Joseph Carrese, M.D., M.P.H, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Carrese is a core faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, the Faculty Development Program, and (through June 2006) the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU). In August of 2005 Dr. Carrese was named a Blaustein Scholar in the Ethics of Clinical Practice at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. In this role he will study the "epidemiology" of ethical issues that emerge in the daily practice of medicine in various clinical settings, and he will participate with colleagues in designing, implementing and evaluating educational curricula for residents addressing ethical issues in clinical practice. Dr. Carrese has also been named Director of the newly established Program on Ethics in Clinical Practice at the Berman Bioethics Institute. Another focus of his career is to examine ethical issues at the interface of different cultural systems, and his work in this area includes empirical research as well as conceptual writing. Dr. Carrese teaches clinical medicine and clinical ethics to medical students, residents and fellows, and he teaches research ethics to fellows and faculty. He is a member of the ethics committee at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and is Vice-Chair of one of the Institutional Review Boards at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Carrese is the primary care doctor to a panel of patients who are seen at the Bayview Medical Offices. Dr. Carrese completed a fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he studied medical ethics and anthropology. He then joined the faculty in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in 1994. He was supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars award from 1997–2002. |
