Research Interests

• Ethical issues in liver disease and therapies
• Organ transplantation allocation

Research Interests

• Patient autonomy
• Ethics of liver transplantation
• Conscientious refusal by health care professionals
• Conflicting interests in the clinical context

Research Interests

• Informed consent
• Resident (and trainee, in general) involvement in care

Research Interests

• Global health ethics
• The doctor-patient relationship
• Graphic medicine
• Visual culture of medicine
• The illness experience

Research Interests

• Conscientious provision by health care professionals
• Doctor-patient relationship in reproductive health care
• Health disparities and community-engaged research
• Reproductive ethics

Research Interests

• Disability
• Technology
• Medical anthropology
• Guardianship
• International/cross-cultural ethics

Research Interests

• Hematology/oncology – breast cancer
• Patient-doctor communication
• Oncology clinical trial design and implementation

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

Research Interests

• Clinical research ethics
• Behavioral medicine
• Psycho-oncology
• Burnout, moral distress
• Clinician-patient communication
• End-of-life care

Research Interests

• Prenatal counseling
• Responding to consults in medical ethics

Research Interests

• Physician development and formation
• Psychiatric ethics
• Caregiver wellness
• Authenticity and pay

Research Interests

• Informed consent
• Law and medical decision making
• Human subjects research
• Genetics and genomics
• Legal issues related to pandemic preparedness and response

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

Research Interests

• Infection prevention
• Optimal antimicrobial use
• Bone and joint infections

Research Interests

• Moral psychology
• Judgment and decision-making
• Organizational behavior
• Trust
• Difficult conversations (within practitioner-patient relationships and beyond)

Research Interests

• Non-treatment of neonates with disabilities
• Role of empathy in medicine
• Informed consent

Research Interests

Research Interests

• Psychedelic-assisted therapies

Research Interests

• Health services and health policy research
• Ethics research on the patient-physician relationship
• Financial conflicts of interest

Research Interests

• Professionalism and teaching of professionalism in surgical residency
• Burnout

Research Interests

• Empirical bioethics
• Scarce health care resource allocation
• Organ transplantation

Research Interests

• Ethical dilemmas in pediatric critical care Medicine
• Brain death
• Ethics consults
• Mixed-methods research

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

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

Research Interests

• Surgical ethics
• Informed consent
• Teaching of ethics to trainees
• Pediatric surgical ethics

Research Interests

• The doctor-patient relationship
• End-of-life care
• Surgical innovation
• Organ transplantation

Research Interests

• Impact of technology on nursing care
• Influenza vaccine rates
• Edge of viability
• Communication
• Nurse-doctor relationship

Research Interests

• Pediatric neurodevelopmental disabilities (NDD) and developmental-behavioral pediatrics (DBP)
• Transitional care, residential school care, and outpatient clinics
• Intellectual disabilities and ethics
• Down syndrome treatments
• Medical education related to disabilities

Research Interests

• Psychiatric education
• Faculty development
• Psychiatric ethics
• Autonomous choice in severe remitting and relapsing psychiatric disorders

Research Interests

• Racial, gender, and cultural disparities in health care
• Patient-surgeon and trainee-surgeon relationships
• Impact of transgenerational trauma on decision making
• Sensitization and desensitization in transplant surgery

Research Interests

• AI of medical imaging
• Ethics of virtual biopsies
• Ethics of off-label use of AI
• Ethics of use of AI in clinical decision making

Research Interests

• Religion, bioethics, and medicine
• Shared decision making
• Provider moral distress/moral injury
• Healthcare chaplaincy

Research Interests

• The doctor-patient relationship
• Virtue in medicine
• Medicine and religion

Research Interests

• Agency and subjectivity
• Jewish studies
• Religion and ethics
• Ethics and politics and law
• Social justice in health care
• How science and medicine are taught
• Women, gender, and sexuality studies

Research Interests

• Health services research
• Health care systems and payment reform to advance health equity
• LGBTQ+ health
• Equity and health care quality improvement
• Medicaid

Research Interests

• Primary care for adults with developmental disabilities
• General internal medicine with focus on hypertension, diabetes, and women’s health

Research Interests

• Research ethics
• Informed consent
• End-of-life care
• Cancer care communication
• Decision making

Research Interests

Research Interests

• Palliative reconstructive surgery
• Life vs. limb
• Vascular composite allografts

Research Interests

• Virtue ethics and physician formation, oncology communication, and care and ethics at the end of life

Research Interests

• Pediatric critical care
• Pediatric trauma
• Medical ethics
• Hospice and palliative care
• Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)

Research Interests

• Diabetes in older adults
• Health economics
• Health policy

Research Interests

• Military medicine
• Trauma medicine
• Performance theory

Research Interests

• Medical education
• Transplant psychiatry

Research Interests

• Advanced monitoring in severe traumatic brain injury
• Neurocritical care ethics
• Neurologic and general critical care

Research Interests

• Sexuality in the context of aging, common diseases, and the patient-physician relationship
• Health in high poverty, urban settings
• Health system improvement

Research Interests

• Value of the doctor-patient relationship
• Patient-centered outcomes research
• Health economics and policy
• Health and the social sciences

Research Interests

• Adult and pediatric transplant surgery
• Liver and hepatobiliary surgery
• Innovation in surgery and medicine

Research Interests

• Surgical ethics
• Informed consent process
• Role of surgeon proctors

Research Interests

• Reproductive ethics
• Ritual in medicine
• Religion and medicine

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

Research Interests

• Hereditary cancers
• Breast cancer in young women
• Cancer risk and prevention
• Cancer genetics

Research Interests

• Ethics and health policy

Research Interests

• Ethical issues in violence, trauma, and trauma surgery
• Health disparities
• Impact of race and ethnicity on surgical outcomes

Research Interests

• Ethical design of clinical trials
• Novel therapies in inflammatory bowel disease
• Cancer prevention in inflammatory bowel disease

Research Interests

• Health care sustainability
• Ethics of health care environmentalism
• Social determinants of health
• Social justice in medicine
• Institutional virtue ethics

Research Interests

• Reproductive health
• Gender affirming care
• Maternal health
• Health disparities

Research Interests

• Intersections between race, poverty, and health care access
• Neighborhood effects
• Violence epidemiology and health
• Geographic analytical methods