We provide multidisciplinary leadership addressing the ethical, legal, and social dimensions of medicine, health care, and health policy

Getting Answers "Healing Relationships in Medicine" is a joint project of the Vanderbilt Medical Center and the Baptist Healing Trust to identify skills that facilitate compassionate relationships with patients.

Building Tomorrow We are devoted to creating research tools that can meet future health care needs while promoting the public´s acceptance and trust in research.

Changing Lives One qualitative study is examining how a patient´s illness trajectory is interpreted in different ways by patients, families, and care providers.

Clinical Ethics Consultation Service Pager: (615) 831-8603

Highlights

Congratulations to Ellen Wright Clayton, M.D., J.D., for being elected to the American Pediatric Society.  Read More.

Dr. Elizabeth Heitman Heitman was a panelist in the Bridging Science and Security for Biological Research: International Science and Security meeting hosted by AAAS, AAU, APLU, and the FBI.  Proceedings of the meeting are available on the AAAS website.  Read More.

Dr. Elizabeth Heitman was elected to the Executive Board of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, effective July 1.  Read More.

Pending publications:

Churchill, L. R. “Beneficence,” Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 4^th edition, Bruce Jennings, editor. (2013, forthcoming)

 Churchill, L. R. “American Healthcare: Ethical Dimensions of Financing Healthcare Reform,” (Grand Rapids, MI: DeVos Medical Ethics Colloquy, 2013), pp.8-22.

 Ellen Wright Clayton, Susanne Haga, Patricia Kuszler, Emily Bane, Krysta Shutske, Wylie Burke, Managing Incidental Genomic Findings: Legal Obligations of Clinicians, Genetics in Medicine (in press, 2013)

Additional Highlights

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