ASBH Call for Award Nominations
Lifetime Achievement Award, Distinguished Service Award, and Cornerstone Award
ASBH invites you to recognize leaders in the fields of bioethics and medical humanities by nominating them for an award. ASBH recognizes accomplishments for lifetime work and distinguished service. Nominations can be submitted by any ASBH member and self nominations are accepted. The awards will be presented in October during the ASBH annual meeting in San Diego, CA.
Lifetime Achievement Award: Recognizes outstanding contributions and significant publications that have helped shape the direction of the fields of bioethics and the medical humanities. The recipient agrees to make a major presentation at the ASBH Annual Meeting.
Distinguished Service Award: Recognizes outstanding and dedicated service to ASBH. The award is presented to an individual who has advanced the mission of ASBH in a significant and lasting way.
Cornerstone Award: Recognizes outstanding contributions by an institution that has helped shape the direction of the fields of bioethics and/or the medical humanities. Qualifying institutions are more than 30 years old. The Cornerstone Award is not an annual award and is awarded at the discretion of the ASBH Board of Directors.
The Awards Committee will consider all complete nominations. Nominations must include the nominee's name and current professional affiliation as well as the reasons for making the nomination. Nominations must be postmarked no later than Monday, March 1, 2010 and sent to the ASBH national office to asaylor@connect2amc.com.
ASBH Awards
2009 Lifetime Achievement Award
Howard Brody, MD PhD
 Howard Brody received his M.D. Degree from the College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University in 1976, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy, also from Michigan State University, in 1977. After completing his residency in family practice at the University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, he returned to Michigan State University, where he served as University Distinguished Professor of Family Practice, Philosophy, and the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences. He was Director of the Center for Ethics and Humanities from 1985 to 2000. In 2006, Dr. Brody moved to the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, to become the Director of the Institute for the Medical Humanities and John P. McGovern Centennial Chair in Family Medicine.
Dr. Brody's most recent book is The Future of Bioethics (Oxford University Press, in press). He is also author of Hooked: Ethics, the Medical Profession, and the Pharmaceutical Industry (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007), The Healer's Power (Yale University Press, 1992), Stories of Sickness (Yale University Press, 1987; second edition, Oxford University Press, 2003), Ethical Decisions in Medicine (Little Brown, second edition 1981), and Placebos and the Philosophy of Medicine (University of Chicago Press, 1980), Dr. Brody has also written more than 100 articles on medical ethics, family medicine, and philosophy of medicine. He is also a co-author (with Peter Vinten-Johansen, Nigel Paneth, Stephen Rachman, and Michael Rip) of Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine: A Life of John Snow (Oxford University Press, 2003). In collaboration with his wife Daralyn, Dr. Brody wrote The Placebo Response: How You Can Release the Body's Inner Pharmacy for Better Health, published by HarperCollins in 2000. Another book on the history of medical ethics, Michael Ryan's Writings on Medical Ethics (co-edited with Zahra Meghani and Kimberly Greenwald) is in press. His work has been translated into six languages.
Dr. Brody was elected President of the Society for Health and Human Values in 1988-89. In 1993-94, Dr. Brody served as Senior Scholar in Residency for the American Academy of Family Physicians at the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research in Rockville, MD; he also chaired the Michigan Commission on Death and Dying. In 1995, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
Originally a native of Chicago, Dr. Brody resides in Galveston, Texas. He and Daralyn have two children, Sheila and Mark. A portion of the time not devoted to the above activities is spent on the Sherlock Holmes saga and occasionally contributing articles to the Baker Street Journal.
2009 Distinguished Service Award
Mark Aulisio, PhD, Bob Pearlman, MD MPH, Sue Rubin, PhD
Mark Aulisio, PhD
 Dr. Aulisio is Associate Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Master of Arts in the Department of Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University, and Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at MetroHealth Medical Center. He has numerous publications in clinical ethics and related areas; and has served as Associate Editor and contributor to the Encyclopedia of Bioethics (Macmillan Reference U.S.A. 2004) and lead editor and contributor to the volume Ethics Consultation: From Theory to Practice (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003). His ASBH service includes:
1995-1998: Executive Director, with Co-Directors Robert Arnold and Stuart Youngner, of the Society for Health and Human Values - Society for Bioethics Consultation Task Force on Standards for Bioethics Consultation (funded by The Greenwall Foundation and a variety of bioethics departments, centers and organizations) that developed Core Competencies for Health Care Ethics Consultation: The Report of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH, 1998).
