Thorny Issues in Clinical Ethics Consultation / Philosophy and Medicine Bd.143 (PDF)

Mark G. Kuczewski, PhD, HEC-C, is the Fr. Michael I. English, S.J., Professor of Medical Ethics. He is also the director of the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Healthcare Leadership at the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. Mark is a past president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH). He has been engaged in bedside clinical ethics issues for more than 25 years and much of that experience forms the basis for the popular text, An Ethics Casebook for Hospitals: Practical Approaches to Everyday Ethics Consultations (2nd edition, Georgetown University Press). For the last decade, he has been an articulate spokesperson for the just and equitable treatment of immigrant patients.


Katherine Wasson, PhD, MPH, HEC-C, is an Associate Professor in The Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Healthcare Leadership at the Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago where she is the Director of the Bioethics and Professionalism Honors Program. For over 20 years Dr. Wasson has been a clinical ethics consultant and educator, including in both the United States and United Kingdom, teaching a wide range of students and healthcare professionals. She was one of the first Fellows in The Ethics of Prevention and Public Health at The National Cancer Institute and served on the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Clinical Ethics Consultation Affairs Committee and the Board of Directors. She is the project lead for the Assessing Clinical Ethics Skills (ACES) Tool for training and evaluating clinical ethics consultants and the corresponding research studies.