Dr. Ruth M. Farrell is a Cleveland physician with a background in bioethics and philosophy. She is particularly interested in assisted reproductive technologies and treatments for infertility patients. Farrell serves on numerous hospital quality assurance and ethics committees. She founded the obstetrics and gynecology residents’ ethics curriculum at the University Hospital of Cleveland.

Dawn H. Seery is a system ethicist for Mount Carmel Health System in Columbus and serves on the board of trustees for the Bioethics Network of Ohio. Dawn has been involved in hospital ethics committees since the 1980s. Her background includes critical care and palliative care education and management. Her graduate degree is in bioethics and […]

Barbara A. Mulich is a palliative care nurse practitioner at the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center at West Virginia University in Morgantown.  

Baruch A. Brody is a professor of biomedical ethics and the former director of the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

Christine E. Gudorf, professor of religious studies at Florida International University in Miami, has written about the issues of integrating ethics into hospital care. She teaches a course on reproductive ethics and wrote a chapter on contraception and abortion among Catholics for the book Sacred Rights: The Case for Contraception and Abortion in World Religions.

Philip A.D. Schneider, professor emeritus of philosophy and religion at Coastal Carolina University, wrote a paper on his study of 12 hospital ethics committees in eastern South Carolina.

Kenneth R. White is a professor of health administration at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Allied Health Professions in Richmond. He is a registered nurse with clinical and administrative experience and has also worked in hospital operations and marketing. He has written about end-of-life care, charity care, HIV care and the administrative concerns unique to […]

Ruth Gaare Bernheim, an attorney and public health expert, is associate director of the University of Virginia Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life. She has served as an adviser to numerous hospital ethics boards and has taught a course on ethical issues in the evolving care delivery system.

Debra Sabia, a former associate professor of political science with a specialty in Latin America at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, has published three books, Contradiction and Conflict: The Popular Church in Nicaragua (1997), The American Myth of Democracy: A Crisis of Consciousness (2010), and Imagining Democracy (2012). She is also the author of a […]