis. John began his career as a Group Product Director for Ortho Diagnostics Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company. …John currently serves on the board of Galen portfolio companies Dow Pharmaceutical Sciences Inc., and TPS (d/b/a Advanced Pharmacy Services). He is the immediate past Chairman of Atlantic Health Systems, a New Jersey hospital system. He is a trustee and former President of the Museum of American Folk Art and founder of the E. L. Rose Conservancy.
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Faculty Leadership

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Ruth Faden

Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics; Director, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics; Professor, Department of Health Policy & Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Professor, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Areas of interest: Bioethics and public policy; ethics and cellular engineering; ethics and bioterrorism; genetics and public policy; research ethics; and justice. | -1809 Ashland Ave., Rm.104; Baltimore, MD 21205 | p: 410-614-5553 | e: rfaden@jhu.edu

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Nancy Kass

Phoebe R. Berman Professor of Bioethics and Public Health; Deputy Director for Public Health, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics; Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Areas of interest: Research ethics, including identifying simpler ways of conducting informed consent in order to increase research participants understanding; public-health ethics and the ethics of infectious diseases, including pandemic influenza; and the ethics of international public-health research and community engagement. | -1809 Ashland Ave., Rm.204; Baltimore, MD 21205 | p: 410-614-5579 | e: nkass@jhsph.edu

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Jeremy Sugarman

Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Bioethics and Medicine; Deputy Director for Medicine, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.

Areas of interest: Informed consent, research ethics, and the ethical issues associated with emerging technologies. | -1809 Ashland Ave., Rm.203; Baltimore, MD 21205 | p: 410-614-5634 | e: jsugarman@jhu.edu

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Core Faculty - http://www.bioethicsinstitute.org/interior.asp?pagelevel=2&sectionid=376&page=433#corefaculty

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Joe Ali, J.D.

Areas of interest: International research ethics; moral and political philosophy; philosophy of law; bioethics and law.

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Mary Catherine Beach, M.D., M.P.H.

Areas of interest: Patient-physician communication and relationships; respect for persons; social justice; health-care quality for underserved populations; ethics in medical education.

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Betty Black, Ph.D.

Areas of interest: Need and unmet need for mental health care; quality of life; decision-making and end-of-life care for people with dementia; ethical aspects of dementia research.

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Hilary Bok, Ph.D.

Areas of interest: Bioethics; moral philosophy; freedom of the will; the works of Immanuel Kant.

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Joseph Carrese, M.D., M.P.H.

Areas of interest: Clinical ethics, with a particular interest in ethical issues that arise in the context of cultural diversity; research ethics; ethics education at all levels; empirical research, particularly involving qualitative methods.

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Ruth Faden (see above)

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Daniel Finkelstein, M.D., M.A. in theology

Areas of interest: Medical ethics; spirituality/religion of the doctor-patient relationship.

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Thomas Finucane, M.D.

Areas of interest: Avoiding over treatment and under treatment of the frail elderly; teaching and learning about over/under treatment of the frail elderly; advance directives.

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Gail Geller, Sc.D., MHS

Areas of interest: Ethical and psychosocial implications of genetic technologies; provider-patient communication and informed consent; ethics and professionalism in medical education; cross-cultural variation, including complementary and alternative medicine; research ethics.

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Steven Goodman, M.D., MHS, Ph.D.

Areas of interest: Evidence evaluation and inferential, methodological and ethical issues in epidemiology and clinical research.

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Carlton Haywood Jr., Ph.D., M.A.

Areas of interest: Empirical bioethics and health-services research related to sickle cell disease; respect for persons, trust, social justice; African-American perspectives in bioethics.

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Mark Hughes, M.D., M.A.

Areas of interest: Advance-care planning, end-of-life decision-making, professionalism, everyday ethics in the clinical setting, research ethics, ethics in medical education.

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Adnan Hyder, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.

Areas of interest: Empirical ethics, equity and vulnerability, health-systems ethics, and priority setting for health-decision making.

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Gail Javitt, J.D., M.P.H.

Areas of interest: Developing policy options to guide the development and use of reproductive technologies; currently leading an initiative to improve oversight of genetic-testing quality.

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Nancy Kass (see above)

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Dave Kaufman, Ph.D.

Areas of interest: Design and analysis of public opinion surveys relating to health policy.

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Debra Mathews, Ph.D., M.A., Assistant Director for Science Programs, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

Areas of interest: Stem cell research, neuroscience, genetics; intersection of science, public policy and society.

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Maria Merritt, Ph.D.

Areas of interest: Bioethics, global health ethics, international research ethics, moral philosophy, moral psychology.

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Margaret Moon, M.D., M.P.H.

Areas of interest: Ethics education in the clinical and pre-clinical setting; ethics and professionalism in outpatient care; empiric evaluation of the outcomes of ethics education, and issues of consent and confidentiality in adolescent medicine.

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Marie Nolan, Ph.D., R.N.

Areas of interest: Patient and family decision-making in serious illness; end-of-life decision making; living organ donor decision-making.

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Dan O’Connor, Ph.D

Areas of interest: Social media and social networking in healthcare and health policy; ethics of body modification (cosmetic surgery, transsexuality, transableism); history of bioethics.

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Peter Rabins, M.D., M.P.H.

Areas of interest: How family members make decisions for persons with end-stage dementia; how consent is determined for research studies that impair cognition; and how the concept of self reflects the organization of specific brain structures.

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Cynda Rushton, Ph.D., R.N.

Areas of interest: Palliative and end-of-life care, moral distress and caregiver suffering, clinical ethics, ethical issues that arise in nursing practice and pediatrics.

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Andrew Siegel, J.D., Ph.D.

Areas of interest: Ethical and legal issues in human stem cell research; exploitation in research; and privacy.

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Holly Taylor, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Areas of interest: Research ethics; local implementation of federal policy relevant to human subject research; HIV/AIDS policy; and qualitative research methods.

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Peter Terry, M.D.

Areas of interest: Ethics education in medical school and in-house staff programs; end-of-life decision-making; conflicts of interest, and relationships between physicians and the pharmaceutical industry.

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Lawrence Wissow, M.D.

Areas of interest: Communication between patients and health-care providers, with an emphasis on children and disclosure of mental-health issues.

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Emeritus Faculty

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John Freeman, M.D.

Areas of interest: Ethical discussions regarding newborns with congenital defects, the right to life, death and dying.

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Associate Faculty

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Renée Boss, M.D.

Areas of interest: Pediatric palliative care.

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Leslie Meltzer Henry, M.S., J.D.

Areas of Interest: Health policy and bioethics.

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Len Rubenstein, J.D., L.L.M

Areas of interest: The intersection of bioethics and human rights, with particular focus on ethics of medicine and physiology.

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Yoram Unguru, M.D., M.S., M.A.

Areas of Interest: Surrogate decision-making and the role of children and providers in facilitating shared decision-making among all relevant parties; moral issues that frequently arise in the context of pediatric hematology/oncology; ethics education and research ethics.

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Affiliate Faculty

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David Blass, M.D.

Areas of interest: Jewish law and medical ethics; ethical issues in the care of geriatric patients with dementia and other psychiatric conditions; the interface between psychiatry and religion. | Pa.

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Paul Lietman, M.D., Ph.D.

Areas of interest: International clinical research; development of complementary and alternative medicines; ethics of human experimentation; and clinical pharmacology of antiviral drugs.

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Fellows, Students & Trainees

(See former Fellows, etc., below)

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Greenwall Fellows

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Anne Barnhill, M.A., Ph.D.

…is a Greenwall Fellow in Ethics and Health Policy at Johns Hopkins University. She studied biology and public policy as an undergraduate at Princeton University before switching fields and receiving a Ph.D. in philosophy from New York University. She was a Faculty Fellow at the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University before becoming a Greenwall Fellow. Her philosophical work iscentered in theoretical ethics, feminist philosophy and practical ethics (especially sexual ethics, medical ethics, and public health ethics). Her current areas of research are the ethics of food policy, and the ethics of deception and manipulation.

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Laura Biron, Ph.D., read Philosophy at Queens’ College, Cambridge, then at Harvard on a Kennedy Scholarship before returning to Cambridge as a research scholar at St John’s College. Her doctoral thesis, supervised by Onora O’Neill, explores the ontological and justificatory foundations of intellectual property. Her other research interests include: taxation, global justice, business ethics and philosophy of religion. Through Cambridge University’s Forum for Philosophy in Business, she has worked as a consultant for KPMG, Pfizer and most recently, BT, exploring conceptions of trust and integrity within the communications industry. In 2007, Laura helped to found the non-profit organization Incentives for Global Health, which is led by Thomas Pogge at Yale University. She is currently an advisor to the UK government’s Strategic Advisory Board on Intellectual Property, contributing to their work on the rationale for patents.

