Past Greenwall Fellows Class of 2006 Fellows Ruth M. Farrell completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University Hospital of Cleveland. Dr. Farrell received her MD from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, her MA in Bioethics from Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies, and her BA in Philosophy from University of Chicago. At University Hospitals of Cleveland, Dr. Farrell was the Resident Member of the MacDonald Women’s Hospital Obstetrics Quality Assurance Committee, Secretary of the MacDonald Women’s Hospital Ethics Committee, University Hospitals of Cleveland Residency Representative for American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and a Member of the Department of Bioethics Advisory Board at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Dr. Farrell was also founder and coordinator of Obstetrics and Gynecology Residents Ethics Curriculum at the University Hospital of Cleveland and co-taught several courses on ethics and reproduction in the undergraduate, graduate, medicine, and law schools at Case Western Reserve University. Her research interests include the development and clinical application of assisted reproductive technologies, with an emphasis on preimplantation genetics diagnosis, and informed consent in reproductive medicine. S. Matthew Liao is a Visiting Researcher at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. He was the Harold T. Shapiro Research Fellow in Bioethics at the Center for Human Values at Princeton University in 2003-2004. He obtained his doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University and is currently writing two books, The Right of Children to be Loved, and The Moral Status of Human Beings. Jonathan H. Marks is a barrister, accredited mediator and founding member of Matrix Chambers, London. He received his MA (Jurisprudence) and B.C.L. (LL.M. equivalent) from Worcester College, Oxford University. Jonathan has been in legal practice for over a decade, and has litigated and advised on issues of international law, European law, health and human rights. He is a veteran of the Pinochet case and he represented Dr. Nancy Olivieri in the European Court of Justice in her efforts to quash the European marketing authorization (similar to an FDA approval) for the pharmaceutical compound, deferiprone. Jonathan has taught and lectured in the UK, continental Europe, the US and Australia. In 2002, he was Director of the Policy Task Force on “Lawful Responses to Terrorism after 9/11” at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. In 2003 – 4, he was Visiting Professor of Law at UNC Law School at Chapel Hill, where he taught courses on international law and litigation (including the law of the WTO and its dispute settlement procedures) as well as his course on terrorism. Jonathan has published a number of articles and book chapters on a wide range of topics including the prosecution of public officials who commit serious human rights violations, environmental liability in the private sector and the implications of direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs. His current research interests include the tension between human rights and the protection of public health (particularly in the context of bioterrorism), and the conflicts of interest and other ethical challenges that arise when pharmaceutical companies are involved in clinical trials and drug promotion. Jonathan is also exploring the legal and ethical challenges that arise when medical personnel are deployed in combat zones, a topic he recently considered with co-author, M. Gregg Bloche, in ‘When Doctors Go To War’ (New England Journal of Medicine, Jan. 6, 2005). Class of 2005 Fellows Gwynne L. Jenkins is a medical anthropologist, and Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Women’s Studies at the University of Kansas. Dr. Jenkins received her Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University at Albany - SUNY, and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics. Her research focuses on the politics of reproduction and health development. Much of her ethnographic research has focused on the discursive intersection of birth and modernity in development, especially with regard to home birth and hospital birth in the Global South. Dr. Jenkins is developing a new research project concerned with surgical sterilization policies as they relate to family planning and population programming, and the confrontation of local moral worlds with the globalized moral worlds framing reproductive rights. During the spring and summer of 2003, Dr. Jenkins began fieldwork on these issues in Costa Rica thanks to a J. William Fulbright Scholar award. Rebecca Kukla is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Political Science at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada), and is currently a Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy at both Johns Hopkins University and Georgetown University. She received her BA from the University of Toronto and her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh, both in Philosophy. Her book, Mass Hysteria: Fixing the Boundaries of Mothers’ Bodies is forthcoming from Rowman and Littlefield in the series “Explorations in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities”. Her interests in bioethics concern the rhetoric and dissemination of public health information (especially information for pregnant women and new mothers), media representations of health and medicine, the ethics and politics of infant feeding, reproductive health and freedoms, the ethics of primary care, physician authority in health care decisions, patients’ responsibilities with respect to their own health care, the case for universal socialized health insurance, access to health care for vulnerable populations, and cultural and historical conceptions of monstrosity and morphology and their ethical significance. Dan Larrivierre is completing a fellowship in neuromuscular disease in the Department of Neurology at the University of Virginia. Dan received his BA from Southwestern University, JD from Southern Methodist University, School of Law and his MD from Baylor College of Medicine. He spent one year as a medical malpractice attorney before entering medical school. Dan was introduced to the field of bioethics when he joined a colleague at the University of Virginia in developing a course for a multi-disciplinary audience on law and ethics in neurological care. His clinical practice is in the field of ALS. Dan's particular interests are in the impact of chronic, irreversible neurologic diseases on quality of life. As a Greenwall Fellow, he is further developing his interests in bioethics, and hopes to make a contribution to the academic literature and develop a research agenda in the field of elder mistreatment. Class of 2004 Fellows Mark Greene received his B.V.Sc. (veterinary science) from the University of Bristol, UK and worked in mixed general veterinary practice for three years before turning full-time to philosophy with an M.A. in applied ethics at the University of Hull, UK. After an M.Litt. in philosophy back at Bristol , in 2002 he completed his PhD in Ethics and Modality in the Philosophy Department at Stanford University . Following this quite theoretical work, the Greenwall Fellowship marked a return to more practical applications of ethical theory and also broadened Dr. Greene’s interests into policy issues. As a Fellow, he spent his summer internship at the Institute of Medicine working on ethical issues concerning clinical research policy, children as research subjects, and medical implants in children. His writings have focused on ethical issues in germ-line genetic therapy, and the relationship between genetics and human identity; current research and teaching interests include such issues as biological determinants of individual identity, the creation of and duties to future people, and biology and moral responsibility. He is presently a member of the Philosophy Department at the University of Delaware , and involved with the developing bioethics program at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute. Debra Matthews completed her Ph.D. in Genetics at Case Western Reserve University . Dr. Mathews has a Master’s degree in Bioethics from Case Western and a Bachelor’s in Biology from Penn State University . Her scientific research interests are in human genetic variation and the history of human genes. Her interests in bioethics and public policy focus on the intersection of science and scientists, the government and the general public. Dr. Mathews was a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics & Health Policy from 2002-2004. During this time she was also a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Institute of Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins University . Her internship during the Greenwall Fellowship was spent at the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), Office of Science and Data Policy. She worked with the Privacy Advocate for DHHS on issues related to creating large databases for integrating social services. Recently, Dr. Mathews joined the faculty of the Berman Bioethics Institute, where she is the Assistant Director of Science Programs. Naomi Seiler received her undergraduate degree in biology and women’s studies magna cum laude from Harvard University , and completed her J.D. at Yale Law School . She is chair of the Yale Health Law Society, Senior Editor of the Yale Law and Policy Review, and co-founder and co-chair of the American Constitution Society of Law and Policy at Yale. Ms. Seiler has been involved in a variety of health policy related activities, including work for Gay Men’s Health Crisis on state and local policy on HIV, disability, and health care access, research for the United Nations Latin American Institute on contraceptive sterilization laws, and counseling of Medicare beneficiaries and writing on Medicare policy for the Medicare Rights Center. During her Fellowship, Ms. Seiler worked with Drs. Ruth Faden and Holly Taylor on ethical considerations related to the implementation of the proposed national smallpox vaccination program, which resulted in two articles and two peer reviewed commentaries for the American Journal of Bioethics. For her internship, she worked on Congressman Henry Waxman’s Government Reform Committee Staff on tobacco policy and other health issues. Ms. Seiler is currently Minority Counsel on the Staff of Representatives Committee on Government Reform. Jon Tilburt completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical Center. Dr. Tilburt received his M.D. from Vanderbilt University , and his bachelor’s in philosophy from Yale University . He was awarded Vanderbilt University ’s Dixon Burns Memorial Prize for writing in medical ethics for his essay, “Cosmopolitan Virtue and the Prospects for Physician-Patient Relations.” For his summer internship as a Greenwall Fellow, he was a legislative fellow in the office of Senator Orrin Hatch, where he worked on the Prescription Drug and Medicare Improvement Act of 2003, regulation of harmful nutritional supplements, and helped draft legislation on cord blood banking, which he later presented at the National ASBH meeting in October, 2004. He is currently a fellow in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins, and a trainee in the Johns Hopkins Complementary and Alternative Medicine Center , where he focuses his research on investigating how cultural, age, and belief system differences affect doctor-patient communication. Class of 2003 Fellows David Bekelman received his medical degree from Emory University and his undergraduate degree in philosophy from Princeton . He completed a dual-residency in psychiatry and internal medicine at the University of Iowa last year. While a medical student, Dr. Bekelman published articles on ethics education and germ-line gene therapy, and assisted in the development of an ethics curriculum at Emory Medical School . During his Fellowship, Dr. Bekelman also completed his MPH degree at Hopkins and focused his research on the conceptualization of autonomous choice in patients with depression and other psychiatric illnesses. He did his summer internship at Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law where he investigated compliance in medically and psychiatrically ill patients, developing a paper that argued for changes in outpatient commitment policy. He is currently an Instructor in the Department of Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an attending physician with the Hospice of Baltimore and the Greater Baltimore Medical Center. Jacqueline Fox received her law degree as well as a master’s degree in legal history and philosophy from Georgetown Law Center , and did her undergraduate studies at Sarah Lawrence College . Ms. Fox has specialized in representing clients in their appeals with managed care organizations. She is one of a small number of attorneys with expertise in this area, and as such has been consulted extensively by lawmakers and the media on the issue of managed care reform. She has spoken at several national meetings on the issue, and has served as a lecturer at Sarah Lawrence College ’s Master’s in Patient Advocacy Program. Ms. Fox is currently working on a law review article on ethical and legal issues surrounding managed care. Ms. Fox is currently the Donaghue Visiting Scholar at Yale University ’s Bioethics Project and will be joining the faculty of the University of South Carolina ’s Law School in the academic year of 2005-2006 as a professor of health law and bioethics. Her areas of focus are: the legality of Medicare resource allocation choices; and the impact of pharmaceutical corporations’ ownership of data on human research subjects. Carol Moeller received her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh , and her undergraduate degree from Oberlin College . As a Fellow, she focused on issues at the intersection of ethics and feminist philosophy. She has always had an abiding interest in health and social equity issues, and co-founded an AIDS prevention organization, Prevention Point Pittsburgh. She did her summer internship at the Institute of Medicine , Board on Health Sciences Policy, working on a study on the Ethics of Clinical Research with Children. Dr. Moeller is currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Moravian College , where she also taught prior to joining the Greenwall Fellowship. Class of 2002 Fellows Mary Catherine Beach received her B.A. from Barnard, M.D. from Mount Sinai , and MPH from Johns Hopkins. As a Fellow, Dr. Beach focused her research and writing on the impact of do-not-resuscitate orders on physician decision-making, physicians’ conception of loyalty to patients and social justice, and on the question of whether there is public support for incorporation of cost-effectiveness data in physicians’ cancer screening recommendations. She has given presentations on these topics at several national meetings. Dr. Beach did her summer internship in the office of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, where she worked on such issues as the patients’ rights, mental health parity, human subject protection, genetic discrimination, human cloning and stem cell research. In addition to her research, Dr. Beach has served as a small group facilitator for the Physician and Society course at the Johns Hopkins Medical School . Dr. Beach is the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar Award and a K-08 Award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. She is currently Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Policy Management at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and is conducting research on the related issues of respect for persons and respect for autonomy in clinical care, on patient-physician communication and on cultural competence. Gail Javitt received her B.A. from Columbia University , her J.D. from Harvard, and her MPH from Johns Hopkins. Prior to entering the Fellowship, Ms. Javitt was an associate at Covington and Burling, where she specialized in FDA regulatory issues. As a Fellow she published papers on “Health Promotion and the First Amendment: Government Control of the Informational Environment” and on “Cancer Prevention and the Law.” She also co-taught a course on Health Law and Regulation, and served as a small group facilitator for Principles and Practice of Injury Prevention, both at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Ms. Javitt did her summer internship in the Office of Policy at the Food and Drug Administration, where she worked on policies related to the regulation of biological products. Currently, Ms. Javitt is Public Policy Analyst at the Genetics and Public Policy Center, JHU, and Adjunct Faculty at the University of Maryland School of Law. James Taggart received his law degree from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Brown