Affiliate Faculty Criteria - Indiana University Center for Bioethics
Affiliate Faculty are those individuals who have a demonstrated and continuing commitment to the activities of the IUCB, the mission of which is to provide leadership to advance the academic and public understanding of bioethics; to inform the development of social and public policy in health, research, and related fields; and to support the provision of ethics services at Indiana University hospitals. The Center fulfills its mission through teaching, research, public affairs and service as a university-wide entity.
Like many centers and institutes at IU/IUPUI the Affiliate Faculty appointment is a non-academic one. Affiliate Faculty are appointed for a three-year renewable term based on their involvement in at least one of the following areas -- the examples of which are meant to be illustrative, not comprehensive.
Relevant Activities
Teaching
- Ongoing teaching in a bioethics, medical humanities or related courses at either the undergraduate or graduate level in any department or school associated with Indiana University
- Development of bioethics-related courses for non-degree programs, including, for example, continuing education
- Service on a graduate thesis committee as a member or supervisor
Research
- Scholarship in the peer-reviewed literature appropriate to the subject matter of the research
- Publications (books, book chapters, editorials, book reviews) in the non-peer reviewed literature
- Record of grant support (either as a principal investigator or co-investigator)
- Record of external funding from contracts, awards, scholarships, or fellowships
Public Affairs
- Commitment to community education through public lectures, seminars, conferences
- Involvement as a consultant or volunteer expert on local, regional, national, or international bodies
- Public testimony on bioethics related topics
- Program development with community organizations or institutions
Clinical/Research Ethics
- Active in clinical ethics consultation in area-based hospitals or clinics
- Active member on an institutional (clinical) ethics committee
- Active member of a research-related ethics committee, such as an institutional review board, data safety monitoring board,
misconduct committee, conflict of interest committee
If you are interested in becoming an Affiliate Faculty member please contact Cathie McGlynn.
Our Affiliate Faculty
Margaret Applegate, Ed.D.
Dr. Margaret H. Applegate is a professor /asst. dean emeritas of nursing. She obtained a BSN, MSNEd, and EdD from Indiana University and completed a certificate program in biomedical ethics at the University of Washington. Dr. Applegate began her nursing career as a staff nurse at Riley Hospital followed by two years at the Veteran's Adm. Hospital. She taught nursing at Wishard Hospital for five years before returning to IU as a faculty member in the School of Nursing in 1966. She has taught emergency nursing, pediatric nursing, administration of higher education programs in nursing, and pediatric nursing at Wishard Hospital and at the IU School of nursing. She served as Associate Dean for ADN programs at Indiana University and as the Assistant Dean for evaluation. Dr. Applegate has developed and taught health care ethics courses for the ADN, BSN, and MSN programs in nursing and established an ethics forum for nurses at Methodist Hospital. She also developed a 3 course ethics concentration focus for the doctoral program in nursing. She has served on ethics committees at University Hospital, Methodist Hospital, and Clarian as well as on the IHEN advisory committee.
She has served on the Board of Directors, Executive Committee, Board of Review, the Helene Fuld Outcome Project, and as Vice President of the National League for Nursing. She was a member of the Education Work Group and Steering Committee for the National Commission on Nursing Implementation Project and on the Nursing Education Advisory Council for the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. She was a member of the IUPUI team for the AAHE (American Assoc. of Higher Ed) Peer Review Project.
She is published in the areas of nursing education, evaluation, curriculum, and ethics. Research publications are related to nursing education and ethics.
Contact info:
Margaret Applegate, Ed.D.
Indiana University School of Nursing
111 Middle Drive, NU 481
Indianapolis, IN 46202-2996
317-274-0038
email: mapplega@iupui.edu
Joan K. Austin, D.N.S.
Dr. Joan K. Austin is a Distinguished Professor of Nursing at the Indiana University School of Nursing in Indianapolis. She has been a faculty member in the School of Nursing since 1981 and holds adjunct appointments in the Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine and in the Department of Psychology, Purdue University School of Science. In addition, Dr. Austin is the principal investigator for the Center for Enhancing Quality of Life in Chronic Illness (CEQL) that is funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research and based in the nursing research center at Indiana University School of Nursing. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine and presently a member of the Professional Advisory Board of the Epilepsy Foundation and the Research Commission of the International Bureau for Epilepsy. She is currently the Second Vice President of the American Epilepsy Society and in 2005 she will become the first nurse to serve as President of that organization.
