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Donald
Ainslie, PhD, MA, received his PhD in Philosophy from
the University of Pittsburgh.
He is a member of the Joint Centre for Bioethics and an Associate Professor
and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University
of Toronto. His research
interests include the philosophy of David Hume, naturalism in ethics, and
the foundations of bioethics. His M.A. Thesis is entitled "Redefining
Bioethics in the Age of AIDS." His publications on Bioethics have
appeared in Hastings Center Report , Social Philosophy and
Policy , and Health Care Analysis . His published work includes:
Hume's reflections on the simplicity and identity of mind. Philosophy
and Phenomenological Research. 2000; 62(3): 557-78.
Skepticism about persons in Book II of Hume's treatise. Journal of the
History of Philosophy. 1999; 37(3): 469-92.
Questioning Bioethics: AIDS, sexual ethics, and the duty to warn. Hastings
Center Report. 1999; 29(5):
26-35.
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Rachel
Ankeny, PhD, MA, joined the History and Philosophy of
Science Unit at the University of Sydney, Australia in July 2000 and now
serves as Director and Senior Lecturer. Prior to 2000 she was the Class of
'43 Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Science at Connecticut
College and spent the 1999-2000
academic year as a Research Fellow at Princeton
University. In addition to her
MA in Bioethics, Dr. Ankeny has an MA in Philosophy and a PhD in History
and Philosophy of Science from the University
of Pittsburgh. Her bioethics
interests include ethical issues in transplantation policy and process,
live organ donation, and genetic testing and screening. Her MA thesis is
entitled "Reexamining Fundamental Issues in Biomedical Ethics Through
Consideration of Candidate Selection." In history and philosophy of
science, she has researched the roles of models and case-based reasoning in
science, reductionism and disease, and the history of contemporary life
sciences. Among her publications are:
The moral status of preferences for directed donation: Who should decide
who gets transplantable organs? Cambridge
Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. 2001; 10:387-98.
Multiple listing: Autonomy unbounded or a reasonable solution in light
of organ scarcity? Cambridge
Quarterly Journal of Healthcare Ethics. 1999; 8(3):330-9.
Manzetti J, Ankeny R, Miller D. Psychosocial
and ethical issues in surgical approaches to end-stage lung disease.
Clinics in Chest Medicine. 1997; 18(2):383-90.
Parker LS, Majeske RA. Standards of care and
ethical concerns in genetic testing and screening. Clinical Obstetrics and
Gynecology. 1996; 39(4):873-84.
Transforming objectivity to promote equity in transplant candidate
selection. Theoretical Medicine. 1996; 17(1):45-59.
Parker LS, Majeske RA. Incidental findings:
Patients' knowledge, rights and preferences (case and commentary). The
Journal of Clinical Ethics. 1995; 6(2):176-9.
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Jennifer Beck, JD, MA,
graduated from the JD/MA Joint Degree program in the Spring of 2000. Her MA
thesis is entitled Bioethics' Focus on Autonomy: Distracting from
Difference.
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Elizabeth
Chaitin, DHCE, MSW, MA, serves
as the Director of the Medical Ethics and Palliative Care Services
Department of UPMC Shadyside Hospital. She is an Assistant Professor of
Medicine through the Department of General Internal Medicine within the
Section of Palliative Care and Medical Ethics at the University
of Pittsburgh. Dr. Chaitin is a Co-Director for the University
of Pittsburgh's Institute for
the Enhancement of Palliative Care and she serves on the faculty of the
Consortium Ethics Program of the University
of Pittsburgh. Dr. Chaitin is a clinical instructor in medical ethics and
palliative care for the Family Practice and Internal Medicine Residency
services of UPMC Shadyside and is a clinical instructor for students in the
Bioethics Program of the University
of Pittsburgh. She has been the
Co-chairperson of the Bio-Medical Ethics Committee for UPMC
Shadyside Hospital
for the past nine years and serves as an ethics consultant for the Ethics
Consultation Service for the Center for Bioethics and Health Law of the University
of Pittsburgh. She received her
Doctorate of Health Care Ethics from Duquesne
University.
