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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 Brandt 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 Breier Sarah Jane Breier, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing
University of Missouri Sinclair School of Nursing



David Fleming 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 Arthur Rawlings, M.Div., MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
University of Missouri School of Medicine



Don ReynoldsDon 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

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.



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Matt Morgan
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






 
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