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Our Faculty and Staff
Peter Angelos, MD, PhD
Research Interests
- Surgical ethics
- Innovation in surgery and medicine
- Informed consent
- Teaching ethics to trainees
- Transplant ethics
Megan Applewhite, MD, MA
Research Interests
- Ethical challenges in healthcare for patients who are incarcerated or detained
- Research Ethics
- Surgical Informed Consent
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Andrew Aronsohn, MD
Research Interests
- Ethical issues in liver disease and therapies
- Organ transplantation allocation
Daniel Brudney, PhD
Research Interests
- Patient autonomy
- Ethics of liver transplantation
- Conscientious refusal by health care professionals
- Conflicting interests in the clinical context
Darren Bryan, MD
Research Interests
- Informed consent
- resident (and trainee, in general) involvement in care
Brian Callender, MD
Research Interests
- Global health ethics
- The doctor-patient relationship
- Graphic Medicine
- Visual culture of medicine
- The illness experience
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Ishanu Chattopadhyay, PhD
Research Interests
- Machine learning
- Data Science
- Screening and diagnosis of complex diseases
- Electronic Healthcare Records
Marshall Chin, MD, MPH
Research Interests
- Reducing health disparities
- Improving care of patients with diabetes
- Health policy
Julie Chor, MD
Research Interests
- Conscientious provision by health care professionals
- Doctor-patient relationship in reproductive healthcare
- Health disparities and community-engaged research
- Reproductive ethics
Scott Cook, PhD
Research Interests
- health services research
- healthcare systems and payment reform to advance health equity
- LGBTQ+ health
- equity and healthcare quality improvement
- Medicaid
Kamala Cotts, MD
Research Interests
- Primary care for adults with developmental disabilities
- General internal medicine with focus on hypertension, diabetes, and women's health
Christopher (Chris) Daugherty, MD
Research Interests
- Research ethics
- Informed consent
- End of life care
- Cancer care communication
- Decision making
Michele Friedner, PhD
Research Interests
- disability
- technology
- medical anthropology
- guardianship
- international/cross-cultural ethics
Lawrence J. Gottlieb, MD
Research Interests
- Palliative reconstructive surgery
- Life vs. limb
- Vascular composite allografts
Olwen Hahn, MD
Research Interests
- Hematology/oncology - breast cancer
- Patient-doctor communication
- Oncology Clinical Trial Design and Implementation
Michael Hawking, MD, MSc
Research Interests
- Oversees the Scholars in Ethics and Medicine Program at the University of Chicago
- Writes on Virtue Ethics and Physician Formation, Oncology Communication, and Care and Ethics at the End of Life
- Practices as a Clinical Oncologist at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital in Bermuda
Javad Hekmat-Panah, MD
Research Interests
- Communication with and on behalf of patients
- Surgical errors and communication
- Head injury in abused children
- Microvessel circulation in cardiac arrest, cerebral compression, and air embolism
Fay Hlubocky, PhD, MA, CCTP
Research Interests
- Clinical Research Ethics
- Behavioral Medicine
- Psycho-oncology
- Burnout, Moral Distress
- Clinician-Patient Communication
- End-of-Life Care
Sarah Hoehn, MD
Research Interests
- Pediatric critical care
- Pediatric trauma
- Medical ethics
- Hospice & palliative care
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
Elbert Huang, MD, MPH
Research Interests
- Diabetes in older adults
- Health economics
- Health policy
Mahmoud Ismail, MD
Research Interests
- maternal-fetal medicine
- obstetrics & gynecology
- high-risk obstetrics
Erika “Ann” Jeschke, PhD
Research Interests
- Military Medicine
- Trauma Medicine
- Performance Theory
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Elizabeth Kieff, MD
Research Interests
- Physician Development and Formation
- Psychiatric Ethics
- Caregiver Wellness
- Authenticity and Pay
Valerie Gutmann Koch, JD (Director of Law & Ethics)
Research Interests
- informed consent
- law & medical decision making
- human subjects research
- genetics and genomics
- legal issues related to pandemic preparedness and response
Shivani Kumar, MD
Research Interests
- medical education
- transplant psychiatry
Andrea “Justine” Landi, MD
Research Interests
- Older adults with opioid use disorder across care settings
- Age-friendly approach to shared-decision making
- Outpatient clinical ethics
- Serious Illness Communication
- End-of-Life Care
Emily Landon, MD
Research Interests
- Infection prevention
- Optimal antimicrobial use
- Bone and joint infections
Christos Lazaridis, MD
Research Interests
- Associate Professor of Neurology
- Neurointensivist who specializes in advanced monitoring in severe traumatic brain injury
- Heavily involved in neurocritical care ethics
- Trained in both neurologic and general critical care
Stacy Lindau, MD, MA
Research Interests
- Sexuality in the context of aging, common diseases, and the patient-physician relationship
- Health in high poverty, urban settings
- Health system improvement
Deborah Loeff, MD
Peggy Mason, PhD
Research Interests
- Non-treatment of neonates with disabilities
- Role of empathy in medicine
- Informed consent
Nathaniel Meadow, MD, MPH
Research Interest
- Psychedelic assisted therapies
David Meltzer, MD, PhD
Research Interests
- Value of the doctor-patient relationship
- Patient-centered outcomes research
- Health economics and policy
- Health and the social sciences
Dejan Micic, MD
