The Bioethics Program of Clarkson and Mount Sinai

Congratulations to alumnus Barry Shuster on the publication of “Evaluation of Informed Consent with Teach-Back and Audio Assistance to Improve Willingness to Participate in a Clinical Trial Among
Underrepresented Minorities: A
Randomized Pilot Trial” in the the Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics.

Evaluation of Informed Consent with Teach-Back and Audio Assistance to Improve Willingness to Participate in a Clinical Trial Among Underrepresented Minorities: A Randomized Pilot Trial - Brenda Jamerson, Barry Shuster, 2023 The informed consent form (ICF) is intended to assure that subject participation in research studies is informed and voluntary. Yet, there is ample evidence tha...

Alum and faculty member Lori Bruce's work on unconsented intimate exams was covered on NBC's Nightly News.

https://youtu.be/bkWhHP4ZuiM?si=ZKvs70K_wicoc-Y1

Congratulations to program alum Dr. Cody Pyke who has been appointed to the Harris Health System Board of Trustees! Link: https://hcp4.net/news/commissioner-lesley-briones-appoints-dr-cody-pyke-to-harris-health-system-board-of-trustees/

Learn more about the significance of their appointment: https://www.outsmartmagazine.com/2023/05/a-historic-appointment/

Commissioner Lesley Briones Appoints Dr. Cody Pyke to Harris Health System Board of Trustees Harris County, TX (May 16, 2023) — In a unanimous vote, Harris County Commissioners Court made history as it approved Precinct 4 Commissioner Lesley Briones’ nominee, Dr. Cody Pyke (she/they), to the Harris Health System Board of Trustees. Dr. Pyke is the first openly transgender and nonbinary i...

Sherwin B. Nuland Summer Institute in Bioethics | Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics The 2023 summer institute will have options for 4-day, 4-week, and 7-week programs - some will be in-person and others will be remote learning. Specifically:

Alumna and faculty member Lori Bruce was interviewed for this New York Times piece: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/06/us/roe-safe-haven-laws-newborns.html. Her interest in the issue started with her first course in Bioethics Policy with us.

Drop Box for Babies: Conservatives Promote a Way to Give Up Newborns Anonymously After Roe, groups are seeking to expand safe haven laws, which allow women to surrender babies with minimal interference. But these laws pose their own problems.

Alum and faculty member Patty Mayer recently published two pieces.

The first, "Families Who Micromanage: 'Please Come Help Us with This Family – They Are Micromanaging Everything!'" is in Thorny Issues in Clinical Ethics Consultation. Check it out: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-91916-0

The second, "Denying Death: The Terminally Critically Ill," is with Stephanie Larson in American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Check it out: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10499091221114771

Thorny Issues in Clinical Ethics Consultation This collection addresses new and evolving thorny issues in clinical ethics consultation. It is a book for our time.

Interested in graduate level training in bioethics?
Join us tonight for a webinar to learn about the options in our MSBioethics program.
Register: https://tinyurl.com/mryv8yxf

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Alumna Alert!

Congratulations to Dr. Robin Downing on the publication of her first peer reviewed bioethics article!

Check it out: https://doi.org/10.2460/javma.22.04.0182

Our alumni continue to make us so proud!

The One Health vision requires veterinarians and physicians to collaborate to prevent bioethical challenges created by restricted access to ketamine in low- and middle-income countries Abstract The One Health approach asserts that the health of animals and people is closely connected. Under this approach, the CDC and AVMA work globally to attain optimal health outcomes for both animals and humans. One facet of optimal health involves access to safe and effective anesthetics and an...

Prof. Emeritus Martin Strosberg and and Prof. Patty Mayer published "It's Time for a Post-Mortem on COVID Crisis Standards of Care" in MedPageToday with Daniel Teres:

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/99289

Faculty member and alumna Lori Bruce published "A Hub and Spoke Model for Improving Access and Standardizing Ethics Consultations Across a Large Healthcare System" in AJOB 22(4) in April 2022 with Ben Tolchin, Mark Mercurio, and Stephen Latham.

She also published "New Findings on Unconsented Intimate Exams Suggest Racial Bias and Gender Parity" in Hastings Center Report 52(2) in April 2022 with Ivar R. Hannikainen and Brian Earp.

Lori's article and advocacy on unconsented intimate exams was recognized by the Hastings Center for helping spur CT to make explicit consent for these exams a legal requirement: https://www.thehastingscenter.org/news/hastings-center-report-commentary-helps-catalyze-connecticut-action-against-unconsented-intimate-medical-exams/?fbclid=IwAR1JqBCD7_xsmxkK5D8xvwEsoG8eS986I7KbAxgPvWzOfUuz8-tHcrm0Slw

Congrats!

Prof. and Associate Director Rosamond Rhodes has published several article recently. She published "Life-Saving Experimental Treatment for a Teenage Ward of the State" in AJOB 22(4) in April 2022 with fellow faculty member Henry Sacks.

In 2020, Prof. Rhodes published The Trusted Doctor: Medical Ethics and Professionalism which occasioned commentary; she responded.

"In Defense of Uncommon Morality
A Response to: Leonard Fleck, 'Medical Ethics: A Distinctive Species of Ethics,' Leslie Francis, 'Beyond Common or Uncommon Morality' and Tuija Takala and Matti Häyry, 'In Search of Medical Ethics and Its Foundation with Rosamond Rhodes' in Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 29(3) in January 2022.

Then, "The Uncommon Ethics of the Medical Profession: A Response to My Critics" in Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 31(2) in March 2022.

Prof. and Director emeritus Bob Baker published several articles recently:

"A Developing Timeline for Bioethics” in Hastings Center Report, Vol. 51, No. 6, 14 Dec. 2021 with Marion Danis and Susan Lederer.

“Living Histories of Structural Racism and Organized Medicine" in AMA Journal of Ethics 23(12) December 2021 with
Matthew Wynia.

"Erasing Blackness from Bioethics" in AJOB 22(3) February 2022.

"Principles and Duties: A Critique of Common Morality Theory" in Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 31(2) in April 2022.

Yesterday, 19 students joined the ranks of our alumni as Clarkson University held its commencement exercises at the Capital Region Campus! Congratulations to the class of 2022:

Maria de los Angeles Marina Adame Gayosso
Megan Antonetti-Elford
Lisette Arnaud López
David Benitez Valladares
Nakita Francis
Pamela Frigerio
Regina Hernández Gama
Dragan Hrncic
Donna McKinnon
Georgina del Carmen Mota Valtierra
Nandy Noel
Anika Patel
Rosa Erendira Peña Trujillo
Karol Stephanie Ponce Ordoñez
Codruta Popescu
Petru Sandu
Miguel Serrano Romero
Charlotte Solmssen
Sara Torres Castro

Congratulations to our graduating student Codruta Popescu on her election to the Ethics Committee of the Romanian College of Psychologists!