Eric M. Meslin, Ph.D.
Email: emeslin@iupui.edu
Tel: 317-278-4034
Dr. Eric M. Meslin is Director of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics, Associate Dean for Bioethics and Professor of Medicine, and of Medical and Molecular Genetics in the Indiana University School of Medicine. He is also Professor of Philosophy in the School of Liberal Arts, and Co-Director of the IUPUI Signature Center Consortium on Health Policy, Law, and Bioethics.
He came to Indiana University in July 2001 from the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC), where he had been Executive Director since 1998. NBAC was appointed by President Bill Clinton to advise the White House and the federal government on a range of bioethics issues including cloning, stem cell research, international clinical trials, and genetics studies.
A Canadian by birth, Dr. Meslin received his B.A. in Philosophy from York University, and both his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Bioethics Program in Philosophy at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. He has held academic positions at the University of Toronto and at the University of Oxford and is currently Visiting Professor-at-Large at the University of Western Australia.
He has more than 80 publications on topics ranging from international health research to science policy, including Belmont Revisited: Ethical Principles for Research with Human Subjects co-edited with James F. Childress and Harold T. Shapiro.
He has been a consultant to the World Health Organization, the US Observer Mission to UNESCO, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and sits on several boards and committees including the Stem Cell Oversight Committee of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, the Indiana Organ Procurement Organization, and the Board of Directors of Genome Canada. In 2008 he was appointed a Chevalier de L’Order Nationale du Mérite (Knight of the National Order of Merit) by the Republic of France.
Aaron E. Carroll, M.D., M.S.
Email: aaecarro@iupui.edu
Center office: 317-278-4042
CHPPR office: 317-278-0552
Dr. Aaron Carroll is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the IUSM and member of the Riley Children’s Health Services Research Program. He is also an Affiliated Scientist at the Regenstrief Institute for Health Care. Dr. Carroll received his MD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1998. He completed an internship and residency in Pediatrics at the University of Washington in Seattle. He stayed at the University of Washington to complete a health services research fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. During that time he received his masters degree in Health Services and a certificate in Public Health Informatics.
Dr. Carroll joined IUSM in July 2003. His initial research focused on the study of information technology to improve pediatric care. He has however also developed a solid foundation and track record in policy research with recent publications relating to physician malpractice, pharmaceutical industry influence in medical education, and physician support of health care financing reform. He has published over 30 peer-reviewed manuscripts and has been awarded more than $750,000 in direct support through both extramural and intramural funding sources.
Margaret M. Gaffney, M.D.
Email: mgaffney@iupui.edu
Center office: 317-278-4038
Wishard office: 317-630-6721
Dr. Margaret M. Gaffney obtained a BA in English from Indiana University, Bloomington, and graduated from the IU School of Medicine. After an internship at Riley Hospital for Children, she completed a residency in dermatology, also at IU.
Dr. Gaffney is a practicing dermatologist and Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine. She is the director of the Introduction to Clinical Medicine Course and of the Moral Reasoning and Ethical Judgment competency in the revised curriculum of the Indiana University School of Medicine. She chairs the Wishard Ethics Committee, serves on the Clarian and Riley Hospital ethics committees, and collaborates on the Indiana University Conscience Project. Please see the following for information on the Conscience Project: http://shaw.medlib.iupui.edu/conscience/
From 1995-2003, she was the director of the Indiana Healthcare Ethics Network.
Jennifer Girod, J.D., Ph.D., R.N.
Email: jgirod@iupui.edu
Center office: 317-278-4041
Sommer Barnard office: 317-713-3500
Dr. Jennifer Girod is a Core Faculty Member of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics, joining in June, 2007. She also works at the law firm, Sommer Barnard, PC, of Indianapolis.
Before attending law school, Dr. Girod was an assistant professor at the Center for the Study of Bioethics, Medical College of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, a Research Associate at The Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions in Bloomington, Indiana, and visiting professor at Indiana University.
Dr. Girod received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Indiana University (IU) in Religious Studies and is a recent graduate of the IU School of Law-Indianapolis. Dr. Girod also received her nursing degree from IU and practiced in the intensive care unit at Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis.
Dr. Girod's current research interests include: legal issues associated with the collection, storage, research and commercial uses of biological materials; informed consent and privacy issues in health care delivery and research; and the ethical and legal issues in organ transplantation, emergency medicine, and resource allocation.
Kimberly A. Quaid, Ph.D.
Email: kquaid@iupui.edu
Center office: 317-278-4039
Department office: 317-274-2390
Dr. Kimberly Quaid is a Core Faculty member of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics, Professor of Clinical Medical and Molecular Genetics, Clinical Psychiatry and Clinical Medicine in the Indiana University School of Medicine. She is also the Co-Director of the Masters Program in Genetic Counseling in the Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics as well as the Director of the Predictive Testing Program.
Dr. Quaid came to Indiana University in 1990 from the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland where she was the coordinator of one of the first programs in the world to offer presymptomatic genetic testing for Huntington Disease. As Director of the Predictive Testing Program, she now provides genetic counseling and testing for individuals with and at risk for Huntington Disease, early onset Alzheimer Disease and Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease.
Dr. Quaid received her B.A. with honors in Psychology from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and both her M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology with a concentration in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
She has held academic positions in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and in the Department of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She is currently a member of the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications Study Section of the National Institute of Health. She has authored or co-authored over 35 books, book chapters and peer reviewed publications focused primarily on ethical issues in genetic testing.
Dr. Peter Schwartz, M.D., Ph.D.
Email: phschwar@iupui.edu
Center office: 317-278-4037
Dr. Peter Schwartz is a Core Faculty member of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Indiana University Medical Center, and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the IU School of Liberal Arts, at Indianapolis. He also practices adult outpatient medicine at the Primary Care Clinic at Wishard Hospital.
Dr. Schwartz received his B.A. in Biology from Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy and his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. During residency in Internal Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston, Massachusetts, he also served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Boston University.
Among the fellowships and awards that Dr. Schwartz has received are a Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) Fellowship (1992-6) and, in 1999, the Theodore Friedmann Prize for research in medical ethics by a graduating medical student at University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Schwartz's published articles and book chapters address topics in medical ethics and philosophy of biology.
Dr. Schwartz’s current research interests include ethical and policy issues related to the following areas:
• Patient understanding and informed consent in preventive medicine,
• Predictive health research, including the introduction of possible discoveries into clinical medicine, and,
• The use of genetic and other biomedical technologies for enhancement of normal conditions, currently and in the future.
