End-of-life decision-making

Blog & Updates

Sep 2025

Foundation Announces 2025 Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking Grants

The Greenwall Foundation is pleased to announce the latest awards under its Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking initiative: three projects that seek to bridge the divide between bioethics research results and policymaking.

May 2024

Foundation Announces Greenwall Faculty Scholars Class of 2027

The Foundation’s flagship Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics helps build the next generation of leaders in bioethics by supporting early-career faculty members to carry out innovative bioethics research, and by building an intellectually rich and active community.

Apr 2021

In Scripting Death, Faculty Scholar Alum Mara Buchbinder Maps the Real-World Impact of End-of-Life Care

Medical aid-in-dying is a complex and layered issue. For decades, the subject has dominated social and political discussions around end-of-life decision-making. Over the last five years, medical...

Feb 2021

In The Problem of Alzheimer’s, Board Member Jason Karlawish Analyzes the Past and Future of Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease

Alzheimer's disease is the fifth leading cause of death for Americans 65 and older, and the number of persons with Alzheimer's is only expected to rise in the coming years. However, many physicians...

Nov 2019

2019 William C. Stubing Memorial Lecture - Video

The 2019 William C. Stubing Memorial Lecture featured Dr. Amy Gutmann, President of the University of Pennsylvania and Chair of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues...

Scholars

Bryanna Moore, PhD

Class of 2029 University of Rochester

Tyler Tate, MD, MA

Class of 2027 Stanford University

Brent M. Kious, MD, PhD

Class of 2023 University of Utah

Andrew Peterson, MA, PhD

Class of 2021 George Mason University

Daniel B. Kramer, MD, MPH

Class of 2019 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard Medical School

Mara Buchbinder, PhD

Class of 2018 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Alex Smith, MD, MS, MPH

Class of 2013 University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Douglas B. White, MD, MAS

Class of 2011 University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Gretchen Schwarze, MD, MPP

Class of 2011 University of Wisconsin-Madison

Scott D. Halpern, MD, PhD, MBioethics

Class of 2011 University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Farr Curlin, MD

Class of 2009 Duke University

Scott Y. H. Kim, MD, PhD

Class of 2009 National Institutes of Health

Alexander A. Kon, MD, HEC-C, FAAP, FCCM

Class of 2007 University of California San Diego School of Medicine

Grants

Post-Roe Indiana: An Ethnography of Patient Treatment During Pregnancy Losses, Termination, and Complications

Lori Freedman, PhD University of California, San Francisco

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2022

Evaluating the role of ethical, medical, and economic considerations in the suspension of in-person visits to long-term care residents during a pandemic

Jakub Hlavka, PhD University of Southern California

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2021

A Novel Methodology to Explore Bioethics Issues in Physician Aid-in-Dying

Eric G. Campbell, PhD University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2019

PREPARE-SURROGATES: Developing Additional Content to the Evidenced-Based, Patient-facing PREPARE For Your Care Online Advance Care Planning Program to Prepare Surrogates for Medical Decision Making

Rebecca Sudore, MD University of California, San Francisco

Grant Type: Other Foundation Supported Work
Grant Cycle: fall 2019

Compassionate End of Life Care in the ICU: Evaluating the Scalability, Transferability, Affordability, Sustainability and Value of the 3 Wishes Project

Deborah Cook, MD McMaster University

Grant Type: Other Foundation Supported Work
Grant Cycle: spring 2017

Failure To Die In Time: Exploration of Experiences and Attitudes of Family Members of Donors Involved in Donation after Circulatory Death

Margaret (Gretchen) Schwarze University of Wisconsin

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2015

Toward Policies that Accommodate the Concerns of African Americans in Resolving Disputes about the Use of Life-Sustaining Technology

Kimberly S. Johnson, MD Duke University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2014

What do Surrogate Decision Makers Mean by Goals of Care for Seriously Ill Older Adults?

Alexia M. Torke, MD Indiana University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2014

Ethical and Legal Obligations of Hospice Staff When Their Patients Receive Aid in Dying

David Casarett, MD University of Pennsylvania

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2013