Contributors
- Contributors
Jeffrey T. Berger is associate professor of medicine at Stony Brook University School of Medicine and director of clinical ethics and chief of palliative medicine at Winthrop University Hospital in Mineola, New York.
J. Andrew Billings is the director of the Palliative Care Service at the Massachusetts General Hospital and codirector of the Harvard Medical School Center of Palliative Care.
Rebecca Brashler is a clinical social worker who directs care management and family support services and cochairs the clinical ethics consultation service at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. She is also an assistant professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Larry R. Churchill is Ann Geddes Stahlman Professor of Medical Ethics at Vanderbilt University. He and David Schenck are currently completing a book, Healing Skills: Extraordinary Clinicians at Work (Oxford, forthcoming).
Rebecca Dresser is Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law and professor of ethics in medicine at Washington University in St. Louis.
Bernice Elger is an internist with a diploma in protestant theology. She teaches ethics and health law at the University of Geneva and is a part-time attending physician at the University Hospitals of Geneva.
Joseph J. Fins is chief of the Division of Medical Ethics at Weill Cornell Medical College and author of A Palliative Ethic of Care: Clinical Wisdom at Life’s End (Jones and Bartlett, 2006).
Kristi L. Kirschner is professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and attending physician at Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital in Chicago.
John D. Lantos directs the Children’s Mercy Hospital Bioethics Center in Kansas City and is visiting professor of neonatology at The University of Chicago. He is the author of Neonatal Bioethics (Johns Hopkins, 2007).
Carol Levine directs the Families and Health Care Project at the United Hospital Fund and is editor of Always On Call: When Illness Turns Family Members into Caregivers (Vanderbilt, 2004).
Patrice Mangin is a forensic pathologist and head of the University center of legal medicine, Lausanne-Geneva.
Don Marquis is professor of philosophy at the University of Kansas. He has written about the ethics of abortion.
Katarzyna Michaud is a forensic pathologist who heads the forensic medicine unit in Lausanne, Switzerland.
David Orentlicher is Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis and adjunct professor of medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine. He wrote Matters of Life and Death (Princeton, 2001).
Richard Payne is professor of medicine and divinity at Duke University and the Esther Colliflower Director of the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life. He is board certified in neurology and palliative medicine.
Dena Rifkin is a nephrologist and clinical researcher at the University of California, San Diego. She edits the narrative medicine feature of the American Journal of Kidney Disease.
Nicholas D. Schiff directs the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuromodulation at Weill Cornell Medical College and coauthored The Diagnosis of Stupor and Coma, 4th ed. (Oxford, 2007). [End Page 48]
