Faculty

Catherine Belling, PhD
Literature & medicine, the humanities in medicine & medical education
c-belling@northwestern.edu

Tod Chambers, PhD ♦ Program Director
Rhetoric of bioethics, cross-cultural issues in clinical medicine
t-chambers@northwestern.edu

Megan Crowley-Matoka, PhD
Sociocultural dimensions of health care, organ transplantation, pain management
m-crowley-matoka@northwestern.edu

Alice Domurat Dreger, PhD
History and philosophy of medicine and anatomy
a-dreger@northwestern.edu 

Joel Frader, MD, MA
End-of-life care for children, research in pediatrics, allocation of health care resources
j-frader@northwestern.edu

Kristi Kirschner, MD
Disability ethics, women with disabillities
k-kirschner@northwestern.edu

Kathryn Montgomery, PhD ♦ Director of Graduate Studies
Literature & medicine, the epistemology of medicine
kmontgomery@northwestern.edu

Katie Watson, JD
Health law, medical ethics
k-watson@northwestern.edu

Emeritus Faculty

James F. Bresnahan, SJ, JD, LLM, PhD
Medical ethics, palliative care
jfbresnahan@northwestern.edu

Secondary Appointments

Rebecca Brashler, LCSW
Disability ethics
rbrashler@ric.org

Megan Czarniecki, MS MA
Ethical issues in genetic counseling
m-latchaw@northwestern.edu

Elisa Gordon, PhD, MPH
Ethics of organ transplantation & donation, disparities in access to health care, health literacy
e-gordon@northwestern.edu

Scott Moses, MD
Ethical issues in OB/GYN
smoses@nmh.org

Debjani Mukherjee, PhD ♦ Assistant Director of Graduate Studies
Traumatic brain injury, cross-cultural ethics, disability ethics
dmukherjee@ric.org

Suzanne Poirier, PhD
Literature & medicine, medical education
suzanne.poirier@uic.edu

Sarah Rodriguez, PhD
History of women’s sexual and reproductive health, ethical issues in fertility treatment
srodriguez@northwestern.edu

Teresa Savage, PhD, RN
Disability ethics, research ethics, ethical issues involving neonates and children with disabilities
tsavage@ric.org

Mark Sheldon, PhD
Bioethics, philosophy of medicine
sheldon@northwestern.edu

Kearsley A. Stewart, PhD
Medical anthropology, applied anthropology, global health, HIV/AIDS
kstewart@northwestern.edu

Laurie Zoloth, PhD
Ethics in genetic medicine, in stem cell research, justice in health care allocation
lzoloth@northwestern.edu

Adjunct Faculty

Michael Oldani, PhD
Pharmaceutical culture and its impact on medicine/psychiatry, society, and individuals
oldanim@uww.edu

Mark Waymack, PhD
Health care ethics, ancient Greek ethics, early modern philosophy
mwaymac@luc.edu

Fellows

None at present—see Former Fellows page

Graduate Affiliates

Anna Fenton-Hathaway
Nineteenth-century British fiction, age studies, civic engagement, social justice
afh@u.northwestern.edu

Staff

Myria R. Knox
Program Assistant
p-knox@northwestern.edu

Bryan M. T. Morrison
Program Assistant
bryan-morrison@northwestern.edu