Our Team
Center Director
Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD
Director: Paul M. Schyve, MD Center for Bioethics
Chair: Dept. Health Humanities and Bioethics
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Bioethics Council
The Executive Board provides organizational oversight, establishes and ensures the maintenance of good governance practices, and guides Center priorities.
Marianne Chiafery, M.S.
Associate Professor - Retired, Clinical Nursing
Richard Dees, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
Professor, Health Humanities and Bioethics
Director, Program in Bioethics
William J. FitzPatrick, PhD
Gideon Webster Burbank Professor of Intellectual & Moral Philosophy
Professor, Department of Philosophy
Patrick J. Hopkins, D.N.P
Co-Director, Accelerated Programs for Non-Nurses
Assistant Professor, Clinical Nursing
Specialty Director, Neonatal NP Program
Nicholas Mercado, Dr. P.H., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor
Health Humanities and Bioethics
Adrienne Morgan, Ph.D.
Vice President, Engagement and Enrichment
Sr. Associate Dean, Engagement and Enrichment
Associate Professor, Health Humanities and Bioethics
Mical Raz, M.D., Ph.D., M.S.H.P.
Charles E. and Dale L. Phelps
Professor in Public Policy and Health
Professor of History and Medicine
Margie Hodges Shaw, JD, PhD
Associate Professor
Clinical Ethics Program Director
Mitchell Wharton, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Clinical Nursing
Associate Dean, Engagement and Enrichment
Martin S. Zand, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Medicine
Senior Associate Dean, Clinical Research
Co-Director, Clinical & Translational Science Institute
Dean's Professorship, Medicine
Faculty & Staff
Our faculty and administrators are at the core of work of the Center. We are proud of our extraordinary and interdisciplinary faculty, all distinguished educators and scholars in the field of bioethics. We welcome you to learn more about the clinical, educational, scholarship, and research interests of our faculty.
Core Faculty & Staff
Prior Leadership
Marjorie Shaw, J.D., Ph.D.
Interim Director
Associate Professor,
Dept. Health Humanities and Bioethics
Linda H. Chaudron, M.D.('92).
Senior Associate Dean for Engagement and Enrichment, Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Obstetrics and Gynecology Univ. of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Vice President for Engagement and Enrichment in the Office of VP for Health Sciences University of Rochester Medical Center
Timothy Edward Quill, M.D.
Professor Emeritus
Timothy E. Quill, M.D. is Professor Emeritus, University of Rochester. Previously Dr. Quill served as the Georgia and Thomas Gosnell Distinguished Professor of Palliative Care, and Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, Medical Humanities and Nursing at the University of Rochester School of Medicine (URMC). He was the Founding Director of the URMC Palliative Care Program and is the Inaugural Acting Director of the URMC Paul M. Schyve Center for Bioethics.