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Daniel
Crane-Hirsch, JD, MA, graduated from Harvard
Law School
in 1999, after matriculating there with his MA in Bioethics. While in law
school, he was a section editor for the Journal of Law, Medicine and
Ethics, and represented low-income clients with disabilities and mental
illnesses at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. Mental health issues are a
strong interest: his third-year paper in law school examined how workers
with "invisible" mental illnesses fare under the Americans with
Disabilities Act; his MA thesis at Pitt addressed responsibility,
depression and dysthymia; and his college honors
paper (at the University of Chicago)
explored the morality of involuntary commitment of the mentally ill. While
at Pitt, he also earned an MA in philosophy, and gave presentations to the
Center and to the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics.
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Angela Fortunato,
BA, MA, received a BA, with a major in biology and
minor in history and philosophy of science, from Northeastern
University in 2000 and her MA
in Bioethics in 2002. She is currently a doctoral student in Behavioral and
Community Health Sciences at the Graduate School of Public Health at the University
of Pittsburgh, where she
concentrates on the area of elderly health care. Her MA Thesis is entitled
"Reassessing the 'Burden of Life': the Moral Judgment of Terminally
Ill Patients Regarding the Value of Their Lives and What the Rest of Us Can
Do About It." Her bioethics interests include ethical theory, human
rights and public health, history of protection of human subjects in
research, women's health, and issues of dying and aging.
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Paul Han, MD, MA, is
board-certified in Internal Medicine and Palliative Medicine, and is a
clinician-educator with the Division of General Internal Medicine and the
Palliative Care Service at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He
received his undergraduate degree from Cornell
University and his medical
degree from New York University.
He completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at UCLA
Medical Center,
Los Angeles. His research
interests include ethical issues in preventive medicine and palliative
care. He is currently in the first year of the National Cancer Institute
(NCI) Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program, in the Ethics of Prevention and
Public Health Track. Among his publications is "Conceptual and Moral
Problems of Genetic and Non-Genetic Preventive Interventions,"
Mutating Concepts, Evolving Disciplines: Genetics, Medicine, and Society,
LS Parker and RA Ankeny (eds.), Kluwer, 2002.
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Jennifer Hagerty Lingler is a nurse practitioner at
the University of Pittsburgh Alzheimer Disease Research Center. She
received her BSN, with honors, from Case
Western Reserve University
and her MSN from the University
of Pittsburgh. She completed
the MA program in 2003 and is currently pursuing doctoral studies at the
University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing. Ms. Lingler's
MA thesis is entitled Conceptualizng
Dementia as a Relationship-Transforming Phenomenon. A version of her
third thesis chapter was presented at the 2002 annual meeting of the
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. Portions of her coursework
and professional development activities have been funded by a John A.
Hartford Pre-doctoral Fellowship in Geriatric Nursing (2001-2003). Upon
completion of the doctoral program, Ms. Lingler
plans to pursue an academic research career focusing on ethical issues
involving persons with dementia and their family caregivers.
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Lisa Keränen, PhD,
earned an MA in Speech Communication from the University
of Maine and a BA from Bloomsburg
University in Communication
Studies. She earned an MA in Bioethics in 2002. Her thesis was entitled
"Taking Seriousness Seriously: An Analysis of the Ethical Appeals
Grounding Sanction Assignment for Research Misconduct." She is
Assistant Professor of Communication at the University
of Colorado in Boulder,
where she will teach undergraduate and graduate seminars in her research
area, including Rhetoric and Bioterrorism and Rhetorics
of Death and Dying in Contemporary American Culture. She specializes in
rhetorical theory and criticism, rhetoric of science/medicine, and
bioethics. Her overarching intellectual project seeks to theorize
medical/health care communication as a rhetorical practice across interactional, institutional, and public contexts with
a specific focus on end-of life communication. She collaborates on several
qualitative research projects concerning end-of-life communication with
Paul Han, MD, at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Her
dissertation, "Science and Self-Defense: Rhetoric, Politics, and
Personae in the Bernard Fisher Breast Cancer Research Controversy"
(directed by John Lyne, PhD), examines the
rhetorical construction of scientific character in a protracted biomedical controversy
that affected treatment decisions of tens of thousands of North American
women with breast cancer. Her publications appear in the Journal of Medical
Humanities and the Journal of Applied Communication Research.
