Director, Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities and History of Medicine Dr. Sugarman, Professor of Medicine and Philosophy at Duke University, is the founding Director of the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities and History of Medicine in the Duke University School of Medicine. After finishing college, medical school and residency training in internal medicine at Duke, he obtained a Masters of Arts in philosophy from Georgetown University as well as a Masters in Public Health from the John Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. He has served as Senior Policy and Research Analyst for the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments and as a consultant to the National Bioethics Advisory Commission. He conducts theoretical and empirical research in medical ethics, concentrating on informed consent, research ethics, and the ethical issues associated with emerging technologies. In addition to publishing numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals, he is co-editor of Beyond Consent: Seeking Justice in Research, Ethics of Research with Human Subjects: Selected Policies and Resources, and Methods in Medical Ethics as well as editor of Ethics in Primary Care. He is a contributing editor for IRB, a member of the Institutional Review Board for Family Health International, a member of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, and serves on the editorial boards of Accountability in Research and the American Journal of Bioethics. At Duke, he teaches medical ethics to undergraduates, medical students, and house staff.  |
Jeremy
Sugarman, MD, MPH, MA