November 23, 2004

Center receives major grant for joint program with Woodruff Health Sciences

By Kathy Kinlaw, Arri Eisen, John Banja. Center for Ethics faculty focusing in bioethics are pleased to announce a two-year grant of $250,000 from the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Fund to support the deepening of our work in bioethics. The grant allows us to create a new collaborative model through a Program in Bioethics in which the Center for Ethics and the Woodruff Health Sciences Center are key partners.

Jeff Koplan, Vice President for Academic Health Affairs, formerly director of the Center for Disease Control, has been a major driving force and supporter of this effort. Since the September 2004 beginning of the grant period, we have welcomed an outstanding group of scholars and community members who are serving as the steering committee for the Bioethics Program. We welcomed our first visiting scholar, Ezekiel Emanuel, chair of the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health, on November 10, 2004.

The majority of the grant funds will support the recruiting of a Professor of Bioethics, whom we hope to welcome to Emory in year two of the grant. We envision this new scholar catalyzing ethics research and working with current efforts toward curricular development throughout the health sciences, as well as collaboration with Emory College and the Law, Business, and Theology schools.

Emory has developed strong and extensive pockets of bioethics scholarship in many parts of our community—including in the education of medical students and residents, nursing students, public health students, and basic researchers by Center for Ethics faculty and their health sciences collaborators–and in research and scholarship within the Health Sciences and other units of the university.

The Program in Bioethics plans to integrate these already impressive resources into a nationally recognized and nationally focused research and curricular center that will emphasize and support new synergies. One such initiative that will be explored in during the grant period is a Masters in Bioethics program.

There are few areas in which Emory has the potential to so directly and prominently enter the national scholarship arena than that of bioethics. This new grant and our deepening collaboration with the Woodruff Health Sciences Center provide resources essential to realizing our potential.

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