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Brooke Cunningham, M.D., Ph.D., is a senior resident in Internal Medicine at Duke University Medical Center. Originally from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Cunningham attended the University of Virginia as an undergraduate, where she majored in History and African and African-American Studies. She completed her MD at the University of Pennsylvania, where she also received a PhD in Sociology. Her dissertation examines the controversy surrounding international trials to prevent mother to child transmission of HIV, and explores the factors that led to the emergence of these trials as a social problem in biomedicine. As part of that work, she explores how race was operationalized by researchers and their critics. As a Greenwall fellow, she plans to transform her dissertation into a book, and advance her interest in race and medical research, with a particular interest in genomics. She is also interested in critically thinking about the provision of primary care in our country, and how the further commodification of medicine affects physician training, access to services and medicines, and the doctor-patient relationship.

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Matt DeCamp, M.D., Ph.D., graduated from Purdue University(2000) with a degree in biochemistry. He then entered the Duke University Medical Scientist Training Program,where he completed his PhD in philosophy (“Global Health: A Normative Analysis of Intellectual Property Rights and Global Distributive Justice”). While at Duke he worked closely with the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, and History ofMedicine; the Center for Genome Ethics, Law, and Policy; the Program on Global Health and Technology Access; and the Institutional Review Board. From 2008-2010 he was an internal medicine resident at the University of Michigan. As a Greenwall Fellow, Matthew plans to continue his work on intellectual property rights and global distributive justice; further examine ethics guidance for short-term medical outreach trips; and begin analyzing normative change theory and practice regarding a human right to health.

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Kathy King, Ph.D., studied Philosophy and Molecular Biology as an undergraduate at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She then earned advanced degrees in Neuroscience at Oxford, and Philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science as a Marshall Scholar. Her doctoral thesis extended the work of liberal egalitarian thinkers to a population that includes children, focusing on the implications of children’s development for the scope and structure of distributive theory. While completing her dissertation, she worked at New York University in the Department of Pediatrics and the Center for Bioethics, conducting health policy research and teaching bioethics. As a Greenwall Fellow, she will use the case of childhood immunizations to explore how information about risks to children’s health is evaluated and used in public policy.

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Nicole Martinez, J.D., earned her AB degree in Anthropology and Latin American Studies from Princeton University, and her JD from Harvard Law School. At Harvard, she was an Articles Editor for the Latino Law Review. Nicole practiced law in the international project finance group at Mayer, Brown & Platt in Chicago, before working at the Institute for Public Law in New Mexico. Nicole received her Master’s Degree in Comparative Human Development from the University of Chicago. Her current research interests include the way in which the responsibility of mentally ill individuals is evaluated, and the implications for the way in which mentally ill criminal offenders are addressed in the justice system.

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David Tester‘s, B.S., Ph.D., research focuses on philosophical moral psychology and its applications to theories of health and social justice. During his first year on Fellowship he has completed three articles currently under review at philosophical journals: “Neuroscience in Ethics,” about the use of cognitive psychology to improve ethical evidence; “Reconceiving Applied Philosophy,” a reflection on the nature and ambitions of the field; and “Does Cognitive Psychology Undermine Classical Analysis?” In another article in progress, he aims to bring the psychology of well-being into closer contact with attempts to put a value on different health states, such as Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALY valuations). A possible extension of this work would be an article discussing the use of physiological and neuroscientific measures of well-being in clinical decision-making contexts. David plans next to write a short article on some ethical problems with the use of willingness-to-pay (WTP) to value environmental interventions, defending the claim that WTP valuations are for certain reasons unjust, and exploring whether WTP surveys should provide respondents with supplemental information about how the intervention will impact their well-being. He presented his preliminary work on well-being, health state valuations, and WTP at the April 2010 Berman Institute of Bioethics research retreat. David has been developing a relationship with the Energy and Environment team at the Center for American Progress with the expectation of writing occasional blog posts on the public health implications of events in environmental news. He will undertake his policy internship (subject area and position to be determined) in the Spring semester of 2011.

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Bioethics and Health Policy Doctoral Students

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Krista Harrison is a doctoral student in Bioethics and Health Policy at the Bloomberg School of Public Health under an AHRQ NRSA Health Services Research training grant. Most recently, Krista worked as a research analyst in disability and health policy for Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. in Washington, DC. Previously, she researched allergy for the Department of Immunology at Children’s Hospital Boston. Krista received her undergraduate degree in Biology and English from Williams College in 2004. Her research interests include the ethics of health policy, resource allocation, and disparities in access to and quality of health care. Krista can be reached at krharris@jhsph.edu.

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Jessica Holzer is a doctoral student in the Bioethics and Health Policy track in the department of Health Policy and Management and a recipient of the Sir Arthur Newsholme Scholarship. She received her Master’s degree in Bioethics from Case Western Reserve University in 2006, where she developed an interest in research ethics. Prior to attending Hopkins, Jess worked with the Clinical Research Policy Analysis and Coordination (CRpac) program at the National Institutes of Health, where her work focused on the use of human specimens and data in research, and including individuals with impaired capacity to consent in research. Jess is also interested in access to healthcare and health research. She has combined some of her various interests into her current project examining community engagement practices among NIH Clinical and Translational Science Awardees. She can be reached at jeholzer@jhsph.edu.

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Carleigh Krubiner is a doctoral student in Bioethics and Health Policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Most recently, Carleigh worked for the Results for Development Institute in Washington, D.C. where she focused on cost modeling and resource prioritization for the HIV/AIDS response in developing countries. Previously, she was a research analyst at the Advisory Board Company working on best practice studies for hospitals and health systems. Carleigh received her undergraduate degree in History and Sociology of Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006. Her research interests include ethics of health policy, resource allocation, HIV/AIDS policy, international research ethics, and social justice issues associated with emerging technologies.

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JP Leider is a doctoral student in Bioethics and Health Policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He received his Genetics, Cell Biology and Development B.S. and Philosophy B.A. from the University of Minnesota in 2008. His research interests include public health practice, public health systems research, and public health ethics. Additionally, social justice issues related to health, science and technology development, as well as pandemic preparedness, are of interest. For his dissertation, JP is examining the budget and priority setting process at state public health agencies. JP can be reached at jleider@jhsph.edu.

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Amy Paul is a doctoral student in Bioethics and Health Policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She received a B.S. in General Biology from the University of Washington in 2005. After graduation, she worked with Literacy*AmeriCorps in Seattle, NGO Azafady in Southeast Madagascar, and Seattle Biomedical Research Institute in Seattle. Amy earned her MPH in Public Health Genetics from the University of Washington in 2010. She remains interested in the integration of genetic technologies into society, particularly the expanding applications of reproductive genetic technologies. She is also interested in the ethics of community engagement and capacity building in developing nations.

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Lee-Lee Redstone is a doctoral student in Bioethics and Health Policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Colgate University in 2008 and her Master of Arts degree in Bioethics from New York University in 2010. Lee-Lee’s research focus is in ethical issues regarding population health and health policy and pediatric research ethics. She is especially interested in the ethical concerns regarding socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes and designing effective policies that aim to reduce the socioeconomic determinants of health. Lee-Lee is also interested in social responsibility in healthcare and how to address certain diseases linked to behaviors such as smoking, nutritional intake, and alcohol consumption. Within the field of pediatric research ethics, Lee-Lee is particularly interested in the moral limitations of research that offers no direct benefit to the child-participant.

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Danielle Whicher is a doctoral student in Bioethics and Health Policy at the Bloomberg School of Public Health under an AHRQ Health Services Research training grant. Danielle recently completed the masters program in Health Policy and Management at Bloomberg and has been working as a project manager at the Center for Medical Technology Policy, a Baltimore-based non-profit that provides an independent forum for patients, clinicians, payers, manufacturers, and researchers to design and implement real-time, real world studies that help determine the risks, benefits, and costs of new medical technologies. Danielle received her undergraduate degree in molecular biology from Colgate University. Her research interests focus on issues of distributive justice, and more specifically on how cost considerations can or should factor into coverage and clinical decisions particularly when we are dealing with high cost health technologies where there is limited evidence of therapeutic benefit. Danielle can be reached at dwhicher@jhsph.edu.

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Bioethics Fellows

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Frederic Eckhauser, M.D., (2005-2006)

Professor of Surgery and Director of Clinical Operations for the Department of Surgery. He completed his surgical training at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1976 and returned in 2001 to join the staff after serving on the surgical faculty at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI for 25 years. Dr. Eckhauser’s clinical interests include benign and malignant hepatobiliary and pancreatic diseases, gastrointestinal motility disturbances, and complex reoperative gastrointestinal surgery. He is a dedicated teacher and works on a regular basis with medical students, PA students and surgery residents. He is also interested in clinical bioethics and participates on the JHH Medical Ethics Committee. One of his future goals is to work with other interested JHH faculty to develop a generic clinical bioethics curriculum that can be used internally by all clinical departments and can be exported for use in other academic medical centers.
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Jon Tilburt, M.D., (2004-2005) in the Division of General Internal Medicine.

He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical Center. Dr. Tilburt received his M.D. from Vanderbilt University, and his bachelor’s in philosophy from Yale University. He was awarded Vanderbilt University’s Dixon Burns Memorial Prize for writing in medical ethics for his essay, “Cosmopolitan Virtue and the Prospects for Physician-Patient Relations.” Dr. Tilburt’s current research interest is in investigating how cultural, age, and belief system differences affect healthcare decisions in clinical and policy contexts. He is also a fellow in the Division of General Internal Medicine and a trainee in the John’s Hopkins Complementary and Alternative Medicine Center.