2000-2002: Project Director, with Les Rothenberg, of the ASBH Status of the Field Committee, for North American Bioethics/Medical Humanities Graduate Training Program Survey, (funded by The Greenwall Foundation) and co-authoring, with Les Rothenberg, the article "Bioethics, Medical Humanities, and the Future of the "Field": Reflections on the Results of the ASBH Survey of North American Graduate Bioethics/Medical Humanities Training Programs," The American Journal of Bioethics, Vol. 2, No. 4, 2002: 3-9.
2003-2008: Co-chair, with Susan Rubin, of the ASBH Clinical Ethics Task Force (funded by The Greenwall Foundation) that developed Improving Competencies in Ethics Consultation: An Education Guide (ASHB, 2009)
2009-present: Serving on the ASBH Clinical Ethics Consultation Affairs standing committee (chaired by Anita Tarzian)
Bob Pearlman, MD MPH
 Robert Pearlman, MD, MPH, is the Chief of Ethics Evaluation at the National Center for Ethics in Health Care (VHA). He is a Professor of Medicine, Health Services, and Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington. He is nationally known for empirically evaluating clinical and organizational ethics. Prior to joining the Center he conducted research on end-of-life preferences and decision making, advance care planning, and relief of patient suffering. In his Center role he oversees the development of evaluation tools to measure and help improve ethics quality as part of IntegratedEthics, an education and cultural change initiative aimed at improving ethics practices in health care. He is the author of two books and over 120 publications.
Sue Rubin, PhD
Dr. Rubin is a clinical ethicist and co-founder of The Ethics Practice, a firm devoted to providing bioethics education, research, and clinical consultation. She has served as a consulting ethicist in a variety of acute, long term care, and out-patient settings helping to set up, train, and support the ongoing work of ethics committees and providing ongoing educational and consultation support for health care professionals, institutions, and organizations. She has been a member of ASBH since its inception and has served in a variety of capacities, including most recently as Co-Chair of the ASBH Clinical Ethics Task Force which, with generous funding from the Greenwall Foundation created the newly released, "Improving Competence in Clinical Ethics Consultation: An Education Guide." She has also served on ASBH Annual Meeting Program Committees, the ASBH Nominating Committee, the ASBH Task Force on Ethics Consultation Liability and the ASBH Publication Task Force.
Dr. Rubin received her B.A. in political philosophy and socioeconomic policy problems from James Madison College at Michigan State University and her M.A. and Ph.D., both in philosophy and bioethics, from The Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. She is an active contributor to the national discourse on bioethics and is author of the book When Doctors Say No: The Battleground of Medical Futility, co-editor of the book Margin of Error: The Ethics of Mistakes in The Practice of Medicine, and author of numerous articles.
Cornerstone Award:
ASBH is pleased to present the 2009 Cornerstone Award to The Hastings Center.
Award Recipients
Lifetime Achievement Award
2009 - Howard Brody, MD PhD
2008 - Robert M Veatch, PhD
2007 - Renée C Fox, PhD
2006 - Ronald E Cranford, MD and Bernard Gert, PhD
2005 - Eric Cassell, MD MACP
2004 - Tom L Beauchamp, PhD, James F Childress, PhD and Joanne Trautmann Banks, PhD
2003 - Jay Katz, PhD
2002 - Ruth Macklin, PhD
2001 - Daniel Callahan, PhD
2000 - John C Fletcher, PhD
1999 - Albert R Jonsen, PhD
1998 - Edmund D Pellegrino, MD
Distinguished Service Award
2009 - Mark Aulisio, PhD, Bob Pearlman, MD MPH, and Sue Rubin, PhD
2008 - Arthur R Derse, MD JD
2007 - Alex John London, PhD and Laurie S Zoloth, PhD
2006 - Mark H Waymack, PhD
2005 - Chester R Burns, MD PhD
2004 - Thomas H Murray, PhD
2003 - Mark G Kuczewski, PhD and Hilde Lindemann Nelson, PhD
2002 - Betty Wolder Levin, PhD and Leslie S Rothenberg
2001 - David Barnard, PhD, Marian Gray Secundy, PhD, and Tom Tomlinson, PhD
2000 - Robert M Arnold, MD, Steven H Miles, MD and Stuart J Youngner, MD
1999 - Loretta M Kopelman, PhD
Cornerstone Award
2009 - The Hastings Center
Student Paper Award
2009 - Kelly Heuer
2008 - Anne Lincoln
2007 - Mike Collins
2006 - Michelle D Roth-Cline
2003 - Winston Chiong
2002 - Beth Linker
2001 - Ryan B Spellecy
2000 - Andrea Scarantino
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