Core Faculty

Mary Catherine Beach, M.D., M.P.H.   Areas of interest: Patient-physician communication and relationships; respect for persons; social justice; health-care quality for underserved populations; ethics in medical education

Betty Black, Ph.D.   Areas of interest: Need and unmet need for mental health care; quality of life; decision-making and end-of-life care for people with dementia; ethical aspects of dementia research

Hilary Bok, Ph.D.   Areas of interest: Bioethics; moral philosophy; freedom of the will; the works of Immanuel Kant

Joseph Carrese, M.D., M.P.H.   Areas of interest: Clinical ethics, with a particular interest in ethical issues that arise in the context of cultural diversity; research ethics; ethics education at all levels; empirical research, particularly involving qualitative methods

Ruth Faden, Ph.D., M.P.H., Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics; Director, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics   Areas of interest: Bioethics and public policy; ethics and cellular engineering; ethics and bioterrorism; genetics and public policy; research ethics; and justice

Daniel Finkelstein, M.D., M.A. in theology   Areas of interest: Medical ethics; spirituality/religion of the doctor-patient relationship

Thomas Finucane, M.D.   Areas of interest: Avoiding over treatment and under treatment of the frail elderly; teaching and learning about over/under treatment of the frail elderly; advance directives

Gail Geller,Sc.D., MHS  Areas of interest: Ethical and psychosocial implications of genetic technologies; provider-patient communication and informed consent; ethics and professionalism in medical education; cross-cultural variation, including complementary and alternative medicine; research ethics

Steven Goodman, M.D., MHS, Ph.D.   Areas of interest: Evidence evaluation and inferential, methodological and ethical issues in epidemiology and clinical research

Mark Hughes, M.D., M.A.   Areas of interest: Advance-care planning, end-of-life decision-making, professionalism, everyday ethics in the clinical setting, research ethics, ethics in medical education

Adnan Hyder, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.   Areas of interest: Empirical ethics, equity and vulnerability, health-systems ethics, and priority setting for health-decision making

Gail Javitt, J.D., M.P.H.   Areas of interest: Developing policy options to guide the development and use of reproductive technologies; currently leading an initiative to improve oversight of genetic-testing quality

Nancy Kass, Sc.D., Phoebe R. Berman Professor of Bioethics and Public Health   Areas of interest: Research ethics, including identifying simpler ways of conducting informed consent in order to increase research participants understanding; public-health ethics and the ethics of infectious diseases, including pandemic influenza; and the ethics of international public-health research and community engagement

Debra Mathews, Ph.D., M.A., Assistant Director for Science Programs, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics   Areas of interest: Stem cell research, neuroscience, genetics; intersection of science, public policy and society

Maria Merritt, Ph.D.   Areas of interest: Bioethics, global health ethics, international research ethics, moral philosophy, moral psychology

Margaret Moon, M.D., M.P.H.    Areas of interest: Ethics education in the clinical and pre-clinical setting; ethics and professionalism in outpatient care; empiric evaluation of the outcomes of ethics education, and issues of consent and confidentiality in adolescent medicine

Marie Nolan, Ph.D., R.N.    Areas of interest: Patient and family decision-making in serious illness; end-of-life decision making; living organ donor decision-making

Peter Rabins, M.D., M.P.H.   Areas of interest: How family members make decisions for persons with end-stage dementia; how consent is determined for research studies that impair cognition; and how the concept of self reflects the organization of specific brain structures

Cynda Rushton, Ph.D., R.N.    Areas of interest: Palliative and end-of-life care, moral distress and caregiver suffering, clinical ethics, ethical issues that arise in nursing practice and pediatrics

Joan Scott, M.S., CGC    Areas of interest: Genetics counseling and testing

Andrew Siegel, J.D., Ph.D.   Areas of interest: Ethical and legal issues in human stem cell research; exploitation in research; and privacy

Jeremy Sugarman, M.D., M.P.H., M.A., Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Bioethics and Medicine; Deputy Director for Medicine, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics    Areas of interest: Informed consent, research ethics, and the ethical issues associated with emerging technologies

Holly Taylor, Ph.D., M.P.H.    Areas of interest: Research ethics; local implementation of federal policy relevant to human subject research; HIV/AIDS policy; and qualitative research methods

Peter Terry, M.D.    Areas of interest: Ethics education in medical school and in house staff programs; end-of-life decision-making; conflicts of interest, and relationships between physicians and the pharmaceutical industry

Lawrence Wissow, M.D.   Areas of interest: Communication between patients and health-care providers, with an emphasis on children and disclosure of mental-health issues

 

 

  

Emeritus Faculty

John Freeman, M.D.   Areas of interest: Ethical discussions regarding newborns with congenital defects, the right to life, death and dying