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Toby L. Schonfeld

Toby Schonfeld

Director, Master of Arts in Bioethics
(404) 727-1752
toby.schonfeld@emory.edu
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Toby L. Schonfeld, Ph.D., is the Director of the Master of Bioethics Program at the Center for Ethics. After receiving her doctorate in philosophy (with a concentration in medical ethics) from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2001), Dr. Schonfeld served as the Director of the Center for Humanities, Ethics, and Society and Associate Professor of Health Care Ethics and Vice-Chair of the Health Promotion, Social and Behavioral Health Sciences Department in the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.  There she taught in the Integrated Clinical Experience (ICE) curriculum for first and second year medical students and co-directed the fourth year elective on spirituality and health care, among other course for medical students and other healthcare professionals.

Dr. Schonfeld is the Past President of the Society of Jewish Ethics (http://societyofjewishethics.org) , and coordinates the Jewish Bioethics Affinity Group of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) (http://www.asbh.org). In 2009 she served as the ASBH program co-chair (with Anne Drapkin Lyerly), among other duties she has performed for the Society.

A former vice-chair of a hospital ethics committee and an Institutional Review Board, Dr. Schonfeld often uses her service experience to inform her scholarly pursuits. Her research interests fall into four main categories: women’s health, ethics education, religion and ethics, and research ethics. Current projects include:
         - Contraception and Research 
         - Pregnancy Testing in Research 
         - Sponsorship of Research
         - Conscientious Objection and Emergency Contraception 
         - End-of-life care and non-terminal diagnoses
         - Online and traditional ethics education

Areas of Expertise:
Ethics education
Women’s health and bioethics
Ethics in research (especially women in research)
Religion/spirituality and bioethics