UPenn Master of Bioethics Program
The Penn Center Guide to Bioethics
"Seventy essays, all well informed and many with attitude." - Harold T. Shapiro, PhD, Princeton University, Former Chair, National Bioethics Advisory Board
Check out the Springer Publishing Company Link about the Guide and Penn Center Guide Brochure
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 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 Associate Director of Graduate Studies.
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News, Announcements & Events
- Monday, 1.30.12: Last day to ADD a Spring course; Last day to DROP a Spring course with NO financial penalty
- Friday, 2.17.12: Last day to DROP a course with 50% financial penalty. After this date, full tuition will be charged for any dropped course.
- 3.5.12-3.9.12: Spring Break. Check your course syllabus for specific course information.
- 3.15.12: Bellet Applications Due - For currently matriculated MD/MBE students or current MD and prospective MBE students only.
- Tuesday, 3.20.12: Dan Brock, PhD, title TBA. Center for Bioethics Colloquium Series. 4:30pm, Center for Bioethics, room 331.
- Thursday, 3.29.12: Elizabeth Freeman, PhD and Lisa Cartwright, PhD, title TBA. Center for Bioethics Colloquium Series. 4:30pm, Center for Bioethics, room 331.
- Monday, 4.23.12: Norman Frost, MD, MPH and Renee Fox, PhD speaking on "40th Anniversary - Who should survive?" Center for Bioethics Colloquium Series. 4:30pm, Center for Bioethics, room 331.
- Tuesday, 4.24.12: Spring classes END!
- Thursday, 5.10.12: MBE Graduation Colloquium Speaker - Jackson Taylor, title and location TBA. 5-6pm. Open to the public
- Thursday, 5.10.12: MBE Graduation Celebration - invitation only, for graduates and their guests. 6-9 pm. Location TBA.
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News from our students and alumni
- Congratulations to Jason Schwartz, MBE, PhDc, who has been named the Harold T. Shapiro Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioethics at the Princeton University Center for Human Values, beginning September 1, 2012. The University Center for Human Values supports teaching, research, and discussion of ethics and human values throughout the curriculum and across disciplines at Princeton.
- Congratulations to Maysa De Sousa, MBE 2011, who has been accepted into the PhD program in Health Psychology at UNC Charlotte!
- Congratulations to Samantha Johnson, MSW/MBE 2009, who has accepted a job as an Ethics Policy Specialist for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for Ethics in Health Care!
- Congratulations to MBE alum Dr. Vicki Lachman, on her induction into the American Academy of Nursing!
- MSN/MBE student Carrie Preston was featured in a CBS3 story on headache treatments - view the story here!
- Congratulations to MBE alums Jason Schwartz, MBE 2006 and current PhD student and Kayte Spector-Bagdady, JD/MBE 2009, who have both been hired as Research Analysts for the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues!
- Congratulations to Elaine de Castro McFarland, MBE (2002) who has just been awarded her PhD in sociology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her dissertation is titled 'Sociodemographic and Cultural Characteristics of Acupuncture, Medical, and Nurse Practitioner Students. Congratulations Elaine!
- Congratulations to Yash Joshi, UPenn MBE student and Temple MD/PhD student, for his $10,000 award from The Golden Key International Honor Society! Yash was one of 10 selected from a pool of over 200 applicants!
- Congratulations to John Rossi, MBE 2008, and his wife Amy, on the birth of their son, August John Rossi, born 2/2/2010!
- Congratulations to Michelle Sahl, M.Ed, MBA, MBE, and newly PhD, on her graduation from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, Health Policy Program. Her dissertation is titled 'Urban Neighborhoods as a Determinant of Health Status'.
- Shirin Karsan, MBE 2009, Fulbright Recipient, has a blog chronicling her experiences in the UAE - http://shirin-deserteyes.blogspot.com/
- Arthur Robinson Williams, MBE 2008, MD 2010, has produced a traveling documentary exhibit, "My Right Self: Transgender Considerations," to educate medical students about the unique challenges of patients who are lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual. Washington University School of Medicine is the next stop on the tour. For more information, click here. To read the St. Louis Post-Dispatch artcle, click here.
- Congratulations to Dr. Alessia Minicozzi, MBE 2000, on the publication of her book, Doctors in Transition: The Socialization and Bioethics of the First-Year Attending (The Victoria Press)!
- Congratulations to Heidi Pieroni (Fisher), MBE 2009, on the birth of her daughter, Isabel May Pieroni!
- Congratulations to Suzanne (Sukey) Richmond, MBE student, on the birth of her son, Wesley Gabriel Simmons VI!
- Congratulations to Alexee Deep Conroy, MBE 2003, on the birth of her son, Alexander Quinn Conroy!
- Congratulations to Shirin Karsan, current MBE student, who has just been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship. She will soon be off to the UAE for the academic year to conduct research on Muslim perspectives on the Ethics of Emerging Sciences and (Bio/Nano) technologies. She will be based primarily in Abu Dhabi and Sharjah. http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/2009/08/fulbright-grant-research/
- Congratulations to Fr. Mark Swope, MBE 2006, who has just been accepted into the University of the Sciences of Philadelphia's PhD program in Health Policy!
- Congratulations to Beth Roxland, JD/MBE 2001, has been appointed as the Executive Director of the NYS Task Force on Life and the Law.
- Congratulations to Jolion McGreevy, current Penn MBE student and MD student from Jefferson, who has just been awarded an NIH Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars Fellowship. Jolion will be spending the next year in Haiti.
- Congratulations to Michael Harhay, MBE 2007, who was just awarded first prize in the Wharton Politics and Business Association 'Policy Cup 2008-2009 for his policy proposal to scale up tropical disease R&D, control and elimination as a tool for US foreign policy based on the US FY 09 international affairs budget. Michael will be starting a PhD program in demography at Penn in the Fall.