Expert Panel on Bioethics

The Expert Panel on Bioethics provides broad ethical guidance and review on issues pertaining to nursing practice, education, and research that the discipline of nursing and society faces.

Inaugural Year: 2013

Chair: 
Deborah Kenny, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor of Nursing
University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Vice Chair:
Elizabeth Peter, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor
University of Toronto, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing

Board Liaison: Linda Scott

Staff Liaison: Madeleine Rohrbach

Previous Chairs: Lucia Wocial (2018-2019), Mary O'Keefe (2017-2018), Ann Hamric (2016-2017); Connie Ulrich (2015-2016) 

Publications:

• Practice Guidelines: International consensus-based policy recommendations to advance universal palliative care access (October 2021)
• Consensus Statement: Nursing's Roles in Ensuring Universal Palliative Care Access (October 2021)
• Policy brief: Protecting vulnerable LGBTQ youth and advocating for ethical health care (September-October 2018)
• Policy Brief: Strengthen federal and local policies to advance precision health implementation and nurses’ impact on healthcare quality and safety (July-August 2018) 
• Policy Brief: An effective human papillomavirus vaccination policy will reduce infection- and malignancy-related morbidity and mortality (May-June 2018)
• Policy Brief: Strengthen federal regulation of laboratory-developed and direct-to-consumer genetic testing (January-February 2018) 

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