Ethicists' Biographies
Dr. Barbara Brown
Dr. Brown is a fulltime Professor in the Humanities Department at the Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC), North Campus, teaching Ethics, Logic, Philosophy, and Religion. She also teaches Ethics part-time for the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg and Pharmacology and Ethics part-time for Carlow College. Dr. Brown has practiced in critical care nursing for over 20 years and taught both theory and clinical in the nursing program at CCAC-North for over 15 years. She also has her CCRN.
Education:
The Pennsylvania State University, BSN, 1971
The University of Pittsburgh, MN, 1981
Duquesne University, PhD, 1998
My
PhD research concentration was in Ethics and Advance Directives
Dr. Kenneth Goodman
Kenneth W. Goodman, Ph.D., is founder and director of the University of Miami's Bioethics Program. He holds appointments in the university's Department of Medicine, Department of Philosophy, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, and School of Nursing. He shares responsibility for ethics education of UM students, trainees, and faculty. His research has focused on ethical issues in medical informatics, including bioinformatics or computational genomics, and in epidemiology and public health. Recent work has emphasized end-of-life issues, especially in conjunction with the Florida Partnership for End-of-Life Care, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded initiative to improve care of the dying. Goodman is a PI along with colleagues at the University of Florida and other institutions in this statewide effort.
Dr. Goodman collaborates with a broad variety of institutional ethics committees and review boards, providing education, policy review and consulting services. The university's Bioethics Program produces an annual ethics conference ("Clinical Ethics: Debates, Decisions, Solutions") which is in its 9th year and which has emerged as one of the largest (if not the largest) community ethics conference in the nation.
He is the editor of Ethics, Computing and Medicine: Informatics and the Transformation of Health Care (Cambridge 1998) and co-author of books in artificial intelligence and public health ethics. He is writing a book about ethics and evidence-based medicine for Cambridge University Press and, with a colleague, collecting and commenting on case studies in health informatics.
Selected Recent Bibliography
1. Coughlin S, Soskolne C, Goodman K. Case Studies in Public Health Ethics. Washington, D.C.: American Public Health Association, 1997.
2. Goodman K., ed., Ethics, Computing and Medicine: Informatics and the Transformation of Health Care, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
3. Goodman, K. End-of-Life Algorithms. Journal of Psychology, Public Policy and Law 1998;4:719-727.
4. Goodman K. Philosophy as news: Bioethics, journalism and public policy. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 1999;24:181-200.
5. Nelson W, Angoff N, Binder E, Cooke M, Fleetwood J, Goodlin S, Goodman K, et al. Goals and strategies for teaching death and dying in medical schools. Journal of Palliative Medicine 2000;3:7-16.
Dr. Gladys L. Husted
Gladys L. Husted is a Professor of Nursing at Duquesne University. She was awarded the title of Distinguished Professor in 1998. She received a Master’s in Nursing Education from the University of Pittsburgh and a PhD in Curriculum and Supervision from the same University. She teaches in the BSN, MSN, and PhD programs. Her main area of expertise is in bioethics - where she writes, presents workshops, consults, and does research. Her other areas of expertise are in curriculum design, instructional strategies, and theory development.*
Dr. James H.
Husted
James H. Husted is an independent scholar.
He has been active in the American Catholic Philosophic Association and
has been a member of the high IQ societies, Mensa and Intertel. He was the Philosophy expert for Dial-An-M for Mensa and was
the philosophy editor of Integra - the journal of Intertel.
He guest lectures on bioethics at Duquesne University in the BSN, MSN,
and PhD programs. He writes and
presents workshops in the area of bioethics.*
*A 3rd edition of their book will be out
in September of 2001. The publisher
is Springer and the title is: Bioethical
Decision Making in Nursing and Health Care:
A Symphonological Approach.