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Nathan Kottkamp, JD, graduated in 1996 from the College
of William and Mary with an AB
in Interdisciplinary Ethics. He then received a Health Law Certificate,
JD/M.A. in 2001 from the University
of Pittsburgh. He is an
associate with McGuireWoods in Richmond,
Virginia, and practices almost
exclusively in health law. He sits as the attorney member of four different
hospital ethics committees, serving seven hospitals. He is also on the
Board of Directors of the Richmond Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes
Research Foundation International.
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Carolyn Longest, MA, is
the editor of the UPMC Health System Palliative Care and Hospice
Newsletter, an educational/informational resource for UPMC physicians. She
received her MA in medical ethics from the University
of Pittsburgh in 1991. Her
thesis is entitled "Selected Aspects of Ethical and Legal Obligations
of Physicians to Inform Terminally Ill Patients About the Alternative of
Hospice." Her professional background is in bereavement, with specific
interest in end-of-life care. She serves on the Advisory Council of the
Institute to Enhance Palliative Care. Her most recent publication in this
area is End of Life Care: Whose Responsibility? Sensabilities,
1999; 3(1)..
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Scott Miller, MD, MA, graduated
from Haverford College
in Pennsylvania, with a major
in psychology, and then pursued his medical degree, followed by the MA in
Medical Ethics. He remains actively interested in hospice care and
palliative care, and is currently creating palliative care patient related
activities with the trauma unit and the new cancer center at Allegheny
General Hospital.
Although not currently involved in research, Dr. Miller is becoming
actively involved in examination of the ethics of medical errors. He hopes
to work with the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative and currently works
with the ACMS as a bioethics consultant/resource coordinator.
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Laura Odwazny,
JD, MA, graduated from the JD/MA program in 1998. Her
MA thesis is entitled "Conflicting Interests and Contested Committees:
The Hospital Attorney Serving on the Hospital Ethics Committee." She
is a Senior Attorney with the US Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS) in the Office of the General Counsel, Public Health Division. Her
primary client is the Office for Human Research Protections, which
interprets and enforces the HHS regulations at 45 CFR Part 46 that provide
protections for human research subjects. She also frequently does work for
the Division of Quality Assurance, which administers the National
Practitioner Data Bank, and provides advice to the Office of Global Health
Affairs regarding the US-Mexico Border Health Commission.
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Jennifer
Packing-Euben, MA, received
her BS degree in Neurobiological Sciences with a minor in Philosophy from
the University of Florida
in 1998, and her MA in Bioethics from the University
of Pittsburgh in 2001. Her
thesis is entitled "The Obligation to Improve Medical Practice in the
Health Care of Women: An Ethical Argument in Favor of the Women’s Health
Specialty and a Feminist Practice of Medicine." Currently, she works
for Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida as their Research
Coordinator. Her current project is as the liaison between Planned
Parenthood and College of Public Health at the University of South Florida
on a federally mandated grant from the Centers for Disease Control to study
the emotional and behavioral effects of an HPV diagnosis which
differentiates between strains of HPV that are high-risk or low-risk for
developing lesions that lead to cervical cancer.
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Amy Payne,
MA, graduated from University of Maryland, Baltimore County
in 1994 with a BA in biology and philosophy. She completed the MA in
Bioethics in 2003. Her MA thesis is entitled "Clinical Trials in
Developing Nations: Examining Exploitation."
