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Center Director

Lainie Friedman RossLainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD
Director: Paul M. Schyve, MD Center for Bioethics
Chair: Dept. Health Humanities and Bioethics
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Bioethics Council

The Executive Board provides organizational oversight, establishes and ensures the maintenance of good governance practices, and guides Center priorities.


Marianne Chiafery, M.S.
Associate Professor - Retired, Clinical Nursing


Carl T. D'Angio, M.D.
Professor, Pediatrics
Professor, Heath Humanities and Bioethics


Richard Dees, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
Professor, Health Humanities and Bioethics
Director, Program in Bioethics


Patrick J. Hopkins, D.N.P
Co-Director, Accelerated Programs for Non-Nurses
Assistant Professor, Clinical Nursing
Specialty Director, Neonatal NP Program


Adrienne Morgan, Ph.D.
Vice President, Equity and Inclusion
Sr. Associate Dean, Equity and Inclusion
Associate Professor, Health Humanities and Bioethics


Mical Raz, M.D., Ph.D., M.S.H.P.
Charles E. and Dale L. Phelps Professor in Public Policy and Health
Professor of History and Medicine 
 

Carl Reynolds
Carl Reynolds, M.D.
Hospice & Palliative Medicine, Rochester Regional Health

Margie Shaw
Margie Hodges Shaw, JD, PhD
Associate Professor
Clinical Ethics Program Director

Sidney Sobel
Sidney Sobel, MD .
Clinical Associate Professor (Voluntary)
Department of Radiation Oncology 


Bernard Lawrence Sussman, M.D.
Professor, Medicine
Professor, Health Humanities and Bioethics


Mitchell Wharton, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Clinical Nursing
Associate Dean, Equity and Inclusion


Martin S. Zand, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Medicine
Senior Associate Dean, Clinical Research
Co-Director, Clinical & Translational Science Institute
Dean's Professorship, Medicine

Faculty & Staff

Our faculty and administrators are at the core of work of the Center. We are proud of our extraordinary and interdisciplinary faculty, all distinguished educators and scholars in the field of bioethics. We welcome you to learn more about the clinical, educational, scholarship, and research interests of our faculty.

Core Faculty & Staff

Prior Leadership

Marjorie ShawMarjorie Shaw, J.D., Ph.D.
Interim Director
Associate Professor,
Dept. Health Humanities and Bioethics

Linda H. Chaudron, MD, MS Linda H. Chaudron, M.D.('92).
Senior Associate Dean for Inclusion and Culture Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Obstetrics and Gynecology Univ. of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Vice President for Inclusion and Culture in the Office of VP for Health Sciences Univ. of Rochester Medical Center

Timothy Edward Quill, M.D.Timothy Edward Quill, M.D.
Professor Emeritus

Timothy E. Quill, M.D. is Professor Emeritus, University of Rochester. Previously Dr. Quill served as the Georgia and Thomas Gosnell Distinguished Professor of Palliative Care, and Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, Medical Humanities and Nursing at the University of Rochester School of Medicine (URMC). He was the Founding Director of the URMC Palliative Care Program and is the Inaugural Acting Director of the URMC Paul M. Schyve Center for Bioethics.