Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Bioethics, End Of Life Ethics, Health Care Reform, public health issues
Peter A. Clark, S.J., Ph.D. is Director of the Institute of Clinical Bioethics and Professor of Medical Ethics at Saint Joseph's University. As an internationally known scholar and clinical bioethicist, he has authored more than 150 journal articles and several books in the field of medical ethics and bioethics, and played an influential role in developing and updating healthcare ethics policies at healthcare organizations and ethics education for medical interns and residents at teaching hospitals. Fr. Clark is a bioethics consultant and a member of ethics committees at many hospitals, including, St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, Jefferson Health Northeast-Torresdale Hospital, Frankford Hospital, Lower Bucks Hospital, Abington Hospital, Trinity East Health System, Mercy Hospital, Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital, Nazareth Hospital, St. Mary's Medical Center, St. Francis Hospital, Catholic Charities of Maryland, Saint Agnes Hospital and Caritas Baby Hospital in Palestine. Areas of expertise: Catholic bioethics, safe injection sites, end-of-life issues, health care management, religion and health care reform, beginning-of-life issues, medical futility, organ transplantation, assisted reproductive technologies, public health issues
Bioethics, Constitutional Law, disability rights, Family Law, Health Law, Human Rights
Alicia Ouellette wasthe 18th President and Dean of Albany Law School.
As a leader in legal education, Dean Ouellette has championed the value of law schools as drivers of change in communities, society, and the lives of students and graduates. As President and Dean, she has presided over Albany Law School’s execution of a new strategic plan, fulfillment of an institutional affiliation with the University at Albany, expansion into online graduate programs, and launch of a record-setting fundraising campaign, We Rise Together: The Campaign for Albany Law School.
Prior to her appointment as President and Dean, she served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Intellectual Life and a Professor of Law. Before joining the law school in 2001, Dean Ouellette was an Assistant Solicitor General in the New York State Attorney General’s Office and a law clerk to the Honorable Howard A. Levine at the New York Court of Appeals. As a scholar, Dean Ouellette focuses on health law, disability rights, family law, children’s rights, and human reproduction. Her book, BIOETHICS AND DISABILITY: TOWARD A DISABILITY CONSCIOUS BIOETHICS, was published in 2011 by Cambridge University Press. She has authored numerous articles published in academic journals such as the American Journal of Law and Medicine, American Journal of Bioethics, Nevada Law Journal, Hastings Law Journal, Indiana Law Journal, and Oregon Law Review. She has presented to distinguished audiences around the globe, including at the Yale School of Medicine and the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. In September 2020, Dean Ouellette was appointed to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution and Implementation Task Force. Dean Ouellette has served in leadership positions for numerous professional and community organizations, including as chair of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section for Deans, secretary and a board member for the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (CICU), secretary and a board member for the Burdett Birthing Center in Troy, N.Y., and a board member for the University at Albany’s Institute for Health and Human Rights. An alumna of Hamilton College, Dean Ouellette graduated magna cum laude in 1994 from Albany Law School, where she was editor-in-chief of the Albany Law Review.
Co-Director, Center for Law, Society & Culture; Professor
Indiana UniversityAssisted Reproductive Technoloogy, Bioethics, criminal law, firearm violence, Gun Violence, Second Amendment
Professor Jody Madeira joined the IU Maurer School of Law faculty in 2007. Her scholarly interests involve empirical research; the role of emotion in law; the sociology of law; law, medicine and bioethics; and the Second Amendment. She is principal investigator on a grant to design and implement S.U.N., a multimedia web portal integrating educational videos and a mobile health tracking application for college students that addresses alcohol, marijuana, opioid and stimulant use disorders. Her most recent book, "Taking Baby Steps: How Patients and Fertility Clinics Collaborate in Conception" (University of California Press, 2018), takes readers inside the infertility experience, from dealing with infertility-related emotions to forming treatment relationships with medical professionals, confronting difficult decisions and negotiating informed consent. Madeira investigates how women, men, and their care providers can utilize trust to collaboratively negotiate infertility’s personal, physical, spiritual, ethical, medical and legal minefields.
Bioethics, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Family Law, Reproductive Health, Women's Rights
Michele Bratcher Goodwin is a Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Irvine and founding director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy. She is also faculty in the Stem Cell Research Center; Gender and Sexuality Studies Department; Program in Public Health; and the Department of Criminology, Law, & Society. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute as well as an elected Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the Hastings Center. She is an American Law Institute Adviser for the Restatement Third of Torts: Remedies. Professor Goodwin has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago and University of Virginia law schools. Professor Goodwin’s scholarship is hailed as “exceptional” in the New England Journal of Medicine. She has been featured in Politico, Salon.com, Forbes, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Chicago Sun-Times, NPR, HBO’s Vice News, and Ms. Magazine among others. A prolific author, her scholarship is published or forthcoming in The Yale Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Cornell Law Review, NYU Law Review, California Law Review, and Northwestern Law Review, among others. Goodwin’s publications include five books and over 80 articles, essays and book chapters as well as numerous commentaries. Trained in sociology and anthropology, she has conducted field research in Asia, Africa, Europe and North America, focusing on trafficking in the human body for marriage, sex, organs, and other biologics. In addition to her work on reproductive health, rights, and justice, Professor Goodwin is credited with forging new ways of thinking in organ transplant policy and assisted reproductive technologies, resulting in works such as Black Markets: The Supply and Demand of Body Parts (2006) and Baby Markets: Money and the Politics of Creating Families (2010).
