Draft:Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics

The Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics is an educational institution located within the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine of Harvard Medical School. The goal of the institution is to instruct ethical reasoning to medical students throughout the 4-year basic degree program curriculum, supporting and strengthen the ethics programs at HMS teaching hospitals and affiliated facilities, and educating and preparing future generation of practitioners and leaders in bioethics.

History
Under then-Harvard President Derek Bok, the Center for Ethics and the Professions, was launched in the mid-1980s to ensure that public values and ethics are in line with professional training, professional education, and research in the field, laboratories, clinics, courtrooms, classrooms, society, and families. During the coronavirus pandemic, the Center for Bioethics offered - often through Facebook - remote workshops on the ethics of coronavirus, along with other topics in bioethics.

Leadership
The Center is led by:


 * Robert D. Truog, MD, Director, Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Medical Ethics, Anaesthesia, & Pediatrics; Executive Director, Institute for Professionalism and Ethical Practice; Senior Associate in Critical Care Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital
 * Christine Mitchell, RN, MS, MTS, (former) Executive Director (retired September 2022)
 * Edward M. Hundert, MD, Associate Director; Dean for Medical Education, Harvard Medical School, former President, Case Western
 * Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, MD, JD, Program Director, Master of Bioethics
 * Mildred Z. Solomon, EdD, Fellowship Director; President, Hastings Center; Educational Development Center, Newton, Massachusetts

Clinical affiliations

 * Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 * Boston Children's Hospital
 * Boston Medical Center
 * Brigham and Women’s Hospital
 * Cambridge Health Alliance
 * Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
 * Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
 * Hebrew SeniorLife (formerly Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for the Aged)
 * Massachusetts General Hospital
 * McLean Hospital
 * Mount Auburn Hospital
 * North Shore Medical Center
 * Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
 * Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System