Members
Below is a list of all Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities members. View individual profiles of our members – with publication and contact information, research and/or clinical specialties, and more – via the links below.
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Essner, Bonnie S
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Child Psychology), Pediatrics and Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Frader, Joel E
Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics (Palliative Care)
Bio
I have a strong interest in medical ethics, especially ethical issues in pediatrics, end-of-life care, research on human subjects, transplantation, children with differences of sex development (DSD) a... [more]
Franklin, John E
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Addiction Psychiatry), Medical Education, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Consultation Liaison Psychiatry) and Surgery (Organ Transplantation)
Bio
Chemical dependence, Medical / surgical psychiatry
Fry, Jessica Teresa
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Neonatology)
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I am study the experiences of families who have children hospitalized in a neonatal intensive care unit, as portrayed in social media. My focus is on medical decision-making and the interactions of fa... [more]
Gharzai, Laila A
Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology and Medical Social Sciences (Outcome and Measurement Science)
Halpern, Sydney A
Lecturer of Medical Education
Bio
The framing of moral issues in medical research and practice, history of human experimentation, history of vaccine testing and infectious-disease research, human-subjects oversight, emergence of medic... [more]
Hauser, Joshua M
Professor of Medicine (Hospital Medicine) and Medical Education
Hirschhorn, Lisa R
Professor of Medical Social Sciences (Implementation Science) and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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Starting as a public health and researcher and HIV clinician in the 1980’s, my research has focused on understanding the causes and developing feasible and effective solutions to the implementation ga... [more]
Holmes, Kristi
Professor of Preventive Medicine (Health and Biomedical Informatics) and Medical Education
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Dr. Holmes is the Director of Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center and associate professor of Preventive Medicine (Health & Biomedical Informatics) at Northwestern University. Her research... [more]
Kaiser, Karen Ann
Research Associate Professor of Medical Social Sciences (Outcome and Measurement Science)
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Dr. Kaiser received a PhD in Sociology from Indiana University in 2006. She then completed her postdoctoral research training in cancer prevention and control in the National Cancer Institute R25T Can... [more]