Interns
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.
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 is a graduate student of the Master of Arts in bioethics and health policy of Loyola University in Chicago and joined CES fall 2009. He received a BA in Spanish and a BS in Biology from Concordia University–Wisconsin. He assists Sigrid Fry-Revere with researching policy and law regarding organ donation and definition of death as well as contributes to Legal Trends in Bioethics. He is also applying to medical school.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