Dr. Austin’s program of research focuses on mental health problems in children with chronic illness and their families. She has been funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to study child adaptation to epilepsy since 1986. Her current research focuses on behavioral problems in children with first-recognized seizures. She also is the principal investigator of a study funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research that investigates mental health and academic achievement outcomes in adolescents with chronic epilepsy.
At the beginning of her nursing career, Dr. Austin practiced in child and adolescent psychiatric nursing and in neuroscience nursing. In 1981 she completed her doctorate in nursing science at Indiana University with a major in psychiatric/mental health nursing. Dr. Austin’s numerous awards include the Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the American Epilepsy Society/Milken Family Medical Foundation Clinical Investigator Research Award, a Special Recognition Award from the Epilepsy Foundation of America, and the Award of Social Accomplishment from the International Bureau for Epilepsy and the International League Against Epilepsy.
Contact info:
Joan K. Austin, D.N.S.
Indiana University School of Nursing
1111 Middle Drive, NU 492
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5107
317-274-8254
joausti@iupui.edu
Marion E. Broome, Ph.D.
Dr. Marion E. Broome began her leadership role as university dean of the Indiana University School of Nursing (IUSON) on July 1, 2004. In addition, Broome is a professor in the school's Department of Family Health.
Widely regarded as an expert, scholar, and leader in pediatric nursing research and practice, Broome's research in pediatric pain and research ethics has been sponsored since 1991 by the American Cancer Society, NIH as well as private foundations. Her research is published in over 65 papers in 45 refereed nursing, medicine, and interdisciplinary journals. She also has published five books and 10 chapters in books as well as in several consumer publications. Her two most recent studies, both funded by NIH, are in the area of research ethics and informed consent for children.
In 1997, Broome was appointed to a four-year term as a member of the Nursing Science Study Section at the NIH. This June she was appointed as a charter member of the new Nursing Science Study Section: Children and Families. Broome also has served as president of the Society for Pediatric Nurses, and has been on the boards of the Association for the Care of Children's Health and the Midwest Nursing Research Society. Currently, she is serving as editor-in-chief of Nursing Outlook, the official journal of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) and is a fellow of the AAN.
Broome received a BSN degree from Medical College of Georgia, a MSN degree from University of South Carolina and a doctoral degree in child and family development from University of Georgia.
Contact info:
Marion E. Broome, Ph.D.
Dean, Indiana University School of Nursing
111 Middle Drive, NU 131
Indianapolis, IN 46202-2996
mbroome@iupui.edu
Jason T. Eberl, Ph.D.
Jason T. Eberl, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Indiana University School for Liberal Arts at IUPUI. Dr. Eberl received his undergraduate degree in philosophy and spanish from the University of San Diego, and a Master of Arts degree in philosophy from Arizona State University. He received his doctoral degree in philosophy from Saint Louis University. While completing his graduate studies, Dr. Eberl conducted research at Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame.
In addition to teaching biomedical ethics and other courses in the Department of Philosophy, Dr. Eberl co-directs the department’s graduate program, which has a track in bioethics. Dr. Eberl’s primary research interests in bioethics concern issues at the beginning and end of human life, and the examination of such issues from the metaphysical and ethical perspective of Thomas Aquinas. He has published in Bioethics and The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly.
Contact info:
Jason T. Eberl, Ph.D.
Department of Philosophy
Cavanaugh Hall, Rm 331A
425 University Blvd
Indianapolis, IN 46202
317-278-9239
email: jeberl@iupui.edu
William G. Enright, Ph.D.
William G. Enright, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Lake Family Institute on Faith and Giving at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, and former Senior Pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, Indianapolis. He is a graduate of Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California and McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois. His Ph.D. is from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He also holds two D.D. (honorary) degrees from Hanover College, Hanover, Indiana and Dubuque Theological Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa. Dr. Enright is currently a director of the Lilly Endowment, Inc, The Wishard Hospital Foundation Board and a trustee of Hanover College. His civic involvement in Indianapolis has included serving as co-chair of the Mayor’s Taskforce on Racism, member of Envisioning Indianapolis, the Police Advisory Board, the Board of Directors of the Central Indiana Council On Aging and the St. Vincent Hospital Advisory Board. He is co-founder of the Celebration of Hope, a program for racial reconciliation and has been honored by two governors with a Sagamore of the Wabash. He has authored several books, the latest being Channel Markers, and lectured at numerous colleges, universities and theological institutions as well as for business associations such as The Young Presidents and World Presidents organizations.
