Draft:Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics
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Submission declined on 14 February 2022 by Star Mississippi (talk). This draft's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article. In summary, the draft needs multiple published sources that are: Declined by Star Mississippi 2 years ago.
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Comment: The article references don't show the notability of subject separately, and most of the sources added here are connected to subject. Consider merging with the Harvard Medical School article. ❯❯❯ Chunky aka Al Kashmiri (✍️) 06:11, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
Comment: Can probably be merged as @DGG said. Also too closely paraphrased from their site Star Mississippi 20:20, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
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Established | 1980s |
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Field of research | Bioethics |
President | Alan Garber (interim) |
Dean | Edward Hundert |
Director | Robert D. Truog |
Faculty | Department of Social Medicine |
Address | 641 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 |
Location | United States |
02115 | |
Campus | Longwood Medical Area |
Affiliations | Harvard Medical School |
The Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics is an educational institution located within the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine of Harvard Medical School.[1][2] The goal of the institution is to instruct ethical reasoning to medical students throughout the 4-year basic degree program curriculum, supporting and strengthen the ethics programs at HMS teaching hospitals and affiliated facilities, and educating and preparing future generation of practitioners and leaders in bioethics.[3]
History
[edit]Under then-Harvard President Derek Bok,[4] the Center for Ethics and the Professions, was launched in the mid-1980s[5][6] to ensure that public values and ethics are in line with professional training, professional education, and research in the field, laboratories, clinics, courtrooms, classrooms, society, and families.[7][8] During the coronavirus pandemic, the Center for Bioethics offered - often through Facebook - remote workshops on the ethics of coronavirus, along with other topics in bioethics.[9]
Leadership
[edit]The Center is led by:
- Robert D. Truog, MD, Director, Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Medical Ethics, Anaesthesia, & Pediatrics; Executive Director, Institute for Professionalism and Ethical Practice; Senior Associate in Critical Care Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital
- Christine Mitchell, RN, MS, MTS, (former) Executive Director (retired September 2022)
- Edward M. Hundert, MD, Associate Director; Dean for Medical Education, Harvard Medical School, former President, Case Western
- Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, MD, JD, Program Director, Master of Bioethics
- Mildred Z. Solomon, EdD, Fellowship Director; President, Hastings Center; Educational Development Center, Newton, Massachusetts[10]
Clinical affiliations
[edit]- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Boston Children's Hospital
- Boston Medical Center
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Cambridge Health Alliance
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Hebrew SeniorLife (formerly Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for the Aged)
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- McLean Hospital
- Mount Auburn Hospital
- North Shore Medical Center
- Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
- Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System
References
[edit]- ^ About us page for HMS Center for Bioethics
- ^ "Doctors who want to defy abortion laws say it's too risky". NPR. Retrieved 2022-12-01.
- ^ "HMS Center for Bioethics announces inaugural Beecher Teaching Awards". Harvard Gazette. 2022-09-13. Retrieved 2022-12-01.
- ^ Bok profile, Safra Center for Ethics
- ^ Thomson DF, Notes from the Founding Director, Harvard Edward J. Safra Center website, accessed 21 October 2018
- ^ Ethics at Harvard, Harvard Edward J. Safra Center website, accessed 21 October 2018
- ^ "A Conversation with Christine Mitchell". hms.harvard.edu. 7 November 2022. Retrieved 2022-12-01.
- ^ "Med Ed Dean Announces Transition to New Role". hms.harvard.edu. 2 November 2022. Retrieved 2022-12-01.
- ^ "George W. Gay lecture honors HMS Center for Bioethics and Tuskegee University collaboration". Harvard Gazette. 2022-11-17. Retrieved 2022-12-01.
- ^ Exploring Bioethics, Educational Development Center for National Institutes of Health
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