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Dr. Chaitin completed her master's degree in social work
at the University of Pittsburgh in 1988, her master's degree in medical
ethics a the University of Pittsburgh in 1996 and her doctorate in health
care ethics at Duquesne University in 2000. She is currently the director
of the Medical Ethics and Palliative Care Services Department of UPMC
Shadyside Hospital in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
and is the Co-chairperson for Biomedical Ethics Committee of UPMC Shadyside
Hospital. Dr. Chaitin is part of the teaching faculty for Internal Medicine
and Family Practice Residency programs of the UPMC Shadyside and also
serves as a clinical instructor for the Medical Resident of these programs.
Dr. Chaitin is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh
School of Medicine in the Division of General Medicine in the Section of
Palliative Care and Medical Ethics. She is a teacher in the master's in
ethics program at the University
of Pittsburgh and also serves
as a clinical instructor for master's students in this program. She is part
of the faculty for the Consortium Ethics Program of the University
of Pittsburgh and is on the
faculty at the University of Pittsburgh's
Center for Bioethics and Health Law. Beth also serves as an ethics
consultant for several university based hospitals
through the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Health Law and was recently
awarded a leadership grant in social work through the Soros
Foundation and the Project on Death in America.
Her grant proposal is aimed at teaching interdisciplinary health care teams
how to better care for the dying.
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