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
University at Albany, State University of New YorkBioethics, Ethics, Philosophy
Before coming to UAlbany, he taught at Harvard College, the Zhejiang Institute of Science and Technology in Hangzhou, China, and worked as a researcher at the Joint Center for Bioethics at the University of Toronto. He writes on the topics of trust, promises, character, self-deception, and rationalization. He has also done work in bioethics (in particular, trust and consent) and the philosophy of art (in particular, fiction-directed emotion, imaginative resistance, and the autographic/allographic distinction). His recent work appears in academic journals such as Ethics, the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. See his website for forthcoming papers.
Professor and Director of Institute of Clinical Bioethics, and the John McShain Chair in Ethics
Saint Joseph's UniversityBioethics, Ethics, Health, Hospital, Legal, Medical
Peter A. Clark, S.J., Ph.D. is a Professor of Medical Ethics and Director of the Institute of Clinical Bioethics at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. He is also the Bioethicist for the Mercy Health System of Philadelphia, Shriners Hospital for Children and St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. As Bioethicist, Father Clark is responsible for the ethical training of the medical interns/residents/fellows in all affiliated hospitals. He does weekly Ethics Teaching Rounds at the three acute care facilities in the Mercy Health System and the 4 Jefferson Health Hospitals, co-chairs the hospital ethics committees, IRBs and the Corporate Ethics Committee and is on consult 24/7 for all hospitals. Father Clark is author of numerous articles in medical and bioethics journals on topics, which include: medical futility, pain management, prejudice in the medical profession, the medical use of marijuana, tube feedings and PVS patients, male circumcision and HIV/AIDS, face transplantation, organ transplants, safe injection sites, palliative care and hospice and the Ashley treatment, etc.
Anthropologist, Bioethics, Medical Humanities, Psychiatric Medications
Director of Education, Bioethics and Medical Humanities, School of Medicine Director, MA in Bioethics and Medical Humanities Program, Department of Bioethics, School of Medicine Director, Medicine Society and Culture Concentration, School of Medicine Co-Director, PhD in Bioethics Program, School of Medicine Associate Professor, Department of Bioethics, School of Medicine Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine Associate Professor Eileen Anderson directs the university’s educational programs in Bioethics and Medical Humanities. She is founding director of the Medicine, Society and Culture (MSC) concentration and center for Medicine, Society and Culture. As a medical and psychological anthropologist, she studies how adolescents and young adults adapt to changes in their environments in ways that both advance and harm their well-being. An award-winning teacher and mentor, she expanded the university’s offerings at the undergraduate, graduate and professional levels to provide students a more comprehensive understanding of non-biological factors that affect health, as well as our ideas about well-being and illness. Drawn to interdisciplinary study since her own days as an undergraduate, Dr. Anderson foregrounds bioethics, medical humanities and social medicine in her research, teaching and program development. Social and cultural constructs, historical and rhetorical influences, literature, art, philosophy – all shape perceptions of health, illness, and recovery, which in turn affect choices, beliefs, and behaviors. Those who appreciate this complex and multi-layered interplay will be able to play pivotal roles in enhancing how care is delivered – and the outcomes it yields. Dr. Anderson's perspective on these issues has been informed by extensive research on the mental health and well-being of adolescents and young adults in contexts of socio-cultural change. Her most enduring project is an ongoing longitudinal study of how subjective perceptions of current and future well-being allowed the first mass-educated cohort of Belizean schoolgirls to overcome severe threats to their mental and physical health. Dr. Anderson also led an interdisciplinary team’s study of the psychiatric medication experiences of undergraduates at North American university campuses, where a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods revealed stark differences between reported and actual usage. She is writing a book about the findings and their implications; Young, Educated and Medicated: College Student Mental Health. Building on her earlier work in culture, body image and eating disorders, she led a multi-institutional project examining the ethnography of global obesity stigma among upwardly mobile young people in several countries around the world. This research led to a School for Advanced Research seminar, from which emerged an edited volume (2017) of which she is primary editor and author, Fat Planet: Culture, Obesity and Symbolic Body Capital. Most recently, she has launched a new project examining concepts and practices related to child well-being in the Guardian Ad Litem system in legal contexts, where she leads an interdisciplinary team of child psychologists, pediatricians, ethicists, anthropologists, social workers and legal scholars. Her training has included work at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Social Medicine and Massachusetts General Hospital, and postdoctoral fellowships in Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture and Neuroscience and Culture, Brain and Development through the Foundation for Psychocultural Research at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Publications PubMed Education Degree Doctor of Education Institution Harvard University Area of Study Human Development and Psychology Degree Master of Education Institution Harvard University Area of Study Human Development and Psychology Degree Bachelor of Arts Institution Brown University Area of Study American Civilization
Adolescent Health, Bioethics, Health, Men’s Health, Obesity
Santo Coleman’s areas of research are men’s health and masculinity across the lifespan, including adolescent health and fatherhood. Currently, his focus is the effect of gender on health behavior outcomes such as obesity. Additionally, he examines the role of culture on gender performance and academic outcomes.
Coleman received his doctorate in public health with a focus on social and behavioral health science at University of Connecticut, his master’s in public health with a focus on public health policy and management from the Mel and Enid Zuckerman School of Public Health at University of Arizona and his bachelor’s degrees in political science and Spanish from Georgia State University.