Job Listing

The Keck School of Medicine of USC (“the Keck School”) is seeking exceptional candidates (rank of Professor, or Associate Professor eligible for recommendation for appointment at the rank of Professor) to develop and lead an interdisciplinary biomedical ethics program. The candidate will be involved in:

• Program strategy
• Teaching and education
• Research and scholarship
• Program implementation and administration

The candidate will foster and facilitate discussions, guidance, education, and community building regarding ethical, legal, moral, multicultural, philosophical, policy, and social contexts and implications related, but not limited, to education, research, care delivery and management, data and information systems and management, technology, and policy.

The candidate will proactively engage and convene collaborators and colleagues throughout the Keck School and its educational, research, and clinical affiliates (including, but not limited to, Keck Medicine of USC and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles). The candidate will foster collaboration throughout USC’s other schools and academic units (including, but not limited to, the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; the Gould School of Law; the Viterbi School of Engineering; USC Sol Price School of Public Policy; and USC’s health sciences schools of medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, social work, and gerontology).

The qualified candidate will be recommended for the Norman E. Levan Chair in Medical Ethics.

Reporting Line

The candidate will report to the Dean of the Keck School, with a home department corresponding to their primary expertise and/or area of practice or research.

Duties And Responsibilities

Program Strategy

• In collaboration with the Dean and advisors, identify and develop cross-disciplinary bioethics priorities for the Keck School and USC.
• Foster, expand, promote, and sustain a vibrant and engaged bioethics community throughout the university
• Identify partners and foster collaborations with clinical affiliates, community partners, and research partners

Teaching and Education

• Develop, advise, deliver and support bioethics curricula for learners, residents, staff, and faculty
• Facilitate ongoing education with the Keck School and USC communities on current topics and issues in bioethics, including AI, care delivery, research, and education

Research and Scholarship

• Provide guidelines, policies, and consultation related to relevant grant applications, research design, research infrastructure and practices, and deliverables
• Facilitate, collaborate, and/or conduct bioethics research (individual and/or team)

Program Implementation and Administration

• Create, implement, and lead bioethics program development and initiatives
• Serve as a subject matter expert, resource, and participant to relevant committees and high priority initiatives, as needed; this includes participating in ethics committees (or similar) at clinical and other affiliates
• Advocate for the rights and dignity of patients, communities, research subjects, and healthcare team members
• Manage bioethics program budget and resources
• Develop and oversee administrative policies and procedures related to bioethics

Other Duties As Assigned

• Contribute to and support bioethics components of other programs and initiatives, as needed
• Participate in promotion and recruitment committees

Depending on the candidate’s experience and interests, the candidate may allocate part-time effort to provide clinical ethics consultation, practice in their clinical specialty, and/or conduct their own research.

Apply here, please upload a letter of interest (2 page maximum) and CV/resume. For further inquiries, contact: Marilyn Ho, [email protected]

The Department of Bioethics (DoB) at the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine invites applications for the position of Clinical Ethicist in the Center for Biomedical Ethics (CBME) at The MetroHealth System (MHS) and Instructor (non-tenure track) in the DoB at CWRU.

Responsibilities and Duties:

This position will be based in the CBME at MHS and be fully funded by MHS. The successful candidate’s efforts will be dedicated to clinical ethics consultation, clinical education, community outreach, and related scholarship. There will be some opportunities for participation in the CWRU DoB, which has teaching programs at the undergraduate, graduate, and medical school levels.

• Serve as a clinical ethics consultant, assist with consult review and quality control, and help train junior clinical ethicists
• Contribute to CBME educational, research, scholarship, and outreach programs
• Develop and deliver clinical bioethics educational, scholarship, and outreach programs
• Attend and participate in relevant CBME and MHS meetings and assist with various administrative tasks

The Department and Institute of Bioethics and Health Humanities (BHH), housed in the School of
Public and Population Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, invites
applications for a tenure-track faculty position to begin as early as August 2025.
We seek an exceptional scholar to serve as Graduate Program Director for our suite of academic
offerings, which include a Certificate, Masters, MPH Bioethics Track, and PhD programs. Our
graduate program currently serves approximately 20 students, and we are committed to strategic
growth and program enhancement.

