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

Research Interests
Haley Beck, MA, BS
Program Manager – Ethics

Research Interests
Ranana Dine, BA
Research Assistant

Research Interests
Leyi “Nina” Gong
Metcalf Intern