Contact info:
William G. Enright
The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University
550 West North Street, Suite 301
Indianapolis, IN 46202
317-278-8930
wenright@iupui.edu
Betsy Fife, Ph.D.
Dr. Fife is a nurse scientist with a clinical background in coping with the stress of life-threatening illness. She has extensive experience, as well as many publications in this area. Her doctoral degree is in sociology and she has expertise in the sociology of emotion, coping with stress, and the role of meaning in the process of adaptation. Her dissertation was titled "Coping with the Crisis of Breast Cancer: A Process of Emotion Management." Her current research includes a study of coping and adaptation during the acute phases of bone marrow transplantation, funded by AMGEN, Inc., and a study comparing the adaptation of persons with HIV and those with cancer, funded by NINR/NIH. She also has funding to test an intervention which focuses on coping with HIV disease within the context of interpersonal relationships that is also funded by NINR/NIH.
Dr. Fife’s research interests include: coping and adaptation during the acute phases of bone marrow transplantation, adaptation of persons with HIV disease and those with cancer.
Contact info:
Betsy Fife, Ph.D.
Indiana University School of Nursing
1111 Middle Drive, NU 464
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5107
317-274-8788
bfife@iupui.edu
Rose S. Fife, M.D.
Dr. Fife, who is associate dean for research and professor of medicine, biochemistry and molecular biology, joined the IU School of Medicine faculty in 1981. Dr. Fife received her bachelor's degree from Barnard College and her medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins and a fellowship in rheumatology at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle. She has been named the first Barbara F. Kampen Professor of Women's Health by the Trustees of Indiana University. Dr. Fife is the director of the National Center of Excellence in Women's Health at the Indiana University School of Medicine. She is also the 2006 recipient of the Glenn W. Irwin, Jr., M.D., Research Scholar Award.
Contact info:
Rose S. Fife, M.D.
Associate Dean for Research
(317) 274-2754
(317) 274-2785 FAX
Email: rfife@iupui.edu
David Flockhart, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Flockhart came to Indiana University in the summer of 2001 as the Chief of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology. He came from Georgetown University Medical Center, where he served as the Francis Cabell Brown Chair and Chief of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Director of the Pharmacogenetics Core laboratory. His research is focused on clinically-relevant applications of pharmacogenetics and drug interactions.
He grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland and took Honors in Biochemistry at the University of Bristol, England. He subsequently obtained a PhD from the Welsh National School of Medicine, and an MD from the University of Miami School of Medicine. He performed a residency in Internal medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center, and after a year as Chief Medical Resident, completed a fellowship in Clinical Pharmacology in the Division of Clinical Pharmacology at Georgetown University Medical Center.
Contact info:
David Flockhart, M.D., Ph.D.
Division of Clinical Pharmocology
1001 West 10th St. WD Myers W7123
Indianapolis, IN 46202
317-630-8795
dflockha@iupui.edu
Gregory P. Gramelspacher, M.D.
Gregory P. Gramelspacher, M.D. is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Gramelspacher received his undergraduate degree in government and international relations from the University of Notre Dame and his medical degree from Indiana University. Following an internal medicine residency at the University of Michigan, Dr. Gramelspacher served for two years with the National Health Service Corps in Appalachia. He then completed a fellowship in medical ethics at the University of Chicago’s MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics before joining the Department of Medicine at Indiana University.
In addition to founding the Program in Medical Ethics at IUSM, Dr. Gramelspacher is active in teaching, service and research. His research interests include medical professionalism and the doctor-patient relationship, end of life care, and health care for the underserved. He served as the team leader of the IU-Kenya program in Eldoret, Kenya from 1996-97. Currently, he directs the Palliative Care Program at Wishard Health Services and is Medical Director of the Visiting Nurse Service Hospice of Central Indiana.
Contact info:
Gregory P. Gramelspacher, M.D.
Division of General Internal Medicine & Geriatrics
Indiana University Dept. of Medicine
1001 West 10th Street WH M200
Indianapolis, IN 46202-2879
317-630-6721
ggramels@iupui.edu
Richard B. Gunderman, M.D., Ph.D.
Richard B. Gunderman, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H. received his M.D. and Ph.D. (from the Committee on Social Thought) at the University of Chicago. Having joined the faculty of Indiana University in 1997, he is currently the Vice Chairman of Radiology, Director of Pediatric Radiology, and an Associate Professor of Radiology, Pediatrics, Medical Education, Philosophy, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy.
Dr. Gunderman’s most recent honors include the Trustees Teaching Award from Indiana University (three times), election to the Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching (FACET) from Indiana University, and the Robert H. Shellhamer Outstanding Educator Award from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He is also President of the Indiana chapter of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.
