URMC / Paul M. Schyve, MD Center for Bioethics

Paul M. Schyve, MD Center for Bioethics

Our Mission

The Paul M. Schyve, MD Center for Bioethics serves to promote three central aims throughout the region: to advance bioethical training, education, and research; to help professionals, patients, and families think through ethically complicated decisions they face; and to enhance community understanding of bioethical issues. This mission builds on the Biopsychosocial Model to address contemporary ethical issues in healthcare and to develop innovative responses to ethical concerns and challenges.

About the Center

People

Our interdisciplinary and interprofessional leadership team encourages connections and collaborations across campuses and throughout the region.

Meet Our Team

History

At the home of the biopsychosocial model, we understand the importance of values and relationships at the individual, group, and institutional level.

Our History

Education, Research & Scholarship

Core and affiliate faculty teach across the learning continuum and conduct research and scholarship on a wide variety of bioethical issues.

Our Research

Student Spotlight

Lilia Shen and Caleb Obregón

Bioethics Research for Care of the Whole Patient.

More Student Achievements

Announcements

The Paul M. Schyve Center for Bioethics and Department of Health Humanities & Bioethics would like to welcome new department Director Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD

Shaw Festival 2022

The Paul M. Schyve Center for Bioethics and Department of Health Humanities & Bioethics sponsored a trip to the Shaw Festival to watch a contemporary version of The Doctor’s Dilemma!

Group photo of people attending the Shaw Festival 2022 Though written more than a century ago, George Bernard Shaw’s play remains a relevant way to explore the moral dilemmas created by limited medical resources, and the conflict between medicine as a business and vocation.

We enjoyed a lively moderated after show discussion with an actor, Alexis Gordon who plays Jennifer Dubedat and the Assistant Director, Christopher Manousos.

Our moderators were Dr. Richard Demme, Professor Emeritus, (formerly Director of Clinical Bioethics, Chair of the Strong Memorial Ethics Committee, and co-Chair Coronavirus Ethics Response Group) and Richard Dees, Professor of Philosophy and Health Humanities & Bioethics and Director, Program in Bioethics.