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Joseph Ali
graduated with a BA from the University of Toronto in 2003
specializing in Philosophy and Bioethics. He is currently pursuing an
MA in Bioethics and a JD at the school of law. Joe’s focus is in the field
of health law and he is completing a certificate in that area. He is also
an officer in the Health Law Society and a Faculty Research Fellow at
the Barco Law Library. He spent the summer of 2004 interning with the
Office of General Counsel for the Alabama Department of Public Health
and will be pursuing further research in this field in the semesters to
come. More recently, Joe has began to look into some of the philosophical
and ethical trends in the practice of pain management. |
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Emily Ayoub
graduated with a BA from Bucknell University in 2002, majoring
in Biology and Philosophy. She is currently pursuing a JD/MA degree and
plans to practice in the health law and bioethics field. Since moving to
Pittsburgh, she has worked at Children’s Hospital in the Office of the
General Counsel. |
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Christine Bezouska, MD,
graduated with a BA (and major
in biology) from SUNY/Buffalo and her MD from SUNY
School of Medicine in 1978. She is Assistant Professor of
Anesthesiology, at the University of West Virginia in
Morgantown. Her interests lie with issues of women's
reproductive health and perioperative ethical problems. Of
particular interest are ethical issues intrinsic to
the process of medical education, especially at the
residency level. |
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Lauren
Broyles
is simultaneously pursuing the
MA in Bioethics and a PhD in Nursing at the University
of Pittsburgh. She is a 1995 graduate of St. Mary's
College of Maryland with a BA and a major in psychology,
and a 1998 graduate of Johns Hopkins University with
a BSN. She served for one year doing full time community
service in AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps
(NCCC). Her clinical nursing background is in HIV/AIDS
and substance abuse; she worked 18 months as a bedside nurse
on the HIV/Infectious Disease Unit at the University of
Maryland Medical System, and 2 1/2 years as a nurse consultant
on the Substance Abuse Consultation Service. She plans
to integrate her MA thesis with her proposed doctoral
dissertation work on antiretroviral adherence among substance
users. She has been awarded a predoctoral fellowship,
specifically a National Research Service Award (NRSA)
from NIH/NINR (National Institutes of Health, National
Center for Nursing Research); the title of her project
is: "Substance Users, HIV Infection, and Adherence." She
has special interests in healthcare disparities within
vulnerable populations. Her publications include:
Broyles LM, Korniewicz D. The opiate-dependent patient
with endocarditis: Addressing pain and substance abuse
withdrawal. AACN Clinical Issues: Advanced Practice
in Acute and Critical Care. 2002; 13(3): 431-51.
Welsh CJ, Suman M, Cohen A, Broyles L, Bennett M,
Weintraub E. The use of intravenous buprenorphine for the
treatment of opiate withdrawal in medically-ill
hospitalized patients. American Journal on Addictions.
2002; 11: 135-40.
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Megan
V. Davis,
majoring in philosophy and biology,
received a BA from Mt. Holyoke College, followed
by a Certificate in Public Health from Harvard University
and an MA in Public Health from Boston University with
concentrations in Health Services and Health Law/Bioethics.
She is working simultaneously toward an MA in Bioethics
at the University of Pittsburgh and a PhD in Human
Sciences at the George Washington University, and is an ABD in her PhD
program. Her current research interests include the intersection
of fiction and illness narrative and the application
of Marxist theory to contemporary conditions and constructions
of the body within the context of culture, specifically
(dis)abled and sick bodies. She is also currently
editing a volume entitled Academic Labor and the New
Politics of Consensus, inspired by the 9th Annual
Human Sciences Conference in February 2003. She is
working with faculty members in her department to develop a
medical humanities concentration and curriculum for medical
students. In the spring, she is teaching English Writing,
Philosophy of Race and Gender, and Human Rights & Ethics in Anthropology.
She also works as a research and teaching assistant to Dr. Kenneth Schaffner,
University Professor of Medical Humanities at George Washington University.
Her publications include:
Degenholtz H B, Davis MV. Book review: Health and human
rights. Health Education & Behavior. 2000; 29(1):
136-8.
