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DEPARTMENT OF BIOETHICS

 

 

Mark P. Aulisio, Ph.D.


Director, Center for Biomedical Ethics at MetroHealth
Associate Professor of Bioethics

Intersection of Political Philosophy and Bioethics
Ethics Consultation
Principle of Double Effect
Organ Donation

Office Phone: 216-778-7290
e-mail: mpa5@po.cwru.edu

NIH Biosketch

 

Bio

 

Mark Aulisio, Ph.D., joined the faculty of Bioethics in September 2000 as an Assistant Professor. Trained as a moral philosopher, Dr. Aulisio received his Master's and PhD degrees from Bowling Green State University. He previously served as Assistant Director of the Consortium Ethics Program at the University of Pittsburgh. He has worked on a national task force that addressed the issue of whether there should be standards for training and practice in clinical ethics consultation.

Dr. Aulisio is now Associate Professor of Bioethics in the Department of Bioethics at Case where he serves as Director of Clinical Programs and of the Master of Arts Program in Bioethics.  He is also Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at MetroHealth Medical Center where he chairs the medical ethics committee, does ethics consultation, offers regular ethics education for health professionals and students, and is a member of both the Institutional Review and Privacy boards. 

Having served as executive director of the national task force that issued the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) report Core Competencies for Health Care Ethics Consultation (ASBH, 1998), Dr. Aulisio currently chairs an ASBH national task force (funded by The Greenwall Foundation) focused on developing education and training guidelines for those doing ethics consultation and a newly developed research ethics consultation service and best practices group focused on research ethics issues in genetics (Funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute through its Center for Genetics Research Ethics and Law at Case Western). 

Dr. Aulisio also has international experience in clinical ethics and ethics consultation, most notably through serving as project director and principal investigator on “Extending the Intercultural Clinical Bioethics Dialogue:  Ethics Committee and Consultation Policy in the United States and Japan” (funded by The Center for Global Partnership of the Japan Foundation).  In addition, he has authored over 50 publications in clinical ethics, ethics consultation and related areas; including serving as Associate Editor and contributor to the Encyclopedia of Bioethics (Macmillan Reference U.S.A. 2004), and lead editor and contributor to the volume Ethics Consultation: From Theory to Practice (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003).


Recent Publications

 

Mark P. Aulisio, Hysterectomies, “Craniotomies and Casuistry: On Making Sense of the Traditional Applications of the Catholic Doctrine of Double Effect,” Azafea: Revista de Filosofía (In press, 2007)

Mark P. Aulisio, Michael DeVita, and Donna Luekbe, “Taking Values Seriously: Ethical Challenges in Organ Donation and Transplantation for Critical Care Professionals” Critical Care Medicine, 2007, Vol. 35, No. 2.

Thomas May and Mark P. Aulisio, “Access to Hospitals in the Wake of Terrorism: Challenges and Needs for Maintaining Public Confidence,” The Journal of Disaster Management & Emergency Response Jul-Sep 2006, Vol. 4, No. 3: 67-71.

William R. Lewis, Donna L. Luebke, Nancy J. Johnson, Michael D. Harrington, Ottorino Costantini, and Mark P. Aulisio, “Withdrawal of ICD Shock Therapy in Terminally Ill Patients: An Important Aspect of Patient Care” The American Journal of Medicine, 2006, 119: 892-896.

Mark P. Aulisio, “Bioethics in a Global Village” The American Journal of Bioethics, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2006: 1-4.

Recent Activities

 

Mark P. Aulisio, Unmet Ethical Challenges in Living Organ Donation in the U.S.” EDUBIOETHICS: Organ Donation and Transplantation Conference, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, May 2007.

Mark P. Aulisio, “Framing the Issues: The Role of Ethics Consultation in Long-Term Care?” From the Ground Up: Building and Ethics Committee in Long-Term Care, Conference of the Midwest Ethics Committee Network and the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 2006.

Mark P. Aulisio and Sue Rubin, “Developing Improving Competence in Ethics Consultation: A Learner’s Guide” Challenging Voices: American Society for Bioethics and Humanities 8th Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, October 2006.

Mark P. Aulisio, “State of Ethics Consultation in the U.S.,” as part of a panel discussion International Experiences with Ethics Consultation: Pitfalls and Challenges for Improvement, with Albert Molewijk (The Netherlands), Veronique Fournier (France), and Kazuto Inaba (Japan), Challenging Voices: American Society for Bioethics and Humanities 8th Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, October 2006.

Mark P. Aulisio, “Ethics Consultation in the U.S.: Meeting the Need,” Annual Meeting of the European Association of Centers of Meeting of the European Clinical Ethics Network, Leuven, Belgium, September 2006. Mark P. Aulisio with Stuart Youngner, Yasuhiko Miura, Koichiro Itai, and Kazuto Inaba (moderator), “Ethics Consultation in the Case of End Stage Dimentia: Japanese and U.S. Perspectives” University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, August 2006.

Mark P. Aulisio, “Ethics Consultation in the US: Current State,” University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, August 2006. Mark P. Aulisio, “Personal Values in Professional Life: The Justification, Scope and Limits of Rights of Conscience in Health Care,” University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, May 2006.

Mark P. Aulisio, “Benchside Ethics Consultation: Lessons from the Bedside,” (with Jessica Berg, Mildred Cho, David Magnus and Francis Collins as part of a symposium “Benchside Ethics Consultation for Biomedical Research”), American Association for the Advancement of Science 2006 Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, February 2006.


Contact Information

 

Office Phone: 216-778-7290
e-mail: mpa5@po.cwru.edu