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Curriculum VitaeJodi Halpern, M.D., Ph.D.
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, CARobert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, 1993-1996Fellow, Health Services Research
YALE UNIVERSITY, NEW HAVEN, CTPh.D. Philosophy 1994Recipient of University Wide Outstanding Disseration Award
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, CAUCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, 1990-1993Resident, Psychiatry
.UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, CA
UCLA Medical Center/ Wadsworth VA Medical Center, 1989-1990Intern, Medicine
YALE UNIVERSITY, NEW HAVEN, CTM.D./M.A., 1982-1989Medical Scientist Training Program, Highest Honors
YALE UNIVERSITY, NEW HAVEN, CTB.A. Philosophy, 1978-1982, Magna Cum Laude
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEYProfessor of Bioethics & Medical Humanities, 20013-PresentUCB/UCSF Joint Medical ProgramSchool of Public Health
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEYAssociate Professor of Bioethics & Medical Humanities, 2006-2013UCB/UCSF Joint Medical ProgramSchool of Public Health
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEYFellow, 1999Townsend Center for the Humanities
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEYAssistant Professor of Bioethics & Medical Humanities, 1998-2005UCB/UCSF Joint Medical ProgramSchool of Public Health
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UCLA NEUROPSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTEAssistant Professor of Psychiatry and Bio behavioral Sciences, 1996-1998
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
DIGITAL HEALTH POLICY LEADERSHIP GROUPEthics Lead, CEO’s from major health and digital tech companies, NGO’s and government health systems
UC WOMEN’S INITIATIVESelective Leadership Training Program 2018
FEDERAL RESERVE OF SAN FRANCISCOEthics Fellow, Health Equity and Cost-Effectiveness 2013-2014
GREENWALL FACULTY SCHOLARFaculty Fellowship, 2006-2009
PRINCETON UNIVERSITYRockefeller Fellow, 1997-1998Center for Human Values
UCLA NEUROPSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTEFounder and Chairperson, 1994-1997Hospital Ethics Committee
UCLA NEUROPSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTENIMH Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Treatment of Bipolar Disorder, 1992-1993
H ONORS AND AWARDS
2018, 2019 World Economic Forum Invited Expert, Davos, Switzerland
2018- World Economic Forum Global Leader on Virtual/Augmented Reality
2017 World Economic Forum Invited Expert, Dalian, China
2016 Honorary Fellow, Hastings Center of Ethics
2014 Holzang Endowed Lectureship, Providence Center for Healthcare Ethics, Portland, Oregon
2014 Kinsman Endowed Lectureship, University of Oregon and University of Washington Medical Schools, held in Bend, Oregon
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2011 Outstanding Mentor of the Year, UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program
2010 Golden Apple Award—Outstanding Teacher of the Year, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
2009 “How the Social Brain Experiences Empathy” Six Leading Thinkers on Empathy, with Jean Decety, Frans De Waal, Allan Young, Sue Carter, Nancy Eisenberg, University of Chicago
2007 Brinn Endowed Lecturer in Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
2006-2009 Greenwall Faculty Fellowship:Affective Forecasting, Behavioral Economics, Emotions and Predicting Subjective Well-being in Health Decisions
2006 Cowan Endowed Lectureship, University of Utah School of Medicine
2005 Keynote speaker: Quandaries in Health Care Annual Conference: Emotions in Health Care, Givens and Aspen Institute, Colorado
2002 Keynote Speaker- First Yale Medical School “Power Day” Integrating Medical and Nursing Education
1999-2000 Townsend Humanities Center Junior Faculty Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley
1999-2005 Martin Sisters Chair, University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health
1997-1998 Rockefeller Fellowship, The Center for Human Values, Princeton University
1994 Yale University Prize for Outstanding Dissertation Across All of the Disciplines
1992 American Psychoanalytic Association Fellowship: Excellence in Psychodynamic Psychiatry
1989 Louis Nahum Prize, Yale School of Medicine: Outstanding Medical Thesis
1983-1989 NIH Medical Scientist Training Program: Combined Studies in Medicine & Ethics
1983 International Health Fellowship Bombay, India
1982 Yale College, Magna Cum Laude and Distinction in Major (Philosophy)
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PUBLICATIONSBOOKS
Halpern, J. From Detached Concern to Empathy: Humanizing Medical Practice. Oxford University Press. 2001, 2011.
