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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
Andrew Aronsohn, MD
Research Interest
- Ethical issues in liver disease and liver transplant
Daniel Brauner, MD
Research Interests
- History of resuscitation, cardiac arrest, and DNR
- Language and medicine
- Issues of older patients
- Cognitive impairment and dementia
Melanie Brown, MD
Research Interests
- Palliative care
- Medical education
- The doctor-patient relationship
- Healthcare disparities
Daniel Brudney, PhD
Research Interests
- Patient autonomy
- Ethics of liver transplantation
- Conscientious refusal by health care professionals
- Conflicting interests in the clinical context
Brian Callender, MD
Research Interests
- Global health ethics
- The doctor-patient relationship
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
Christopher (Chris) Daugherty, MD
Research Interests
- Research ethics
- Informed consent
- End of life care
- Cancer care communication
- Decision making
Richard Epstein, LLB
Research Interests
- Medicine and law
- Organ markets
- Pharmaceutical industry reputation
Edward R. Garrity, MD
Research Interests
- Clinical management of lung transplant patients
- Organ allocation
Ann Goldblatt, JD, LLM
Research Interests
- Patient protection
- Reproductive rights
- Conscience clauses
- Genomics
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Lawrence J. Gottlieb, MD
Research Interests
- Palliative reconstructive surgery
- Life vs. limb
- Vascular composite allografts
Raymon Grogan, MD
Research Interests
- Quality of life in thyroid cancer survivors
- Genetic and proteomic biomarkers in thyroid and adrenal tumors
- Thyroid cancer incidence
Olwen Hahn, MD
Research Interests
- Hematology/oncology - breast cancer
- Patient-doctor communication
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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
Elbert Huang, MD, MPH
Research Interests
- Diabetes in older adults
- Health economics
- Health policy
Niranjan Karnik, MD, PhD
Research Interests
- Child and adult psychiatric ethics
- HIV research
- Vulnerable populations
- New social media
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Elizabeth Kieff, MD
Research Interests
- Experiential learning and physician development and formation
- Parenting while training
- Wellness
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Valerie Gutmann Koch, JD
Research Interests
- Human subjects research
- Emerging technologies
- Genomics and privacy
- Intellectual property
Tracy Koogler, MD
Research Interests
- Deceased donor organ donation
- Death and dying
- Pediatric patient-family-physician relationship
- Subject protections in research
Matthew Koshy, MD
Research Interests
- Radiation therapies for brain therapies
- Comparative effectiveness of radiation therapy in central nervous system and thoracic malignancies
Emily Landon, MD
Research Interests
- Infection prevention
- Optimal antimicrobial use
- Bone and joint infections
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
Anup Malani, JD, PhD
Research Interests
- Health care financing
- Health care technology
- Placebo effects
- Law & economics
William Meadow, MD, PhD
Research Interests
- Neonatal ethics
- Prediction of ICU outcomes
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
Ross Milner, MD
Research Interests
- Surgical Ethics
- Informed consent process
- Role of surgeon proctors
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
Aasim I. Padela, MD, MSc
Research Interests
- Ethical and practical considerations of cultural accommodations of minority communities
- Theoretical and applied Islamic bioethics
- Ethics of global health collaborations and international relief
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
Research Interest
- Anemia and RBC transfusions
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
Lainie Ross, MD, PhD
Research Interests
- Ethical and policy issues in tissue and organ transplantation
- Ethical and policy issues in pediatrics
- Ethical and policy issues in genetics and genomics
- Ethical issues in human subjects protections
- Health care disparities and public policy
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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
Mark Siegler, MD, MACP
Research Interests
- The doctor-patient relationship
- End-of-life care
- Surgical innovation
- Organ transplantation
Jaideep Singh, MD, MPH
Research Interests
- Delivery room decisions
- Standard of care in NICU
- Palliative care in NICU
Siv Sjursen, RN, BSN
Research Interests
- Impact of technology on nursing care
- Influenza vaccine rates
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Peter Smith, MD, MA
Research Interests
- 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
Debra Stulberg, MD
Research Interests
- Racial and socioeconomic disparities
- Reproductive health
- Religiously-sponsored health care
Robert Topel, PhD
Research Interest
- Economic issues in medicine
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John Yoon, MD
Research Interests
- The doctor-patient relationship
- Virtue in medicine
- Medicine and religion