He has published one book and over 100 peer-reviewed scholarly articles. His research interests in ethics include philanthropy, professionalism, suffering, and the care of the disabled.
Contact info:
Department of Philosophy
Cavanaugh Hall, Rm 344
425 University Blvd
Indianapolis, IN 46202
317-274-8698
Department of Radiology
School of Medicine Indiana University
550 N University Blvd
Indianapolis, IN 46202
317-278-6307
rbgunder@iupui.edu
John L. Hill, J.D., Ph.D.
Professor Hill holds a J.D. and Ph.D. in philosophy, both from Georgetown University. His combined interests in law and philosophy have led to two areas of teaching and scholarly focus: political and legal theory and bioethics. He has written two books and several articles on such varied topics as surrogate mother contracts and the concept of duress in criminal and contract law, and has also written about the concepts of exploitation, merit, freedom and the idea of the self in legal and moral thought. His articles have appeared in the New York University Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, the Iowa Law Review and the Georgetown Law Journal, among others. His "intentional" theory of parenting in surrogate mother contracts, defended in the New York Law Review article, was cited and adopted by the Supreme Court of California in Johnson v Calvert.
Professor Hill joined the faculty at IUPUI in 2002 after teaching at Chicago-Kent and Western New England law schools, among others. He is a member of the Bar of Illinois and California.
Contact info:
John L. Hill, J.D., Ph.D.
Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis
Lawrence W. Inlow Hall, Rm 301
530 W. New York Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3225
317-278-9036
johlhill@iupui.edu
Steven S. Ivy, M.Div, Ph.D.
Dr. Steven Ivy currently serves as Senior Vice President for Values, Ethics, Social Responsibility, and Pastoral Services of Clarian Health Partners. His leadership roles include developing the institution’s philosophy and practices related to values integration, sustaining both organizational ethics and clinical ethics programs, ensuring effective community service, and focusing chaplaincy, pastoral education, and pastoral counseling programs. He has been with Clarian Health since March 2000.
Dr. Ivy also teaches in the School of Medicine’s annual medical ethics elective focusing on “ethical theory and decision-making.”
He serves on several committees for the IU schools of medicine and nursing.
Dr. Ivy served in a variety of chaplaincy and pastoral counseling positions in three hospital systems for twenty years. He has also had lecturer appointments with four schools of theology. His teaching, as well as one book and over twenty articles, have focused on medical ethics, religion and medicine, crisis ministry, and pastoral perspectives on human development.
His M.Div. (1977) and Ph.D. (1985) degrees are from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
Contact info:
Steven S. Ivy, M.Div, Ph.D.
CLARIAN HEALTH PARTNERS, INC.
P.O. Box 1367
Indianapolis, IN 46206-1367
317-962-3591
SIvy@clarian.org
Robert A. Katz, J.D.
Robert Katz joined the law school faculty in the fall of 2001. He holds a joint appointment with the law school and the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy at IUPUI, and is on the Affiliate Faculty of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics. Prior to his appointment, he served as the Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. From 1993 to 1997, he was a trial attorney with the Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. He also served as executive director of a charitable foundation in Massachusetts, which awarded grants and operated programs to promote education and philanthropic giving by young people.
An honors graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, where he served as comment editor for the University of Chicago Law Review, Professor Katz clerked for the Honorable Stephen G. Breyer, formerly Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. His research interests include legal issues relating to the nonprofit sector, a charitable giving, and health law.
Professor Katz article "Too Much of a Good Thing: When Charitable Gifts Augment Victim Compensation," was recently published in the DePaul Law Review as part of a symposium issue on the impact of September 11th on civil justice. 53 DePaul L Rev 547. In September 2004, Professor Katz will present a paper at the Health Law Scholars' Workshop at the Center for Health law Studies at Saint Louis University. This paper will examine the transplantation of human tissue and the relationship between nonprofit and for-profit entities that procure, process, and distribute these tissues.
Contact info:
Robert A. Katz, J.D.
Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis
Lawrence W. Inlow Hall, Rm 320
530 W. New York Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3225
317-278-4791
rokatz@iupui.edu
Eleanor DeArman Kinney, J.D., M.P.H
Hall Render Professor of Law
Co-Director of The Center for Law and Health
Indiana University School of Law -- Indianapolis.
Eleanor D. Kinney, founding director of the school’s internationally-recognized Center for Law and Health, is one of the nation’s leading experts on health law.