This position offers a dynamic opportunity to impact graduate education while maintaining a robust
research portfolio:

• 20% effort dedicated to Graduate Program Director responsibilities, including program
• administration, recruitment, advising, and curriculum development.
• 30% effort allocated to education, including teaching two small graduate seminars per
• year
• 50% effort reserved for independent research (the research area is open).

Qualifications:

• A PhD, JD, or MD (or equivalent) degree
• Demonstrated commitment to graduate education with proven experience in mentoring and advising
• students.
• A strong record of scholarship in bioethics and health humanities, including skills in
• collaborating across disciplines.
• Capacity to collaborate across disciplines

The successful candidate will receive competitive compensation, start-up funds, research support,
and institutional commitment to career development. This is a hard money position.

Responsibilities:
-Clinical ethics consultation service: 18-20 on-call weeks including both 24/7 primary and daytime-only call responsibilities.
-Travel to Main Campus and regional hospitals across Northeast Ohio as needed.
-Maintain internal documentation of clinical ethics consultations for database records and contribute to QI/QA efforts.
-Collaborate with colleagues to produce scholarship.
-Participate in ongoing clinical ethics programming, including ethics education, professional development of caregivers, and community outreach.
-Mentor and supervise bioethics fellows and rotating trainees.
-Contribute to Center- and institution-level initiatives that promote innovation.
-Provide expert input on clinical ethics issues across the Cleveland Clinic Enterprise and at the local, regional, and national levels.

The successful candidate will:
-Provide high-quality ethics consultation services, including high complexity cases on a high-volume team-based service.
-Facilitate and lead meetings, utilize appropriate techniques for conflict engagement, and build consensus.
-Collaborate professionally with members of multidisciplinary clinical teams and leadership, engaging multiple points of view and communicating effectively with diverse stakeholders.
-Contribute to the Center’s mission of innovation in clinical ethics, including quality assessment and improvement.
-Demonstrate commitment to professional growth and development.
-Demonstrate orientation toward relationship-centered collaboration, teambuilding, and patient-centered care, and the ability to work collaboratively and inclusively to inspire and motivate others.
-Practice consistently with the characteristics central to Cleveland Clinic and the Center for Bioethics’ values: honesty, integrity, humility, courage, tolerance for ambiguity, open-mindedness, balanced judgment and demeanor, accountability, and good stewardship of resources.

The Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy is responsible for clinical ethics services at several affiliated hospitals, and so preference will also be given to applicants with experience in hospital ethics processes, including consultation, policy creation, review, and education. To build on the Institute’s three decades of work in health information technology, the ideal candidate will expertise in biomedical informatics, including artificial intelligence, and familiarity with academic medical center operations, including clinical, research and public health informatics. Areas of particular interest may include the development and use of artificial intelligence techniques in medical education, healthcare delivery, health-related research, and quality improvement activities; ethical issues related to the use and design of digital health applications, including eHealth tools such as patient portals; and the ethical, legal and social implications of genomic medicine, including bioinformatics, and public health informatics or digital epidemiology.

The successful candidate should have evidence of leadership experience, national recognition as a scholar and researcher in bioethics, with an exemplary record of funded research and publication in bioethics with experience in medical education and the role of clinical, research and public health ethics and the humanities in the medical curriculum. Candidates must have an M.D., Ph.D., MD/Ph.D. or equivalent terminal degree and a record commensurate with appointment at the rank of Professor or Associate Professor. They should also have documented experience of cross-disciplinary collaboration, as the Institute’s director is expected to work with colleagues from business, law, engineering and other schools, and with community and government partners.