The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) is a public medical school in Charleston,South Carolina. It opened in 1824 as a small private college aimed at training physicians and has since established hospitals and medical facilities across the state. It is one of the oldest continually operating schools of medicine in the United States and the oldest in the Deep South.
Arthur Michael Kleinman is an American psychiatrist,social anthropologist and a professor of medical anthropology,psychiatry and global health and social medicine at Harvard University.
The Doctorate of Medicine and of Philosophy (MD–PhD) is a dual doctoral degree for physician–scientists,combining the professional training of the Doctor of Medicine degree with the research expertise of the Doctor of Philosophy degree;the Ph.D. is the most advanced credential in the United States. Other dual degree programs exist,such as the joint MD–JD degree;both the JD professional degree and the MD are not universally recognized internationally,however. The National Institutes of Health currently provides 50 medical schools with Medical Scientist Training Program grants that support the training of students in MD–PhD programs at these institutions through tuition and stipend allowances. These programs are often competitive,with some admitting as few as two students per academic year. The MCAT score and GPA of MD–PhD matriculants are often higher than MD only matriculants.
Albany Medical College (AMC) is a private medical school in Albany,New York. It was founded in 1839 by Alden March and James H. Armsby and is one of the oldest medical schools in the nation. The college is part of the Albany Medical Center,which includes the Albany Medical Center Hospital. Along with Albany College of Pharmacy,Albany Law School,the Dudley Observatory,and Union College,it is one of the constituent entities of Union University.
Leon Eisenberg was an American child psychiatrist,social psychiatrist and medical educator who "transformed child psychiatry by advocating research into developmental problems".
Boston University Chobanian &Avedisian School of Medicine (CAMED),formerly known as Boston University School of Medicine,is the medical school of Boston University,a private research university in Boston. It was founded in 1848. The medical school was the first institution in the world to formally educate female physicians. Originally known as the New England Female Medical College,it was subsequently renamed Boston University School of Medicine in 1873,then Chobanian &Avedisian School of Medicine in 2022. In 1864,it became the first medical school in the United States to award an M.D. degree to an African-American woman.
Carl Elliott is an American academic working as a professor in department of philosophy at the University of Minnesota.
Carola Blitzman Eisenberg was an Argentine-American psychiatrist who became the first woman to hold the position of Dean of Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1978 to 1990,she was the dean of student affairs at Harvard Medical School (HMS). She was a long-time lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at HMS. She was also both a founding member of Physicians for Human Rights and an honorary psychiatrist with the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. After retiring,she was involved in human rights work through Physicians for Human Rights,the Institute for Healthcare Improvement,and elsewhere. She turned 100 in September 2017 and died in Lincoln,Massachusetts,in March 2021 at the age of 103.
Stuart J. Youngner is Professor of Bioethics and Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
The National Core for Neuroethics at the University of British Columbia was established in August 2007,with support from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research,the Institute of Mental Health and Addiction,the Canada Foundation for Innovation,the British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund,the Canada Research Chairs program,the UBC Brain Research Centre and the UBC Institute of Mental Health. Co-founded by Judy Illes and Peter Reiner,the Core studies neuroethics,with particular focus on ethics in neurodegenerative disease and regenerative medicine,international and cross-cultural challenges in brain research,neuroimaging and ethics,the neuroethics of enhancement,and personalized medicine.
Dan W. Brock was an American philosopher,bioethicist,and professor emeritus at Harvard University and Brown University. He was the Frances Glessner Lee Professor Emeritus of Medical Ethics in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School,the former Director of the Division of Medical Ethics at the Harvard Medical School,and former Director of the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health (PEH).
Jacob M. Appel is an American polymath,author,bioethicist,physician,lawyer and social critic. He is best known for his short stories,his work as a playwright,and his writing in the fields of reproductive ethics,organ donation,neuroethics,and euthanasia. Appel's novel The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up won the Dundee International Book Prize in 2012. He is the director of Ethics Education in Psychiatry and a professor of psychiatry and medical education at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine,and he practices emergency psychiatry at the adjoining Mount Sinai Health System. Appel is the subject of the 2019 documentary film Jacob by director Jon Stahl.
Willard Marvin Gaylin was an American bioethicist and physician who served as clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was also the co-founder,along with Daniel Callahan,of The Hastings Center,an independent research institute focused on bioethics. Gaylin served as president of the Hastings Center from its inception,in 1969,until 1993 and as chairman of the board from 1993 to 1994. He was a member of the Center's board.
Stephen Garrard Post has served on the Board of the John Templeton Foundation (2008-2014),which focuses on virtue and public life. He is a researcher,opinion leader,medical school professor,and best-selling author who has taught at the University of Chicago Medical School,Fordham University-Marymount,Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (1988-2008) and Stony Brook University School of Medicine (2008-). He is widely known for his research on the ways in which giving can enhance the health and happiness of the giver,how empathy and compassionate care contribute to patient outcomes,ethical issues in caring for people with dementia,medical professionalism and the virtues,and positive psychology in relation to health and well-being. Post is an elected member of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia,the New York Academy of Medicine,and the Royal Society of Medicine,London. He was selected nationally as the Public Member of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Composite Committee (2000-2005),and was reappointed for outstanding contributions.
Charles Culver was a medical ethicist and a psychiatrist. He was primarily known for his work in medical ethics and his contributions in founding the field of bioethics in the United States.
Henk Antonius Maria Johannes ten Have is Professor emeritus at the Center for Healthcare Ethics at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh,U.S.A. where he has been Director since 2010. Previously,he served in UNESCO as Director of the Division of Ethics of Science and Technology (2003–2010). His recent works are:Global Bioethics—An Introduction (2016),Vulnerability—Challenging Bioethics (2016),Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics (2016),and Wounded Planet (2019).
Daniel David Federman,was an American endocrinologist and the Carl W. Walter Distinguished Professor of Medicine and the dean for medical education at Harvard Medical School. He helped change medical education at through its New Pathway curriculum around the early 1990s,and his work helped create the field of genetic endocrinology. Federman also worked for over thirty years at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital,a Harvard teaching hospital in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area.
Christine I. Mitchell is an American filmmaker and bioethicist and until her retirement in September 2022,the executive director of the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School (HMS).
Jessica Wilen Berg is an American attorney and specialist in Public Health (MPH),currently serving as co-Dean at Case Western Reserve University School of Law,the first female co-Dean or Dean in the law school's 129-year history. She is also Tom J.E. and Bette Lou Walker Professor of Law,Professor in the Departments of Bioethics,and of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences at the CWRU School of Medicine. She is a reference book author in the area of informed consent. Her scholarly opinion is often reported by institutions and media on ethical aspects iof innovative biomedical procedures.