University . As a Fellow, Dr. Taggart explored the question of what modes of moral reasoning should be involved in health care rationing decisions, and looked at how different distributional schemes for new biomedical technologies and the technologies themselves impact various social values. Dr. Taggart spent his summer internship working for the National Human Research Protection Advisory Committee on issues related to the oversight of research with human subjects in the social and behavioral sciences. In addition to his research and policy work, Dr. Taggart taught bioethics courses in the Georgetown philosophy department. Dr. Taggart continues to publish and give presentations as a philosopher-bioethicist. Class of 2001 Fellows Anne Drapkin Lyerly received her medical degree from Duke University and her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth . She did her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Duke. During the Fellowship, Dr. Lyerly pursued an M.A. in philosophy at Georgetown . Her research and writing activity centered around maternal-fetal surgery, assisted reproductive technology, and formal methods for the distribution of health care resources, specifically decisions regarding hormone replacement therapy. She published articles and gave several conference presentations on these topics during the Fellowship. Dr. Lyerly served as an Instructor in the Division of Gynecologic Specialities at Johns Hopkins, and as a member of the Johns Hopkins Assisted Reproductive Technology Oversight Committee. For her summer internship, she worked on the staff of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, where she produced a background paper for the commissioners on the regulation of assisted reproductive technologies in the United States . After her Fellowship, she received a Presidential Award from the Greenwall Foundation to pursue a study of individuals’ attitudes regarding their cryopreserved embryos. She recently co-authored a book with Mary Mahowald (of the University of Chicago ), Obgynethics: Variables and Verities in Women’s Health Care (Oxford University Press). Dr. Lyerly is currently Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Faculty Associate at the Center for Medical Ethics and Humanities at Duke University . Marc Spindelman received his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School and his undergraduate degree from Johns Hopkins. Prior to entering the Fellowship, he was a law clerk in the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals and the Reginald F. Lewis Fellow for Law Teaching at Harvard Law School . Mr. Spindelman’s research as a Fellow focused principally on physician-assisted suicide and on discrimination against lesbians and gays. During the Fellowship, he published several articles on these issues and established a strong research agenda for future work in these areas. He also taught a seminar on Assisted Suicide at Georgetown Law Center , as well as Ethical Issues in Public Health at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Mr. Spindelman did his summer internship at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. At the FDA, he was asked to investigate the Agency’s original decision to approve a drug to market that, once released, turned out to have unanticipated toxicities that resulted in a number of serious adverse events, including some deaths. Mr. Spindelman’s work at the FDA led to his writing a paper, “The Ethics of Equality at the FDA,” which he has presented at several law schools. Mr. Spindelman is presentlyAssistant Professor of Law at the Ohio State University College of Law, where he has been teaching health law and bioethics, as well as continuing the research program he started as a Fellow. He is also Faculty Associate at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Rebecca Walker received her undergraduate degree and Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University . Dr. Walker’s research as a Greenwall Fellow focused on three writing projects, “Morality and the Limits of Societal Values in Health Care Allocation,” “Rationality and Autonomy,” and “Bioethics at the Institute of Medicine : l975-2000.” The first project, co-authored with Andrew Siegel, was accepted for publication in Health Economics. Dr. Walker presented the paper on autonomy at several conferences and colloquia, and later submitted it for publication. The paper on bioethics at the Institute of Medicine was commissioned by the IOM after she worked there during her summer internship. While an intern at the IOM, Dr. Walker worked with the Board on Health Sciences Policy, and drafted the study proposal for a project on establishing accreditation standards for IRBs, as well as a proposal for a study on assisted reproductive technologies. In her second year as a Fellow, Dr. Walker taught a bioethics course for the Masters of Liberal Arts program at Johns Hopkins. After completing the Greenwall Fellowship in 2001, Dr. Walker served in a joint appointment as Project Director for the Life Sciences, Values and Society Program and Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor . She is currently Assistant Professor of Social Medicine and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Departments of Social Medicine and Philosophy at UNC Chapel Hill. Dr. Walker regularly teaches an undergraduate course in Bioethics, a “Medicine and Society” course for first year medical students, and a course on the allocation of scarce medical resources to both advanced philosophy students and second year medical students. Class of 2000 Fellows Debra DeBruin earned a doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh , and her bachelor’s degree from Carleton College . Dr. DeBruin was an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago prior to entering the Fellowship Program. As a Fellow she pursued a set of projects on the protection of vulnerable populations in human subjects research. She also taught courses in the philosophy departments of Georgetown University and Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins. During her summer internship and the fall of her second year as a Greenwall Fellow, Dr. DeBruin worked as a Legislative Fellow in Senator Kennedy’s health policy office, where she was assigned to address aspects of Medicare reform, the reauthorization of the Older Americans Act, mental health and substance abuse issues, and issues concerning pain management, end-of-life care, and physician assisted suicide. After her Fellowship, she worked as a consultant to the National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine and the National Bioethics Advisory Commission; She also served as Project Director for the Robert H. Levi Leadership Symposium on the ethics of Medicare reform, a forum that brought together scholars and policy makers for discussion of Medical reform issues. Currently, Dr. DeBruin is Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the Center for Bioethics, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School. She continues to conduct research on Medicare reform, and is pursuing projects on the concerns of nurses working in clinical trials and on the challenges of conducting research in a multi-cultural environment. Ileana Dominguez-Urban received her law degree from Northwestern University School of Law, and her bachelor’s from Princeton University . Prior to entering the Greenwall Program, Ms. Dominguez-Urban was an assistant professor of law at Southern Illinois University. Her teaching and writing has focused on legal definitions of parenthood and other reproductive issues, medical futility and the right to die, pharmaceutical research, and the use of mediation in dispute resolution. Ms. Dominguez-Urban spent her summer internship at the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Health Policy, examining the issue of research involving subjects who may be decisionally impaired. She continued to work on the topic for DHHS in the second year of her fellowship and after completing the fellowship. She currently works as a free-lance consultant. Carol Vannier received her undergraduate and medical degrees from Johns Hopkins University . She completed a residency in internal medicine at Case Western Reserve University and is board certified in both internal medicine and anesthesiology, with a certificate of special qualifications in critical care medicine. During the first year of her Fellowship, Dr. Vannier also completed a Masters of Public Health. She did her summer internship with Senator James Jeffords, and the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, working on privacy bills, Medicaid issues, and the Patient’s Bill of Rights. During the Fellowship, she conducted research on cost-benefit analyses of ICU patient care strategies. Dr. Vannier is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Class of 1999 Fellows Melissa M. Goldstein graduated with honors from Yale Law School in 1995 and received an undergraduate degree with concentration in bioethics from University of Virginia in 1992. At Yale Law School , she was notes editor for the Yale Law Journal and editor of the Yale Law & Policy Review. After graduating from law school, Ms. Goldstein clerked for two judges: The Honorable Morton I. Greenberg, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and The Honorable Sidney H. Stein, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. During her Greenwall Fellowship, Ms. Goldstein served as a research fellow at the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, where she also did her summer internship, examining legal issues in human subjects research and genetics. She taught a course on Law, Medicine, and Ethics at Georgetown Law Center , and served as a small group instructor for a medical ethics course for medical students at Georgetown Medical School . After completing the Fellowship, Ms. Goldstein was awarded the highly coveted White House Fellowship. She worked as a Domestic Policy Advisor to Vice President Al Gore through January, 2001, when the Clinton-Gore administration ended. In 2004, Ms. Goldstein joined the Kerry-Edwards general election campaign to help coordinate the campaign’s efforts on embryonic stem cell and other medical research issues. In addition, she helped develop and implement the campaign’s internet efforts for policy outreach and helped build networks of policy teams on various issues across the country. Before joining the campaign, Ms. Goldstein most recently worked as a senior litigation associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, and Flom LLP in Washington , D.C. She writes a quarterly column for the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and was a member of the Ethics Committee of the Columbia Hospital for Women in Washington , D.C. James Hodge has a Masters of Law degree from Georgetown University Law Center , and a JD from the Salmon P. Chase College of Law. As a Fellow, Mr. Hodge wrote law review articles on HIV reporting policies, prenatal HIV transmission, and public health federalism. He also taught courses on Public Health Law and Health Law and Policy at Georgetown Law Center . He spent his summer internship in the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, where he helped develop federal policy for protecting