INTERNS
Jacob Maul
Jacob Maul has just completed his first year at Saint Louis University School of Law, and graduated with a BA in Political Science from Saint Louis University. He worked with Sigrid Fry-Revere on the End of Life Decisions report. He is an intern during the Summer of 2010.
Stacey McCullough
Stacey McCullough is a second year law student at Saint Louis University School of Law pursuing studies in Health Law. She graduated from Webster University with a major in English and a certificate in legal studies. As a current intern with CES, Stacey has had the opportunity to participate in the “End of Life Decisions” Report by researching the relevant statutes for each state and US territory. Added to this, her research on organ transplantation in Germany has contributed to the Center’s “Organ Procurement Worldwide” project, which seeks to solve the issue of organ shortages.
Megan Penrod
Megan Penrod is obtaining her J.D. at Saint Louis University School of Law. She began interning at the Center for Ethical Solutions in the Summer of 2010, contributing to the End of Life Decisions Report. At Saint Louis University, she is specializing in Health Law with an emphasis in civil litigation. She obtained her B.S. in communication studies and business from the University of Kansas in 2009.
Scott Daley
Scott Daley received a B.A in Public Health and Anthropology from Hampshire College. His research interests include social inequality and health care, race and ethnicity, biocultural anthropology, and critical violence studies. As an intern during the spring of 2010, he worked on the End of Life Decisions report. Currently, he is teaching English in Beijing, China. His non-academic interests include traveling the world, southern gothic literature, baking sourdough bread, and playing Irish folk music. He plans to work as an emergency medical technician when he returns to the states.
Claudia Kraft
Claudia is entering her third year at the University of Virginia where she is majoring in Human Biology and is looking to minor in Global Public Health. She has been working with the CES since the spring 2010 semester. Claudia has contributed to the End of Life Decisions Report as well as the Legal Trends in Bioethics, more recently. She is interested in a broad array of bioethics issues, particularly in human subjects’ research and in genetics. After graduating from UVa, she hopes to works towards a combined JD/MPH degree.
Anna Raphael
Anna Raphael received her undergraduate degree in Law and her Master’s degree in Financial studies from University La Sagesse. She recently finished another MA in Medical Law and Ethics (focus Bioethics) from the University of London – Queen Mary, UK. She is currently an intern with CES and researching the organ procurement system in Lebanon as a part of the Center’s “Organ Procurement Worldwide” project focusing on solving the shortage of organs. She will also be collaborating in workshops to pupils and science teachers on harvesting stem cells from mouse bone marrow at University in London in the UK, where she can discuss the ethical issues associated with the stem cell research.
Matthew Ray
Matthew Ray holds his M.A. in Bioethics from the New York University, holds a B.S. in Biology with a concentration in Chemistry and a B.A. in Philosophy from The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, and is applying to medical school for the Fall 2010 entering class. Matthew’s philosophical interests include healthcare resource allocation and the role quality assessments play in determinations about the value of life. He is currently working with the Center in creating a report about organ procurement strategies for transplantation in various countries, and is in charge of maintaining the Center’s website. He has been an intern since Fall 2009.
Thomas Reher
Thomas Reher has interned with CES since the Fall of 2009. He received a Master of Arts in Bioethics and Health Policy from Loyola in Chicago. He assists Sigrid Fry-Revere with researching policy and law regarding organ donation and the definition of death. Thomas also contributes to Legal Trends in Bioethics. He will begin medical school at Indiana University School of Medicine in the Fall of 2010.
Sadaf Sheikh
Sadaf Sheikh was introduced to bioethics while working for a project about informed consent in the Pakistani milieu. Like many in this particular field, Sadaf never expected that she’d be doing work of this kind. After attending medical school however, bioethics seemed like an interesting diversion – and now she’s hooked. It still astounds and thrills Sadaf whenever she gets the opportunity to teach bioethics.
Sadaf received her masters in bioethics from The Joint Center for Bioethics, University of Toronto. She has previously worked as a research assistant for the first-ever cancer tissue bank in Pakistan, though currently Sadaf gives lectures about bioethics at King Saud University for Health Sciences in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Sadaf is also a Ph.D. candidate in Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine at The University of Sydney. Her dissertation explores the regulation of tissue exportation in the developing world.
Sadaf has participated as an intern at the Center for Ethical Solutions for four months and contributed to the ’End of Life Decisions’ report. She found it to be a quite fascinating experience and she is eager to get involved in future projects.
Kendra Bechtel
Kendra Bechtel is a Hampshire College student about to enter her Division III, or thesis year. While she is interested in bioethics, health policy, and neuroscience, Kendra is also passionate about working with patients in hospice. She plans on studying communication around dying and death in the United States during her last year at Hampshire. She has previously worked in Joshua Greene’s Moral Cognition Lab at Harvard University. During her work with the Center for Ethical Solutions for the Spring 2010 semester, she participated on their “Making End of Life Decisions Count” project and has wrote for their publication, “Legal Trends in Bioethics”. Her non-academic interests include everything to do with food, and she is an avid amateur baker and cook.