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Gabriella Gosman, MD,
practices reproductive endocrinology and infertility
at Magee-Women's Hospital. She is an assistant professor
in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive
Sciences. Within the Bioethics Program, her thesis
work focuses on problems with patient trust in infertility
care. Her other research interests include regulation
of reproductive technologies, resident surgical education
and polycystic ovary syndrome. She was a resident
and fellow at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania,
and a medical student at Yale University, after completing
undergraduate studies at Harvard University. |
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Russ Kolarik, MD,
is Assistant Professor in the
Divisions of General Internal Medicine and General Academic
Pediatrics. He received his BA from the University of
Notre Dame in English and Pre-professional Studies and
his MD from the Medical College of Ohio. He completed
his post-graduate training in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center and is
board-certified in both specialties. In 2001, he completed
a fellowship in General Internal Medicine and Bioethics
and is completing his thesis project for the MA in Bioethics.
His research interests include advance care planning,
physician-patient communication, and the use of narrative
and literature in medical education. He serves on the
Ethics Committee and participates in the Ethics Consultation
Service. He is the Co-Director of the Area of Concentration
in Medical Humanities at the University Of Pittsburgh
School Of Medicine where he teaches courses in Literature
and Medicine to medical students and is faculty sponsor
of the Literature and Medicine Discussion Group. He has
published poetry in DoubleTake magazine and has
contributed to the Journal of Medical Humanities, Journal
of General Internal Medicine, Journal of Palliative
Medicine, and the Journal of the American Medical
Association . |
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Marta Kolthoff
graduated from Cornell University in 1996 with a
BS in Biology and in 2000 from the University of Buffalo School of Medicine.
She recently finished her OB/GNY residency at Magee-Women’s Hospital/UPMC
and is now a reproductive genetics fellow at Magee. Her research interests
in bioethics include the ethical issues involved in prenatal diagnosis,
care of infants with extreme prematurity, reproductive rights, abortion
rights, and eugenics. |
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Jason
Manne, JD,
is a masters student in the bioethics program and
a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Public Health. He is a senior
attorney with the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, handling
issues arising out of the delivery of Medicaid to the poor and elderly.
Jason received his JD degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1979,
and he completed his MHA and MBA degrees also at the University of Pittsburgh
in April 2003. His interests include the ethics of health care rationing
and issues related to health insurance and health care coverage. |
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Gerald
Nora
received a BPhil. in Physics and Molecular Biology
and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh in 2002. He is
currently in the University of Pittsburgh-Carnegie Mellon University MD/PhD
Program, and is pursuing a PhD in mathematics at CMU, focusing on biological
modeling. Medical interests include internal medicine and neurology, and
his bioethical interests focus on issues of identity and personhood, especially
within the context of modern molecular and developmental biology. |
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Torey
Penrod
graduated from Miami University of Ohio in 2004 with
a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry. Her research interests in bioethics include
metaphors of disease, gender ethics, and feminist perspectives in bioethics
– particularly concerning the realms of psychiatry. |
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Sarah Pope
graduated in 2000 with a BS from the University
of New Hampshire, majoring in Biology with a Spanish minor. She
is pursuing the JD/MA degree and plans to pursue a career as a biomedical
lawyer. She has served as a research coordinator on genetic research
projects since moving to Pittsburgh; prior to that she served in
AmeriCorps and worked as an obstetrics aide in Colorado. |
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James
Tabery
is a PhD candidate in the Department of History and
Philosophy of Science and a masters degree student in the Center for Bioethics
and Health Law at the University of Pittsburgh. His interests are
in historical, conceptual, methodological, and ethical issues in behavioral
genetics. He graduated from Fairfield University in 2000 with a BS in biology
and a BA in philosophy. |
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Ryan Walther
received a BA in History from Bucknell University,
a BA in Philosophy from Long Island University at C.W. Post, and an MA
in Philosophy from Duquesne University where he is currently a doctoral
candidate in philosophy. His philosophical interests lie in epistemology,
American pragmatism, Critical Theory, and Ethics. He is currently working
as the Managing Editor for the Journal of Vascular Surgery, serves on the
Ethics Committee at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, teaches ethics at
Norwich University, and is the lead author on a report by the National Ethics
Committee of the Veterans Health Administration concerning ethical boundaries
in the patient-clinician relationship. |
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Lawrence
Scott Wilner, MD,
is a clinical assistant professor of medicine in
the Section of Palliative Care and Medical Ethics and the Division of General
Internal Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Wilner did his undergraduate
work at Wesleyan University, attended medical school at New York University,
and has completed post-graduate training and board certification in both
internal medicine and critical care medicine. He participates in the UPMC
Comprehensive Palliative Care inpatient consultation service, and works with
the Intensivist program at Shadyside Hospital. He has written on a variety
of topics, including the execution of health care directives by proxy decision
makers, the application of palliative therapies in the intensive care unit,
and the process of non-heartbeating organ transplantation.
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