the confidentiality of health and research records. Since completing the Fellowship, Mr. Hodge has published numerous scholarly articles on various topics including as genetics exceptionalism, health information privacy, vaccination policy, and bioterrorism. He has directed a number of major health policy projects, including the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act Project, Model State Public Health Privacy Act, and Genetics Legislation Project. He has also been a consultant to dozens of governmental and private sector agencies. Mr. Hodge is currently faculty of the Berman Bioethics Institute, JHU; Executive Director of the Center for Law and Public’s Health, and Associate Professor of Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. John Song earned his BA and MAT in English from Brown University before attending medical school at the University of Pennsylvania . Dr. Song came to the Program with a strong interest in issues related to HIV care for disenfranchised and vulnerable populations. As a Fellow, he focused his work principally on the issue of HIV and homelessness. He spent his summer internship at the HIV/AIDS bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration, where he continued to work after the internship on preparing a report on HIV among the homeless population, including recommendations and practice guidelines for the care of homeless people with HIV/AIDS. This project culminated in the first national conference on the issue and a publication that was distributed to all federally funded community health centers. He also earned an MPH degree and completed a fellowship in General Internal Medicine while he was at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Song is currently an Assistant Professor at the Center for Bioethics and the Department of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School, where he continues to do research and publish on issues related to the health of homeless populations, and serves the homeless community as a physician. His current clinical activities include maintaining a practice at the Community University Health Care Clinic (CUHCC) in South Minneapolis ; he also founded and serves as medical director for The Phillips Neighborhood Clinic, a free health clinic staffed by volunteers and students with a dual mission of serving those without insurance and professional education. He teaches bioethics in the Medical School and develops programs for students and residents, and has a curricular and research interest in bioethics education, especially in defining the objectives and goals of bioethics and professionalism education for medical students. Dr. Song serves currently as a Principal Investigator on two research efforts - a project focusing on the end of life concerns of homeless persons funded by the National Institutes of Health and the development of a curriculum in professionalism funded by the American Medical Association. Sonia Suter , a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, taught at the University of Michigan Law School for two years before beginning the Greenwall Fellowship. Ms. Suter, who has a Master’s degree in Human Genetics from the University of Michigan , focuses on genetics and law. In the first month of her Greenwall Fellowship, Ms. Suter was appointed by Michigan Governor John Engler to serve on the Michigan Commission on Genetic Privacy and Progress, an eleven-member commission comprised of experts on genetic policy and law. In the second year of her Fellowship, Ms. Suter was invited to serve on a panel to assist the National Conference of State Legislatures’ Legislative Task Force in developing a state policy framework for genetic technologies. In her summer internship, she worked at the Institute of Medicine on reimbursement criteria for Medicare coverage of genetic testing. As a Fellow, she taught a seminar on Genetics and Law at Georgetown Law Center , and produced two publications in this area. Ms. Suter is presently Associate Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School , where she has continued to be a productive scholar, publishing on topics such as stem cells, genetic testing, genetics exceptionalism, and physician-assisted suicide. She also continues to serve on national advisory committees addressing ethical and policy issues in genetics. Class of 1998 Fellows Ellen Agard is a nurse who has an M.P.H. degree and a PhD in Religious Studies, with a focus on feminist ethics, from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley , California . She has had an extensive career in clinical nursing and health policy and worked with the California legislature on health care coverage for California ’s families before beginning the Greenwall Fellowship. As a Fellow, Dr. Agard’s research focused on the ethic of care in nursing and on the relationship between cultural diversity and informed consent, and she published articles on both topics. In addition to her research, she taught a course, Ethical Issues in Public Health Policy, at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Dr. Agard did her internship at the Institutes of Medicine, and upon completion of the fellowship she was hired to continue work at the IOM as a Senior Program Officer in the Division of Health Care Services. In this capacity she served as Study Director for two major IOM reports, Non-Heart-Beating Organ Transplantation: The Ethical Basis for Practice and Protocol, and Creating in the IOM an Ongoing Interface Between the American Health Care System and the American Legal System. Dr. Agard is currently an R.N. at Bayside Medical Center in Springfield , MA . Lauren Randel