Board

Julien S. Murphy Ph.D., (director) is Professor of Philosophy at USM. She has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University and the University of Washington. She is the author of The Constructed Body: AIDS, Reproductive Technology and Ethics (SUNY Press, 1995), editor of Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Paul Sartre (Penn State Press, 1999), and co-editor of Gender Struggles: Recent Writings in Feminist Philosophy (Rowman and Littlefield Press, 2002). In addition, she has written chapters in 19 academic books in bioethics and continental philosophy including: Global Feminist Ethics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000), Embodying Bioethics (Rowman and Littlefield, 1999), Sex/Machine: A Reader in Gender, Technology and Culture (Indiana University Press, 1999), Moral Controversies (Wadsworth Press, 1993), The Body in Medical Thought and Practice (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992), Feminist Medical Ethics (University of Indiana Press, 1992), Healing Technologies (University of Michigan Press,1989), The Meaning of AIDS (Praeger Press, 1989), and AIDS: Principles, Practices and Politics (Hemisphere Publishers, 1988). She is a member of the American Association of Bioethics, the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, and president of the Maine Bioethics Network. She has served on the Clinical Ethics Committee and currently is a member of the Steering Committee for Tissue Banking at the Maine Medical Center. She has been awarded a grant from the Greenwall Foundation to write an on-line ethics guide for hospital IRBs considering collaborations with commercial tissue repositories. She regularly teaches courses in bioethics.

Frank Chessa, Ph.D.,is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine and Clinical Bioethicist at the Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine. He received his Doctorate from Georgetown University in 1999. Frank regularly teaches courses on health care ethics and has presented numerous papers on bioethics at national conferences. He is a member of the American Philosophical Association and the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. He has served as a member of the ethics committee at several hospitals, on the Board of Directors of the SunCoast AIDS Network, as a Chair of the Las Vegas Subcommittee for the Attorney General of Nevada's Taskforce on Healthcare at the End-of-Life. His research interests include metaethics, environmental ethics and topics in health care ethics, including informed consent, care at the end of life, HIV disease, genetic enhancement, and the recruitment of women for clinical trials. Representative publications include: "McKibben's Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age," Journal of Medical Ethics (forthcoming); "History and Theory of Ethics," Weiner's Pain Management, 7 th Ed. (CRC Press, forthcoming); K. Neill and F. Chessa, "Recruitment and Retention of Women in Non-therapeutic Clinical Trials." Journal of Applied Nursing Research, (August 1998); F. Chessa and R. Walker, "Ethics and HIV in Community Mental Health" in HIV and Community Mental Health. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997).

George K Dreher, M.D., is a Family Practice Residency program faculty member at Maine Medical Center (MMC) in Portland, Maine and board certified in Family Practice and Psychiatry with added qualifications in Addictions. His work is equally divided between patient care with a Psychiatric focus and teaching / working on programs within MMC. These programs include efforts to improve Palliative Care, the treatment of addictions and work with the Clinical Ethics Committee (CEC). His career focus is the bridging of the gap between mental health and primary care through improving the training of Family Physicians and other primary care doctors and working in those areas where the two frequently overlap. He has worked to improve Palliative Care and on End-Of-Life Care ethical problems. He is co-chair and founding member of the Clinical Ethics Committee at MMC. He has also been recently appointed to the Maine State Board of Licensure in Medicines. He is currently enrolled in the certificate program for clinical ethics at the University of Washington at Seattle.

Patricia Hentz, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in USM's College of Nursing and Health Professions. She received her Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research interests are in the area of ethical decision making in clinical practice. She has published work and given presentations nationally and internationally and developed and taught the course, Ethics in Nursing Practice. She has served as a dissertation advisor for doctoral students whose focus area was ethical decision making in the clinical setting. She currently serves on the ethics committee for Community Health Services in Portland.

Lois Lupica, J.D. , is a Professor of Law at the University of Maine School of Law. She teaches courses in commercial law, negotiation and legal ethics. Prior to her appointment to the Maine Law faculty, she practiced law with the New York offices of White and Case and Arnold and Porter and developed a clinical program at Seton Hall University School of Law. She recently completed two terms as a member of the University of Southern Maine's Human Subjects Review Committee and is currently serving on the Board of Community Housing of Maine, a nonprofit developer of affordable housing for people with special needs. A graduate of Cornell University and Boston University School of Law, Professor Lupica has published articles on a variety of topics including property and contract theory, intellectual property in commerce, structured finance and legal ethics. While in law school, Professor Lupica was a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Law and Medicine.

Susan Payne, Ph.D., is an associate research professor and senior research associate of public policy at the Muskie School of Public Service. She currently serves on the USM Institutional Review Board and was a member of the chartered study section for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research) and several ad hoc federal study sections. Part of the responsibility of study section members is to review applications to assure human subjects are protected. She has also directed and participated in numerous research studies involving human subjects.

Karen Rasmussen, Ph.D., is a cancer geneticist at the Maine Center for Cancer Medicine (MCCM) and an NIH-funded genetics researcher at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor. She conducts clinical genetic counseling for hereditary cancer susceptibility at MCCM, teaches genetics to residents at Maine Medical Center, and conducts research on the genetic basis of cancer. She is the Maine representative on the New England Regional Genetics Group that has an educational mission and promotes conscientious integration of genetic services into healthcare. She has a long standing interest in ethical issues in genetics. Recently, she has worked on issues of genetic privacy with the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Maine Med. She has also taught microbiology at Bowdoin College and conducted research at the Dana Farber Cancer Center.

Gale Rhodes, Ph.D., is a professor of chemistry at USM. His specialty is biochemistry, protein structure and function, and molecular graphics training. He regularly teaches biochemistry. His research interests include the structure and action of proteins, structure determination by x-ray crystallography, and integrating molecular graphics and molecular modeling into undergraduate biochemistry.

Anne Rossi, M.D., is a pediatric hematologist and oncologist at the Maine Children's Cancer Program and clinical assistant professor at the University of Vermont School of Medicine. She has been a member of the Advisory Committee on Human Values and Ethics at All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla., and a member of the Ethics Committee at the University Community Hospital in Tampa. Currently, she serves on the Clinical Ethics Committee at Maine Medical Center and the Pediatric Palliative Care Committee for Maine.