OHSU

Fellowship in Ethics

2012 Graduates-Sloop residence-scaled

2012 Graduation Celebration and Year II social gathering!
Directors Robert Potter, & Barbara Glidewell,warmly congratulate the
2012 graduates:  Anthony Mulholland, RN, BSN, Erik Fromme, MD,
Lori Irwin, RN, MSN, Helen Turner, DNP, RN, PCNS, Jacqueline Brown, JD, and Denise Mathes, RN, BSN, MPH.


Recent Graduation Project Submissions and/or Publications

Fellow

Project Title

 Project Focus
Jacqueline Brown,
JD

Institutional positions on Exculpatory Language in Consent Forms for Industry Sponsored Reasearch

Conduct research on liability language contained in consent forms used in industry sponsored research

Erik Fromme,
MD

"POLST in Action" media production for  Health Care Professionals, about Oregon POLST Program

POLST media production and statewide education material dissemination of video

Lori Irwin,
RN, MSN

Integrating Ethics in Policy Development and Implementation

Strategies including principles of ethics into policy writing with focus on Vaginal Breech Delivery Policy

Denise Mathes,
RN, MPH

Interprofessional Ethics Education: Developing a Tool for Assessing Competency of Conflict Resolution

Investigating the role of ethics as a source of interprofessional conflict

Anthony Mulholland,
RN

Finding the Courage to Manage Moral Distress

Develop a curriculum focusing on moral courage

Helen Turner, DNP, RN,
PCNS-BC

Ethically Based Care for Transgender Persons

Identifying perceived obstacles to requests for ethics consults at OHSU


About the Fellowship in Interprofessional Health Care Ethics

Providing leadership and teaching for the Interprofessional Ethics Fellowship Porgram are Directors, Barbara Glidewell, MBS and Robert Potter, MD, PhD. The OHSU Center for Ethics in Health Care (CFE) encourages teaching and research about ethical issues in the professional workplace and public life. Although the Fellowship Program is a 2-Year committment, it is expected that graduates seek to contribute to the CFE in a variety of ways depending on his or her professional background.

Goals of the Interprofessional Ethics Fellowship Program are:

  • Increase knowledge of ethical theory and practice in the delivery of health care;
  • Enhance bioethical awareness in the teaching, healing and discovery at OHSU;
  • Improve ethical decision-making by the application of ethical analysis and problem solving;
  • Interprofessional cooperation in the application of ethics in the healthcare workplace;
  • Fostering healch care values, principles and professional codes in all patient care activities.

Applicants are selected based on a variety factors: 

  • Quality of their achievements in their field of specialization;
  • Ability to benefit from study with the Center for Ethics in Health Care;
  • The contributions that the Fellow is likely to make in the future in higher education through teaching and writing about ethical issues;
  • Probable significance of proposed research and its relevance to the purposes of the CFE;
  • Ability and leadership in the work environment.

To fill out an application, learn more about the applicaiton process and to view the Year I & Year II requirements, click here.