Izzy Brassfield is a student in UNC’s MD-PhD program. She completed her PhD in Philosophy in May of 2020. Her dissertation work focused on giving an account of conscience as a mental process, understanding its role in our moral psychology, and exploring the role of physician conscience in medical care. In addition to conceptual and … Read more

We are proud to announce that Sara Scarlet, MD a fourth year UNC general surgery resident who has joined the Center for Bioethics for a year-long practicum experience, has been awarded the American College of Surgeons Surgical Ethics Fellowship for the 2017-2018 academic year.

Under the co-leadership of C:B Associate Director Annie Lyerly, the Welcome Trust-funded PREVENT (Pregnancy Research Ethics for Vaccines, Epidemics and New Technologies) has released ethical guidelines for investigators conducting ZIKA research with pregnant women The inclusion of pregnant women in Zika virus vaccine research is crucial to solving the international health crisis, according to new guidance published by UNC’s … Read more

The Center’s long-standing collaboration with the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law at University of Stellenbosch, Capetown, South Africa has been awarded a D43 grant from the NIH Fogarty International Center to establish the first ever African doctoral program on research ethics. This builds on the Stellenbosch University Advancing Research Ethics training in Southern Africa (ARESA) program, … Read more

Center faculty Arlene Davis and Jean Cadigan, in a collaboration with Benny Joyner from the Department of Pediatrics, have won a “Campus Innovation Award” from the NC Area Health Education Centers to fund a new project entitled “Using Simulation to Assess Ethical Skills in the Context of ACGME Residency Milestones”. This project is funded through … Read more

Jean Cadigan, PhD, a medical anthropologist in the UNC Department of Social Medicine, has been appointed as the tenth member of the Center’s Core Faculty,  in recognition of her sustained involvement in Center research projects,  teaching efforts, and consultation services.

As part of the third annual “Building Bridges” session between the European Society for Human Genetics and the American Society for Human Genetics, Juengst presented a lecture entitled “From Medical Genetics to Applied Genomics: Implications for Human Geneticists’ Core Goals and Values“. The lecture was videotaped and can be viewed here:

The 2016 UNC Merrimon Lecture on “Striking the Balance: Patient Care, Activism, and Public Service in the Health Professions” was delivered on Sep 20 by Nicole Lurie,  MD, and the 2016 UNC Health and Human Rights Lecture was given Gopal Sreenivasan. Both Lectureships are co-sponsored and managed by the Center for Bioethics to bring national leaders … Read more

Over the last year or so, the first wave of the Center’s postdoctoral fellows have “graduated” into great new faculty positions elsewhere: Marci Cottingham, PhD (Sociology) is now Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam; Gabriel Lazaro-Munez, PhD (Neuroscience), JD (Health Law) joins the faculty of the Baylor School of Medicine Center as … Read more

We are proud to announce that Stuart Rennie, PhD, one of the core faculty of UNC Center for Bioethics, is appointed as “Extraordinary Associate Professor in Medicine” by Stellenbosch University for the period 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2020. Stellenbosch University created this category of appointments to give recognition to individuals for their proven specialized … Read more