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University of Colorado Denver Center for Bioethics and Humanities
 

Center for Bioethics and Humanities

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Center faculty are involved in teaching students in all the schools of the Health Sciences Center. Jackie Glover has taken primary leadership in working with the School of Medicine in the development of their new curriculum. She is the Thread Director for the Humanities, Ethics and Professionalism (HEP) Thread which works with an interdisciplinary committee to develop and implement Bioethics and Humanities content throughout the four years. Jackie has also taken a leadership role in expanding the interdisciplinary and interprofessional curriculum in Ethics at the Health Sciences Center. She directs the interdisciplinary course, Ethics in the Health Professions that is required for the first year Dental, Medical, Nursing Doctorate, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, and Physician Assistant students. She also works with an interdisciplinary planning group to offer a campus wide orientation session in professionalism for all incoming students. Jackie is also working with the School of Dentistry in their Ethics Curriculum.  Marilyn Coors works with the Graduate School and with the School of Nursing with their ethics curricula. Dayna Matthew is developing a health law curriculum for the School of Medicine.

The Center directly supports ethics consultation, policy development and the education of clinicians by working with the ethics committees at the University of Colorado Hospital and its affiliated hospitals including The Children's Hospital of Denver, Denver Health Medical Center, and the National Jewish Medical and Research Center. All faculty serve on an area hospital's ethics committee. Jackie Glover co-directs the Program in Bioethics at the Children's Hospital (PB@CCH) with Stephan Mokrohisky, MD. The Center also supports the Organizational Ethics Forum at the University of Colorado Hospital and organizational ethics activities at the affiliated hospitals. Jackie is also working with Jean Abbott, MD to offer education in ethics consultation to ethics committees around the state. The Center is also teaming with CHEF (Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum) to offer clinical ethics education sessions to area clinicians and ethics committees.

The Center is designing a special outreach program for rural health care institutions to help identify specific needs and resources. Jackie Glover has a particular interest in Rural Bioethics and has done considerable research in this area. She serves on a national Rural Health Care Ethics Coalition that is currently seeking NIH funding to develop a Handbook for Rural Health Care Ethics. She is also working closely with the AHEC program to enhance ethics education in student's rural rotations.

Center Faculty serve on the University's Institutional Review Boards (IRB's) for the protection of human subjects in research. Our faculty have published scholarly articles in this area and Marilyn Coors teach research ethics and integrity in the ethics curricula of the various schools. Mark is also taking a leadership role in a special project that is establishing a consortium of bioethics programs at the University of Colorado, the University of Washington, the Johns Hopkins University and the Cleveland Clinic to foster trust in the research enterprise. This special project is known as TIES (Trust, Integrity, Ethics and Science) and efforts are currently underway to secure funding for the next phases of the project.

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