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Kamran Samakar received his BA, with
a major in philosophy and minor in biology and chemistry, from the
University of California San Diego in 2001. He received his MA in Bioethics
in the summer of 2003. His thesis project is entitled "A Child's Right
to an Open Future: An Account of the Open Future from the Perspective of
Well-being." He served as a Health Sciences Fellow of the Jewish
Health Care Foundation and the Coro Center for
Civic Leadership. In the fall of 2002, he joined the Center as a full-time
research assistant. In fall 2003, he matriculated at the University of
Minnesota School of Medicine where he plans to continue pursuing his
diverse interests in bioethics. He recently co-authored a paper with Lisa
Parker, PhD, entitled "Informed Consent: VI. Issues of Consent in
Mental Healthcare," that will be included in the Encyclopedia of
Bioethics (3rd edition), 2003.
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Ryan Sauder, MA,
received his BA from Goshen College in 1997 (with a major in chemistry)
and his MA in History and Philosophy of Science (Bioethics) from University
of Pittsburgh in 2000. His thesis was entitled "Sharing Responsibility
for the Failure to Provide Just Access to Health Care." Currently, he
works as a scientific editor and writer for the Growth and Development
Laboratory in the University of Pittsburgh Department of Orthopaedic Surgery.
Sauder R, Parker L. Autonomy's limits: Living
donation and health-related harm. Cambridge Quarterly. 2001; 10(4):409-18.
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Maria
J. Silveira, MD, MA, MPH, is
an internist, health services researcher, and ethicist examining issues
surrounding the end of life. She obtained her MA in Medical Ethics from the
University of Pittsburgh in 1995, where she wrote her thesis on issues
concerning physician-assisted suicide, and graduated from SUNY Stony Brook
School of Medicine in 1996. After completing residency and fellowship, she
joined the faculty of the Division of General Medicine at the University of
Michigan in the Bioethics Program in 2001 where she is an assistant
professor. She has published research regarding public and physician
knowledge about laws governing end of life, the geography of death, and how
elderly women make decisions about end-of-life care. Currently, she is
conducting several studies to explore access to palliative care through
primary care and hospice. Her theoretical work focuses on the ethics of
pain management. She was chosen to be a Robert Wood Johnson Generalist
Scholar in 2003 and was a VA Career Development Award recipient in 2004.
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Shanthi Trettin graduated from Oberlin College
and is a fourth year medical student at the University of Pittsburgh. She
received a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) grant to study the
process of competency assessment and how it pertains to patient autonomy
and informed consent, which she pursued between her first and second
years of medical school. She considered similarities and differences
between adolescent and geriatric patients, and between patients with and
without a psychiatric diagnosis. She will receive her MA in Bioethics and
her MD in May 2004, as she has already completed and successfully
defended her MA Thesis, "Dualism of Embodied Identity: From Fashion
to Medicine." She comments that bioethics offers her
interdisciplinary insight into historical, political, moral, and
sociological aspects of medicine and science, broadening her views and
expressions of intellectual creativity. She plans to do her residency
training in Psychiatry after graduating in May 2004.
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Jonathan Will, JD, received a BA
from Canisius College in 2001 majoring in English
and Psychology with a minor in Religious Studies. His undergraduate honor's
thesis, exploring the historical treatment of homosexuality in the Catholic
Church, won two awards at this Jesuit institution. A 2004 graduate of the
JD/MA program, Mr. Will also received a Certificate in Health Law. He
served as Executive Editor of the University of Pittsburgh Law Review and
published an article in that journal entitled “DNA as Property:
Implications on the Constitutionality of DNA Dragnets.” He presented his MA
thesis research in a Bioethics and Health Law Grand Rounds presentation
entitled “My God My Choice: When Adolescents Refuse Medical Treatment Based
Upon Religious Beliefs.” Currently, Mr. Will is an associate in the
Pittsburgh office of Buchanan Ingersoll.
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