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