A 1969 graduate of Duke University, Professor Kinney earned an M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1970 and her J.D. from the Duke University School of Law in 1973. She also holds an M.P.H. from the University of North Carolina School of Public Health.
Following law school, Professor Kinney practiced law for four years, and then worked as an estate planning officer for Duke University Medical Center from 1977 until 1979. After earning her master's degree in public health, she served as program analyst in the office of the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C. Immediately prior to joining the faculty at the law school in 1984, she was assistant general counsel of the American Hospital Association.
A widely published author and respected lecturer on the subjects of America's system of health care, medical malpractice, health coverage for the poor, and issues in administrative law, Professor Kinney is author or co-author of countless law review articles, book chapters, book reviews and other articles. She recently published the book Protecting American Health Care Consumers (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002) and edited the Guide to Medicare Coverage Decision-Making and Appeals (Chicago, IL: ABA Publishing, 2002).
Professor Kinney has served as a consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United Sates, President Clinton’s Task Force for Health Care Reform, and the Indiana Commission on Health Care for the Working Poor. She has been appointed by the governor of Indiana to be a member of the Executive Board of the Indiana State Department of Health and to serve on other state task forces and advisory boards.
During the 1999-2000 academic year, Professor Kinney received a Fulbright Fellowship to teach and do research at the National University of La Plata in La Plata, Argentina. She is the director of the newly-founded Latin American Law Program, and also serves as an adjunct professor at the IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs and at the IU School of Medicine.
Contact info:
Eleanor DeArman Kinney, J.D., M.P.H
Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis
Lawrence W. Inlow Hall, Room 136F
530 W. New York Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3225
Phone: (317) 274-4091
Fax: (317) 274-0455
ekinney@iupui.edu
Michael J. Kowolik, B.D.S, F.D.S., Ph.D.
Michael J. Kowolik, B.D.S, F.D.S., Ph.D., is currently Director and Professor of Graduate Research in the Department of Periodontics and Allied Dental Programs at the Indiana University School of Dentistry in Indianapolis, IN. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Oral Biology at IUSD, Department of Oro-Facial Genetics at IUSD, Department of Public Health at the Indiana University School of Medicine, the IU Center for Bioethics, and the Department of Dental Diagnostic Science at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, TX. In addition, he is a Visiting Professor and Distinguished Faculty of the Graduate School of Periodontology at the Universidad Autonoma de Nueva Leon in Monterrey, Mexico.
Dr. Kowolik obtained his B.D.S. from Edinburgh University School of Dentistry in Scotland. He went on to study Periodontology at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh where he received his F.D.S. Dr. Kowolik continued his education at the Department of Human Genetics at Edinburgh University in Scotland. It was here that he obtained his Ph.D.
In 2000, Dr. Kowolik was awarded the “Distinguished Faculty Award for Research” for the IU School of Dentistry. In addition, he has six students under his supervision that have been awarded eleven local or national research prizes. Dr. Kowolik has over fifty papers published in the peer-reviewed literature, book contributions and other articles.
His research interests include cellular inflammation and its application to oral disease, periodontal disease from a population and genetic perspective, enigma of transmission pathways of Helicobacter pylori, and oral infection and risk attached to Coronary Heart Disease.
Contact info:
IUPUI School of Dentistry
1121 W. Michigan St., DS 260
Indianapolis, IN 46202
317-278-0223
mkowolik@iupui.edu
Richard B. Miller, Ph.D.
Richard B. Miller is Director of the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions and Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University.. He is the author of Interpretations of Conflict: Ethics, Pacifism, and the Just-War Tradition (1991), and Casuistry and Modern Ethics: A Poetics of Practical Reasoning (1996). He has edited War in the Twentieth Century: Sources in Theological Ethics (1993) and has written numerous articles in social philosophy and religious ethics. His forthcoming book, Chidlren, Ethics, and Modern Medicine (2003), builds on clinical immersion, scholarly research, and a fellowship year in professional ethics at Harvard. With Eric Meslin, he co-edits the series with Indiana Univeristy Press, Bioethics and the Humanities.
Contact info:
Richard B. Miller, Ph.D.
Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions
618 E Third St
Bloomington, IN 47405-3602
812-855-0261
miller3@indiana.edu
Mark D. Pescovitz, M.D.
Mark D. Pescovitz, M.D., is currently Professor of Microbiology/Immunology and Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Surgery at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis.
He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Northwestern University in Chicago. Dr. Pescovitz’s general and transplant surgery training were at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. He completed a 4-year research fellowship in the Immunology Branch of the National Cancer Institute focusing on porcine immunology.
