Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy Staff Publications
The Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy researches and influences policy on today’s most pressing ethical issues.
The center focuses on conducting cutting-edge multidisciplinary research on perennial and emerging ethical issues arising in clinical practice and in biomedical research in a changing healthcare environment. Our research informs our teaching, clinical practice and contributions to the development of health and science policy at the local, national and international levels.
Our staff is dedicated to creating a shared, sustainable, intellectual environment in which all stakeholders can critically reflect on and respond to ethical challenges in healthcare and biomedical research.
Submissions from 2023
The Association between Caffeine Intake and the Colonic Mucosa-Associated Gut Microbiota in Humans-A Preliminary Investigation, Annie Dai, Kristi Hoffman, Anthony A Xu, et al.
The Genomic Landscape of Familial Glioma, Dong-Joo Choi, Georgina Armstrong, Brittney Lozzi, et al.
The Impact of Vaccine-Linked Chemotherapy on Liver Health in a Mouse Model of Chronic Trypanosoma cruzi Infection, Duc Minh Nguyen, Cristina Poveda, Jeroen Pollet, et al.
The Moralizing Effect: Self-Directed Emotions and Their Impact on Culpability Attributions, Elisabetta Sirgiovanni, Joanna Smolenski, Ben Abelson, et al.
The Role of FAS Receptor Methylation in Osteosarcoma Metastasis, Jiayi M Sun, Wing-Yuk Chow, Gufeng Xu, et al.
Things That Make You Go Hmm: Myths and Misconceptions Within Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Samuel D Spencer, Jordan T Stiede, Andrew D Wiese, et al.
Thoracolumbar Scoliosis in Pediatric Patients With Loeys-Dietz Syndrome: A Case Series, Melissa A LoPresti, Prazwal Athukuri, A Basit Khan, et al.
Time To Establish an International Vaccine Candidate Pool for Potential Highly Infectious Respiratory Disease: A Community’s View, Lan Yao, Hiam Chemaitelly, Emanuel Goldman, et al.
TP53 Germline Pathogenic Variant Frequency in Anaplastic Rhabdomyosarcoma: A Children’s Oncology Group Report, Douglas Fair, Luke Maese, Yueh-Yun Chi, et al.
Transcriptomic Profiles of Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome Phenotypes in Pediatric Critical Influenza, Tanya Novak, Jeremy Chase Crawford, Georg Hahn, et al.
Treatment and Life Goals Among Veterans With Gulf War Illness, Nicole Sullivan, Hannah Schorpp, Sarah Crosky, et al.
Trends in Overall Survival among Patients Treated for Sarcoma at a Large Tertiary Cancer Center between 1986 and 2014, Erik Stricker, Damon R Reed, Matthew B Schabath, et al.
Tumor-Resident Lactobacillus iners Confer Chemoradiation Resistance Through Lactate-Induced Metabolic Rewiring, Lauren E Colbert, Molly B El Alam, Rui Wang, et al.
Ultralow-Dose Binary Oncolytic/Helper-Dependent Adenovirus Promotes Antitumor Activity in Preclinical and Clinical Studies, Daniel Wang, Caroline E Porter, Bora Lim, et al.
Understanding Burnout in Pediatric Residency Through the Lens of the ‘Areas of Worklife’, Linessa M Zuniga, Julieana Nichols, Teri Turner, et al.
Use of Berlin EXCOR Cannulas in Both Venovenous and Venoarterial Central Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Configurations Overcomes the Problem of Cannula Instability While Bridging Infants and Young Children to Lung Transplant, N Adam Stephens, Corey A Chartan, Maria C Gazzaneo, et al.
Using Visual Arts Education and Reflective Practice to Increase Empathy and Perspective Taking in Medical Students, Sina Rezaei, Andrew Childress, Bhavika Kaul, et al.
Vaccine Access, Equity and Justice: COVID-19 Vaccines and Vaccination, Lois Privor-Dumm, Jean-Louis Excler, Sarah Gilbert, et al.
Vaccine-Linked Chemotherapy Improves Cardiac Structure and Function in a Mouse Model of Chronic Chagas Disease, Kathryn M Jones, Elise N Mangin, Corey L Reynolds, et al.
Vaccines and Therapeutics for Immunocompromised Patients with COVID-19, Shmuel Shoham, Carolina Batista, Yanis Ben Amor, et al.
Validation of a Process for Shared Decision-Making in Pediatrics, Douglas J Opel, Holly Hoa Vo, Nicolas Dundas, et al.
Views of Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer and Their Oncologists Toward Patients' Participation in Genomic Research, Amanda M Gutierrez, Jill O Robinson, Robin Raesz-Martinez, et al.
Wastewater Analysis of Mpox Virus in a City With Low Prevalence of Mpox Disease: an Environmental Surveillance Study, Jeremiah Oghuan, Carlos Chavarria, Scout R Vanderwal, et al.
Wastewater Pandemic Preparedness: Toward an End-To-End Pathogen Monitoring Program, Justin R Clark, Austen Terwilliger, Vasanthi Avadhanula, et al.
Wastewater Sequencing Reveals Community and Variant Dynamics of the Collective Human Virome, Michael Tisza, Sara Javornik Cregeen, Vasanthi Avadhanula, et al.