Simon N. Whitney, MD, JD
As of 5/5/23: 9043 Broadway Terrace
Oakland, CA 94611
(713) 208-6647
Education & training
Yale University, BA, 1974
New York University School of Medicine, MD, 1979
Residency in Family Medicine, Swedish Hospital, Seattle, 1982
Stanford Law School, JD with distinction, 1998
Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, fellowship, 1999
Emeritus appointments at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Associate Professor Emeritus
Department of Family and Community Medicine
Associate Professor by Courtesy, Emeritus
Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Books
From Oversight to Overkill: Inside the Broken System That Blocks Medical Breakthroughs—And How We Can Fix It. Irvington, NY: Rivertowns, 2023.
Whitney SN. Balanced Ethics Review: A Guide for the Institutional Review Board Member. New York: Springer, 2016.
Book chapters
Whitney SN. The previable infant at the crossroads: ethical and legal considerations. In: Goldworth A, Frankel L, Silverman W, eds. Ethical Dilemmas in Pediatrics: Cases and Commentaries. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press; 2009.
Whitney SN. Near drowning, futility, and the limits of shared decision making. In: Goldworth A, Frankel L, Silverman W, eds. Ethical Dilemmas in Pediatrics: Cases and Commentaries. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press; 2009.
Selected papers
Whitney SN. A new model of medical decisions: exploring the limits of shared decision making. Med Decis Making. 2003;23:275-280.
Whitney SN, McGuire AL, McCullough LB. A typology of shared decision making, informed consent, and simple consent. Ann Intern Med. 2004;140(1):54-9.
McGuire AL, McCullough LB, Weller SC, Whitney SN. Missed expectations? Physicians' views of patients' participation in medical decision-making. Med Care. 2005;43(5):466-70.
Whitney SN, Ethier AM, Fruge E, Berg S, McCullough LB, Hockenberry M. Decision making in pediatric oncology: who should take the lead? The decisional priority in pediatric oncology model. J Clin Oncol. 2006;24(1):160-5.
Whitney SN, Holmes-Rovner, M, Brody, H, Schneider, C, McCullough, LB, Volk, RJ, McGuire, AL. Beyond Shared Decision Making: An Expanded Typology of Medical Decisions. Med Decis Making.
Whitney, SN, Alcser, K, Schneider, C, McCullough, LB, McGuire, AL, Volk, RJ. Principal Investigator Views of the IRB system. Int J Med Sciences. 2008 5(2):68-72.
Whitney SN, McCullough LB, Frugé E, McGuire, AL, Volk RJ. Beyond breaking bad news: the roles of hope and hopefulness. Cancer 2008; 113(2):442-5.
Stewart, DJ, Whitney, SN, Kurzrock, R. Equipoise Lost: Ethics, Costs, and the Regulation of Cancer Clinical Research. J Clin Oncology. 2010: 28:2925-2935.
Whitney, SN, Schneider, CE. A Method to Estimate the Cost in Lives of Ethics Board Review of Biomedical Research. J Int Med. 2011: 269:392-406.
Whitney, SN. The Python’s Embrace: Clinical Research Regulation by Institutional Review Boards. Pediatrics. 2012: 129:576.
Whitney, SN. The Shell Game: How Institutional Review Boards Shuffle Words. Journal of Translational Medicine. 2014: 12:201, doi: 10.1186/1479-5876-12-201.
Whitney, SN. A Fern in Amber: Risk Management in Research with Humans. Risk Management. 2015: 17(4): 226-239.
Whitney, SN. Institutional Review Boards: A Flawed System of Risk Management. Research Ethics, 2016; online publication May 13.
Whitney, SN. Whose Decision Is It? The Microstructure of Medical Decision Making, Zeitschrift fűr Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualität im Gesundheistswesen 2008.
Lectures, presentations, and research seminars
A. International
Whitney SN. The Cost in Lives of the Regulation of Research. Panel presentation at the World Conference of Bioethics, June 25, 2014, in Mexico City, Mexico.
