Ph.D. (Community Medicine - Bioethics emphasis), Monash University, Faculty of Medicine, 2002 M.A. (Biomedical & Clinical Ethics), Loma Linda University, 1998 B.S. (Health Science), 1989 I am a medical ethicist with interest in the following areas: Medical student education, organ donation & transplant, medical devices, ICU care, and research ethics. I have designed and taught numerous bioethics courses and conducted over 800 ethics consultations.
Articles
Book review: Pathological altruism, Journal of bioethical inquiry (2012)
In my work as a transplant ethicist I have always been interested in the topic...
Assessing the motives of living, non-related donors (with Francis L. Delmonico), Virtual mentor (2012)
Managing patients whose family members are physicians (with K. A. Bramstedt and M. Popovich), Minerva Anestesiologica (2012)
The ethical complexities involving physicians who treat their own family members are well known and...
The ethical complexities of online organ solicitation via donor-patient websites: Avoiding the "beauty contest". (with E. M. Neidich, A. B. Neidich, and J T. Cooper), American journal of transplantation (2012)
The proliferation of the Internet has spurred the creation of websites dedicated to facilitating living...
The use of standardized patients to teach medical students about living organ donation (with K. A. Bramstedt, A. Moolla, and P. Rehfield), Progress in transplantation (2012)
Books
Finding your way: A medical ethics handbook for patients and families (2012)
A medical ethics book geared for the lay audience. Current books in the marketplace are...
The organ donor experience: Good samaritans and the meaning of altruism (2011)
With a current US need of over 115,000 organs one would think that Good Samaritan...
Reviews
Art review: Edo-Kingyo's Coolness and the Night Aquarium Museum Lounge, Journal of bioethical inquiry (2012)
Extract:
As with circuses, aquariums have been the subject of concern for animal welfare experts (Tilikum,...