Currently Dr. Pescovitz performs renal and pancreatic transplants in both children and adults. Dr. Pescovitz has served on many national transplant committees including serving currently as the UNOS Region 10 councilor and on the UNOS executive board of directors. He is completing his second year on the American Transplant Congress Executive committee. He is an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Transplantation, serves on the editorial board of Transplantation and Clinical Transplantation, and has authored more than 196 scientific publications. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Histocompatibility and Immunology.
His wife, Dr. Ora Pescovitz, is trained as a pediatric endocrinologist and is both the Executive Associate Dean for Research Affairs at Indiana University School of Medicine and the President and CEO of the Riley Children’s Hospital. They have 3 children. In the non-medical area, Dr. Pescovitz is a member of the Dean’s Council Herron School of Art and serves on the boards of both the Indianapolis Opera and International Violin Competition of Indianapolis.
His research interests include porcine T- cell immunology, B-cell immunology, diabetes, and clinical transplant immunosuppression.
Contact info:
Mark D. Pescovitz, M.D.
IU School of Medicine
Transplant Surgery, UH 4258
Indianapolis, IN 46202
317-274-4370
mpescov@iupui.edu
Kenneth Pimple, Ph.D.
Kenneth D. Pimple, Ph.D., is Director of Teaching Research Ethics Programs at the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, an endowed center at Indiana University-Bloomington and on the Affiliate Faculty of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics. He has over ten years of experience in organizing faculty workshops on ethics and research ethics. Since 1993 he has directed the Teaching Research Ethics project (TRE), which offers an annual workshop for researchers from the sciences and other fields. In its nine years, the workshop has attracted 346 participants from 38 states and 9 foreign countries (Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Israel, Kuwait, Mexico, Norway, and the United Kingdom), representing 105 universities and other institutions. Since 1999 he has directed Scientists and Subjects: An Online Seminar on the Ethics of Research with Human Subjects, an annual seminar funded by the National Institutes of Health. In 2001 he was commissioned by the Institute of Medicine Committee on Assessing Integrity in Research Environments to write three background papers for its major publication, Integrity in Scientific Research: Creating an Environment that Promotes Responsible Conduct (Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 2002).
His publications in the field of research ethics include
- "General Issues in Teaching Research Ethics," in Research Ethics: Cases and Materials, ed. Robin Levin Penslar
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995);
- "The Ethics of Human Cloning and the Fate of Science in a Democratic Society," Valpairaso University Law Review
32(2):727-737 (1998); and
- "Six Domains of Research Ethics: A Heuristic Framework for the Responsible Conduct of Research," Science and
Engineering Ethics 8(2):191-205 (2002).
He has been invited to make presentations on the responsible conduct of research and on teaching research ethics in a wide variety
of venues, including the national meetings of
- Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R);
- the Whitaker Foundation; and
- the Association for Moral Education;
and at special workshops or seminars at
- Duke University;
- Indiana University-Bloomington;
- North Carolina State University;
- Michigan State University;
- the University of Illinois-Chicago;
- the University of Minnesota;
- the Wadsworth Center (New York State Department of Health);
- the (Norwegian) National Committee for Research Ethics in the
- Social Sciences and the Humanities; and
- the Slovak Republic's Institute of Preventive and Clinical Medicine.
He has authored or co-authored successful grant proposals totaling more than $1.25 million. Funders have included
- the National Institutes of Health;
- the Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE);
- the Open Society Institute; and
- the Lilly Endowment.
His service activities have included membership on
- advisory boards for two projects funded by the National Science Foundation and one funded by the National Institutes
of Health;
- Bloomington Hospital's Institutional Review Board (IRB);
and a number of committees at Indiana University, including
- Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC);
- the Committee on Research Fraud and Misconduct;
- the Human Subjects Protection Education Committee; and
- the Human Subjects Committee (IRB).
Contact info:
Kenneth D. Pimple, Ph.D.
Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions
618 E Third St
Bloomington, IN 47405-3602
812-855-0261
pimple@indiana.edu
Philip T. Powell, Ph.D.
Associate Clinical Professor of Business Economics at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. Professor Powell is faculty co-director of the MBA Life Sciences and Health Care Academy in Bloomington. Based in Indianapolis, he teaches health care business and managerial economics for Kelley’s MBA programs. Professor Powell joined the Kelley faculty in 1996. Raised in Nashville, Tennessee, he received his Ph.D. in economics from Vanderbilt University in 1995 and his B.A. in economics from the University of South Carolina in 1991. His research in health care focuses on compensation and manpower issues faced by physicians. A recent paper published in Medical Care Research and Review quantifies the national flow into early retirement by physicians who face lower salaries due to managed care. Professor Powell also teams MBA students with local life science ventures who need help in the development of a business plan.
