Campus-Wide Humanities & Ethics

To address the need for a cooperative understanding of ethics across healthcare specialties, UTHealth Houston launched the Campus-Wide Ethics Program (CWEP) in 2009—the first of its kind in the nation. Members of CWEP were involved in improving the quality and quantity of ethics in the curricula of the university’s six schools. As part of CWEP, the group was also heavily involved in the execution of Beyond Silos: Ethics Education In and Across the Health Professions, the university’s previous Quality Enhancement Plan.

In 2016, CWEP evolved into the Campus-Wide Humanities & Ethics Program (CWHEP) and began focusing on topics beyond ethics that are needed in health professional education at UTHealth Houston. The university selected the group’s proposal, Healthcare Policy for Health Professions (HP2), as the next Quality Enhancement Plan.

Membership

Under the leadership of Nathan Carlin, PhD, members of CWHEP include the Quality Enhancement Plan Leadership Committee:

Co-directors: Sandy McKay, MD, FAAP (Department of Pediatrics, McGovern Medical School) and Angela Gomez, EdD, MBA, MS (McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics)

Faculty members affiliated with six UTHealth Houston schools lead the implementation of the QEP:

Cizik School of Nursing: Francine Snow, DrPH, MSN, RN-BC;
McGovern Medical School: Sandy McKay, MD, FAAP;
McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics: Susan Fenton, PhD, RHIA, FAHIMA;
MD Anderson-UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences: Shane Cunha, PhD;
School of Dentistry: Deborah Franklin, DDS, MA; and
School of Public Health: Stephen Linder, PhD.