Hosting special lectures in public health and medicine;
Implementation of an Adopt-a-Resident program in cooperation with a local retirement community;
Continuation of the Compassionate Care curriculum for 240 medical students;
Discussion guides for films used in Ethics: Historical Lessons;
Renewal of small grants program with awards to five researchers representing nursing, dentistry, medicine, and are interprofessional in nature;
Establishment of a post-doctoral program in medical humanities;
Creation of a simulation required of all medical students; and
Hosting of an annual symposium attended by students and faculty.
2012-2013
Directing three ethics courses: Ethics in Public Health, Ethical Dimensions
of the Biomedical Sciences, and Introduction to Ethics and Professionalism;
Continued implementation of The Brewsters;
Expansion of Art of Observation to include students from Dentistry;
Conference on interprofessional ethics: Ethics as the Core of the Curriculum:
Innovations In Interprofessional Ethics Education (June 1-2, 2013);
Development of courses at McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics;
Development of Landmark Cases in Health Law elective course at the Medical School;
Creation of a small grants program through the Campus-Wide Ethics Program; and
Hosting a student symposium for students at UTHealth Houston, Texas Tech Law School, and UTMB.
2011-2012
Implementation of Public Health Ethics course at the School of Public Health;
Improvements to the Ethical Dimensions of the Biomedical Sciences course
at the Graduate School;
Development of The Brewsters;
Modification of the Introduction to Ethics and Professionalism course at the Medical School;
Implementation and expansion of interprofessional seminar on memoirs of mental illness;
Interprofessional Ethics course exploring historical lessons of ethics;
Gathering more assessment data and refining assessment strategies;
Addition of ethics content to Clinical Applications course at the Medical School;
Expansion and revision to the Compassionate Care Curriculum at the Medical School; and
Ethics and Technology Workshop at the School of Nursing.
2010-2011
“Foundations of Health Professional Ethics” (a Faculty Seminar);
Interprofessional Ethics course on the Holocaust;
Grand Rounds at the Dental Branch;
Interprofessional Ethics Grand Rounds at UTHealth;
Development of three foundational modules in interprofessional ethics education;
Development of Public Health Ethics course;
Development of just-in-time Research Ethics module;
Development of Interprofessional Ethics cases;
Gathering more assessment data and refining assessment strategies; and
“Social Justice and the Health Professions” Conference (June 2, 2011).