Faculty & Staff
Core Faculty
Lauren Freeman, PhD
Professor of Philosophy and Program Director
Expertise: Feminist Bioethics, Philosophy of Medicine, Bioethics, Analytic Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy of Oppression
Dr. Demetra Antimisiaris, PharmD, BCGP, FASCP
Associate Professor, Department of Health Management and Systems Sciences, School of Public Health & Information Sciences
Kyle Brothers, PhD, MD
Professor of Pediatrics and Endowed Chair of Pediatric Clinical and Translational Research; Chief Scientific Officer, Norton Children’s Research Institute, Affiliated with the University of Louisville School of Medicine
Expertise: Genetics and ethics; Ethics of health information technologies; Pediatric ethics; Research ethics
Avery Kolers, PhD
Professor of Philosophy
Expertise: Solidarity, Applied Ethics, Social & Political Philosophy
Olivia Schuman, PhD, HEC-C
Assistant Professor of Philosophy; Clinical Ethicist, Norton Healthcare
Expertise: Bioethics; Reproductive ethics; Clinical ethics
Glenn “boomer” Trujillo, PhD
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Expertise: Bioethics, Virtue Theory, Ancient Ethics
Affiliated Faculty
Dr. Ryan Combs
Associate Professor of Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences, University of Louisville School of Public Health & Information Sciences
Prof. Tim Hall
Professor; Herbert F. Boehl Chair of Law & Health Policy, 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 of Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health & Information 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 of Sociology
Expertise: medical sociology, sociology of mental health, lay-professional collaboration in (mental) health, biographical disruption and multi-morbidity, social policy, qualitative methods
Dr. Shelby Pumphrey
Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Expertise: African American Women’s History; Reproductive Justice
Dr. Tara Schapmire
Associate Professor of Palliative Medicine. Affiliated Associate Professor, Kent School of Social Work
Dr. Beth Munnich, PhD
Associate Professor, Economics
Expertise: Health Economics
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. Nancy Theriot
Professor
Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
In Memoriam
Paul Simmons, PhD
(1936-2019)
Professor Emeritus, Family & Geriatric Medicine
Expertise: Religion & medicine; Clinical ethics; Abortion
Osborne Wiggins, PhD
(1943-2021)
Professor of Philosophy
Expertise: Psychiatry; Research ethics; End-of-life issue
Dr. Stuart Urbach
(1925-2021)
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine
UofL School of Medicine