received her BA degree summa cum laude from Yale University and her MD from Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. She completed her residency in psychiatry at Georgetown before beginning the Greenwall Fellowship Program. For her internship as a Fellow, she worked at the Agency for Health Care Policy Research (AHCPR) with Dr. Carolyn Clancy, Director of the Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research, in defining the AHCPR’s research agenda with respect to ethics and managed care. Upon completion of the Fellowship, she was hired to continue her work at AHCPR as a Special Expert, as well as a Special Expert in the Department of Bioethics at the Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center at NIH. She has co-authored an article on “Drug Coverage Decisions: The Role of Dollars and Values,” in Health Affairs. She currentlyworks in private practice as a psychiatrist in D.C., and is Clinical Assistant Professor at Georgetown University Department of Psychiatry. Andrew Siegel has a law degree and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin . As a first-year Greenwall Fellow, Dr. Siegel served as staff attorney to the Task Force on Genetic Testing of the NIH Working Group on the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) of the Human Genome Project. For his summer internship, Dr. Siegel worked as a legislative fellow under Senator Edward M. Kennedy in the U.S. Senate Labor and Human Relations Committee. In this capacity he was responsible for preparing the Senator for hearings on human cloning and NIH allocation issues. As a Fellow, Dr. Siegel taught courses in the Georgetown Philosophy Department, the Johns Hopkins Philosophy Dept., and at Georgetown Law Center . After the Fellowship, he served for a year as Staff Philosopher for President Clinton’s National Bioethics Advisory Commission, where he played a central role in shaping the Commission’s report on the ethics of stem cell research. Since August 1999, Dr. Siegel has been Core Faculty and Associate Director of Academic Programs at the Phoebe R. Berman Bioethics Institute at Johns Hopkins University . He has published numerous articles and book chapters on a wide range of issues in bioethics, such as stem cell research, physician assisted suicide, allocation of health resources, and vaccination policies. Leslie Wolf , a graduate of Harvard Law School , clerked for the Massachusetts Appeals Court and practiced as a litigator with a San Francisco law firm before beginning her Greenwall Fellowship. She earned her BA degree from Stanford University , with distinction, and participated in the Stanford in Berlin program, conducting research comparing American and German AIDS policies. Ms. Wolf earned an MPH degree from Johns Hopkins as a first year Greenwall Fellow and then did a summer internship in the office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) in the Department of Health and Human Services. Her primary responsibility was conducting research on state consumer grievance procedures related to health plans, which provided the groundwork for federal legislation on consumer rights to external appeals. As a second year Fellow, Ms. Wolf taught a course on bioethics to students in a biotechnology Masters degree program at Johns Hopkins University . In addition, she worked closely with Georgetown Law Professor Patricia King on a paper on physician-assisted suicide, which was published in the Minnesota Law Review, and in a book, Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate. After the Fellowship, Ms. Wolf joined the faculty of the University of California , San Francisco and is currentlyan Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Program in Medical Ethics and the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies. At UCSF, she serves on the Committee on Human Research, the General Clinical Research Center Advisory Committee, and the Campus Advisory Committee on the Ethics of Oocyte, Stem Cell, and Embryo Research. She is also a Greenwall Faculty Scholar conducting research on non-financial conflicts of interests, has conducted research on various topics in research ethics, including Certificates of Confidentiality, HIV-related laws and policies, IRB web guidance, and other human participant protection issues, and teaches courses in research ethics and medical ethics at UCSF. Class of 1997 Fellows David McCarthy is a philosopher with degrees from Oxford University and the University of Southern California . Dr. McCarthy published four articles in prestigious journals during his Fellowship, and has produced numerous subsequent articles. His summer internship was spent at the Institute of Medicine , where he worked with Valerie Setlow, Director of the Division for the Health Sciences Policy, and others on ethical issues related to public health and infectious diseases, and on ways of measuring quality of life. He also prepared a report on ethical issues in xenotransplantation in connection with a conference between the Institute of Medicine and the Nuffield Council of Bioethics. During his Fellowship, Dr. McCarthy also took courses in health policy and taught courses in the Georgetown Philosophy Department and the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. After the Fellowship, he joined the Bioethics faculty at the University of Melbourne, published articles on human cloning and on the ethics of sex selection, and was awarded a grant from the Australian Research Council to pursue a study on “The Value of Nonmedical Information Emerging from the Human Genome Project.” He is currentlya Reader in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh . |
