The Maryland Healthcare Ethics Committee Network, established by the Law and Health Care Program at the University of Maryland School of Law, serves as a resource for ethics committees. Contact chairwoman Diane Hoffman.

Dennis McCann, Professor Emeritus of Bible and Religion at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Ga., has written about liberation theology and business ethics.

Dr. Robert M. Arnold is director at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine’s Institute for Doctor-Patient Communication. Arnold teaches physician leaders how to educate peers to better communicate regarding ethical, psychosocial and existential issues at the end of life.

Dr. Alexandra Cist, board-certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine and critical care medicine, is on staff at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she serves on the ethics task force and other ethics committees.

Kenneth Surin, professor of religion, literature and critical theory at Duke University, has written about liberation as a critical term of religious study and the relevance of Marxism.

Lynn Pasquerella is president of Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts and has written about medical ethics.  She formerly chaired the University of Rhode Island institutional review board.

Lorine Getz is a scholar based in Hilton Head, S.C., and a retired professor of religion, culture, ethics and spirituality and the arts at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She co-edited Struggles for Solidarity: Liberation Theologies in Tension (Fortress Press, 1991).

The National Ethics Committee is a subcommittee of the Executive Committee of VHA’s National Leadership Board. It is not a hospital advisory committee in the traditional sense but is an interdisciplinary group from around the nation, charged to issue reports on ethics-related topics, ranging from resource allocation to impaired-consent capacity. It is monitored by the National Center for […]

The Rev. Iain Maclean, associate professor of Western religious thought, philosophy and religion at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va., has written about liberation theologians and the struggle for democracy in Brazil.