Heather Carter
Heather graduated summa cum laude from Arizona State University with a bachelor’s degree in Ethics and Writing and a minor in Communication. During and since her undergraduate education, she has had a passion for bioethics and is currently working toward a career in the medical field. She was a spring 2010 intern working on the “End of Life Decisions” project. Heather enjoys working and researching bioethical topics and plans on continuing her education toward a career in medicine and medical ethics.
Victoria Elkins
Victoria received her Master’s degree in Bioethics from Union Graduate College/Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and her Master’s degree in Social Work from New York University. She was a Spring 2010 intern working on Patient Advocacy and The Documenting End-Of-Life Decision Making Report and is currently working on Legal Trends In Bioethics.
Mary Owens
Although Mary Owen currently works for Cisco as a technical writer, she previously contributed to the Legal Trends in Bioethics reports while interning with the Center for Ethical Solutions. Added to this, Mary recently received her Masters of Bioethics from Union Graduate College in 2009, where she wrote her thesis on the ethical implications of what happened at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans. She hopes to collaborate with others to eventually get this published. Her passion for bioethics is one that has continually developed throughout her life. Taking science class after science class, Mary Owen could see where the conflict between medicine and ethics was going to arise and was amazed to see how humanistic beliefs shape the process.
Andrew Thomas
Andrew Thomas is pursuing a joint degree in law and public affairs at Indiana University-Bloomington and is expected to graduate in December 2011. He was one of the authors of the “Making End-Of-Life Decisions Count” report. He interned for CES in the spring of 2010. Andrew has more recently worked on a needs assessment focusing on heath and wellness issues for the United Way of Monroe County.
Cathy Dutchak
Cathy Dutchak recently earned her M.A. in International Commerce & Policy from George Mason University’s School of Public Policy. In the last year of her studies, she worked at the State Department in the Office of UN Political Affairs where she contributed to the office’s mandate of setting policy for important U.S. interests being considered in the UN Security Council, provided logistics for the UN delegation’s attendance at the Annapolis Middle East Peace Conference, and assisted in organizing bilateral meetings between State Department officials and the five newly-elected members of the UN Security Council.
She also worked in the Office of the Chief of Protocol, where she helped facilitate fast-paced, politically-sensitive, high-level events for the Secretary of State involving multiple cultures and senior diplomats.
She is interested in exploring health issues as they relate to international commerce. Her other areas of interest are economic development, including health, education and women’s empowerment, and U.S. foreign policy, especially in the Middle East. She is continuing her studies in Arabic and spent July of 2007 living in Cairo and studying at al-Azhar University. Dutchak completed a UN Fellowship during the final year of her studies.
Her earlier career was in the financial industry, primarily as an analyst for SunTrust Bank. She has a B.A. in English from the College of William & Mary and is the mother of three children.
Cathy Dutchak recently earned her M.A. in International Commerce & Policy from George Mason University’s School of Public Policy. In the last year of her studies, she worked at the State Department in the Office of UN Political Affairs where she contributed to the office’s mandate of setting policy for important U.S. interests being considered in the UN Security Council, provided logistics for the UN delegation’s attendance at the Annapolis Middle East Peace Conference, and assisted in organizing bilateral meetings between State Department officials and the five newly-elected members of the UN Security Council.
She also worked in the Office of the Chief of Protocol, where she helped facilitate fast-paced, politically-sensitive, high-level events for the Secretary of State involving multiple cultures and senior diplomats.
She is interested in exploring health issues as they relate to international commerce. Her other areas of interest are economic development, including health, education and women’s empowerment, and U.S. foreign policy, especially in the Middle East. She is continuing her studies in Arabic and spent July of 2007 living in Cairo and studying at al-Azhar University. Dutchak completed a UN Fellowship during the final year of her studies.
Her earlier career was in the financial industry, primarily as an analyst for SunTrust Bank. She has a B.A. in English from the College of William & Mary and is the mother of three children.
Michael Igoumenidis
Initially registered with the School of Nursing at the University of Athens, he soon realized that he was more interested in theoretical issues rather than in clinical practice. After graduation, he chose to participate in the MA cause in Health Care Ethics & Law, hosted by the Centre for Social Ethics & Policy at the University of Manchester, which inspired him to pursue a doctoral degree there.
His doctoral thesis dealt with the issue of “double morality” as applied to health care professionals, in the sense that certain professional roles may impose distinct sets of moral codes to the persons holding those roles; however, this distinct morality may be absent for the same person when not in a professional environment. He received his doctoral title in 2008.