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See Fogarty African “Bioethics” Trainees @ http://www.fabtp.com/about-fabtp/trainees/

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Undergraduate Interns

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Amy Marco

Johns Hopkins University 2011
Major: Philosophy; Minor: Bioethics

Email: kslifer@gmail.com

Amy Marco is a senior at Johns Hopkins University, studying Philosophy and Bioethics. Her primary area of interest is the philosophical implications of developments in science and technology. Her general interests include epistemology and philosophy of language and mind. Amy is also the current President of the Johns Hopkins Undergraduate Bioethics Society.

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Sabeeh Baig
Johns Hopkins University 2012
Major: Public Health; Anthropology
Email: sbaig1@jhu.edu

Sabeeh is a junior at Johns Hopkins University completing majors in Public Health and Anthropology with the eventual goal of becoming a physician. Sabeeh is also interested in moral philosophy and its intersection with Islamic mysticism or gnosis. It is this intersection that reinforces his interest in bioethics, as he is particularly interested in developing an Islamic discourse within bioethics. Besides this, Sabeeh conducts research on environmental carcinogens of liver cancer and has an interest in oncology.

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Brian Stackhouse

Johns Hopkins University 2012

Major: Cellular and Molecular Biology

Email: bstackh1@jhu.edu

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Former Greenwall Fellows

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Class of 2010

Eran Klein, M.D., Ph.D.

…is a Geriatric Neurology Fellow and Instructor of Neurology at Oregon Health and Sciences University and the Portland VA Medical Center. He received his M.D. and doctorate in philosophy from Georgetown University. He completed a neurology residency at Oregon Health and Sciences University. He was a Greenwall fellow from 2008-2010. He has worked broadly at the intersection of neurology, neuroscience, and philosophy. He is particularly interested in normative issues in aging and cognitive impairment, including consent and assent for research, advance directives, decision-making capacity, and ethical and policy implications of patient health incentive programs. He has published and taught courses in bioethics and neuroscience and ethics. He is co-editor with Jennifer Walter of The Story of Bioethics (Georgetown University Press, 2003.). Current position: Instructor, Layton Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Department of Neurology, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland, OR.

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Natalie Ram, A.M., J.D.

…earned her AB degree from Princeton University in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and her JD from the Yale Law School. At Yale she was an Articles & Essays Editor for Yale Law Journal, an Articles Editor for Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics, and a Coker Fellow in Legal Writing and Constitutional Law. She then went on to clerk for the Honorable Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Following her Greenwall Fellowship, Natalie serves as a law clerk to Justice Stephen G. Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court. Natalie’s current research interests include familial DNA matching in criminal investigation, the ethical and legal standards that govern human tissue research, and the implications of behavioral economics for informed consent. Current position: Clerkship with Justice Stephen G. Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court, Washington, D.C.

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Alan Rubel, Ph.D., J.D.

…received his Ph.D. from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Wisconsin Law School. Before graduate school he worked as a biological technician and ranger for the National Park Service. Prior to becoming a Greenwall Fellow, he served as a law clerk to Justice Ann Walsh Bradley of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. After completing the Greenwall Fellowship, Dr. Rubel accepted an assistant professorship at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has a joint appointment between the School of Library and Information Studies, where he teaches courses on Information and Information Agencies, and Information Ethics and Policy, and the Program in Legal Studies, where he teaches courses on Surveillance and Jurisprudence. He received an affiliate appointment at the Wisconsin Law School. His research seeks to combine issues in legal doctrine, information studies, and philosophy. Specifically, he continues to work on issues in public health and privacy, information dissemination, and fairness, and is expanding his research to cover questions regarding government information more broadly. His publications include articles on nanotechnology and surveillance, labeling genetically engineered foods, the medical privacy of presidential candidates, the USA Patriot Act, and persons’ claims to privacy. His current research focuses on public health surveillance, including the relation between public health and criminal surveillance, and persons’ claims to privacy in health information with respect to public health officials. Current position: Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Studies and Program in Legal Studies; Faculty Affiliate, Law School, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.

Class of 2009

Dan O Connor, Ph.D. (see above) is a Greenwall Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, with joint appointments in the Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Institute of the History of Medicine. Dan has a Ph.D. in the History of Medicine from the University of Warwick, UK, where he was the first Wellcome Trust Doctoral Fellow. He was also formerly a Lecturer in the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests are in transsexuality, cosmetic surgery, extreme body modification and non-healing uses of medical technology. He has also published on conceptions of the the body in popular culture, looking at sport, comic books, TV shows, and movies. Dan’s most recent project has focused on the phenomenon of transableism, which is analogous to transsexuality, except with patients seeking to become disabled in various ways (amputee, blind, deaf, MS, etc.) rather than changing sex. He has particularly focused on the role that the internet and digital social media has played in allowing transabled people to tell their stories and advocate for treatment. His current project explores the ethical challenges of Medicine 2.0 and the apomediation of medical information in social media environments. E-mail:doconnor@jhu.edu

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Michelle N. Meyer, Ph.D, J.D.

…received her A.B., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and with highest honors in her major from Dartmouth College. She earned a Ph.D. in Religious Studies (bioethics concentration) at the University of Virginia and J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was an Editor of the Harvard Law Review and Founding Co-Editor of the Harvard Law Review Forum. Following law school, she clerked for the Honorable Stanley Marcus of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She was a Greenwall Fellow from 2007-2009. Michelle has been a research at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Union Graduate College- Mt. Sinai School of Medicine Bioethics Program and an Institute Fellow at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government. She is currently an Academic Fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. Michelle’s work, which has appeared in the Hastings Center Report, the American Journal of Bioethics and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, among other places, has concerned stem cell research, human subjects research, reproduction, genetics, and comparative professional responsibility. Her current research explores the possibility of governing (some) human subjects research through private ordering rather than state regulation. Current position: Academic Fellow, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA. Current position: Academic Fellow, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA.

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Andrea Sutherland, M.D., M.P.H., M.Sc. focused on ethical challenges that are at the heart of many vaccine policy conundrums during her Greenwall Fellowship that included, for example, international obligations with respect to access to viral samples and vaccines for pandemic influenza, what constitutes an acceptable risk profile for a new vaccine, and whether, or under, what conditions the HPV vaccine should be made mandatory for children. Her other interests include global access to new vaccines, risk communication, pregnancy registries, risk analyses for vulnerable populations, pharmacogenomics, the development of global safety surveillance systems, vaccination policies for immigrants, and post-marketing randomized control trials. Current position: Medical officer and Special Assistant to the Director of the Division of Epidemiology in the Office of Biostatistics and Epidemiology in FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Rockville, MD.

Class of 2008

Leslie Meltzer Henry, J.D., M.Sc., Ph.D.(c) (see above) Leslie Meltzer Henry is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Law and an associate faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. She received her law degree from Yale Law School, obtained her Masters of Science in the history of medicine from the University of Oxford, and is earning her doctorate in ethics at the University of Virginia. Professor Henry’s scholarship in health policy includes a forthcoming book, Antidote: Strategies for Containing America’s Runaway Health Care Costs (co-edited with Gregg Bloche). Her work in bioethics has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the American Journal of Bioethics, and the Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics. In addition to her scholarly work, Professor Henry has served as a law clerk to the Honorable Judith Rogers of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, a bioethics consultant to the Department of Defense, a fellow in the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Human Subjects Research, and a peer reviewer for a variety of health policy journals. Her areas of interest include bioethics, public health law and ethics, global health and human rights, research ethics, and social justice. Email: http://www.law.umaryland.edu/faculty/profiles/faculty.html?facultynum=616#

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Yoram Unguru, M.D., M.S., M.A., FAAP (see above) Dr. Unguru is a pediatric hematologist/oncologist and has joint faculty appointments at The Herman and Walter Samuelson Children’s Hospital at Sinai and The Berman Institute of Bioethics, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. He is board certified both in Pediatrics and in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology. He earned his M.D. (valedictorian) at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology / Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine. His M.A. with a concentration in the history of medicine and medical ethics, and B.A. in historical studies, were granted at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Dr. Unguru also received a master of science (valedictorian) in interdisciplinary studies in biological and physical science at Touro College / Barry Z. Levine School of Health Sciences. He completed his pediatric residency at the Children’s Hospital at Sinai and his pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington DC. Dr. Unguru was a postdoctoral Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Public Policy at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Unguru is deeply interested in surrogate decision-making and the role of children and providers in facilitating shared decision-making among all relevant parties, moral issues that frequently arise in the context of pediatric hematology/oncology. He has published and spoken nationally on this topic. His interests also include ethics education and research ethics. As a pediatric resident, he was a founding member of the pediatric committee on end-of-life. He continues to serve as an ethics committee and IRB member, and is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics section on Bioethics. Dr. Unguru is also a member of the Children’s Oncology Group Committee on Bioethics. Dr. Unguru has recently implemented a clinical ethics curriculum for the pediatric housestaff at The Children’s Hospital at Sinai. Email: Yunguru@lifebridgehealth.org

