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Jill Fisher awarded Senior Faculty Research and Scholarly Leave Fall 2023

February 23, 2023

The UNC Provost’s Office has awarded Jill Fisher a Senior Faculty Research and Scholarly Leave for the Fall Semester of 2023. Fisher will work on writing a book manuscript from her research on pediatric food allergy clinical trials. These leaves are awarded annually on the basis of a University-wide competition open to faculty at the … Read more

Congratulations to Annie Lyerly, elected as a new fellow of the Hastings Center

February 16, 2023

Annie Lyerly has been elected as a new fellow of the Hastings Center.  Hastings Center fellows are a group of more than 200 individuals of outstanding accomplishment whose work has informed scholarship and public understanding of complex ethical issues in health, health care, science, and technology. The new fellows focus on a broad range of … Read more

New recommendations address crisis of physician stress

February 3, 2023

A project led by Mara Buchbinder, PhD, released a set of 12 recommendations for hospitals and health care institutions addresses moral stress in clinical practice and the ways that it impedes good care.

Webinar available: “Pregnant and Lactating Populations in Research: How Leaving These Populations Out Leaves Them Behind,”

January 31, 2023

Watch the webinar “Pregnant and Lactating Populations in Research: How Leaving These Populations Out Leaves Them Behind,” to hear about how exclusion of pregnant and lactating populations in research has resulted in an inability to support them – and what types of opportunities we have to move this research forward. The panelists, Anne Drapkin Lyerly, … Read more

CEDG and HEC Welcome Mary Kaufmann and Kelsey Rich

January 11, 2023

Mary Kaufmann and Kelsey Rich have been selected as the new student leaders for the School of Medicine’s  Clinical Ethics Discussion Group This position also entails appointment to the UNC Hospital Ethics Committee. Outgoing leaders are Konan Beke and Celia Mizelle. Center for Bioethics faculty members Arlene Davis and Jean Cadigan are advisors to the student … Read more

Podcast: Conscientious Provision of MAID and Abortion

January 10, 2023

Mara Buchbinder, PhD, recently sat down with the GeriPal podcast for a discussion on two of the most controversial and hotly debated topics in bioethics: assisted dying and abortion. Dr. Buchbinder, along with Robert Brody, MD, and researcher Lori Freedman, PhD, discuss the contemporary ethical conversation and points of view for the two issues. The … Read more

Annie Lyerly elected to the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars

January 3, 2023

Congratulations to Annie Lyerly, who was just elected to the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars, a wonderful honor and recognition of her immense scholarly contributions to medical ethics, women’s health, and reproductive medicine.