Hilary Mabel

Hilary Mabel specializes in bioethics and healthcare ethics. She has expertise in teaching ethical theory and skills-based competencies, advancing organizational ethics and values-based alignment efforts in healthcare organizations, designing and leading hospital ethics programs, conducting bedside ethics consultations, and providing moral distress support to healthcare professionals. 

She received her JD from Harvard Law School and her BA summa cum laude from the University of Florida. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in clinical ethics at the Cleveland Clinic. Mabel has worked as a clinical ethicist and ethics fellowship director, and she is a certified healthcare ethics consultant (HEC-C). Over her career, she has worked at 18 hospitals across two major health systems, ranging from rural community hospitals to urban quarternary care hospitals, and she has conducted over 1,000 ethics consultations. 

Mabel has taught medical students, graduate students, residents, healthcare professionals of all stripes, and other adult learner cohorts. She has served as an embedded ethicist for experimental research and specialty care teams. She currently serves on the HCEC Certification Commission, which oversees and administers the HEC-C program. Prior to transitioning into bioethics, Mabel practiced law. Upon graduating from law school, she served as a federal law clerk to the Honorable Roy B. Dalton, Jr. in the Middle District of Florida.

Mabel teaches in the Master of Arts in Bioethics program and at the School of Medicine. She publishes conceptual bioethics scholarship as well as qualitative research and quality improvement work in healthcare ethics. Her research and scholarship interests include complex issues in healthcare ethics, professionalization of clinical ethics, moral distress, transgender care and bioethics, and reproductive ethics. 

Areas of Expertise

• Healthcare Ethics
• Clinical Ethics
• Moral Distress
• Law & Bioethics
• Reproductive Ethics
• Gender Care & Bioethics