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Sara Olack, Ph.D. earned her Ph.D. in philosophy at Harvard University and B.A. in philosophy at Rice University. Her studies as a doctoral student focused on moral and political philosophy, with an emphasis on applied political philosophy and the history of social contract theory. She taught philosophy in Harvard College and at the Kennedy School of Government and received the Emily and Charles Carrier Dissertation Prize for best dissertation on a subject in social, political, or moral philosophy. While a Greenwall Fellow, she completed projects on neuroimaging and moral psychology and on mental health care in developing countries. During her fellowship, she realized that her growing interest in direct patient care could be served best by studying medicine. She is currently a medical student at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, where she is involved in a project on the ethical acceptability of a novel form of organ transplantation, and in research on neuroimaging and pain. Email: sbolack@gmail.com

Class of 2007

Michelle H. Lewis, J.D., M.D. served as a Clinical Scholar in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. She received her B.A. in English and History from Stanford University, and her J.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Law. Pursuing an interest in health policy, she completed Pre-medical and Post-baccalaureate programs at Georgetown University and received her M.D. from Tulane University School of Medicine. Dr. Lewis completed her residency in Pediatrics at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She has worked on President Clinton’s White House Task Force on Health Care Reform as a health policy analyst for the White House Domestic Policy Council, as an intern at the Office of the District Attorney General, Child Support Enforcement Division in Nashville, TN, and as a Research Associate at the Institute for Health Care Research and Policy in Washington, DC. She has published abstracts and presented on the topic of informed decision-making in newborn screening, and has a manuscript in preparation to be published in a law review journal. During her Fellowship, she continued her research on the use of stored tissue samples, and worked on a project using secondary data analysis to explore the ability of primary care physicians to interpret genetic test results.Email: michellelewismd@yahoo.com

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Elisa A. Hurley, Ph.D.

…earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy at Georgetown University, and her B.A. in Philosophy magna cum laude at Brown University. In her doctoral research, Dr. Hurley has pursued solutions to several philosophical puzzles about how feelings and conceptual content come together to form a distinct category of mental states, “the emotions.” Her solutions to these puzzles turn on the practical contributions that emotions make to the way we conduct our lives, particularly with respect to the values we commit ourselves to. Dr. Hurley has taught courses at Georgetown on subjects such as Ethics, Values, and the Emotions. She has also assisted with research in the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the National Institutions of Health (NIH). In her current scholarship, Dr. Hurley sought to examine the potential impact of cognitive neuroscience on conceptions of moral agency and on moral agency itself, specifically through the effects of neuro-interventions – whether intended as therapy or enhancement – upon emotional capacities. Email: ehurley3@uwo.ca

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Eileen H. Kim, M.A., M.D. served as a chief fellow in critical care medicine at Rush University Medical Center. She received her B.A. in Comparative Literature and Political Science from Columbia University, and worked as financial analyst for Citibank before returning to graduate school to earn her Masters in International Affairs, specializing in International Political Economy. Pursuing an interest in health care policy and education, she went to Cornell University Medical College and completed an internship and a residency in Internal Medicine at Rush University Medical Center. Dr. Kim has worked as Teaching Assistant in the Department of Anatomy at Cornell University Medical College, and as Research Assistant in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University as well as the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. In 2004, she had a poster presentation at the American Thoracic Society’s 100^thInternational Conference. The poster session was entitled “Respiratory and Sleep Measures in Bariatric Surgery Patients: Assessing Desaturation Risk.” To enhance quality assurance, she has also conducted research to examine outcomes and clinical characteristics of patients triaged to the medical intensive care unit. During her Greenwall Fellowship, Dr. Kim looked in depth at the question of how to allocate available medical resources in the intensive care setting without any compromise of patient care and patient autonomy. Email:leenhkim@gmail.com

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Dan Moller, Ph.D., completed his dissertation on Abortion, Killing and Overdetermination, in the Department of Philosophy, Princeton University. He received his B.A. from VassarCollegewith departmental honors, majoring in Philosophy and English, and a minor in Greek. He received his B. Phil from OxfordUniversity. The focus of his studies as a doctoral candidate have been moral and political philosophy, and standard and applied ethics including bioethics. Dan is the recipient of such honors as Graduate Prize Fellow at the Center for Human Values, PrincetonUniversity, and Harry Ordan Prize for Promise at Teaching, VassarCollege. Among his publications are “Parfit on Pains, Pleasure and the Time of their Occurrence” in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 32(2002), 67-82, and “An Argument against Marriage” in Philosophy, 79 (2004), 475-481. During his Greenwall Fellowship, he plans to focus on medical and policy issues, when and how extreme, costly, and experimental medical procedures are used, and how to assess moral risk in decision-making. Email:dmoller@umd.edu

Class of 2006

Ruth M. Farrell completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University Hospital of Cleveland. Dr. Farrell received her M.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, her MA in Bioethics from Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies, and her B.A. in Philosophy from University of Chicago. At University Hospitals of Cleveland, Dr. Farrell was the Resident Member of the MacDonald Women’s Hospital Obstetrics Quality Assurance Committee, Secretary of the MacDonald Women’s Hospital Ethics Committee, University Hospitals of Cleveland Residency Representative for American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and a Member of the Department of Bioethics Advisory Board at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Dr. Farrell was also founder and coordinator of Obstetrics and Gynecology Residents Ethics Curriculum at the University Hospital of Cleveland and co-taught several courses on ethics and reproduction in the undergraduate, graduate, medicine, and law schools at Case Western Reserve University. Her research interests include the development and clinical application of assisted reproductive technologies, with an emphasis on preimplantation genetics diagnosis, and informed consent in reproductive medicine. Email:mailto:farreier@ccf.org

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S. Matthew Liao is a Visiting Researcher at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. He was the Harold T. Shapiro Research Fellow in Bioethics at the Center for Human Values at Princeton University in 2003-2004. He obtained his doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University and recently finished writing two books, The Right of Children to Be Loved, and The Moral Status of Human Beings. Email:matthew.liao@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

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Jonathan H. Marks is a barrister, accredited mediator and founding member of Matrix Chambers, London. He received his master’s degree (Jurisprudence) and B.C.L. (LL.M. equivalent) from Worcester College, Oxford University. Jonathan has been in legal practice for over a decade, and has litigated and advised on issues of international law, European law, health and human rights. He is a veteran of the Pinochet case and he represented Dr. Nancy Olivieri in the European Court of Justice in her efforts to quash the European marketing authorization (similar to an FDA approval) for the pharmaceutical compound, deferiprone. Jonathan has taught and lectured in the UK, continental Europe, the US and Australia. In 2002, he was Director of the Policy Task Force on “Lawful Responses to Terrorism after 9/11″ at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. In 2003 – 4, he was Visiting Professor of Law at UNC Law School at Chapel Hill, where he taught courses on international law and litigation (including the law of the WTO and its dispute settlement procedures) as well as his course on terrorism. Jonathan has published a number of articles and book chapters on a wide range of topics including the prosecution of public officials who commit serious human rights violations, environmental liability in the private sector and the implications of direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs. His current research interests include the tension between human rights and the protection of public health (particularly in the context of bioterrorism), and the conflicts of interest and other ethical challenges that arise when pharmaceutical companies are involved in clinical trials and drug promotion. Jonathan is also exploring the legal and ethical challenges that arise when medical personnel are deployed in combat zones, a topic he recently considered with co-author, M. Gregg Bloche, in ‘When Doctors Go To War’ (New England Journal of Medicine, Jan. 6, 2005). Email:jmarks@uncc.edu

Class of 2005

Gwynne L. Jenkins is a medical anthropologist, and Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Women’s Studies at the University of Kansas. Dr. Jenkins received her Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University at Albany – SUNY, and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics. Her research focuses on the politics of reproduction and health development. Much of her ethnographic research has focused on the discursive intersection of birth and modernity in development, especially with regard to home birth and hospital birth in the Global South. Dr. Jenkins is developing a new research project concerned with surgical sterilization policies as they relate to family planning and population programming, and the confrontation of local moral worlds with the globalized moral worlds framing reproductive rights. During the spring and summer of 2003, Dr. Jenkins began fieldwork on these issues in Costa Rica thanks to a J. William Fulbright Scholar award. Email:mailto:gwynnej@gmail.com

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Rebecca Kukla is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Political Science at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada), and is currently a Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy at both Johns Hopkins University and Georgetown University. She received her B.A. from the University of Toronto and her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, both in Philosophy. Her book, Mass Hysteria: Fixing the Boundaries of Mothers’ Bodies is forthcoming from Rowman and Littlefield in the series “Explorations in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities”. Her interests in bioethics concern the rhetoric and dissemination of public health information (especially information for pregnant women and new mothers), media representations of health and medicine, the ethics and politics of infant feeding, reproductive health and freedoms, the ethics of primary care, physician authority in health care decisions, patients’ responsibilities with respect to their own health care, the case for universal socialized health insurance, access to health care for vulnerable populations, and cultural and historical conceptions of monstrosity and morphology and their ethical significance. Email: mailto:rkukla@gmail.com

