UPenn Master of Bioethics Program
Art Caplan's response to Zeke Emanuel's 2009 America Society of Bioethics and the Humanities Plenary address - read it here
Announcing the release of 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
- Thursday, 11.19.09: Katrina Karkazis, PhD, MPH "Rethinking Care for Persons with Disorders of Sex Development" Center for Bioethics Colloquium Series. 4:00 Speaker Reception, 4:30: Lecture. 3401 Market Street, Room 331. RSVP by clicking here. Link to Colloquium Series Flyer
- Wednesday, 12.2.09: Nick Bostrom, PhD "The State of the Enhancement Debate" Center for Bioethics Colloquium Series. 4:00 Speaker Reception, 4:30: Lecture. 3401 Market Street, Room 331. RSVP by clicking here. Link to Colloquium Series Flyer
- Tuesday, 12.8.09: End of Term Pizza and Beer! 6:30-8:00, Center for Bioethics, Classroom 321. Open to all MBE students and students taking MBE classes this semester.
- Thursday,1.7.10: Jennifer Prah Ruger, PhD, M.Sc. "Health and Social Justice" Center for Bioethics Colloquium Series. 4:00 Speaker Reception, 4:30: Lecture. 3401 Market Street, Room 331. RSVP by clicking here. Link to Colloquium Series Flyer
- Wednesday, 3.24.10: Eric Meslin, PhD "Seeking Harmonization in International Health Research: An Interminable Debate?" Center for Bioethics Colloquium Series. 4:00 Speaker Reception, 4:30: Lecture. 3401 Market Street, Room 331. RSVP by clicking here. Link to Colloquium Series Flyer
- Tuesday, 4.6.10: Stephen Latham, JD, PhD Title TBA Center for Bioethics Colloquium Series. 4:00 Speaker Reception, 4:30: Lecture. 3401 Market Street, Room 331. RSVP by clicking here. Link to Colloquium Series Flyer
- Thursday, 5.13.10: Rita Charon, MD, PhD Title TBA. Center for Bioethics Colloquium Series. 4:00 Speaker Reception, 4:30: Lecture. 3401 Market Street, Room 331. RSVP by clicking here. Link to Colloquium Series Flyer
- Thursday, 5.13.10: MBE Graduation Dinner. Details to come.
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News from our students and alumni
- 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.
- Congratulations to Sandra Wang, MBE 2008, who has just been admitted to the Doctorate in Healthcare Ethics at Duquesne University.
- 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.