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.
Richard Dees, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
Professor, Health Humanities and Bioethics
Director, Program in Bioethics
Patrick J. Hopkins, D.N.P
Co-Director, Accelerated Programs for Non-Nurses
Assistant Professor, Clinical Nursing
Specialty Director, Neonatal NP Program
Adrienne Morgan, Ph.D.
Vice President, Equity and Inclusion
Sr. Associate Dean, Equity and Inclusion
Associate Professor, Health Humanities and Bioethics
Sidney Sobel, MD .
Clinical Associate Professor (Voluntary)
Department of Radiation Oncology
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
Former Center Directors
Marjorie Shaw, J.D., Ph.D.
Interim Director
Associate Professor,
Dept. Health Humanities and Bioethics
Linda H. Chaudron, M.D., M.S.
Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Linda Chaudron, M.D., M.S. is currently the Vice President and RG Bing-You Chair for Medical Education, Maine Medical Center and Visiting Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Tufts School of Medicine. Dr. Chaudron served both as the Acting Director and Director of the URMC Paul M. Schyve Center for Bioethics before moving to Maine.
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.