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Dan Larrivierre is completing a fellowship in neuromuscular disease in the Department of Neurology at the University of Virginia. Dan received his B.A. from Southwestern University, J.D. from Southern Methodist University, School of Law and his M.D. from Baylor College of Medicine. He spent one year as a medical malpractice attorney before entering medical school. Dan was introduced to the field of bioethics when he joined a colleague at the University of Virginia in developing a course for a multi-disciplinary audience on law and ethics in neurological care. His clinical practice is in the field of ALS. Dan’s particular interests are in the impact of chronic, irreversible neurologic diseases on quality of life. As a Greenwall Fellow, he is further developing his interests in bioethics, and hopes to make a contribution to the academic literature and develop a research agenda in the field of elder mistreatment. Email: mailto:DGL6T@virginia.edu

Class of 2004

Mark Greene received his B.V.Sc. (veterinary science) from the University of Bristol, UK and worked in mixed general veterinary practice for three years before turning full-time to philosophy with an master’s degree in applied ethics at the University of Hull, UK. After an M.Litt. in philosophy back at Bristol , in 2002 he completed his Ph.D. in Ethics and Modality in the Philosophy Department at Stanford University . Following this quite theoretical work, the Greenwall Fellowship marked a return to more practical applications of ethical theory and also broadened Dr. Greene’s interests into policy issues. As a Fellow, he spent his summer internship at the Institute of Medicine working on ethical issues concerning clinical research policy, children as research subjects, and medical implants in children. His writings have focused on ethical issues in germ-line genetic therapy, and the relationship between genetics and human identity; current research and teaching interests include such issues as biological determinants of individual identity, the creation of and duties to future people, and biology and moral responsibility. He is presently a member of the Philosophy Department at the University of Delaware, and involved with the developing bioethics program at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute. Email: mailto:mkgreene@udel.edu

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Debra Mathews completed her Ph.D. in Genetics at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Mathews has a Master’s degree in Bioethics from Case Western and a Bachelor’s in Biology from Penn State University. Her scientific research interests are in human genetic variation and the history of human genes. Her interests in bioethics and public policy focus on the intersection of science and scientists, the government and the general public. Dr. Mathews was a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics & Health Policy from 2002-2004. During this time she was also a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Institute of Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Her internship during the Greenwall Fellowship was spent at the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), Office of Science and Data Policy. She worked with the Privacy Advocate for DHHS on issues related to creating large databases for integrating social services. Recently, Dr. Mathews joined the faculty of the Berman Institute, where she is the Assistant Director of Science Programs.

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Naomi Seiler received her undergraduate degree in biology and women’s studies magna cum laude from Harvard University, and completed her J.D. at Yale Law School . She is chair of the Yale Health Law Society, Senior Editor of the Yale Law and Policy Review, and co-founder and co-chair of the American Constitution Society of Law and Policy at Yale. Ms. Seiler has been involved in a variety of health policy related activities, including work for Gay Men’s Health Crisis on state and local policy on HIV, disability, and health care access, research for the United Nations Latin American Institute on contraceptive sterilization laws, and counseling of Medicare beneficiaries and writing on Medicare policy for the Medicare Rights Center. During her Fellowship, Ms. Seiler worked with Drs. Ruth Faden and Holly Taylor on ethical considerations related to the implementation of the proposed national smallpox vaccination program, which resulted in two articles and two peer reviewed commentaries for the American Journal of Bioethics. For her internship, she worked on Congressman Henry Waxman’s Government Reform Committee Staff on tobacco policy and other health issues. Ms. Seiler is currently Minority Counsel on the Staff of Representatives Committee on Government Reform. Email: mailto:nkseiler@gmail.com

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Jon Tilburt completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical Center. Dr. Tilburt received his M.D. from Vanderbilt University, and his bachelor’s in philosophy from Yale University . He was awarded Vanderbilt University’s Dixon Burns Memorial Prize for writing in medical ethics for his essay, “Cosmopolitan Virtue and the Prospects for Physician-Patient Relations.” For his summer internship as a Greenwall Fellow, he was a legislative fellow in the office of Senator Orrin Hatch, where he worked on the Prescription Drug and Medicare Improvement Act of 2003, regulation of harmful nutritional supplements, and helped draft legislation on cord blood banking, which he later presented at the National ASBH meeting in October, 2004. He is currently a fellow in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins, and a trainee in the Johns Hopkins Complementary and Alternative Medicine Center, where he focuses his research on investigating how cultural, age, and belief system differences affect doctor-patient communication. Email: mailto:tilburt.jon@mayo.edu

Class of 2003

David Bekelman received his medical degree from Emory University and his undergraduate degree in philosophy from Princeton. He completed a dual-residency in psychiatry and internal medicine at the University of Iowa last year. While a medical student, Dr. Bekelman published articles on ethics education and germ-line gene therapy, and assisted in the development of an ethics curriculum at Emory Medical School . During his Fellowship, Dr. Bekelman also completed his MPH degree at Hopkins and focused his research on the conceptualization of autonomous choice in patients with depression and other psychiatric illnesses. He did his summer internship at Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law where he investigated compliance in medically and psychiatrically ill patients, developing a paper that argued for changes in outpatient commitment policy. He is currently an Instructor in the Department of Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an attending physician with the Hospice of Baltimore and the Greater Baltimore Medical Center. Email: mailto:david.bekelman@ucdenver.edu

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Jacqueline Fox received her law degree as well as a master’s degree in legal history and philosophy from Georgetown Law Center, and did her undergraduate studies at Sarah Lawrence College. Ms. Fox has specialized in representing clients in their appeals with managed care organizations. She is one of a small number of attorneys with expertise in this area, and as such has been consulted extensively by lawmakers and the media on the issue of managed care reform. She has spoken at several national meetings on the issue, and has served as a lecturer at Sarah Lawrence College’s Master’s in Patient Advocacy Program. Ms. Fox is currently working on a law review article on ethical and legal issues surrounding managed care. Ms. Fox is currently the Donaghue Visiting Scholar at Yale University’s Bioethics Project and will be joining the faculty of the University of South Carolina’s Law School in the academic year of 2005-2006 as a professor of health law and bioethics. Her areas of focus are: the legality of Medicare resource allocation choices; and the impact of pharmaceutical corporations’ ownership of data on human research subjects. Email: foxjr@law.sc.edu

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Carol Moeller received her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, and her undergraduate degree from Oberlin College . As a Fellow, she focused on issues at the intersection of ethics and feminist philosophy. She has always had an abiding interest in health and social equity issues, and co-founded an AIDS prevention organization, Prevention Point Pittsburgh. She did her summer internship at the Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy, working on a study on the Ethics of Clinical Research with Children. Dr. Moeller is currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Moravian College, where she also taught prior to joining the Greenwall Fellowship. Email: moeller@moravia.edu

Class of 2002

Mary Catherine Beach received her B.A. from Barnard, M.D. from Mount Sinai, and MPH from Johns Hopkins. As a Fellow, Dr. Beach focused her research and writing on the impact of do-not-resuscitate orders on physician decision-making, physicians’ conception of loyalty to patients and social justice, and on the question of whether there is public support for incorporation of cost-effectiveness data in physicians’ cancer screening recommendations. She has given presentations on these topics at several national meetings. Dr. Beach did her summer internship in the office of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, where she worked on such issues as the patients’ rights, mental health parity, human subject protection, genetic discrimination, human cloning and stem cell research. In addition to her research, Dr. Beach has served as a small group facilitator for the Physician and Society course at the Johns Hopkins Medical School. Dr. Beach is the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar Award and a K-08 Award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. She is currently Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Policy Management at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and a core faculty member of the Berman Institute. She conducts research on related issues of respect for persons, respect for autonomy in clinical care, patient-physician communication and cultural competence. Email: mcbeach@jhmi.edu

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Gail Javitt received her B.A. from Columbia University, her J.D. from Harvard, and her MPH from Johns Hopkins. Prior to entering the Fellowship, Ms. Javitt was an associate at Covington and Burling, where she specialized in FDA regulatory issues. As a Fellow she published papers on “Health Promotion and the First Amendment: Government Control of the Informational Environment” and on “Cancer Prevention and the Law.” She also co-taught a course on Health Law and Regulation, and served as a small group facilitator for Principles and Practice of Injury Prevention, both at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Ms. Javitt did her summer internship in the Office of Policy at the Food and Drug Administration, where she worked on policies related to the regulation of biological products. Currently, Ms. Javitt is Research Scholar at the Genetics and Public Policy Center, JHU, and Adjunct Faculty at the University of Maryland School of Law.

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James Taggart received his law degree from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Brown University. As a Fellow, Dr. Taggart explored the question of what modes of moral reasoning should be involved in health care rationing decisions, and looked at how different distributional schemes for new biomedical technologies and the technologies themselves impact various social values. Dr. Taggart spent his summer internship working for the National Human Research Protection Advisory Committee on issues related to the oversight of research with human subjects in the social and behavioral sciences. In addition to his research and policy work, Dr. Taggart taught bioethics courses in the Georgetown philosophy department. Dr. Taggart continues to publish and give presentations as a philosopher-bioethicist. Email: mailto:jctagg@verizon.net

Class of 2001

Anne Drapkin Lyerly received her medical degree from Duke University and her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth . She did her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Duke. During the Fellowship, Dr. Lyerly pursued a master’s degree in philosophy at Georgetown. Her research and writing activity centered around maternal-fetal surgery, assisted reproductive technology, and formal methods for the distribution of health care resources, specifically decisions regarding hormone replacement therapy. She published articles and gave several conference presentations on these topics during the Fellowship. Dr. Lyerly served as an Instructor in the Division of Gynecologic Specialities at Johns Hopkins, and as a member of the Johns Hopkins Assisted Reproductive Technology Oversight Committee. For her summer internship, she worked on the staff of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, where she produced a background paper for the commissioners on the regulation of assisted reproductive technologies in the United States . After her Fellowship, she received a Presidential Award from the Greenwall Foundation to pursue a study of individuals’ attitudes regarding their cryopreserved embryos. She recently co-authored a book with Mary Mahowald (of the University of Chicago ), Obgynethics: Variables and Verities in Women’s Health Care (Oxford University Press). Dr. Lyerly is currently Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Faculty Associate at the Center for Medical Ethics and Humanities at Duke University. Email: lyer1003@mc.duke.edu

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Marc Spindelman received his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School and his undergraduate degree from Johns Hopkins. Prior to entering the Fellowship, he was a law clerk in the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals and the Reginald F. Lewis Fellow for Law Teaching at Harvard Law School. Mr. Spindelman’s research as a Fellow focused principally on physician-assisted suicide and on discrimination against lesbians and gays. During the Fellowship, he published several articles on these issues and established a strong research agenda for future work in these areas. He also taught a seminar on Assisted Suicide at Georgetown Law Center, as well as Ethical Issues in Public Health at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Mr. Spindelman did his summer internship at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. At the FDA, he was asked to investigate the Agency’s original decision to approve a drug to market that, once released, turned out to have unanticipated toxicities that resulted in a number of serious adverse events, including some deaths. Mr. Spindelman’s work at the FDA led to his writing a paper, “The Ethics of Equality at the FDA,” which he has presented at several law schools. Mr. Spindelman is presentlyAssistant Professor of Law at the Ohio State University College of Law, where he has been teaching health law and bioethics, as well as continuing the research program he started as a Fellow. He is also Faculty Associate at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Email: mailto:spindelm@umich.edu

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Rebecca Walker received her undergraduate degree and Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University. Dr. Walker’s research as a Greenwall Fellow focused on three writing projects, “Morality and the Limits of Societal Values in Health Care Allocation,” “Rationality and Autonomy,” and “Bioethics at the Institute of Medicine : 1975-2000.” The first project, co-authored with Andrew Siegel, was accepted for publication in Health Economics. Dr. Walker presented the paper on autonomy at several conferences and colloquia, and later submitted it for publication. The paper on bioethics at the Institute of Medicine was commissioned by the IOM after she worked there during her summer internship. While an intern at the IOM, Dr. Walker worked with the Board on Health Sciences Policy, and drafted the study proposal for a project on establishing accreditation standards for IRBs, as well as a proposal for a study on assisted reproductive technologies. In her second year as a Fellow, Dr. Walker taught a bioethics course for the Masters of Liberal Arts program at Johns Hopkins. After completing the Greenwall Fellowship in 2001, Dr. Walker served in a joint appointment as Project Director for the Life Sciences, Values and Society Program and Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She is currently Assistant Professor of Social Medicine and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Departments of Social Medicine and Philosophy at UNC Chapel Hill. Dr. Walker regularly teaches an undergraduate course in Bioethics, a “Medicine and Society” course for first year medical students, and a course on the allocation of scarce medical resources to both advanced philosophy students and second year medical students. Email: rwalker@med.unc.edu

Class of 2000

Debra DeBruin earned a doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh, and her bachelor’s degree from Carleton College. Dr. DeBruin was an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago prior to entering the Fellowship Program. As a Fellow she pursued a set of projects on the protection of vulnerable populations in human subjects research. She also taught courses in the philosophy departments of Georgetown University and Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins. During her summer internship and the fall of her second year as a Greenwall Fellow, Dr. DeBruin worked as a Legislative Fellow in Senator Kennedy’s health policy office, where she was assigned to address aspects of Medicare reform, the reauthorization of the Older Americans Act, mental health and substance abuse issues, and issues concerning pain management, end-of-life care, and physician assisted suicide. After her Fellowship, she worked as a consultant to the National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine and the National Bioethics Advisory Commission; She also served as Project Director for the Robert H. Levi Leadership Symposium on the ethics of Medicare reform, a forum that brought together scholars and policy makers for discussion of Medical reform issues. Currently, Dr. DeBruin is Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the Center for Bioethics, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School. She continues to conduct research on Medicare reform, and is pursuing projects on the concerns of nurses working in clinical trials and on the challenges of conducting research in a multi-cultural environment. Email: mailto:debru004@umn.edu

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Ileana Dominguez-Urban received her law degree from Northwestern University School of Law, and her bachelor’s from Princeton University . Prior to entering the Greenwall Program, Ms. Dominguez-Urban was an assistant professor of law at Southern Illinois University. Her teaching and writing has focused on legal definitions of parenthood and other reproductive issues, medical futility and the right to die, pharmaceutical research, and the use of mediation in dispute resolution. Ms. Dominguez-Urban spent her summer internship at the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Health Policy, examining the issue of research involving subjects who may be decisionally impaired. She continued to work on the topic for DHHS in the second year of her fellowship and after completing the fellowship. She currently works as a free-lance consultant. Email: idomingu@comcast.net

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Carol Vannier received her undergraduate and medical degrees from Johns Hopkins University. She completed a residency in internal medicine at Case Western Reserve University and is board certified in both internal medicine and anesthesiology, with a certificate of special qualifications in critical care medicine. During the first year of her Fellowship, Dr. Vannier also completed a Masters of Public Health. She did her summer internship with Senator James Jeffords, and the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, working on privacy bills, Medicaid issues, and the Patient’s Bill of Rights. During the Fellowship, she conducted research on cost-benefit analyses of ICU patient care strategies. Dr. Vannier is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Email: mailto:cvannier@jhmi.edu

Class of 1999

Melissa M. Goldstein graduated with honors from Yale Law School in 1995 and received an undergraduate degree with concentration in bioethics from University of Virginia in 1992. At Yale Law School , she was notes editor for the Yale Law Journal and editor of the Yale Law & Policy Review. After graduating from law school, Ms. Goldstein clerked for two judges: The Honorable Morton I. Greenberg, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and The Honorable Sidney H. Stein, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. During her Greenwall Fellowship, Ms. Goldstein served as a research fellow at the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, where she also did her summer internship, examining legal issues in human subjects research and genetics. She taught a course on Law, Medicine, and Ethics at Georgetown Law Center, and served as a small group instructor for a medical ethics course for medical students at Georgetown Medical School . After completing the Fellowship, Ms. Goldstein was awarded the highly coveted White House Fellowship. She worked as a Domestic Policy Advisor to Vice President Al Gore through January, 2001, when the Clinton-Gore administration ended. In 2004, Ms. Goldstein joined the Kerry-Edwards general election campaign to help coordinate the campaign’s efforts on embryonic stem cell and other medical research issues. In addition, she helped develop and implement the campaign’s internet efforts for policy outreach and helped build networks of policy teams on various issues across the country. Before joining the campaign, Ms. Goldstein most recently worked as a senior litigation associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, and Flom LLP in Washington, D.C. She writes a quarterly column for the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and was a member of the Ethics Committee of the Columbia Hospital for Women in Washington , D.C. Email: mailto:mgoldste@gwu.edu

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James Hodge has a Masters of Law degree from Georgetown University Law Center, and a J.D. from the Salmon P. Chase College of Law. As a Fellow, Mr. Hodge wrote law review articles on HIV reporting policies, prenatal HIV transmission, and public health federalism. He also taught courses on Public Health Law and Health Law and Policy at Georgetown Law Center. He spent his summer internship in the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, where he helped develop federal policy for protecting the confidentiality of health and research records. Since completing the Fellowship, Mr. Hodge has published numerous scholarly articles on various topics including as genetics exceptionalism, health information privacy, vaccination policy, and bioterrorism. He has directed a number of major health policy projects, including the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act Project, Model State Public Health Privacy Act, and Genetics Legislation Project. He has also been a consultant to dozens of governmental and private sector agencies. Professor Hodge is currently a core faculty member of the Berman Institute; Executive Director of the Center for Law and Public’s Health, and Associate Professor of Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.

