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

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