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.

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Submissions from 2022

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COVID-19 Vaccines: The Imperfect Instruments of Vaccine Diplomacy, Peter J Hotez

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COVID Community-Engaged Testing in Alabama: Reaching Underserved Rural Populations Through Collaboration, Christopher Greer McCollum, Thomas N Creger, Aadia I Rana, et al.

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Creating a Collaborative Trauma-Informed Interdisciplinary Citywide Victim Services Model Focused on Health Care for Survivors of Human Trafficking, Juhi Jain, Mackenzie Bennett, Mark D Bailey, et al.

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Creation of a Global Vaccine Risk Index, Tasmiah Nuzhath, Peter J Hotez, Ashish Damania, et al.

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De Novo Heterozygous Variants in SLC30A7 Are a Candidate Cause for Joubert Syndrome, Monica Penon-Portmann, Mohammad K Eldomery, Lorraine Potocki, et al.

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Effect of Problem-solving Treatment on Self-reported Disability Among Veterans With Gulf War Illness: A Randomized Clinical Trial, Lisa M McAndrew, Karen S Quigley, Shou-En Lu, et al.

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Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Outcomes in Children With Preexisting Neurologic Disorders or Neurofunctional Disability, Siddhartha A Dante, Megan K Carroll, Derek K Ng, et al.

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Factors Associated With a Diagnosis of Sarcoidosis Among Us Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, Nisha Jani, Israel C Christie, Tianshi David Wu, et al.

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Fast Cbt for Pediatric OCD: A Multiple-Baseline Controlled Pilot Trial of Parent Training in Exposure and Response Prevention Delivered, Lara J Farrell, Natalja A Nabinger de Diaz, Sharna Mathieu, et al.

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Features of Burnout Amongst Pathologists: A Reassessment, Michael B Cohen, Marisa Saint Martin, David J Gross, et al.

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Genome Sequencing in the Parkinson Disease Clinic, Emily J Hill, Laurie A Robak, Rami Al-Ouran, et al.

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Germline Genetic and Treatment-Related Risk Factors for Diabetes Mellitus in Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Report From the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study and St Jude Lifetime Cohorts, Melissa A Richard, Sogol Mostoufi-Moab, Nisha Rathore, et al.

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Germline Polymorphisms in MGMT Associated with Temozolomide-Related Myelotoxicity Risk in Patients with Glioblastoma Treated on NRG Oncology/RTOG 0825, Michael E Scheurer, Renke Zhou, Mark R Gilbert, et al.

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Glutathione Peroxidase 2 Is a Metabolic Driver of the Tumor Immune Microenvironment and Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Response, Kazi Mokim Ahmed, Ratna Veeramachaneni, Defeng Deng, et al.

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High Prevalence of Osteopathy in Chronic Pancreatitis: A Cross-sectional Analysis From the PROCEED Study, Phil A Hart, Dhiraj Yadav, Liang Li, et al.

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Identification of Risk Genes for Alzheimer’s Disease by Gene Embedding, Yashwanth Lagisetty, Thomas Bourquard, Ismael Al-Ramahi, et al.

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In Alzheimer-Prone Brain Regions, Metabolism and Risk-Gene Expression Are Strongly Correlated, Fengdan Ye, Quentin Funk, Elijah Rockers, et al.

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Incidence and 5-Year Survival of Children and Adolescents With Hepatoblastoma in the United States, Justin A Kahla, David A Siegel, Shifan Dai, et al.

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Incidence of an Insulin-Requiring Hyperglycemic Syndrome in SARS-CoV-2-Infected Young Individuals: Is It Type 1 Diabetes?, Massimo Pietropaolo, Peter Hotez, and Nick Giannoukakis

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Incidence Trends of Kaposi Sarcoma Among Young Non-Hispanic Black Men by US Regions, 2001-2018, Ryan Suk, Donna L White, Sheena Knights, et al.

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Integrated DNA Copy Number and Expression Profiling Identifies IGF1R as a Prognostic Biomarker in Pediatric Osteosarcoma, Aaron M Taylor, Jiayi M Sun, Alexander Yu, et al.

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Investigation of Urinary Metabolomics in a Phase I Hookworm Vaccine Trial in Gabon, Madeleine Eunice Betouke Ongwe, Yoanne D Mouwenda, Koen A Stam, et al.

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Is Detection of Relapse by Surveillance Imaging Associated With Longer Survival in Patients With Rhabdomyosarcoma?, Stephanie Fetzko, Adriana Fonseca, Mary Frances Wedekind, et al.

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Lack of Consensus Among Healthcare Professionals at a Large Academic Medical Center on the Use of Exome Sequencing for Prenatal Diagnosis, Kylie Johnson, Hadi Erfani, Mohamad Ali Maktabi, et al.

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Lessons Learned From an Enterprise-Wide Clinical Datathon, Andrew J Zimolzak, Jessica A Davila, Vamshi Punugoti, et al.