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 health care for patients who are incarcerated or detained
  • Research ethics
  • Surgical informed consent

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

Ishanu Chattopadhyay, PhD

Research Interests

  • Machine learning
  • Data Science
  • Screening and diagnosis of complex diseases
  • Electronic Health 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 health care
  • Health disparities and community-engaged research
  • Reproductive ethics

Scott Cook, PhD

Research Interests

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

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

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 and 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 and 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 and 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

  • Advanced monitoring in severe traumatic brain injury
  • Neurocritical care ethics
  • 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 Interests

  • 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 health care 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 Interests

  • 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

Manish Tushar Raiji, MD

Vijaya Rao, MD

Research Interests

  • Clinical ethics in gastroenterology
  • Appropriate use of invasive procedures
  • Peri-procedural code status

Gautham Reddy, MD, FAASLD, AGAF, FACG

Selwyn Rogers Jr., MD, MPH

Research Interests

  • Ethical issues in violence, trauma, and 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

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Caroline Skolnik, MD, CM

Research Interests

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

Peter J. Smith, MD, MA

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

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 and the ethics of AI
  • Research consent

Ashley Suah, MD

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

Elizabeth Tung, MD, MS

Research Interests

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

Heather Whitney, PhD

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

M. Jeanne Wirpsa, MA, BCC

Research Interests

  • Religion, bioethics, and medicine
  • Shared decision making
  • Provider moral distress/moral injury
  • Health care 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 and law
  • Social justice in health care
  • How science and medicine are taught
  • Women, gender, and sexuality studies

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Staff

Anne Wong, BA

Manager

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Haley Beck, MA, BS

Program Manager – Ethics

Research Interests

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Ranana Dine, BA

Research Assistant

Research Interests

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Leyi “Nina” Gong

Metcalf Intern

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