Added to this, Michael has worked as a researcher for the Hellenic Center for Disease Control, as a part time lecturer in various Institutes for Professional Training, and as a research associate at the University of Athens, Faculty of Nursing. He is also an intern at the Center for Ethical Solutions, Leesburg, US.
Michael has participated in a number of international conferences as a speaker, which has allowed him to meet and discuss with various health care professionals, lawyers, and philosophers. He has dealt with many different ethical issues in health care, although he is more interested in issues of justice and allocation of resources.
Steve Chukwelbe
Steve Chukwulebe attends the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Business Administration at Loyola University Chicago to acquire degrees in Biochemistry and Finance. As a CES Intern during the Summer of 2009, he has been assisting Dr. Sigrid Fry-Revere with a documentary dealing with the CES project, “Solving the Organ Shortage”.
Nona Jiang
Nona Jiang is a second-year at the University of Virginia, looking to major in Human Biology and minor in Global Public Health. She has been assisting in the production of the latest issue of “Legal Trends in Bioethics”. She was a CES intern during the Summer of 2009.
Ava Simpson
As a summer 2009 intern for the Center of Ethical Solutions, Ava Simpson worked on non-profit development and co-authoring articles for Legal Trends in Bioethics. She is a student at The Catholic University of America, with an anticipated graduation date of 2011, where she is a staff member of The Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy.
Blair Busby
Blair received her undergraduate degree in Exercise and Sport Science and a minor in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After varied experience in supportive clinical healthcare roles, she has been exploring her interest in healthcare from a legal and political perspective. She is a Fall 2009 intern for Legal Trends in Bioethics. Blair enjoys the scientific aspects of medicine (particularly neuroanatomy), as well their legal and political application to healthcare policy.
Sonia Khanzode
Sonia Khanzode is a second year law student at the Catholic University Of America Columbus School of Law, and graduated from Michigan State University with a major in health studies and bioethics. She is president of the Health Law Society at Catholic for the 2009-2010 school year.
Maybelle Miranda
Maybelle Miranda obtained her MA in Bioethics from Midwestern University and her BS in Biology from the University of Dayton, where she concentrated in Philosophy and Social Justice Studies. She is a Fall 2009 intern, assisting with the “Legal Trends in Bioethics” column and working with Michael Kalis in researching other counties’ transplantation processes. She plans to further her education in Bioethics and stay in the adademic arena, possibly obtaining a PhD.
Claudia Ruiz Ibarra
Claudia Ruiz Ibarra holds an M.D. from Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua, in Chihuahua, Mexico. She was an Intern at a Christus group hospital, she performed social service work at a community clinic in Chihuahua, and was also the health coordinator for FUNDESPEN A.C., an ONG helping the rural areas of the Mayan Region. She is currently pursuing an M.A in bioethics at Anahuac University, in Mexico D.F. She is a CES intern during the Summer-fall of 2009.
Deborah Chen
Deborah Chen is a Senior at the College of William and Mary where She is majoring in the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology. Chen joined the Center as an intern in the Summer of 2008. She started out as one of the authors of “Legal Trends in Bioethics” but since then has focused primarily on assisting with the Center’s SOS project, including doing research on organ procurement in countries around the globe.
Sheeba Koshy
Sheeba Koshy holds a J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, School of Law. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree and an M.A. in Philosophy from Binghamton University. She has been working on “Legal Trends” with Sigrid Fry-Revere since the Fall 2007 edition. She was a CES intern during the Fall of 2008.
TRANSLATORS HELPING WITH THE ORGAN SHORTAGE PROJECT
Nahzy Buck
Nahzy Buck is a freelance Farsi linguist and educator, having most recently worked as a Research Translator for the Dari Translation Project at Carnegie Mellon University in 2009. Among her other positions, Nahzy was an Intelligence Analyst for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) in Ottawa, Canada. She taught as an adjunct Professor of Persian Language and Culture in the Department of Iranian Studies at Hankuk University (University of Foreign Studies) in Seoul, South Korea, for five years. She was also an adjunct Professor of Middle East History at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois. A native speaker of Persian (Farsi), Nahzy also has a command of written Arabic, which is uncommon for native speakers of Persian. She received her Master’s degree in International Relations from Kyung Hee University in Seoul, and has legal training from the Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan, with a focus on constitutional law and civil rights. She has long been an advocate of religious minority rights, especially with regard to the plight of the Baha’is in Iran who, among other things, have been barred from access to university education for the past 30 years by government policy.
Farhoud Faraji
Farhoud Faraji received his B.A. in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California at Berkeley and is currently a medical student at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. Farhoud is interested in training in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery and pursuing an academic and clinical career in medicine. His internship at the Center of Ethical Solutions, which began in the spring of 2009, has consisted of translating Farsi to English and helping recruit other native-speaking Farsi translators for CES projects.