Contact info:
Philip T. Powell, Ph.D.
Indiana University Kelley School of Business
801 West Michigan St., BS 4045
Indianapolis, IN 46202
(317) 274-8745
phpowell@iupui.edu
Lisa Riolo, Ph.D., PT, NCS
Dr. Lisa Riolo Professor and Department Chair, Department of Physical Therapy, Indiana University, Affiliated Scientist, Center for Aging Research, Indiana University, Affiliate Faculty of Indiana University Center for Bioethics, and Adjunct Associate Professor University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center ,College of Allied Health Sciences.
Dr. Riolo earned her BS in Physical Therapy from Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT , her MEd in Motor Learning from Temple University in Philadelphia , and her PhD in Cognitive Psychology from University of Connecticut . Dr. Riolo had been on faculty at Quinnipiac University, Emory University, and University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center before joining Indiana University in 2004. Her teaching concentration has been in the areas of neurologic rehabilitation and pathology, learning and memory, cognitive aging, research methods, professional issues, and psychosocial aspects of practice. She has mentored doctoral and masters students in their research. Her teaching responsibilities at IU include Medical Conditions and Pathophysiology and Clinical Decision Making.
Dr. Riolo's clinical experience has focused on neurologic and geriatric rehabilitation, specifically acute rehabilitation for patients with brain injury and stroke and balance retraining for elders.
Dr. Riolo is interested in the interface between cognition and mobility and the role of attention in falling in older adults. She has received federal funding to study the interaction between attention and fall risk in older adults.
Dr. Riolo is immediate past-President of the Neurology Section of the American Physical Therapy Association. She is on the Editorial Board for Physical Therapy and serves as a Scientific Review Committee member for the Foundation for Physical Therapy. Her previous professional service includes Editor of Neurology Report and editorial board member of Journal of Physical Therapy Education. She is a board certified specialist in Neurological Physical Therapy. She serves as reviewer for several journals including Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences and Journal of the American Geriatrics Society . She is an active member in the American Physical Therapy Association, American Psychological Society, and Gerontological Society of America. She was awarded the Lucy Blair Service Award by the American Physical Therapy Association.
Contact info:
Lisa Riolo, Ph.D., PT, NCS
Email: lriolo@iupui.edu
Tel: 317-278-1875
Sandra Shapshay, Ph.D.
Sandra Shapshay obtained her M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D., from the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University and her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Currently, Dr. Shapshay is a Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Philosophy at Indiana University Bloomington. Before coming to Indiana University, Dr. Shapshay was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon.
From 2004 to 2005, Dr. Shapshay was selected as a Poynter Center Interdisciplinary Faculty Fellow under the topic, “The Ethics and Politics of Childhood.” She is currently working on a book manuscript “What We Owe Children: Bioethics and the Child,” as a product of her fellowship. Recent publications include the article “The Human Being in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: An Argument Against Human Cloning” (in Ethicsal Issues in the 21st century 2005), and she has given presentations recently on the topic of a child’s right to healthcare. In addition to her recent fellowship, Dr. Shapshay has earned several awards such as: the John Eliot Allen Outstanding Teacher Award, a DAAD year-long fellowship for study in Germany, and the American Society for Aesthetics graduate student travel award.
Dr. Shapshay’s bioethics research interests include justice and access to health care, children’s rights, the ethics of reproductive technologies, the distinction between treatment and enhancement, and bioethics and film.
Contact info:
Sandra Shapshay, Ph.D.
Department of Philosophy
Sycamore Hall, Room 026
1033 E. Third St.
(812)855-4131
sshapsha@indiana.edu
Rebecca S. Sloan, Ph.D.
Dr. Sloan's research include chronic illness, family dynamics, the meaning of illness, and social aspects of health and illness. Her clinical expertise is in end-stage renal disease, dialysis, and organ transplantation. She has published in the areas of child sexual abuse, hypertension, and renal disease in journals including the Journal of Community Health Nursing, Nurse Practitioner, Journal of Infectious Disease, American Journal of Kidney Disease, Hypertension, Clinical Pharmacology, and Transplantation. In addition to her nursing background, she has a doctorate in medical sociology. Her dissertation was "A Hermeneutical Study of the Medical Treatment Decision for End-Stage Renal Disease Patients and their Families." Dr. Sloan has presented research findings at local, national, and international nursing, medical, and sociology conference. She currently serves as a consultant for nursing and medical research development. Dr. Sloan has particular interest in qualitative research methods including phenomenology and hermeneutics.
Contact info:
Rebecca S. Sloan, Ph.D.
Indiana University School of Nursing
1111 Middle Drive, NU 312
Indianapolis, IN 46202
(317) 278-1413
(317) 278-2154 FAX
rsloan@iupui.edu
David H. Smith, Ph.D.
David Smith joined the faculty of the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University Bloomington in 1967. When he retired in 2003 he had served as Director of Undergraduate Studies, Director of Graduate Studies and as Chair (1976-84). He twice won teaching awards, one voted by students and the other awarded by faculty. He taught graduate and undergraduate courses in medical ethics, general social ethics, the relation between religion and ethics and the ethics of philanthropy. In the early 1970s in one semester more than 700 students were enrolled in his two courses.
In 1983 Smith became Director of the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions. During his twenty year tenure the Center received funding from the Lilly Endowment, the Exxon Educational Foundation, FIPSE, NIH, and NSF. Center projects concerned the teaching of ethics, care for the dying, research ethics, ethics and genetic testing and corporate responsibility. The Center maintained a highly collegial ethos and sponsored many seminars for faculty and the general public in Bloomington, around Indiana, and nationally.
Smith is the author of Health and Medicine in the Anglican Tradition, Entrusted and a forthcoming book tentatively entitled Christ on a Crutch: What the Churches Should be Doing to Assist in Care for the Dying. He is first author or editor of Caring Well: Religion, Narrative, and Health Care Ethics, A Christian Response to the New Genetics, Early Warning, and the forthcoming Doing Good: Moral Opportunities and Pitfalls.
Since his retirement Smith has served as Visiting Professor of Bioethics at Yale University (2003-4). In 2004-5 he will be Friedricks Distinguished Visiting Professor of Ethics at DePauw University. An active Episcopal layman, Smith and his wife, the former Marie-Louise Arnaud, have been married for 43 years; he is the father of three grown children and grandfather of five.
Contact info:
David H. Smith, Ph.D.
Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions
618 E Third St
Bloomington, IN 47405-3602
812-855-0261
smithd@indiana.edu
David L. Stocum, Ph.D.
David L. Stocum received his Ph.D. in 1968 from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He spent 21 years as professor of cell and structural biology at the University of Illinois. He joined the IUPUI School of Science in 1989 when he accepted an appointment as dean. At the end of July 2004, Dr. Stocum stepped down from his administrative post and has resumed teaching and research duties in the Department of Biology and with the Center for Regenerative Biology and Medicine, which he founded in 2001.
Dr Stocum’s research and teaching areas include cell and developmental biology and regenerative biology and medicine, with specific interest in the mechanisms of regeneration, cell transplantation, bioartificial tissues and stimulation of regeneration in vivo.
Contact info:
David L. Stocum, Ph.D.
IUPUI Department of Biology
723 W. Michigan Street - Rm SL306
Indianapolis, IN 46202
317-274-0635
dstocum@iupui.edu
William Tierney, M.D.
Dr. Tierney is the Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He is also a health services researcher with specialty training in medical informatics whose research has focused on improving the quality and efficiency of health care by improving health care delivery systems. Specifically, he has worked to provide patient- and task-specific information to health care providers at critical points in their process of making clinical decisions. Recently, he has created a Resource Center for U.S. primary care practice-based research networks, funded by AHRQ. He is also the Director of IU’s International Clinical Research Program, combating HIV/AIDS in collaboration with a medical school in rural Kenya. In this latter effort, he and his American and Kenyan colleagues have established sub-Saharan Africa’s first ambulatory electronic medical record system which is being used as the foundation for establishing a practice-based research network of African HIV clinics.
Dr. Tierney has authored or co-authored more than 180 articles in peer-reviewed medical journals and is the past co-editor-in-chief of Medical Care, the premier international peer-reviewed medical journal committed to health services research. He is also past-president of the Society of General Internal Medicine. He has been the principal investigator of extramural grants and contracts totaling more than $12 million.
Contact info:
William Tierney, M.D.
Division of General Internal Medicine & Geriatrics
Indiana University Dept. of Medicine
1001 West 10th Street, WH-OPW M200
Indianapolis, Indiana 46202-2879
317-630-6911
wtierney@iupui.edu