Whitney SN. From Antithesis to Harmony: A Synthesis of Evidence-Based medicine and Patient-Led Decision Making. Keynote speech at VIII Annual Symposium on Biomedicine, Ethics and Society: “Rethinking Informed Consent: The Limits of Autonomy.” Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala Universitet Centre for Bioethics, Sandhman, Sweden, June 12, 2006.
Frugé, ED, Mahoney, D, Rousseau, Raphaël, Whitney SN, and Horowitz, M. A systemic perspective on patient autonomy: Reflective practice, leadership and informed consent in medical education. VIII Annual Symposium on Biomedicine, Ethics and Society: “Rethinking Informed Consent: The Limits of Autonomy.” Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala Universitet Centre for Bioethics, Sandhman, Sweden, June 13, 2006.
Whitney, SN. Shared Decision Making: When It Works, When It Doesn’t. Fourth International Shared Decision Making Conference, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, June 1, 2007.
Whitney, SN. Limits of Shared Decision Making. Keynote address, 2nd conference on shared decision making in health care, “Involving the Patient,” University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany, April 24, 2008.
Whitney, SN. Microstructure of Shared Decision Making. 2nd conference on shared decision making in health care, “Involving the Patient,” University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany, April 25, 2008.
Whitney SN, Schneider, C. A Method to Estimate the Deaths from Regulation of Biomedical Research by the IRB System. Keynote speech at the conference, “Is Medical Ethics Really in the Best Interest of the Patient?” Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala Universitet Centre for Bioethics, Uppsala, Sweden, June 16, 2010.
Whitney, SN. Is Ethical Review of Biobank Based Research Up To Date? A Call for the Abolition of Ethics Committee Regulation of Human Subjects Research. Presentation at the conference, “Nordic Biobank Research Obstacles and Opportunities,” Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala Universitet Centre for Bioethics, Uppsala, Sweden, May 4, 2011.
Whitney SN. Informed Consent in Clinical Research Settings. Invited panel presentation given at the Strengthening the Process of Informed Consent to Address Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare and Research conference, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama, June 29, 2004.
Whitney, SN, Schneider, CE, “The Quality and Consequences of Institutional Review Board Decisions,” Presentation at Research Ethics: Re-Examining Key Concerns, sponsored by the Center for Bioethics, Health & Society, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, November 11, 2011.
Whitney, SN. “Reforming IRB Review” (originally titled “How Did We Get Here?”), opening keynote at “Closing the Gap Between Hope and Cures For Cancer Patients,” University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, November 4, 2014.
Whitney SN. The Cost in Lives of the Regulation of Research. Panel presentation at the World Conference of Bioethics, June 25, 2014, in Mexico City, Mexico.
Whitney SN. From Antithesis to Harmony: A Synthesis of Evidence-Based medicine and Patient-Led Decision Making. Keynote speech at VIII Annual Symposium on Biomedicine, Ethics and Society: “Rethinking Informed Consent: The Limits of Autonomy.” Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala Universitet Centre for Bioethics, Sandhman, Sweden, June 12, 2006.
Whitney, SN. Shared Decision Making: When It Works, When It Doesn’t. Fourth International Shared Decision Making Conference, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, June 1, 2007.
Whitney, SN. Limits of Shared Decision Making. Keynote address, 2nd conference on shared decision making in health care, “Involving the Patient,” University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany, April 24, 2008.
Whitney SN, Schneider, C. A Method to Estimate the Deaths from Regulation of Biomedical Research by the IRB System. Keynote speech at the conference, “Is Medical Ethics Really in the Best Interest of the Patient?” Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala Universitet Centre for Bioethics, Uppsala, Sweden, June 16, 2010.
Whitney, SN. Is Ethical Review of Biobank Based Research Up To Date? A Call for the Abolition of Ethics Committee Regulation of Human Subjects Research. Presentation at the conference, “Nordic Biobank Research Obstacles and Opportunities,” Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala Universitet Centre for Bioethics, Uppsala, Sweden, May 4, 2011.
B. National
Whitney SN. Ethical Tectonics: Changing Trends in the Ethics and Legality of End-of-Life Care. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Snowbird, UT, June 25, 1999.
Whitney SN. A National Survey of Physician Attitudes toward Physician-Assisted Suicide. Talk presented at a meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Philadelphia, PA, October 29, 1999.
Crouch MA, Whitney SN, Volk R, McCullough, Pavlik VN. What Patients Believe about Statins and What We Can Teach Them. Poster presented at the 29th Annual Meeting of the North American Primary Care Research Group, Halifax, Nova Scotia, October 13-16, 2001.
Crouch MA, Whitney SN, McCullough L, Pavlik V, Volk RJ. Effects of a Statin Decision Aid on Explanatory Models and Shared Decision Making. Poster presented at 30th Annual Meeting of the North American Primary Care Research Group, New Orleans, LA, October 18, 2002.
Crouch MA, Whitney SN. Helping Patients Make Good Cholesterol Decisions by Using a Decision Aid: Qualitative Results and Plan for Controlled Trial. Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the North American Primary Care Research Group, New Orleans, LA, November 18, 2002.
Whitney SN, McGuire A, McCullough L, Weller S. Physician Views of Shared Decision Making and Informed Consent. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Primary Care Research Group, New Orleans, LA, November 17, 2002.
Whitney SN. Invited participant, Lasker Forum on Ethical Challenges in Biomedical Research and Practice, Mary Woodard Lasker Charitable Trust, Washington, DC, May 14-16, 2003.
Crouch M, Whitney SN, McCullough L, Pavlik VN, Cheak N. Effect of Informed Consent on Compliance With Statin Therapy: A Pilot Study. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Primary Care Research Group, Banff, Alberta, Canada, October 27, 2003.
Whitney SN, McGuire AL, McCullough LB, Davis JL, Volk RJ. Researchers Views of Human Subjects Protection. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Primary Care Research Group, Banff, Alberta, Canada, October 27, 2003.
Whitney SN. Distinguishing Informed Consent and Shared Decision Making. Commentary presented as part of a panel discussion on informed consent held at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Montreal, Quebec, October 24, 2003.
Whitney SN, McGuire AL, McCullough LB, Davis JL, Volk RJ. The Trouble with IRBs: Researcher's Views of Human Subjects Protection. Poster presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Applied Research Ethics National Association, Washington, DC, December 5-7, 2003.
Whitney SN. Informed Consent in Clinical Research Settings. Invited panel presentation given at the Strengthening the Process of Informed Consent to Address Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare and Research conference, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama, June 29, 2004.
Whitney SN, Berg SL, Fruge ED, McGuire AL, McCullough LB, Volk RJ. Hope in Research: Views of Pediatric Cancer Researchers. Poster co-presented at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the North American Primary Care Research Group, Orlando, Florida, October 10-13, 2004.
Whitney, SN, McCullough, LB, Volk, RJ, Ethier, A, Barrera, P, Gregurich, MA, Berg, S, Frugé, E, Hockenberry, M. Decision Making in Pediatric Cancer—Who Should Take the Lead? Poster presented at the 7th annual meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Washington, DC, October 20, 2005.
Whitney, SN. Decision Making in Pediatric Oncology: Can Parents Refuse Standard Chemotherapy for their Child with a Favorable Prognosis Cancer? Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds at University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago, University of Illinois Hospital, Chicago, IL, September 13, 2006.
Whitney, SN. What Types of Decisions are Acceptable to Physicians and Society? The Case of Parental Refusal of Treatment for their Child with Cancer. Bioethics Seminar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, September 26, 2006.
Crouch, M, Whitney, SN. Decision Heuristics for Taking Medication: Working with Patients’ Rules of Thumb. Seminar presentation at Conference on Practice Improvement: Health Information and Patient Education, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine and American Academy of Family Physicians, Denver, CO, November 11, 2006.
Whitney, SN, “Building Patient Preferences into Research Agendas.” Panel discussion in Advancing the Evidence of Experience: Practical Issues for Patient/Consumer Inclusion, sponsored by the National Working Group on Evidence-Based health Care, Washington, DC, March 6, 2008.
Whitney, SN, Schneider, CE, “The Quality and Consequences of Institutional Review Board Decisions,” Presentation at Research Ethics: Re-Examining Key Concerns, sponsored by the Center for Bioethics, Health & Society, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, November 11, 2011.
Whitney, SN. “Reforming IRB Review” (originally titled “How Did We Get Here?”), opening keynote at “Closing the Gap Between Hope and Cures For Cancer Patients,” University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, November 4, 2014.
C. Regional
Statistical Considerations in a Survey of Physician Attitudes. Lecture presented as part of the Stanford Workshop in Biostatistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, October 9, 1997.
Shared Decision Making at the End of Life. Lecture presented at the Valley Regional Medical Center, Brownsville, TX, September 23, 2004.
D. Local
Whitney SN, Crouch, M and Pierrel, S. Grave Words: End of Life Decision Making. Grand Rounds at the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, March 20, 2001.
Whitney SN. Tears. Residents’ noon conference, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, March July 19, 2002.
Whitney SN, McGuire A, McCullough L, Weller S. Physician Views of Shared Decision Making and Informed Consent. Poster presented at the Health Services and Outcomes Research Conference, Rice University, Houston, TX, November 25, 2002.
Crouch MA, Whitney S, Volk R, McCullough L, Cheak N, Pavlik V. Effects of Informed Consent on Statin Therapy Decision Making: Preliminary Pilot Study Results. Poster co-presented at the 4th Annual Kelsey Research Foundation Health Services and Outcomes Research Conference, Houston, TX, November 3, 2003.
Whitney SN. Informed consent and shared decision making. Grand Rounds, Texas Gulf Coast Physician Assistant Association, Houston, TX, December 7, 2004.
Whitney, SN. Drug manufacturers and Baylor Family Medicine: synergy or conflict? Grand Rounds at the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, March 29, 2005.
Whitney SN. Physician-assisted suicide and medical decision making. Guest speaker, panel discussion on ethics in medicine, politics, and business. Rice University School of Continuing Education, Houston, TX, November 9, 2006.
Whitney, SN. When Parents Refuse Treatment for a Child. Ethics Grand Rounds at The Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, February 1, 2007.
Whitney, SN. Shared decision making—putting theory into practice. Grand Rounds at the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, July 10, 2007.
Whitney, SN, McCullough, LB, ethics consultants. Texas Children’s Cancer Center Tumor Board, “Ethical Issues in Supportive and Palliative Care, Session I.” Texas Children’s Hospital, October 9, 2007.
Whitney, SN, McCullough, LB, ethics consultants. Texas Children’s Cancer Center Tumor Board, “Ethical Issues in Supportive and Palliative Care, Session II.”Texas Children’s Hospital, December 11, 2007.
Whitney, SN, Suarez-Almazor, M, “Empirical Opportunities in the Ethics of Phase 1 Trials,” Clinical Trials Faculty Meeting, MD Anderson Cancer Center, August 27, 2008.
Whitney, SN, “New Developments in Informed Consent.” Association of Clinical Research Nurses, Houston, TX, September 9, 2008.
Whitney, SN, “The Institutional Review Board is Protecting Your Urine,” Renal Grand Rounds, Baylor College of Medicine, February 15, 2012.
Whitney, SN, Marcus DM, and Prossin A, “Placebos in Practice: Neuroscience, Ethical, and Clinical Considerations,” Department of Medicine Grand Rounds, Baylor College of Medicine, February 5, 2015.
Publications
A. In refereed journals
Whitney SN, Brown BW, Brody H, Alcser KH, Bachman JG, Greely HT. Views of United States physicians and members of the American Medical Association House of Delegates on physician-assisted suicide. J Gen Intern Med. 2001;16:290-296. Research done prior to Baylor employment; revisions and publication while at Baylor.
Whitney SN. A new model of medical decisions: exploring the limits of shared decision making. Med Decis Making. 2003;23:275-280.
Whitney SN, McGuire AL, McCullough LB. A typology of shared decision making, informed consent, and simple consent. Ann Intern Med. 2004;140(1):54-9.
McGuire AL, McCullough LB, Weller SC, Whitney SN. Missed expectations? Physicians' views of patients' participation in medical decision-making. Med Care. 2005;43(5):466-70.
Whitney SN, Ethier AM, Fruge E, Berg S, McCullough LB, Hockenberry M. Decision making in pediatric oncology: who should take the lead? The decisional priority in pediatric oncology model. J Clin Oncol. 2006;24(1):160-5.
Brown A, Whitney SN, Schneider M, Vega C. Alcohol Recovery and Spirituality: Strangers, Friends, or Partners? Southern Medical Journal 2006; Volume 99, Number 6, June 2006: 654-657.
Brown AE, Whitney SN, Duffy JD. The Physician’s Role in the Assessment and Treatment of Spiritual Distress At The End Of Life. Palliative and Supportive Care 2006; 4(1) Vol 4, 81-86.
Brown, AE, Whitney, SN, Schneider, MA, Vega, CP. Alcohol Recovery and Spirituality: Strangers, Friends, or Partners? Southern Medical Journal 2007; 99(6):654-7.
Brown, AE, Pavlik, VN, Shegog, R, Whitney, SN, Friedman, LC, Romero, C, Davis, CG, Cech, I, Kosten, TR, Volk, RJ. Association of Spirituality and Sobriety During a Behavioral Spirituality Intervention for Twelve Step Recovery. Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2007;33(4):611-7.
Whitney SN, McCullough LB. Physicians' silent decisions: because patient autonomy does not always come first. Am J Bioeth. 2007;7(7):33-8.
Whitney SN, Holmes-Rovner, M, Brody, H, Schneider, C, McCullough, LB, Volk, RJ, McGuire, AL. Beyond Shared Decision Making: An Expanded Typology of Medical Decisions. Med Decis Making. First published online on June 12, 2008 as doi:10.1177/0272989X08318465
Whitney, SN, Alcser, K, Schneider, C, McCullough, LB, McGuire, AL, Volk, RJ. Principal Investigator Views of the IRB system. Int J Med Sciences. 2008 5(2):68-72.
Whitney SN, McCullough LB, Frugé E, McGuire, AL, Volk RJ. Beyond breaking bad news: the roles of hope and hopefulness. Cancer 2008; 113(2):442-5.
McGuire, AL, Colgrove, J, Whitney, SN, Diaz, Christina, Bustillos, D, Versalovic, J. Ethical, Legal, and Social Considerations in Conducting the Human Microbiome Project. Genome Research, published online October 29, 2008 in advance of the print journal, DOI 10.1101/gr.081653.108.
Stewart, DJ, Whitney, SN, Kurzrock, R. Equipoise Lost: Ethics, Costs, and the Regulation of Cancer Clinical Research. J Clin Oncology. 2010: 28:2925-2935; doi: 10.1200/JCO.2009.27.5404.
Whitney, SN, Schneider, CE. A Method to Estimate the Cost in Lives of Ethics Board Review of Biomedical Research. J Int Med. 2011: 269:392-406.
Gossey, JT, Whitney, SN, Crouch, MA, Jibaja-Weiss, ML, Zhang, H, and Volk, RJ. Promoting Knowledge of Statins in Patients with Low Health Literacy Using an Audio Booklet. Patient Preference and Adherence. 2011: 5:397-403.
Whitney, SN. The Python’s Embrace: Clinical Research Regulation by Institutional Review Boards. Pediatrics. 2012: 129:576.
Slashinski, MJ, McCurdy, SA, Achenbaum, LS, Whitney, SN, McGuire, AL. "Snake-oil," "quack medicine," and "industrially cultured organisms:" biovalue and the commercialization of human microbiome research. BMC Medical Ethics. 2012: 13:28; doi: 10.1186/1472-6939-13-28.
McGuire, AL, Achenbaum, LS, Whitney, SN, Slashinski, MJ, Versalovic, J, Keitel, WA, McCurdy, Sheryl A. Perspectives on Human Microbiome Research Ethics. J Empir Research Human Research Ethics. 2012: 7:1-14.
Rochon, D, Eberth, JM, Fraenkel, L, Volk, RJ, and Whitney, SN. Elderly Patients’ Experiences Using Adaptive Conjoint Analysis Software as a Decision Aid for Osteoarthritis of the Knee. Health Expectations. 2012: September. doi: 10.1111/j.1369-7625.2012.00811.x.
Whitney, SN. The Shell Game: How Institutional Review Boards Shuffle Words. Journal of Translational Medicine. 2014: 12:201, doi: 10.1186/1479-5876-12-201.
Whitney, SN. A Fern in Amber: Risk Management in Research with Humans. Risk Management. 2015: 17(4): 226-239.
Whitney, SN. Institutional Review Boards: A Flawed System of Risk Management. Research Ethics, 2016; online publication May 13. doi: 10.1177/1747016116649993.
B. Published without peer review:
Whitney, SN. Whose Decision Is It? The Microstructure of Medical Decision Making, Zeitschrift fűr Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualität im Gesundheistswesen 2008, accessed online November 1, 2008, DOI 10.1016/j.zefq.2008;.08.015.
Crouch MA, Whitney S, Volk R. Decision making implications [online invited commentary on Walter FM. Lay understanding of familial risk of common chronic diseases: a systematic review and synthesis of qualitative research. Ann Fam Med. 2004;2:583-594]. Accessible at: http://www.annfammed.org/cgi/eletter?lookup= by_date&days=30.
Peer Commentaries and Responses to Peer Commentaries at American Journal of Bioethics (these undergo routine internal review and, at editorial discretional external review when appropriate)
Whitney SN, McCullough LB. Responses to open peer commentaries on “physicians' silent decisions: because patient autonomy doesn’t always come first.” Am J Bioeth. 2007;7(7):W1-W3.
McCullough, LB, McGuire, AL, Whitney SN. Peer commentary on “Consent: informed, Simple, Implied, and Presumed.” Am J Bioeth.
C. Other work communicating research results to scientific colleagues:
Whitney SN. Assisted suicide [editorial]. Washington Fam Physician. Spring 1995.
Whitney SN. Euthanasia and assisted suicide: psychosocial issues [book review]. Crit Care Med. 1998;26:1613.
Whitney SN, Spiegel D. The patient, the physician, and the truth [invited case description and discussion]. Hastings Cent Rep. May-June 1999:24-25.
Whitney SN. Some choice: law, medicine, and the market [book review]. Georgetown Law J. 2000;88:713-737
Whitney SN, Hawley ST, Volk RJ. How should physicians involve patients in medical decisions [letter]? JAMA. 2000;283:2391.
Whitney SN, McCullough LB. Responses to open peer commentaries on "Physicians' silent decisions: because patient autonomy doesn't always come first". Am J Bioeth. 2007;7(7):W1-3.
Teaching
Research development using online bibliographic software
Faculty Development Fellowship
1 hour each year
2002 and 2003
Ethics in Family Practice
Family Medicine residents
1 hour
June 2001
Survey Methodology
Faculty Development Fellowship
1 hour each year
2002 – 2005
Clinical Applications of Basic Sciences
(Section Leader)
8 Hours/Year
2000
Medical Ethics
(Small Group Leader)
7 Hours/Year
2000 – present
Advanced Medical Ethics Seminar
(led classes at invitation of ethics faculty)
One or two hours per semester
2004 – present
Medical Ethics for Pediatric Residents
1 hour
2005
Honors Premedical Academy
One 1.5 hour class each year
2005 – 2006, 2009
Medicine in Literature
University of Houston
Professor William Monroe
1 hour
October 2000
Medical Ethics, four-lecture series as part of scheduled undergraduate courses
Air Force Academy
Colorado Springs, CO
1 hour for each of four classes
March 2007
Ethics in Research
Research Skills Workshop
Kansas City, MO
Gave 1 hour lecture
Participated in discussion session
July 2001
Complementary and Alternative Medicine: An Ethnographic Exploration of Health and Disease
Rice University, Course HUMA261
Led panel discussion for 1 hour
November 2007
Ethical Aspects of Clinical Research
University of Texas Health Sciences
Director: Jon Tyson, MD
shared introductory 90 minute lecture class
February 2009
Empirical opportunities in the ethics of phase 1 trials, part of course, “Ethics in Clinical Trials Research,” MD Anderson
Directors: Razelle Kurzrock and Jon Trent
Gave 90 minute lecture
September 2009
Curriculum development work:
Member, Joint BCM-University of Houston MD-JD taskforce (Co-Chair, 2008)
2003 – 2008
Genetics in Primary Care (BCM taskforce)
2000
Resident training
Preceptor, Family Medicine Residents, Inpatient and Outpatient Clinical Services, Department of Family and Community Medicine
1999-2015
Research fellow training and junior faculty monitoring:
Mentored Cherie Torres-Silva, primary care fellow in research, regarding ethical questions, qualitative methods, and her academic job choices.
Anthony Edward Brown, MD (originally a fellow, not junior faculty). Advised re academic career options and helped develop research program on spirituality and substance abuse disorder with four peer-reviewed publications from this work, 2003 – present.
Administrative assignments at Baylor College of Medicine
Committee on Appointments, Promotions and Tenure, Department of Family and Community Medicine
1999 – 2022
Chair, Committee on Contributorship and Authorship Standards, Department of Family and Community Medicine
June 2001
Medical Director, Baylor Family Medicine
2006 – 2009
Chair, ad hoc subcommittee to review resident appeal of probation, Department of Community and Family Medicine
2007
Chair, ad hoc subcommittee on pharmaceutical representatives, Baylor Family Medicine
2000
Committee on Continuing Medical Education
2005 – 2022
Committee on Scientific Integrity
Chair of one investigative subcommittee and member of five others
2000 – 2022
Administrative assignments prior to 1999
Taught the Ethics and Professionalism component of the EMT training course for Snohomish County, Washington, as well as specific medical treatments (e.g., evaluation and management of chest pain).
Served as the chair of the Emergency Services Committee, Providence General Hospital, Everett, WA.
1986-1989
Served as the family practice representative on the Credentials Committee, Providence General Hospital, Everett, WA.
1990
Served as the family practice representative on the Executive Medical Committee, Providence General Hospital, Everett, WA.
1991-1992
Served as a member of the Stanford Institutional Review Board, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
1997-1998
Co-taught Medical Ethics 250A and 250B as an assistant to Professor Ernle Young at Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
1997-1998
Served as a member of the Stanford Hospital Ethics Committee, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
1998-1999
Honors and Awards
Baylor Clinic Physician of the Year, 2009.
Nominated for the Ben and Margaret Love Foundation Bobby R. Alford, MD Award for Academic Clinical Professionalism, Baylor College of Medicine, 2005 and again 2018.