Faculty & Staff
Core Faculty
Lauren Freeman, PhD
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Program Director
Expertise: Feminist Bioethics; Feminist Philosophy

Dr. Demetra Antimisiaris, PharmD, BCGP, FASCP
Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Kyle Brothers, PhD, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Endowed Chair of Pediatric Clinical and Translational Research
Expertise: Genetics and ethics; Ethics of health information technologies; Pediatric ethics; Research ethics

Avery Kolers, PhD
Professor of Philosophy
Expertise: Health justice; Solidarity

Olivia Schuman, PhD
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Expertise: Bioethics; Reproductive ethics; Clinical ethics
Affiliated Faculty
Dr. Ryan Combs
Assistant Professor
Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences University of Louisville School of Public Health & Information Sciences
Prof. Tim Hall
Professor
Brandeis School of Law
Dr. William Paul McKinney
Professor and Associate Dean for Research
School of Public Health and Information Science

Dr. Jelani Kerr, PhD MSPH
Associate Professor
Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences
Expertise: Racial/ethnic HIV inequities, HIV-related stigma, Criminal Justice policy and HIV inequities, Mental Health, and Intervention Development & Evaluation
Dr. Deborah Potter
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology

Dr. Shelby Pumphrey
Assistant Professor
Department of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Expertise: African American Women’s History; Reproductive Justice

Dr. Tara Schapmire
Affiliated Associate Professor
Kent School of Social Work

Dr. Nancy Theriot
Professor
Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Staff

Lisa Schonburg
Administrative Associate
Emeriti

Robert Kimball, PhD
Associate Professor of Philosophy

Nancy Potter, PhD
Professor of Philosophy

Mark Rothstein, JD
Herbert F. Boehl Chair in Law & Medicine and Professor of Law
Dr. Stuart Urbach
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine
UofL School of Medicine
In Memoriam

Paul Simmons, PhD
(1936-2019)
Professor Emeritus, Family & Geriatric Medicine
Expertise: Religion & medicine; Clinical ethics; Abortion

Osborne Wiggins, PhD
Professor of Philosophy
Expertise: Psychiatry; Research ethics; End-of-life issue