EDUCATION

• Rice University, August 1995 to May 2003
• Ph.D. in Philosophy awarded May 2003
• Master’s Degree requirements completed August 2000.
• Dissertation topic: “Clinical Bioethics: Analysis of a Practice”
• Areas of Specialization: Bioethics, Ethics
• Areas of Competence: Social and Political Philosophy
• University of California, Santa Cruz
• Degree: B.Sc. in Earth Sciences (Geology), awarded June 1988

PUBLICATIONS

Papers:

• ‘Bioethics Consultation for Pharmaceutical Corporations,’ American Medical Association’s Virtual Mentor (online journal), 8, 105-108, 2006.

• ‘The Ethics and Aesthetics of For-Profit Bioethics Consultation’ in Health Care Ethics Committee (HEC) Forum, 17(2), 94-121, 2005.

• ‘Introduction: In Search of Ethics Expertise’ in Ethics Expertise: History, Contemporary Perspectives, and Applications.  Dordrecht: Springer Publishers, 2005.

• ‘Case Commentary’ in Moral Dilemmas in Community Health Care: Cases and Commentaries. Becky Cox White and Joel Zimbelman, eds. New York: Longmans, 2004.

• “Challenging Medical Paradigms and Values”, in The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 28(4), 2003.

• “Moral Diversity and Bioethics Consultation”, in Bioethics and Moral Content: National Traditions of Health Care Morality.  Papers Dedicated in Tribute to Kazumasa Hoshino (pp. 205-214).  Lisa M. Rasmussen and H.T. Engelhardt, Jr. (Eds.).  Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.

• “Morality, Religion and Metaphysics: Diverse Visions in Bioethics”, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 25(4), August 2000, 367-378.

  Coauthored papers:

• “Bioethics in the Plural: An Introduction to Taking Global Moral Diversity Seriously”, with H.T. Engelhardt, Jr., in Bioethics and Moral Content: National Traditions of Health Care Morality.  Papers Dedicated in Tribute to Kazumasa Hoshino (pp. 1-14).  Lisa M. Rasmussen and H.T. Engelhardt, Jr. (Eds.).  Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.

• “Introduction”, with Ana Smith Iltis, in The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 27(6).

• “Secular Humanism”, with H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.  The Encyclopedia of the Human Genome.  Macmillan Publishers, 2003.

  Edited Volumes:

• Ethics Expertise: History, Contemporary Perspectives and Applications. Dordrecht: Springer Publishers.  2005.

• Bioethics and Moral Content: National Traditions of Health Care Morality.  Papers Dedicated in Tribute to Kazumasa Hoshino.  With H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.  Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.

• Work in Preparation:

• “Engineering, Gerrymandering, and Expertise in Public Bioethics,’”for HEC Forum.

• “On Professional Codes in Bioethics,” for American Journal of Bioethics.

   

POSITIONS HELD

Associate Editor, Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture book series, October 2005 to present.

Assistant Editor, Philosophy and Medicine Book Series, October 2005 to present.

Assistant Editor, Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture book series, July 2002 to October 2005.

Co-Managing Editor, The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, July 1999 to May 2003.

Managing Editor, Philosophy and Medicine Book Series, July 1999 to October 2005.

Managing Editor, Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture book series, July 1999 to July 2002.

Research Assistant, Baylor College of Medicine, July 1999 to June 2002.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

* Instructor, “Health Care Ethics”, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Fall 2005 and Spring 2006.

* Instructor, “Practical Reasoning”, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Fall 2003 and Spring 2004.

* Instructor, “Contemporary Moral Issues”, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Fall 2004, Spring 2003, Fall 2002.

* Instructor, “Introduction to Biomedical Ethics”, Birmingham Southern College, Interim Term (January), 2003.

* Instructor, “Basic Texts II”.  University of Houston Clear Lake, Fall Semester 2000.

* Instructor in Biomedical Ethics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas,

July 1999 to July 2001.

Responsibilities: Conducting bioethics rounds in the Medical Intensive

Care Unit for residents and fellows.

* Participant and teaching assistant, Rice Humanities Writing Workshop, May 1999.

             Responsibilities: Participation in two-week training course on teaching writing, with subsequent responsibilities in Fall semester, 1999, as a teaching assistant in a writing-intensive course.

* Teaching Assistant, Rice University

Fall 1996, Philosophy 101, “Contemporary Moral Issues”

Fall 1997, Philosophy 101, “Contemporary Moral Issues”

Fall 1999, Philosophy 315, “Health, Medicine and Public Policy”

* Reading Instructor, Institute of Reading Development, Houston, Texas, Summer 1998

Responsibilities: Teaching reading skills courses, age 4 to adult.

* GRE Course Instructor, Kaplan Educational Center, Houston, Texas,

June 1997- June 1999

Responsibilities: Teaching 9-module Graduate Record Examination preparatory courses as well as specific skills courses.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Member, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities.

Member, Institutional Review Board, University of Alabama at Birmingham, March 2004 to February 2005.

Member, Hospital Ethics Committee, UAB Medical Center West, September 2003 to May 2004.

Presentation: “A History of Bioethics Committees,” to the History of Medicine Society, Baylor College of Medicine, March 12, 2002.

Member, Institutional Review Board, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.  July 2001 to June 2002