Faculty
William B. Bondeson, PhD
Curators Distinguished Teaching Professor
Departments of Philosophy and Family & Community Medicine
Adjunct Professor of Medical Ethics, MU Center for Health Ethics
Director, Center for the Arts and Humanities
University of Missouri School of Medicine
Bill Bondeson is Curators' Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy and Family and Community
Medicine at the University of Missouri-Columbia where he has taught for the past forty years.
He is also Adjunct Clinical Professor of Nursing, Adjunct Professor of Health Management and
Informatics, and a member of the Center for Health Ethics. He recently was appointed the Director of the Center for the Arts and Humanities.
Bill received his undergraduate degree from Augustana College, a Master's in Greek from the
University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago. His graduate career was funded by the Danforth Foundation.
He has chaired the Philosophy Department, directed the Honors College, founded the College of
General Studies, been Assistant to the Chancellor, a Director of Development, directed the University
Concert Series for twenty years, created the Chamber Music Series and the Dance Series, and founded the Program
in Health Care and Human Values. He was the founding President of Museum Associates, the founding President
of the Friends of Music and the founding President of Missouri Citizens for the Arts. He co-chairs the University
Hospital's Clinical Ethics Committee, and has served on the Ethics Committees of the Columbia V.A. Hospital and the Lenoir Home.
He usually teaches Introduction to Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Medical Ethics, and in the
four semesters of the Honors College Humanities Sequence. He has won numerous awards for his teaching
including the Amoco Award, the Shutz Award and Lectureship, the Distinguished Faculty Award, the Thomas
Jefferson Distinguished Scholar Award, the UM President's Award for Outstanding Teaching, and the Kemper Award.
He has also won the Missouri Arts Council Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts and was elected into
membership in the Academy of Missouri Squires. The Honors College has put his name on its endowment fund.
He has published five books in the Reidel Philosophy and Medicine Series (Abortion and the
Status of the Fetus, Rights to Health Care, Reproductive Rights and Responsibilities, New Knowledge
in the Biomedical Sciences, and the Ethics of Managed Care), an introductory philosophy text, Philosophical
Problems, and numerous articles on health care, ancient philosophy, higher education, and teaching. He has
served as a consultant to the Missouri Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National
Endowment for the Arts, and is a Missouri Humanities Council American Mirror Lecturer. He is one of the founders
of the Wakonse Foundation for College Teaching and Learning, and helps direct the Annual Wakonse Conferences on
College Teaching. He has received over five million dollars in grants, from the National Endowment for the Arts,
the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Missouri Arts Council, the Kellogg Foundation and numerous other agencies, foundations, and individuals.
Bill loves to cook, collects fine wine, contemporary prints, and Chinese art and furniture;
he plays the piano, and plays golf with more enthusiasm than skill. His passions are the arts-especially music,
medical ethics, and teaching. He has one son, Adam, and finally, ten years ago, married his significant other
of many years and his greatest passion, Linda Butterfield Cupp.
Lea Cheyney Brandt, OTD, MA, OTR/L
Director, Occupational Therapy Assistant Program
Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Health Professions
Associate Director, MU Center for Health Ethics
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics, MU Center for Health Ethics, University of Missouri School of Medicine
Dr. Lea Cheyney Brandt accepted a full-time position as a Program Director and Clinical Assistant Professor in the School of Health Professions
in August 2008. Dr. Brandt is Associate Director of the University of Missouri’s Center for Health Ethics where she has been a principle faculty
member since 2007. In her role through the Center she sits on several ethics-related boards including the Missouri Network of Community
Health Ethics Leaders, Data Safety Monitoring committee, clinical ethics committee, and organizational ethics committee. In addition, she
works as a clinical ethics consultant for the University of Missouri Health Systems. Dr. Brandt has earned a Master of Arts in Bioethics
and Health Policy from Loyola University Chicago and a Post-Professional Doctorate in Occupational Therapy with an emphasis in Healthcare
Ethics and Administration from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. Her doctoral training was conducted at the University of Nijmegen,
Medical Ethics Department in the Netherlands and at the VHA National Center for Ethics located in New York City. National appointments
include a 6 year stent as the OT Member-at-Large for the American Occupational Therapy Association’s Ethics Commission, where she reviewed
ethics cases, authored multiple advisory opinions, and worked to revise the Profession’s Code of Ethics.
Email: brandtlc@health.missouri.edu
Telephone: 573-884-9031
Sarah Jane Breier, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing
University of Missouri Sinclair School of Nursing
David A. Fleming, M.D., MA, FACP
Professor and Chairman, Department of Internal Medicine
Director, MU Center for Health Ethics
University of Missouri School of Medicine
Dr. Fleming is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine and Director of the MU Center for Health Ethics at the University of Missouri
School of Medicine, having been a member of the faculty since 1995. He is a former U.S. Department of Health and Human Services primary care research fellow at
the Center for Practical Bioethics at Georgetown University from 1999-2001, having practiced internal medicine and geriatrics in North Central Missouri for nearly
20 years prior to his Georgetown experience. Presently he also directs the clinical ethics consult service at University of Missouri Health Care, co chairs the
ethics committee, and spends a great deal of his time teaching and developing curriculum in health ethics and professionalism in the medical school and in other
schools across the university campus. He has also continued his internal medicine practice and teaches in the internal medicine department. Dr. Fleming has been
Charmin of Internal Medicine since 2009. Primary areas of research interest include health disparity, care of vulnerable populations, end of life care, organizational
ethics, and research ethics. Dr. Fleming is also Chair of the Board of Governors for the American College of Physicians. Dr. Fleming received his BA (Zoology) in 1970,
MA (microbiology) in 1972 and M.D. in 1976, all from the University of Missouri. He completed an MA in ethics from Georgetown University in May 2008. Dr. Fleming completed
internal medicine residency and chief residency at the University of Missouri in 1980.
Edmund Pellegrino, MD, MACP
Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Ethics
MU Center for Health Ethics
University of Missouri School of Medicine
Win Phillips, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Health Management and Informatics
Senior Scholar, MU Center for Health Ethics
Department of Health Management and Informatics
University of Missouri School of Medicine
Win Phillips teaches courses at MU in Health Informatics, Health Ethics, and Health Politics. He has industry experience in various areas of business and computing. His interests
include electronic medical record systems and other computer uses in healthcare, as well as various areas of philosophy.
Email: phillipswin@missouri.edu
Telephone: 573-884-1723
Cheryl Rathert, PhD
Assistant Professor of Health Services Management
Senior Scholar, MU Center for Health Ethics
Department of Health Management and Informatics
University of Missouri School of Medicine
Arthur Rawlings, M.Div., MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
University of Missouri School of Medicine
Don F. Reynolds, JD
Director, Office for Responsible Research
MU Center for Health Ethics
Research Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Missouri School of Medicine
Shawna Strickland, PhD, RRT-NPS, AE-C
Director, Respiratory Therapy Program
Clinical Associate Professor, University of Missouri School of Health Professions
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Missouri School of Medicine
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City School
of Pharmacy
Dr. Shawna Strickland is a Registered Respiratory Therapist and has been an educator with the School of Health
Professions since 2005. She is currently a Clinical Associate Professor and the Director of the Respiratory Therapy
Program with teaching interests in neonatal-pediatric care, research, asthma education, and health care ethics. Dr.
Strickland developed the CPD 4480: Ethics for the Clinician course for pre-health professional undergraduate students in
2006. In 2007, she was selected for the Difficult Dialogues fellowship at the University of Missouri. Dr. Strickland has
been a member of the University of Missouri Clinical Ethics Committee in 2006 and joined the Center for Health Ethics in 2010
as a clinical ethics consultant. She earned her undergraduate degrees (Respiratory Therapy and Health Care Management) from Southern
Illinois University-Carbondale and her Master's of Education (Adult and Higher Education) and her PhD in Education
(Educational Leadership and Policy Study) from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Regionally, Dr. Strickland is a
registered volunteer with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services' Show-Me Response medical response corp.
She is also an active member of the Missouri Society for Respiratory Care and earned the 2011 MSRC President's Award for
service to the profession. She is also a state delegate to the House of Delegates for the American Association for Respiratory
Care, an organization for which she co-captains the national Drive4COPD campaign.
Staff
Matt Morgan
Center Administrator
MU Center for Health Ethics
Ana Maria Fernandez, M.Sc. Molecular Biology
Research Specialist
MU Center for Health Ethics
University of Missouri School of Medicine
