Anxiety over the pandemic is stoking age-old tensions between locals and second-homeowners in towns across the country and the world. Featuring commentary by Dr. Margaret Battin, an Adjunct Professor in...
The COVID-19 outbreak poses four primary ethical challenges in the healthcare sector in regards to treatment, testing, the role of healthcare workers, and the possible vaccine. Featuring Dr. Jim Tabery...
Congratulations to Drs. Gretchen Case (Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine & Chief, Program for Medical Ethics and Humanities) and Nathan Hatton (Associate Professor, Pulmonary).
Poetry may not be common in the medical setting. But more hospitals and medical schools are turning to the power of the written word, and poetry in particular, to help...
The Mountain West has disproportionately high rates of depressive disorders and suicide. Researchers are trying to find out why. Turns out, the mountains themselves might have something to do with...
Cancer patients at Huntsman Cancer Institute find healing through the reflective writing and poetry workshops of HCI resident writer, Susan Sample, assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine...
Gretchen Case, PhD (Medical Ethics & Humanities) was interviewed on KRCL's RADIOACTIVE about the upcoming performance - Healthcare: Stories of Illness and Wellness, a special night of storytelling about healthcare.
Jeffrey Botkin, MD and Teneille Brown, JD (Program of Medical Ethics & Humanities) are recipients of the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Leadership in Ethics Education Awards for2017-18.
Jeffrey Botkin, MD (General Internal Medicine) who co-wrote a consensus study report on sharing research results with participants asks--if you give your DNA and tissues to science, should you get...
Tanielle Brown, JD, is a law professor at the U of U College of Law whose expertise is well-suited to addiction-related scholarship. She has joined the School of Medicine where...
Margaret Battin, MD (Medical Ethics and Humanities) was lead author of a statement issued by the American Association of Suicidology in November 2017 asserting that medical aid in dying (MAiD)...
This year's recipient is Jeffrey Botkin, MD, MPH, Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities. Dr. Botkin’s research and leadership has influenced the dialogue and policies on newborn...
On NPR's All Things Considered, Dr. Botkin joins the discussion about the need for routine newborn screenings for ALD, a rare genetic brain disorder. While the condition is treatable, early...
In a recent TIME article, Margaret Battin, professor of philosophy and adjunct professor of internal medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine, proposes a new workable solution that...
Jim Ruble was interviewed on BYU Radio's “Top of Mind with Julie Rosen ” on June 28, 2017 discussing opioid-related lawsuits in “Taking the Opioid Crisis to Court."
Our 2017 Sara and Max Cowan Memorial Lecturer in Humanistic Medicine is Jay Baruch, MD. He is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Alpert Medical School at Brown University...
Mary E. Fallat, MD is the 2017 David Green Memorial Lecturer. Dr. Fallat is the Hirikati S. Nagaraj Professor of Surgery at the University of Louisville, Division Director of Pediatric...
Sam Brown was interviewed on Utah Public Radio's Wednesday’s Access Utah about his new book, Through the Valley of Shadows: Living Wills, Intensive Care, and Making Medicine Human.
The 2016 Cowan Memorial Lecturer is Wylie Burke, MD, PhD, Professor in the Department of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington (UW). Dr. Burke is also Adjunct Professor...
