Community Medicine Seminar Series Lecturers
The following is a list of guest lecturers for the 2004-2005 Community Medicine Seminar Series.
Stephen G. Post, Ph.D.
Stephen
G. Post is Professor, Department of Bioethics, Case School of Medicine, Case
Western Reserve University, and a Senior Research Scholar in the Becket Institute
at St. Hugh's College, Oxford University. Post is Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia
of Bioethics, 3rd edition (Macmillan Reference, 2004). He is President
of the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, founded in 2001 with a generous
grant from the John Templeton Foundation, and devoted to high-level scientific
research on unselfish love. Post received his Ph.D. in ethics from the University
of Chicago Divinity School (1983), where he was an elected university fellow,
a member of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion, and a preceptor
in the Pritzker School of Medicine. Post is the author of more than 150 articles
in peer-review journals across the sciences, religion and ethics. His work
on love spans three decades focusing on Cognitive Disabilities and Dementia,
Family Caregivers and the Ethics of the Family, and Altruism and Compassionate
Love in the Context of Scientific Research, Philosophy, Religion, Ethics,
and the Professions. His research has been supported by 15 private foundations
and several major government entities.
George J. Agich, Ph.D.
Dr
Agich is a Professor of Medicine in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of
Medicine of Case Western Reserve University and a member and former Chairman
(1997-2004) of the Department of Bioethics with a joint appointment in the
Transplant Center at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio. During
the 2003-2004 Winter Term, he was the Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft
Visiting Professor at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He earned his
bachelor degree in Philosophy and English from Duquesne University and a masters
and doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Agich
directs the Cleveland Clinic's Ethics Consultation Service that provides over
240 ethics consultations annually as well as weekly Critical Care Ethics Liaison
Rounds in six intensive care units. He has served on the CCF Liver and Heart
Transplantation Selection Committees and is Chairman of the Ohio Solid Organ
Transplantation Consortium Ethics Committee. He has also been active in professional
societies and serves on a number of editorial boards and national grant review
committees, including an NIH study section. Dr. Agich is the author of over
100 peer-reviewed articles and four books on a wide range of topics including
autonomy in long-term care, ethics consultation, philosophical aspects of
psychiatric nosology, and research ethics. Cambridge University Press published
his most recent book, Dependence and Autonomy in Long Term Care in
2003. His current research includes questions of authority and methodology
in ethics consultation as well as the ethics of innovation in medicine and
surgery.
Lisa A. Eckenwiler, Ph.D.
Lisa
Eckenwiler is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Institute
for Ethics and Public Affairs at Old Dominion University where she teaches
bioethics, ethics in public health, and other courses in moral philosophy.
She earned her Ph.D. in philosophy with a concentration in bioethics at the
University of Tennessee Knoxville, her B.A. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
and carried out a summer fellowship in clinical ethics and cultural pluralism
at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio. Before her
appointment at Old Dominion, Professor Eckenwiler taught at the University
of Illinois at Chicago, and Loyola University, Stritch School of Medicine.
She served as Director of the Consortium to Examine Clinical Research Ethics,
a nationwide, multidisciplinary effort to assess policy in research ethics
based at Duke University Medical Center. Her work has focused on a wide array
of ethical issues in research involving human subjects, access to AIDS care,
law and policy concerning pregnant addicts, and the ethical obligations of
emergency health workers in crisis. Currently, she is working on a book, The
Ethics of Bioethics: Mapping the Moral Landscape (forthcoming from Johns
Hopkins University Press). Other research projects include the ethical implications
for public health of biodefense policy, and justice and caregiving for the
elderly in the context of globalization. She is also serving as Co-chair of
the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities.
Audrey R. Chapman, Ph.D.
Audrey
R. Chapman serves as the director of the Science and Human Rights Program
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Her areas
of expertise include health and human rights, transitional justice research,
and the ethical and religious issues related to genetic science and applications.
She co-authored two recent AAAS reports, Stem Cell Research and Applications:
Monitoring the Frontiers of Biomedical Research and Human Inheritable
Genetic Modifications: Assessing Scientific, Ethical, Religious and Policy
Issues. She works closely with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner
for Human Rights and the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights. Chapman is the author, co-author, or editor of 14 books and
numerous articles and monographs related to human rights and religious ethics.
Recently published books include Core Obligations: Building a Framework
for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Intersentia, 2002), Unprecedented
Choices: Religious Ethics on the Frontiers of Genetic Science (Fortress
Press, 1999), and Perspectives on Gene Patenting: Science, Religion, Industry,
and Law in Dialogue (AAAS, 1999). A coedited volume, Designing Our
Descendants: Potential and Limitations of Genetic Modifications is in
press (Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming). She is currently working
on two books assessing the ability of the South African Truth and Reconciliation
Commission to balance truth finding with forgiveness and reconciliation. She
received a Ph.D. in public law and government from Columbia University and
graduate degrees in theology and ethics from New York Theological Seminary
and Union Theological Seminary.
We welcome your suggestions! To make suggestions for topics or future speakers, contact the Seminar Series Director, Professor Zita Lazzarini, at lazzarini@nso.uchc.edu.