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Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH
Director and Professor, Maas Family Endowed Chair in Bioethics, Center for Bioethics; Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School
Dianne Bartels, RN, MA, PhD
Associate Director, Center for Bioethics; Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School
Debra DeBruin, PhD, DGS
Director of Education and Assistant Professor, Center for Bioethics; Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of
Minnesota Medical School
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
Professor, Center for Bioethics; Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School; Professor, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts
Joan Liaschenko, RN, PhD, FAAN
Professor, Center for Bioethics; Professor, School of Nursing
Mary Faith Marshall, PhD
Professor, Center for Bioethics; Associate Dean for Social Medicine and Medical Humanities; Director, Center for Arts and Medicine; Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota Medical School
Steven Miles, MD
Professor, Center for Bioethics; Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School
John Song, MD, MPH, MAT
Assistant Professor, Center for Bioethics; Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School
Maryam Valapour, MD
Assistant Professor, Center for Bioethics; Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care
Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School
Susan M. Wolf, JD
McKnight Presidential Professor of Law, Medicine, and Public Policy; Faegre & Benson Professor of Law, Professor of Law and
Medicine, Law School; Professor, Center for Bioethics
Visiting Faculty
Carol Tauer, PhD
Visiting Professor, Center for Bioethics; Professor of Philosophy Emerita, College of St. Catherine
Post-Doctoral Fellow
David Satin, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
Muriel Bebeau, PhD
Professor, Department of Primary Dental Care, University of Minnesota School of Dentistry
Barbara Elliott, PhD
Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Medical School, University of Minnesota, Duluth
Rosalie Kane, DSW
Professor, Division of Health Services Research and Policy, School of Public Health; Member of the Graduate Faculty,
School of Social Work
Barbara Koenig, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Mayo College of Medicine, Rochester
Gregory A. Plotnikoff, MD, MTS
Associate Professor (on leave), Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School
Edward Ratner, MD
Associate Professor, Departments of General and Preventative Medicine
Beth Virnig, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor, Division of Health Services Research and Policy, School of Public Health
Emeritus Faculty
Mila Aroskar, RN, EdD
Patricia Crisham, PhD, MD
David J. Mayo, PhD
Muriel Ryden, RN, PhD
Bonnie LeRoy, MS
Director, Genetic Counseling Graduate Program, Institute of Human Genetics
Anna Mastroianni, JD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Law, School of Law and Institute for Public Health Genetics, University of Washington School of Law,
Seattle, Washington
Patricia McCarthy Veach, PhD
Professor, Educational Psychology
Jordan Paradise, JD
Associate Director of Research and Education, Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life
Sciences
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