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John Song earned his B.A. and MAT in English from Brown University before attending medical school at the University of Pennsylvania . Dr. Song came to the Program with a strong interest in issues related to HIV care for disenfranchised and vulnerable populations. As a Fellow, he focused his work principally on the issue of HIV and homelessness. He spent his summer internship at the HIV/AIDS bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration, where he continued to work after the internship on preparing a report on HIV among the homeless population, including recommendations and practice guidelines for the care of homeless people with HIV/AIDS. This project culminated in the first national conference on the issue and a publication that was distributed to all federally funded community health centers. He also earned an MPH degree and completed a fellowship in General Internal Medicine while he was at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Song is currently an Assistant Professor at the Center for Bioethics and the Department of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School, where he continues to do research and publish on issues related to the health of homeless populations, and serves the homeless community as a physician. His current clinical activities include maintaining a practice at the Community University Health Care Clinic (CUHCC) in South Minneapolis ; he also founded and serves as medical director for The Phillips Neighborhood Clinic, a free health clinic staffed by volunteers and students with a dual mission of serving those without insurance and professional education. He teaches bioethics in the Medical School and develops programs for students and residents, and has a curricular and research interest in bioethics education, especially in defining the objectives and goals of bioethics and professionalism education for medical students. Dr. Song serves currently as a Principal Investigator on two research efforts – a project focusing on the end of life concerns of homeless persons funded by the National Institutes of Health and the development of a curriculum in professionalism funded by the American Medical Association. Email: mailto:songx006@tc.umn.edu

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Sonia Suter, a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, taught at the University of Michigan Law School for two years before beginning the Greenwall Fellowship. Ms. Suter, who has a Master’s degree in Human Genetics from the University of Michigan , focuses on genetics and law. In the first month of her Greenwall Fellowship, Ms. Suter was appointed by Michigan Governor John Engler to serve on the Michigan Commission on Genetic Privacy and Progress, an eleven-member commission comprised of experts on genetic policy and law. In the second year of her Fellowship, Ms. Suter was invited to serve on a panel to assist the National Conference of State Legislatures’ Legislative Task Force in developing a state policy framework for genetic technologies. In her summer internship, she worked at the Institute of Medicine on reimbursement criteria for Medicare coverage of genetic testing. As a Fellow, she taught a seminar on Genetics and Law at Georgetown Law Center, and produced two publications in this area. Ms. Suter is presently Associate Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School , where she has continued to be a productive scholar, publishing on topics such as stem cells, genetic testing, genetics exceptionalism, and physician-assisted suicide. She also continues to serve on national advisory committees addressing ethical and policy issues in genetics. Email: ssuter@law.gwu.edu

Class of 1998

Ellen Agard is a nurse who has an M.P.H. degree and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies, with a focus on feminist ethics, from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. She has had an extensive career in clinical nursing and health policy and worked with the California legislature on health care coverage for California’s families before beginning the Greenwall Fellowship. As a Fellow, Dr. Agard’s research focused on the ethic of care in nursing and on the relationship between cultural diversity and informed consent, and she published articles on both topics. In addition to her research, she taught a course, Ethical Issues in Public Health Policy, at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Dr. Agard did her internship at the Institutes of Medicine, and upon completion of the fellowship she was hired to continue work at the IOM as a Senior Program Officer in the Division of Health Care Services. In this capacity she served as Study Director for two major IOM reports, Non-Heart-Beating Organ Transplantation: The Ethical Basis for Practice and Protocol, and Creating in the IOM an Ongoing Interface Between the American Health Care System and the American Legal System. Dr. Agard is currently an R.N. at Bayside Medical Center in Springfield, MA. Email: mailto:ellensagard@aol.com

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Lauren Randel received her B.A. degree summa cum laude from Yale University and her M.D. from Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. She completed her residency in psychiatry at Georgetown before beginning the Greenwall Fellowship Program. For her internship as a Fellow, she worked at the Agency for Health Care Policy Research (AHCPR) with Dr. Carolyn Clancy, Director of the Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research, in defining the AHCPR’s research agenda with respect to ethics and managed care. Upon completion of the Fellowship, she was hired to continue her work at AHCPR as a Special Expert, as well as a Special Expert in the Department of Bioethics at the Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center at NIH. She has co-authored an article on “Drug Coverage Decisions: The Role of Dollars and Values,” in Health Affairs. She currentlyworks in private practice as a psychiatrist in D.C., and is Clinical Assistant Professor at Georgetown University Department of Psychiatry. Email: mailto:lrandelmd@hotmail.com

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Andrew Siegel has a law degree and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin. As a first-year Greenwall Fellow, Dr. Siegel served as staff attorney to the Task Force on Genetic Testing of the NIH Working Group on the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) of the Human Genome Project. For his summer internship, Dr. Siegel worked as a legislative fellow under Senator Edward M. Kennedy in the U.S. Senate Labor and Human Relations Committee. In this capacity he was responsible for preparing the Senator for hearings on human cloning and NIH allocation issues. As a Fellow, Dr. Siegel taught courses in the Georgetown Philosophy Department, the Johns Hopkins Philosophy Dept., and at Georgetown Law Center. After the Fellowship, he served for a year as Staff Philosopher for President Clinton’s National Bioethics Advisory Commission, where he played a central role in shaping the Commission’s report on the ethics of stem cell research. Since August 1999, Dr. Siegel has been core faculty and Associate Director of Academic Programs at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on a wide range of issues in bioethics, such as stem cell research, physician assisted suicide, allocation of health resources, and vaccination policies.

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Leslie Wolf, a graduate of Harvard Law School , clerked for the Massachusetts Appeals Court and practiced as a litigator with a San Francisco law firm before beginning her Greenwall Fellowship. She earned her B.A. degree from Stanford University, with distinction, and participated in the Stanford in Berlin program, conducting research comparing American and German AIDS policies. Ms. Wolf earned an MPH degree from Johns Hopkins as a first year Greenwall Fellow and then did a summer internship in the office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) in the Department of Health and Human Services. Her primary responsibility was conducting research on state consumer grievance procedures related to health plans, which provided the groundwork for federal legislation on consumer rights to external appeals. As a second year Fellow, Ms. Wolf taught a course on bioethics to students in a biotechnology Masters degree program at Johns Hopkins University. In addition, she worked closely with Georgetown Law Professor Patricia King on a paper on physician-assisted suicide, which was published in the Minnesota Law Review, and in a book, Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate. After the Fellowship, Ms. Wolf joined the faculty of the University of California , San Francisco and is currentlyan Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Program in Medical Ethics and the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies. At UCSF, she serves on the Committee on Human Research, the General Clinical Research Center Advisory Committee, and the Campus Advisory Committee on the Ethics of Oocyte, Stem Cell, and Embryo Research. She is also a Greenwall Faculty Scholar conducting research on non-financial conflicts of interests, has conducted research on various topics in research ethics, including Certificates of Confidentiality, HIV-related laws and policies, IRB web guidance, and other human participant protection issues, and teaches courses in research ethics and medical ethics at UCSF. Email: mailto:lwolf@gsu.edu

Class of 1997

David McCarthy is a philosopher with degrees from Oxford University and the University of Southern California. Dr. McCarthy published four articles in prestigious journals during his Greenwall Fellowship, and has produced numerous subsequent articles. His summer internship was spent at the Institute of Medicine, where he worked with Valerie Setlow, Director of the Division for the Health Sciences Policy, and others on ethical issues related to public health and infectious diseases, and on ways of measuring quality of life. He also prepared a report on ethical issues in xenotransplantation in connection with a conference between the Institute of Medicine and the Nuffield Council of Bioethics. During his Fellowship, Dr. McCarthy also took courses in health policy and taught courses in the Georgetown Philosophy Department and the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. After the Fellowship, he joined the Bioethics faculty at the University of Melbourne, published articles on human cloning and on the ethics of sex selection, and was awarded a grant from the Australian Research Council to pursue a study on “The Value of Nonmedical Information Emerging from the Human Genome Project.” He is currently a Reader in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. Email: mailto:david.mccarthy1@gmail.com

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Former Doctoral Students

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Ingrid Burger, M.D., Ph.D. received her medical degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and her doctorate from the program in Bioethics and Health Policy at the Bloomberg School of Public Health in May 2007. Her clinical interests are in diagnostic and interventional radiology and her research interests involve ethics and policy issues concerning the emergence and diffusion of medical technology. Her dissertation work focused on ethics and policy issues related to direct-to-consumer marketing of CT screening services to the public. She is currently interning at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, and will begin radiology residency training at the University of California, San Francisco in July, 2008.

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Neal Dickert, M.D., Ph.D. is currently a house officer in the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. In 2006, Neal received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and his doctorate from the program in Bioethics and Health Policy at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. His doctoral dissertation, “Maintaining respect at the margins of agency: respect for persons and research in emergency settings,” focused on understanding the meaning and demands of the principle of respect for persons when doing research with participants who have diminished or absent capacity for rational agency. In particular, Neal concentrated on the challenges of conducting research in emergency settings when informed consent is not practicable. Prior to coming to Hopkins, Neal graduated from Dartmouth College in 1997 with a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and completed a two-year pre-doctoral fellowship in the NIH Department of Clinical Bioethics. In addition to his dissertation work, Neal is interested in and has published work on offering incentives to participants in clinical research, the process of community consultation for clinical research, consent requirements for cadaveric organ procurement, and ethical issues arising in the conduct of research in the developing world. After residency in internal medicine, Neal will start a fellowship in cardiology at Emory University and plans to develop an academic career investigating important ethical and policy issues arising in clinical and academic cardiology.

