Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics
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| Established | 1980s |
|---|---|
Field of research | Bioethics |
| President | Alan Garber (interim) |
| Dean | Edward Hundert |
| Director | Robert D. Truog |
| Faculty | Department of Social Medicine |
| Address | 641 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 |
| Location | United States |
| 02115 | |
| Campus | Longwood Medical Area |
| Affiliations | Harvard Medical School |
The Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics is an educational institution located within the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine of Harvard Medical School.[1][2] The goal of the institution is to instruct ethical reasoning to medical students throughout the 4-year basic degree program curriculum, supporting and strengthen the ethics programs at HMS teaching hospitals and affiliated facilities, and educating and preparing future generation of practitioners and leaders in bioethics.[3]
History[edit]
Under then-Harvard President Derek Bok,[4] the Center for Ethics and the Professions, was launched in the mid-1980s[5][6] to ensure that public values and ethics are in line with professional training, professional education, and research in the field, laboratories, clinics, courtrooms, classrooms, society, and families.[7][8] During the coronavirus pandemic, the Center for Bioethics offered - often through Facebook - remote workshops on the ethics of coronavirus, along with other topics in bioethics.[9]
Leadership[edit]
The Center is led by:
- Robert D. Truog, MD, Director, Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Medical Ethics, Anaesthesia, & Pediatrics; Executive Director, Institute for Professionalism and Ethical Practice; Senior Associate in Critical Care Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital
- Christine Mitchell, RN, MS, MTS, (former) Executive Director (retired September 2022) = Mrs. Mitchell retired in 2024
- Edward M. Hundert, MD, Associate Director; Dean for Medical Education, Harvard Medical School, former President, Case Western
- Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, MD, JD, Program Director, Master of Bioethics
- Mildred Z. Solomon, EdD, Fellowship Director; President, Hastings Center; Educational Development Center, Newton, Massachusetts[10]
Clinical affiliations[edit]
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Boston Children's Hospital
- Boston Medical Center
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Cambridge Health Alliance
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Hebrew SeniorLife (formerly Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for the Aged)
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- McLean Hospital
- Mount Auburn Hospital
- North Shore Medical Center
- Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
- Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System
References[edit]
- ↑ About us page for HMS Center for Bioethics
- ↑ "Doctors who want to defy abortion laws say it's too risky". NPR. Retrieved 2022-12-01.
- ↑ "HMS Center for Bioethics announces inaugural Beecher Teaching Awards". Harvard Gazette. 2022-09-13. Retrieved 2022-12-01.
- ↑ Bok profile, Safra Center for Ethics
- ↑ Thomson DF, Notes from the Founding Director, Harvard Edward J. Safra Center website, accessed 21 October 2018
- ↑ Ethics at Harvard, Harvard Edward J. Safra Center website, accessed 21 October 2018
- ↑ "A Conversation with Christine Mitchell". hms.harvard.edu. 7 November 2022. Retrieved 2022-12-01.
- ↑ "Med Ed Dean Announces Transition to New Role". hms.harvard.edu. 2 November 2022. Retrieved 2022-12-01.
- ↑ "George W. Gay lecture honors HMS Center for Bioethics and Tuskegee University collaboration". Harvard Gazette. 2022-11-17. Retrieved 2022-12-01.
- ↑ Exploring Bioethics, Educational Development Center for National Institutes of Health
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