UPenn Master of Bioethics Program
Why Bioethics?
July 2008 - Grady et al - "Conclusion: Ethics education has a significant positive influence on moral confidence, moral action, and use of ethics resources by nurses and social workers." American Journal of Bioethics article
June 4, 2008 - NIH laments the "dearth of leadership" in bioethics, calls for more new scholars in the field. Chronicle of Higher Education article
Why Bioethics at Penn?
The UPenn Master of Bioethics (MBE) is an interdisciplinary degree offered by the Department of Medical Ethics, in conjunction with the renowned Penn Center for Bioethics. The MBE degree program gives students broad exposure to the full range of topics and issues in contemporary bioethics, drawing on the expertise of our distinguished faculty and visiting fellows.
The UPenn Master of Bioethics program is one of the nation's premiere centers for bioethics education, attracting exceptional students from both the US and abroad. The program admits highly accomplished professionals who work in the bioethics-related fields of medicine, nursing, law, dentistry, social work, genetic counseling, regulatory affairs, public policy, veterinary medicine, and industry, as well as outstanding students in other professional degree programs at the University of Pennsylvania.
What makes the UPenn Master of Bioethics program unique is a threefold approach to bioethics training that combines excellent academic instruction, a worldwide network of alumni, and hands-on research and consulting opportunities that build on the classroom experience.
The Master of Bioethics program is under the leadership of Dr. Autumn Fiester, the Director of Graduate Studies, and Dr. Nora Jones, the Assistant Director of Graduate Studies.
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News, Announcements & Events
- Friday, 10.10.08: Last Day to Drop a Class with 50% financial obligation!!
- Monday-Tuesday, 10.13.08-10.14.08: Fall Break - NO CLASSES!!
- Monday, 10.20.08: Center for Bioethics Colloquium Series presents: Yuval Levin, PhD, Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington DC. "Bioethics and Politics". 4:00 speaker reception; 4:30 lecture. 3401 Market Street, Suite 331.
- Thursday-Sunday, 10.23.08-10.26.08: 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities, Cleveland, OH. NO CLASSES HELD THURSDAY.
- Monday, 11.3.08: Advanced Registration for Spring 2009 Opens!
- Wednesday, 11.12.08: Center for Bioethics Colloquium Series presents: Elizabeth Armstrong, PhD, Associate Professor, Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton. Title TBD. 4:00 speaker reception; 4:30 lecture. 3401 Market Street, Suite 331
- Thursday-Friday, 11.27.08-11.28.08: Thanksgiving Break. NO CLASSES HELD ON THURSDAY.
- Friday, 12.5.08: Fall Classes End.
- Monday, 12.1.08: Center for Bioethics Colloquium Series presents: Eva Kittay, PhD, Professor, Department of Philosophy, SUNY at Stony Brook. "The ethics of care and the moral nature of dependency relationships". 4:00 speaker reception; 4:30 lecture. 3401 Market Street, Suite 331.
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Congratulations to our students and alumni!
- Congratulations to Arthur Robinson Williams, MBE 2008 and MD 2009, who has been awarded a Documentary Project Distribution Grant for his work on transgendered/sexual images and issues.
- Congratulations to Wynne Morrison, MD and MBE student, on being awarded top prize in the "Five years of duty hours" poetry contest from the AMA! Read her poem here: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/20054.html
- Congratulations to Dr. Scott Halpern, MBE 2003, who has been chosen as one of the 2008 Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholars in Bioethics!
- Congratulations to Efthimios Parasidis, JD/MBE 2000, who has been selected as one of four St. Louis University Health Law Scholars for 2008!
- Congratulations to Michael Harhay, MBE 2006 and current Master of Public Health student, on being awarded the 2008 CASE (Council of Alumni for Social Enterprise) Award. Michael will be working in Geneva with the Drugs for Neglected Disease Initiative.
- Congratulations to Scott Halpern, MD, PhD, MBE 2003, who has received the 2008 American Thoracic Society Fellows Career Development Award.
- Congratulations to Hilary Wandall, MBE Student, on the birth of her daughter, Sophie Martin Wandall!
- Congratulations to Dr. Serena Wu, MBE student, on the birth of her second son, Theodore Maximilian Ross!
- Congratulations to MBE students Mariangels de Planell-Saquer, Shirin Karsan, and Donna Taraborelli. They have been accepted by the Center for Bioethics at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons for the Bioethical cross-cultural education program (BIOCEP) for 2008!
- Brian Duke, MBE 2003, has just been hired as the Director of the Bucks County Area Agency on Aging!
- Sara Taub, MBE 2002, has accepted a 1 year position at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics!