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Biosketch
Dr. deSante-Bertkau focuses on the care of chronically ill children, particularly children with multiple medical diagnoses. She has been studying bioethics since high school and her research has spanned beginning of life issues, organ transplantation procurement, embryonic stem cell research policy, and vaccine ethics. She did her undergraduate work at Princeton University, where she majored in molecular biology. Her senior thesis was entitled "Catholic Views on the Human Embryo and Their Impact on the Embryonic Stem Cell Debate."
Upon graduating from Princeton University, Jennifer enrolled in University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She graduated with a combined Doctorate of Medicine and Master of Bioethics degree. She completed a pediatric residency at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and continued to work as a general pediatrics attending on their Hospital Physician Team until 2015. In her work as a postdoctoral fellow in the NIH Department of Bioethics from 2013-2015. she focused on issues related to children with special healthcare needs and the ethical challenges their caregivers face. She has written a descriptive and normative account of the parent-child relationship in families with young adults with special needs.
She is currently working on a systematic review of clinical ethics typologies and a palliative care and medical ethics curriculum for pediatric residents. She plans to focus her career on her dual interests in clinical pediatric care and clinical ethics.
Affiliation
- Assistant Professor, Pediatrics and Ethics Center
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Attending Physician, Hospital Medicine
Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Cincinnati, Ohio
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