About the Speakers
James M. DuBois, PhD, DSc is Hubert Mader Chair of Health Care Ethics, Department Chair and Bander Center Director at Saint Louis University. He also serves as director of the Center for Clinical Research Ethics within Washington University's Institute for Clinical and Translational Science. He holds a PhD in philosophy and a DSc in general and experimental psychology from the University of Vienna, Austria. Dr. DuBois has served as PI on several training and research grants from the National Institutes of Health in the area of research ethics. He is the author of Ethics in Mental Health Research (Oxford University Press, 2008) and numerous articles on human research ethics.
Gregory K. Brown, PhD is Research Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Brown's research has focused on developing, evaluating, and disseminating targeted, psychotherapy interventions for individuals who are indicated as being at high risk for suicide. Currently, he is investigating the effectiveness of cognitive therapy for adult patients who recently attempted suicide and for suicidal older men. Recently, he has worked on developing and implementing brief intervention strategies (safety planning) for suicide prevention in civilian and VA emergency departments as well as for psychiatric inpatient settings in the military. Dr. Brown provides clinical training for clinicians in suicide assessment and risk management, cognitive behavior therapy for depression and suicide prevention.
Ana S. Iltis, PhD is Associate Professor and Ph.D. Program Director in the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University and Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis. She completed her PhD in the Department of Philosophy at Rice University. Her primary area of scholarly interest is human subjects research. She has participated in funded research on ethical issues in mental health research ethics with the goal of understanding how IRBs assess risk for different types of studies. She is especially interested in research involving participants who have or may have compromised decisional capacity. She is Associate Editor of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy; and co-editor of the Annals of Bioethics, a book series published by Routledge. She is co-director of the Center for Clinical Research Ethics within Washington University’s Institute for Clinical and Translational Science.
Laura B. Dunn, MD is Associate Professor in Residence at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where she holds faculty appointments in the Department of Psychiatry as well as in the Department of Urology. She is a Board-certified psychiatrist and Board-certified geriatric psychiatrist. She has nationally recognized expertise in the study of decision-making capacity, informed consent for research and treatment, and the empirical study of ethical issues in clinical research. Dr. Dunn was the recipient of an NIMH-funded K23 Mentored Clinical Research Career Development Award (“Enhancing Informed Consent for Late-Life Psychoses”). She is currently PI on an NIA-funded R01 entitled, “Proxy Decision Making for Alzheimer Disease Research” (R01 AG027986).
Ronald Pies, MD is a Professor of Psychiatry, and Lecturer on Bioethics & Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse NY; and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, MA. Dr. Pies is also Editor-in-Chief of Psychiatric Times, and the author or editor of several psychiatric textbooks, including the Handbook of Essential Psychopharmacology and (with S. Jacobson & I. Katz) Clinic Manual of Geriatric Psychopharmacology. Dr. Pies has a long-standing interest in the ethical and spiritual dimensions of psychiatric practice and has written on several areas of Judaic ethics. He is the author of “Everything Has Two Handles: The Stoic’s Guide to the Art of Living,” and “The Ethics of the Sages.”
Amy T. Campbell, JD, MBE is Assistant Professor in Bioethics and Humanities at Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, Assistant Professor Syracuse University School of Law (courtesy appointment), and Associate Faculty of Bioethics at The Bioethics Program of Union Graduate College – Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. Ms. Campbell directs ethics education of PhD, health profession, and nursing students, facilitates ethics instruction of medical students, and teaches health policy to an interdisciplinary mix of students. Her scholarship focuses on how to craft ethically-informed and evidence-based health policy guided by principles of therapeutic jurisprudence, with a particular interest in child and adolescent health, mental health, and issues raised by emerging biotechnologies. Ms. Campbell is Executive Director of the Consortium for Culture and Medicine in the state of New York. She has served as a policy and ethics consultant to the Institute of Medicine, the Society for Adolescent Medicine, and the University of Pennsylvania Collaborative on Community Integration.