Research Interests
- Ethical issues in nutrition support
- End-of-life care
Michael Millis, MD
Research Interests
- Adult and Pediatric Transplant Surgery
- Liver and Hepatobiliary Surgery
- Innovation in surgery and medicine
Ross Milner, MD
Research Interests
- Surgical Ethics
- Informed consent process
- Role of surgeon proctors
Parth Modi, MD, MS
Research Interests
- health services and health policy research
- ethics research on the patient-physician relationship
- financial conflicts of interest
Scott Moses, MD
Research Interests
- Reproductive ethics
- Ritual in medicine
- Religion and medicine
Kelly Nelson Kelly, MD
Research Interests
- Prenatal counseling
- Responding to consults in medical ethics
C. ‘Sola’ Olopade, MD, MPH, FCCP
Research Interests
- Research ethics in developing country setting
- Responsible conduct of research in developing country settings
- Health impact of household air pollution in vulnerable populations
- Interaction between environment and genetics in the expression of asthma
Funmi Olopade, MD, FACP
Research Interests
- Hereditary cancers
- Breast cancer in young women
- Cancer risk and prevention
- Cancer genetics
Kinga Skowron Olortegui, MD, MS
Research Interests
- professionalism and teaching of professionalism in surgical residency
- burnout
William Parker, MD
Research Interests
- empirical bioethics
- scarce healthcare resource allocation
- organ transplantation
Monica Peek, MD, MPH
Research Interests
- Doctor-patient relationship
- Health disparities and community-engaged research
- Shared decision-making
- Diabetes health disparities
- Patient empowerment
- Community-engaged research
Harold Pollack, PhD
Research Interest
- Ethics and health policy
Micah Prochaska, MD, MSc
Research Interests
- Anemia and RBC transfusions
- Fatigability
- Research Networks
Rebecca Propper, MD
Research Interests
- Ethical Dilemmas in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
- Brain Death
- Ethics Consults
- Mixed-Methods Research
Vijaya Rao, MD
Research Interests
- Clinical ethics in gastroenterology
- Appropriate use of invasive procedures
- Peri-procedural code status
Selwyn Rogers Jr., MD, MPH
Research Interests
- Ethical issues in violence, trauma, & trauma surgery
- Health disparities
- Impact of race and ethnicity on surgical outcomes
Richard Rosengarten, MA, PhD
Research Interests
- Narrative
- Theologies of pain and suffering
David Rubin, MD
Research Interests
- Ethical design of clinical trials
- Novel therapies in inflammatory bowel disease
- Cancer prevention in inflammatory bowel disease
Milda Saunders, MD, MPH
Research Interests
- Living liver and kidney donation
- Patient education about renal replacement therapy
- Geographic variation in quality of care
- Health disparities and quality of care for patients with ESRD
Kaitlin Seibert, MD
Research Interests
- neurological ethics of treating persons with dementia
- decision making capacity in Alzheimer’s and related dementias
- music and creative arts therapies in dementia care
- ethnic barriers and social determinants of health in dementia care
Baddr Shakhsheer, MD
Research Interests
- Surgical Ethics
- Informed Consent
- Teaching of ethics to trainees
- Pediatric Surgical Ethics
Mark Siegler, MD, MACP
Research Interests
- The doctor-patient relationship
- End-of-life care
- Surgical innovation
- Organ transplantation
Siv Sjursen, MS, RN, BSN
Research Interests
- Impact of technology on nursing care
- Influenza vaccine rates
- Edge of Viability
- Communication
- Nurse- Doctor relationship
Caroline Skolnik, MD, CM
Research Interests
- Healthcare sustainability
- Ethics of healthcare environmentalism
- Social determinants of health
- Social Justice in medicine
- Institutional Virtue Ethics
Peter J. Smith, MD, MA
Research Interests
- Board certified in two sub-specialties of pediatrics: neurodevelopmental disabilities (NDD) and developmental-behavioral pediatrics (DBP)
- Clinical services include transitional care, residential school care and outpatient clinics
- Intellectual disabilities and ethics
- Down syndrome treatments
- Medical education related to disabilities
Deborah Spitz, MD
Research Interests
- Psychiatric Education
- Faculty development
- Psychiatric Ethics
- Autonomous choice in severe remitting and relapsing psychiatric disorders
Jason Strelzow, MD, FRCSC
Research Interests
- Consent
- Ethics of Surgical Decision-Making
- Novel Technology & the ethics of AI
- Research Consent
Debra Stulberg, MD
Research Interests
- Racial and socioeconomic disparities
- Reproductive health
- Religiously-sponsored health care
Ashley Suah, MD
Research Interests
- Racial, gender and cultural disparities in healthcare
- Patient-surgeon and trainee-surgeon relationships
- Impact of transgenerational trauma on decision-making
- Sensitization and desensitization in transplant surgery
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Elizabeth Tung, MD, MS
Research Interests
- Intersections between race, poverty and healthcare access
- Neighborhood effects
- Violence epidemiology and health
- Geographic analytical methods
M. Jeanne Wirpsa, MA, BCC
Research Interests
- Religion, Bioethics, and Medicine
- Shared Decision Making
- Provider Moral Distress/Moral Injury
- Healthcare Chaplaincy
John Yoon, MD
Research Interests
- The doctor-patient relationship
- Virtue in medicine
- Medicine and religion
Laurie Zoloth, PhD
Research Interests
- Agency and Subjectivity
- Jewish studies
- Religion and ethics
- Ethics and Politics & Law
- Social justice in healthcare
- How science and medicine are taught
- Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies