| Consultant
Donnelley Ethics Program
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Adjunct Assistant Professor
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Medical Humanities and Bioethics
Feinberg School of Medicine
. Disability ethics, research ethics, ethical issues involving neonates and children with disabilities
. Teresa Savage is the former Associate Director of the Donnelley Ethics Program at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) and is currently a consultant with the program. She continues to teach in the Disability Ethics Scholars program, is a member of the Hospital Ethics Committee, and is an ethics consultant on the Ethics Consultation Service at RIC. She has worked as a staff nurse in neonatal intensive care at three different medical centers, has been a clinical nurse specialist in pediatric neurology, and has worked for various agencies serving adults and children with disabilities. She was a member of the landmark committee, the Illinois State's Attorney's Task Force on Removal of Life-sustaining Treatment. She also has served on pediatric ethics committees and Institutional Review Boards at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She was an ethics consultant at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center (now Rush University Medical Center) and Misericordia Homes. She earned her PhD in Nursing Sciences from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing and completed a three year post-doctoral fellowship in Primary Health Care/Social Ethics through the W.H.O. Global Health Leadership Office at the UIC College of Nursing. She is a research assistant professor at UIC College of Nursing and is currently co-investigator on a National Institute for Nursing Research-funded study entitled "Life Support Decisions for Extremely Premature Infants." She has conducted studies on informed consent in people with intellectual disabilities and factors affecting parental decision-making regarding life-sustaining treatment for children with severe and profound disabilities. She is also conducting an oral history of the field of nursing ethics. In March 2006 her book The Ethical Component of Nursing Education: Integrating Ethics into Clinical Experience by Marcia D. Bosek and Teresa A. Savage was published by Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins.
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tsavage@ric.org
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