Just Published: landmark handbook in public health ethics
8/28/2019
Just published: landmark handbook in public health ethics with chapters by Lois Shepherd, Ruth Gaare Bernheim, Richard Bonnie, and Heather Zelle. Read the press release here.
Center faculty in reproductive ethics and justice join UVA’s civil rights office
8/28/2019
Center faculty in reproductive ethics and justice join UVA's civil rights office in opposing Trump's proposed rollback of transgender rights in healthcare. Read the public comment here.
8/28/2019
Congratulations to Center faculty member Beth Epstein for her election as Treasurer to the Board of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities.
Laura Kolbe MD, 2016 Hook Scholar, now an instructor in medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, NY
8/6/2019
Laura Kolbe MD, Hook Scholar in the graduating class of 2016, is now an instructor in medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York. A longtime writer, Laura published prose…
Faculty Members Present at ASBH
7/12/2019
In October, several faculty members presented at the 21st Annual Conference of The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities in Pittsburgh, PA. On October 26, Donna Chen, pictured here, presented…
Lois Shepherd’s essay on physician altruism is chosen for updated anthology
7/9/2019
Lois Shepherd’s essay on physician altruism is chosen for updated anthology, The Social Medicine Reader. Click here to read the essay:
Marcia Childress and Hunter Groninger present at special convening on human suffering
7/9/2019
Marcia Day Childress PhD participated in On Suffering: Pain, Precarity, and the Distintegration of the Self, a multidisciplinary, invitation-only meeting convened by Professor Ato Quayson at New York University…
Alexis Thurmond MD, Class of 2019, receives UVA’s 2019 Annette McDermott Award
7/9/2019
The 2019 Annette McDermott Award was presented by the School of Medicine to graduating student Alexis M. Thurmond MD, Class of 2019 in acknowledgement of her sensitivity to and compassionate…
Bioethics fellow and interns attend conference in Washington, DC
7/2/2019
On June 19th, a group from the Bioethics center- including our fellow and new interns- traveled to Washington DC to attend a conference hosted by Gallup and Wellcome. There, presenters…
Dallas Ducar Nurse Practitioner Transitions and Walks the Lawn – Finally – As a Woman
7/2/2019
Dallas Ducar, MSN, RN, CNL, NREMT-B and Founder of the Virginia Journal of Bioethics graduates from UVA's Nurse Practitioner Program with plans to join Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital's Transgender Health…