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Jane Forman, Sc.D. , MHS earned her Sc.D. from the Program in Law, Ethics, and Health (2001) and an MHS in Health Finance and Management (1991), both at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her undergraduate training was at Harvard College, where she earned an A.B. degree in 1985. Dr. Forman is a Research Scientist and Director of Qualitative Research at the Department of Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research. At the VA, she collaborates with and mentors investigators in the design, data collection, and analysis phases of studies that include qualitative research methods. These studies include: understanding how patients with incurable, progressive illness are cared for within primary care and oncology, and the factors that foster or hinder the provision of effective palliative care; analyzing communication about diabetes self-management in visits between patients and their primary care physicians; identifying factors that facilitate and impede the adoption of evidence-based infection prevention practices in hospitals; and evaluating an intervention to improve antipsychotic medication adherence among patients with serious mental illness. Dr. Forman teaches qualitative methods to investigators in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at the University of Michigan Medical School. As part of the Program in Bioethics at the University of Michigan, Dr. Forman is a co-investigator on NIH-funded project that is developing, implementing and evaluating a course designed to improve the knowledge and skills of investigators for obtaining valid consent from potential research volunteers. Dr. Forman is a member of the ethics committee at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, where, as a volunteer, she is leading a project to improve communication about goals of care between the medical team and families of critically ill patients. She is the author of a chapter on Qualitative Content Analysis in an upcoming book on empirical research methods in bioethics to be published by Elsevier.

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Jason Gerson, Ph.D. is currently a faculty member in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He received his doctorate in Bioethics and Health Policy from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He received his B.A. in bioethics from Brown University. Prior to arriving at Hopkins, Dr. Gerson worked in New York City’s Mayor’s Office of Health Policy and the New York City Administration for Children’s Services designing, implementing and evaluating health services. His dissertation project focused on developing an account of health-related capabilities, building on the work of Amartya Sen, Martha Nussbaum and Jennifer Prah Ruger. The research examined how health-related capabilities might be operationalized and measured, and how this might inform health policy and program evaluation. Dr. Gerson is currently working on projects examining the role biological mechanism plays in the development of new medical and public health interventions. His other research interests include understanding the scope of health equity claims, behavioral economics in public health, and the role of philanthropy in health policy. Dr. Gerson can be reached at jgerson@jhsph.edu.

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Carlton Haywood Jr., Ph.D., M.A. , is an Associate Faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and an Assistant Professor in the Division of Hematology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Haywood recently received his doctorate in Bioethics and Health Policy from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Haywood received his undergraduate degree in Religious Studies (1999), and his masters degree in Bioethics (2003), from the University of Virginia. Dr. Haywood conducts empirical bioethics and health services research related to Sickle Cell Disease. Additionally, Dr. Haywood is interested in the articulation of African American perspectives in bioethics. Dr. Haywood’s dissertation examined the association of patient-centered care with trust in the medical profession among adults with sickle cell disease. Dr. Haywood’s dissertation and doctoral training were funded by a National Research Service Award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes for Health (NIH). Dr. Haywood’s professional activities include involvement in sickle cell initiatives at the state and federal level. Dr. Haywood serves on Maryland’s Statewide Steering Committee on Services for Adults with Sickle Cell Disease. At the federal level, Dr. Haywood is a member of the steering committee for the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Sickle Cell Disease Treatment Demonstration Program, he is a member of the advisory board for the NHLBI’s Sickle Cell Disease Health Related Quality of Life Questionnaire Development Project, and he is a member of the Data Safety and Monitoring Board of the NHLBI’s BABY HUG study (which explores the efficacy of Hydroxyurea treatment for young children with sickle cell disease).

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Sara Chandros Hull, Ph.D. , received her undergraduate degree in molecular cell biology and genetics at Brandeis University. Since completing her graduate training at Johns Hopkins (Ph.D. in the Program in Law, Ethics and Health) in 1999, Dr. Hull has been employed by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at NIH, with responsibility for a variety of bioethics-related service, research, and training initiatives. She currently is director of the NHGRI Bioethics Core, which provides support and training to the NHGRI intramural research program. In addition, she is a faculty member in the NIH Department of Clinical Bioethics, and is an adjunct assistant professor in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Schoool of Public Health, Department of Health, Behavior, and Society. Dr. Hull is an attending consultant with the NIH Ethics Consult Service and serves as Associate Chair of the NHGRI IRB. Dr. Hull’s research has focused on a broad range of issues in genetics and genetic research, including informed consent for use of tissue specimens, recruitment of family members in research, and direct-to-consumer advertising of genetic testing. In addition, she has collaborated on several bioethics-related projects that employed qualitative research methodology in such areas as researcher conflicts-of-interest, priority-setting decisions by physicians, and the design of health-related employee benefits packages.

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Summer Johnson, Ph.D. , completed her Ph.D. in Bioethics and Health Policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Fall 2006. While at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Johnson worked as a graduate research and teaching assistant for the Berman Institute of Bioethics. As student, Summer was awarded the 2005 Marcia Pines Award in Bioethics and Health Policy. Before attending Johns Hopkins, Summer was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship (declined) to study ethical issues in stem cell research in Canada. Dr. Johnson is a Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude graduate of Indiana University, where she completed a double major in philosophy and bioethics.Summer is currently an assistant professor of medicine at the Alden March Bioethics Institute (AMBI) in Albany, New York. She is the Director of Graduate Studies at AMBI where she runs an online Masters of Science degree in Bioethics as well as a Certificate Program in Clinical Ethics. Dr. Johnson is also is the Director of the Ethics in Novel Technologies, Research, and Innovation (ENTRI) Program, a research program focusing on ethical issues in innovative technologies as they are applied to health, in particular ethical issues in nanomedicine.

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Andrea Kalfoglou, Ph.D. , is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology/Anthropology Department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) where she teaches courses for the Health Administration and Policy Program. Previously, she completed a Research Fellowship in the Social and Behavioral Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health where she conducted empirical research to study the social, ethical, and political, effects of the Human Genome Project. She has also worked for the Genetics and Public Policy Center at Johns Hopkins University, the Institute of Medicine, the National Bioethics Advisory Committee under the Clinton Administration, and the National Board on Ethics and Reproduction (NABER). She has extensive experience in ethical and health-policy analysis related to human reproduction, genetics, and research ethics. Her previous empirical research includes public attitudes about the appropriate uses of reproductive genetic technology, and the experiences and attitudes of both PGD users and oocyte donors. She is on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Bioethics, Board of Advisors for the Center for Information and Study of Clinical Research Participation, and Chair of the bioethics subcommittee of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Advisory Committee on Science and Technology. She holds a Ph.D. in Health Policy and Management from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a B.A. in Political and Social Thought from the University of Virginia.

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Vanessa Kuhn, Ph.D. received her PHD from the Johns Hopkins Department of Health Policy in 2010. Previously she received her undergraduate degree in History and Sociology of Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002. While at Penn, Vanessa was an editor for The American Journal of Bioethics and worked as a research assistant at Penn’s Center for Bioethics. Vanessa entered the PhD program in 2002 and was a trainee under a NIAAA-funded Alcohol and Injury Prevention training grant. Vanessa’s main research interests are in the area of substance abuse policy. Venessa can be reached at vkuhn@jhsph.edu.

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Julia Slutsman, Ph.D. , is a Health Science Policy Analyst at the Office for Human Subjects Research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She is involved in regulation and policy development for the Human Research Protections Program at NIH and also conducts research on a number of topics related to the protection of research subjects. Dr. Slutsman also serves as an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics at the Uniformed Services University of the Health. Dr. Slutsman holds a doctorate degree in Health Policy and Management with a concentration in bioethics from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her dissertation research focused on the privacy practices of physicians and health care organizations. After obtaining her degree, completed the Cancer Prevention Post-doctoral Fellowship at the National Cancer Institute, NIH where she studied risk/benefit determination and other ethical issues arising in the context of enrollment of healthy and at-risk populations into cancer prevention trials.

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Holly A. Taylor, MPH, Ph.D. is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Core Faculty member of the Berman Bioethics Institute at the Johns Hopkins University. She received her B.A. from Stanford University, her MPH from the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. in health policy with a concentration in bioethics from the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. Before pursuing her doctoral degree, Dr. Taylor was a Presidential Management Intern with the Department of Health and Human Services and spent two years rotating through AIDS related policy positions at the National AIDS Program Office, National Commission on AIDS, the San Mateo County Health Department and the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. After completing her internship, Dr. Taylor spent two years as Special Assistant to the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health. In 1999, Dr. Taylor received a Mentored Scientist Development Award to pursue theoretical and practice aspects of justice in human subject research. She currently serves as Associate Director for Empirical Researh for the Berman Bioethics Institute. Dr. Taylor has served on the Institutional Review Boards (IRB) of the Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Her primary interests are research ethics, local implementation of Federal policy relevant to human subject research, HIV/AIDS policy, and qualitative research methods.

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