Emeritus Faculty & Staff

Thomas P. Duffy, MD

Professor Emeritus of Medicine (Hematology), Yale School of Medicine

Thomas Duffy is Professor of Internal Medicine (Hematology), Yale School of Medicine. His interests in medical ethics center on the doctor-patient relationship and its hierarchy of moral principles. His specific focus is on the tensions between opposing or non-complementary principles (truth-telling/hope; autonomy/paternalism) in the physician’s life. This tension represents the focus of the art of the practice of medicine. His practical interest in ethics surrounds courses in clinical ethics for medical residents and medical students – material that evolves out of the problem cases that constitute their clinical experience. He is a member of the Yale-New Haven Hospital Ethics Committee, participating in ethics consultations and helping to develop position papers in medical endd of life ethics. He is also the chairperson of the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics “End-of-Life Issues” study group.
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Bob Levine
Senior Scholar in Research Ethics
levinerj@sbcglobal.net
203-432-8807

Robert J. Levine, at Yale University, is Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Lecturer in Pharmacology, and Chair of the Executive Committee of the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics (of which he was Founding Co-director). He is a member of the Community Research and Implementation Core of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, and was Director of its former Law, Policy and Ethics Core. He is a Fellow of The Hastings Center, the American College of Physicians and the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, past-President of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics (two terms), past-Chairman of the Connecticut Humanities Council and Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of PRIM&R (Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research). In the past he was also Chair of the Institutional Review Board at Yale-New Haven Medical Center (1969 - 2000), Chief of the Section of Clinical Pharmacology at Yale, Chair of the Section on Medico-Legal Matters and R&D Administration of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Associate Editor of Biochemical Pharmacology and Editor of Clinical Research. Dr. Levine is the founding editor of IRB: A Review of Human Subjects Research (Editor 1979 – 2000 and currently Chair of the Editorial Board) and has served as consultant to several federal and international agencies involved in the development of policy for the protection of human subjects*. He is the author of numerous publications including the book, Ethics and Regulation of Clinical Research (2 editions). In the last 35 years, most of Dr. Levine’s research, teaching and publications have been in the field of medical ethics with particular concentration on the ethics of research involving human subjects.

Dr. Levine has been awarded the Outstanding Achievement Medal from the Office for Human Research Protection, US Department of Health and Human Services, in 2004 for his role in the development of the Belmont Report; the Lifetime Award for Excellence in Human Research Protection from the Health Improvement Institute in 2004, the Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Research Ethics from PRIM&R [Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research] in 2005, the Distinguished Alumni Scholar Award from The George Washington University in 2008 and the Academy of Pharmaceutical Physicians and Investigators’ Special Recognition Award in 2009.

*Examples of national and international activities:

Council of International Organizations of Medical Sciences, Steering Committee for Revision of International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research, Chairperson.
US Department of Health and Human Services: National Human Research Protections Advisory Committee; Member
Data and Safety Monitoring Boards, National Institute of Mental Health, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Eye Institute, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and others.
National Institute on Drug Abuse: Consultant on the development of Ethical Guidelines for the NIDA AIDS Research Program
Pan American Health Organization: International Bioethics Advisory Board
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC: Ethics Committee

Curriculum Vitae

Margaret Fareley Margaret Farley

Senior Scholar in Theology & Medical Ethics

Gilbert L. Stark Professor Emerita of Christian Ethics at Yale Divinity School
margaret.farley@yale.edu
(203) 432-5355

A.B., University of Detroit
M.A., University of Detroit
M.Phil., Yale University
Ph.D., Yale University

The recipient of eleven honorary degrees, the John Courtney Murray Award for Excellence in Theology, and a Luce Fellowship in Theology, Professor Farley is a past president of the Society of Christian Ethics and the Catholic Theological Society of America. She is the author or co-editor of seven books, including Personal Commitments: Beginning, Keeping, Changing and Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics, winner of the 2008 Grawemeyer Award in Religion. She has published more than a hundred articles and chapters of books on medical ethics, sexual ethics, social ethics, historical theological ethics, ethics and spirituality, feminist ethics, justice and HIV/AIDS. She was a founding member of Yale-New Haven Hospital’s Bioethics Committee; served for eight years as founding Co-director of the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics; and been a member of the Ethics Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine. She was Director of Yale Divinity School’s Women’s Initiative: Gender, Faith, and Responses to HIV/AIDS in Africa. She has lectured widely not only in the United States but Southeast Asia, Africa, and Western Europe.

BOOKS

A Metaphysics of Being and God
(co-authored with J.V. McGlynn, 1966)

Personal Commitments: Beginning, Keeping, Changing, 1986

Embodiment, Morality and Medicine
(co-edited with Lisa Sowle Cahill, 1995)

Readings in Moral Theology No. 9: Feminist Ethics and the Catholic Moral Tradition
(co- edited with C. Curran and R. McCormick, 1996)

Liberating Eschatology: Essays in Honor of Letty M. Russell
(co-edited with Serene Jones, 1999)

Compassionate Respect, 2002

Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics, 2006

Carol Pollard, MA, MSc

Former Director, Sherwin B. Nuland Summer Institute in Bioethics (2012-2016)

Carol Pollard worked at the Bioethics Center from its inception until 2016, working first for the Program in Bioethics, and later as Associate Director of the Center and as Director of the Sherwin B. Nuland Summer Institute in Bioethics. She currently lives in Florida.