Moral Distress

M Sara Rosenthal, PhD, HEC-C

Biography

Dr. Rosenthal received all of her academic training at the University of Toronto, and received her doctorate in bioethics from the University of Toronto's Joint Centre for Bioethics. Dr. Rosenthal's research interests focus clinical ethics issues, including her novel multimedia work on the topic, moral distress (www.moraldistressproject.org). With an interest in endocrine ethics, she is the current President of the Endocrine Ethics Association, Past Chair of the American Thyroid Association's Ethics Advisory Committee, and also a member of The Endocrine Society, the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, and the Association of Bioethics Program Directors. She is the author of over 50 publications. Her latest books are Clinical Ethics on Film (Springer 2018) and her forthcoming Healthcare Ethics on Film (Springer 2020), and she has served as the bioethicist on numerous clinical practice guidelines. Dr. Rosenthal frequently delivers scholarly presentations nationally and internationally.

Affiliation

  • Professor and Founding Director, Program for Bioethics, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and Behavioral Science
    University of Kentucky College of Medicine
    Chair, UK HealthCare Ethics Committee
    Lexington, Kentucky
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Annette Greer, PhD, MSN, RN

Biography

Dr. Greer teaches Interdisciplinary Rural Health courses primarily in online environments, teaches public health and adult education, and collaborates with faculty from the College of Human Ecology to teach an Honors Seminar that combines art and health. Dr. Greer has been involved in interdisciplinary education for over twelve years. Along with her advanced degrees in nursing, Dr. Greer has associate degrees in Agriculture Science and Agricultural Business. She serves on the NIH/NCI National Advisory Board of the Agricultural Health Study and represents farm spouses. She has published on interdisciplinary education, service-learning, and distance education pedagogy in allied health and nursing journals. Dr. Greer's dissertation research in learner-centered pedagogy has been published internationally in journal articles, a book chapter, and a recent book release. Research interests include rural health and social determinants of health for adolescent, adult, and geriatric populations including palliative and hospice care, interprofessional care to distirbuted populations using technologies in the home, and ethics of community-campus partnerships for service and research integrating her current interprofessional educational/research into medical education.

Affiliation

  • Associate Professor, Bioethics and Interdisciplinary Studies
    East Carolina University School of Medicine
    Greenville, North Carolina
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Maria Clay, PhD

Biography

Dr. Clay earned a PhD in Adult Education and Organizational Development from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a certificate in Bioethics from Creighton University, and a Global Health Certificate from the Gillings School of Public Health in Chapel Hill. She teaches in the medical school curriculum (Principles of Bioethics, Society, Culture and Health Systems, and Research Ethics), and interdisciplinary social determinants of rural health courses for undergraduate and graduate students throughout the university. Research interests include interprofessional education and moral distress especially for medical students.

Affiliation

  • Chair and Professor, Bioethics and Interdisciplinary Studies
    Brody School of Medicine
    Adjunct Professor, Public Health
    Director, Clinical Skills Assessment and Education
    College of Education
    East Carolina University
    Greenville, North Carolina
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