Assistant Director, Bioethics

Position Title:

Assistant Director, Bioethics

Time Type:

Full time

Position Summary and Qualifications:

The goal of the Institute of Clinical Bioethics at Saint Joseph’s University is to develop and promote interdisciplinary research projects, educational programs, academic courses, clinical consultations, and policy development services in the field of bioethics. It strives to meet the individual needs of the Saint Joseph’s University academic community, the medical, nursing, and administrative staffs of the Mid-Atlantic area Catholic and secular health care systems, and the various Archdioceses and Dioceses. The Institute is committed to training health care professionals to be effective leaders in education, medicine and society. The Institute is further dedicated to understanding and respecting the role of religious and spiritual traditions in health care decision-making, especially the Roman Catholic theological and philosophical tradition. Lastly, through its teachings, research and service, the Institute promotes the ideals of Jesuit education in seeking to challenge others to be “men and women for others” in the service of faith and the promotion of justice. Thus, while giving special regard to Catholic health-care ethics in teaching and research, the Institute fosters respectful dialogue among all religious traditions represented in the student body and the patient population.

The Assistant Director will assist the Director in ethics consultation services and educational aspects of the Institute of Clinical Bioethics. The Assistant Director will carry-out the objectives, vision, and mission set forth by the Director of the Institute of Clinical Bioethics (ICB).

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Assist Director with ethics teaching rounds, ethics consultations, ethics committee work and Institutional Review Board (IRB) committee work at the various affiliated hospitals, nursing homes, and other healthcare institutions.

• Supports the continued development, implementation, and sustainability of comprehensive integrated ethics programming to strengthen the moral community and enhance the ethical climate at our affiliated healthcare facilities.

• Provides team member education related to clinical ethics and preventive ethics.

• Teach related curricula to the multidisciplinary teams, medical interns, residents, fellows, nursing, leadership, and the professional community at large.

• Acts as an integrated ethics resource and subject matter expert for multidisciplinary team members and medical interns, residents and fellows.

• Participate in the development, review, and revision of hospital policies with ethical import.

• Provide on-call service for the Clinical Ethics Consultation Service across the system 24/7.

• Participate in research activities at the various affiliated healthcare facilities and especially with the medical interns, residents and fellows.

• Plan, develop, deliver and evaluate educational programs related to clinical ethics, research ethics and medical education at the various healthcare facilities.

• Assist the staff in the development of and writing grant proposals within the university.

• Assist Director with current expansion of consultation services to include non-Catholic hospital systems, tri-state Nursing Homes, Hospices, IRBs, as well as current sites under discussion. Followed by workload assistance to cover newly acquired contracts (upon determination of Director).

• Serve as Director of educational programs in the ICB, which include the Health Care Ethics Minor program, Certificate Program in Opioid Education and Prevention, educational panel discussions, journal clubs, etc. This will include recruitment of students, course scheduling, approving course syllabi, etc.

• Develop collaborative scholarly activities, research projects, case studies, etc. in clinical and research ethics and contribute to the literature.

Secondary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Serve as Co-Editor of the Internet Journal of Healthcare Ethics and Administration. This would entail reviewing articles, selecting articles and overseeing the Editorial Board.

• Assist with writing responses for the Institute of Clinical Bioethics’ Blog for ethical decision-making.

• Assist with mentoring the Institute’s graduate and undergraduate fellow’s research projects.

• Participate on committees for selection process of faculty, board members, graduate fellows, undergraduate fellows, grant submissions and research steering committees.

• Member and coordinator of the Gustafson Research Fellow Grants and Michael Morris Research Fellow Gr