End-of-life decision-making

Blog & Updates

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,...

Mar 2021

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

Dec 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

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

Disclosure of Prognosis: Normative Issues and Implications for Practice and Policy

Alex Smith, MD, MS, MPH University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2009 - 2010

The ethics of severe brain injury

Andrew Peterson, MA, PhD George Mason University

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2017 - 2018

Physician aid-in-dying, suffering, and psychiatry

Brent M. Kious, MD, PhD University of Utah

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2019 - 2020

Parental Perspectives on Periviable Birth: Exploring Values, Attitudes, and Coping Strategies

Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds, MD, MPH, MS Indiana University School of Medicine

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2015 - 2016

Improving Decision Making for Incapacitated Patients who Lack a Surrogate Decision Maker

Douglas B. White, MD, MAS University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2007 - 2008

Ethical Issues in High Risk Surgery with a Focus on Advance Directives

Gretchen Schwarze, MD, MPP University of Wisconsin-Madison

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2007-2008

What Makes Health Care Gatekeeping Ethical?

Holly Fernandez Lynch, JD, MBE University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2018 - 2019

Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics

I. Glenn Cohen, JD Harvard Law School

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2011 - 2012

Affective Forecasting and Respecting Subjective Values in Healthcare Decision-Making

Jodi Lauren Halpern, MD, PhD University of California, Berkeley

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2004 - 2005

Clinical Ethics, Communication, and Physician Aid-in-Dying

Mara Buchbinder, PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2014 - 2015

Troubling Conscience: Autonomy and Authority in Religious Hospitals

Ronit Stahl, PhD, MA University of California, Berkeley

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2020 - 2021

Donation after Cardiac Death: Promise and Pitfalls

Scott D. Halpern, MD, PhD, MBioethics University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2007 -2008

Understanding and navigating claims of child suffering in pediatric ethics and practice

Tyler Tate, MD, MA Stanford University

Grant Type: Faculty Scholars Program
Grant Cycle: 2023 - 2024

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

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

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

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

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