Halpern, J. Remaking the Self in the Wake of Illness. This book brings narratives, psychology, and philosophy together to develop a theory of how people adapt to health losses during the prime of life. In Progress.
ARTICLES
2019 52. Doxzen, K. and Halpern, J. “Germline Gene Editing andInternational Human Rights.” Perspectives in Biology and
Medicine, in press.
2019 51. Kung, A., Cheung,T., Knox, M.Willard-Grace, R., Halpern, J.,Olayiwola ,N.,Gottlieb,L. “Burnout and Capacity to Address
Patients’ Social Needs in Primary Care: A Qualitative Study.” American Journal of Family Medicine, in press.
2019 50. Portacolone, E., Covinsky, K. E., Johnson, J. K., Rubinstein, R. L., & Halpern, J. “Walking the Tightrope Between Study Participant
Autonomy and Researcher Integrity: The Case Study of a Research Participant With Alzheimer’s Disease Pursuing Euthanasia in Switzerland.” Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1177/1556264619853198
2019 49. Halpern, J., Paolo, D. Huang, A. “Informed Consent for Early-Phase Clinical Trials: Therapeutic Mis-estimation, Unrealistic Optimism
and Appreciation.” Journal of Medical Ethics, May
2019 48. Berridge, C., Levy, K., Halpern, J. “Cameras on beds: The ethics of surveillance in nursing homes.” American Journal of Bioethics,
March.
2018 47. Halpern, J. “Jorge’s Decision” Special Issue on Shared Decision-Making, Pediatrics, December.
2018 46. Ramstein,,J.Tsai, K.,Mehta, A.,Dupree, J, Nangia,M, Halpern,J. P., Rosen,M., Smith,J. Access to Fertility Preservation for Cancer
Patients on Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors. Fertility and Sterility, December.
2018 45. Wilson L., Cocohoba,, J..,Chyorny, A., Halpern, J., Auerswald, C., Myers, J. “Perspectives on Integrated HIV and Hepatitis C Virus
Testing Among Persons Entering a Northern California Jail: A Pilot Study.” JAIDS Volume 78, Number 2, June.
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2018 44. Portacolone, E., Covinsky,K., Halpern, J., Rubinstein, R., Johnson, J. “The Precarity of Living Alone in Older Age with Cognitive
Impairment." The Gerontologist, January.
2017 43. Halpern, J. “ The Therapeutic Effects of Empathy in Healthcare.” Emotion Researcher, International Society for Research on
Emotion, Summer.
2017 42. Ramstein, J. J., Halpern, J., Gadzinski, A. J., Brannigan, R. E. and Smith, J. F. (2017), Ethical, moral, and theological insights into
advances in male pediatric and adolescent fertility preservation. Andrology. doi:10.1111/andr.12371
2017 36. Benner, P., Halpern, J., Gordon, D., Poppell, C., Kelley, P. “Beyond Pathologizing Harm: Understanding PTSD in the Context of War Experience.” Journal of Medical Humanities. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-017-9484-y
2017 41. Main, A., Walle, E., Kho, C. Halpern, J. “The Interpersonal Functions of Empathy: A Relational Perspective,” Emotion
Review, May, 1754-0739, DOI: 10.1177/1754073916669440
2016 40. Colley, A., Halpern, J., Paul, S., Miaskowski, C., Dunn, L. “Factors Associated with Oncology Patients Involvement in
Shared Decision-Making During Chemotherapy.” Psycho-Oncology, October.
2016 39. Harris, L., Williams, J., Gerrdts, C., Urbano, L., Velez, A., Halpern, J., Prata, N., Baffoe, P. “Development of a conceptual model and survey instrument to measure conscientious objection to abortion provision.” PLOS ONE.
2016 37. Harris, L., Halpern, J., Prata, N., Chavka, W., Gerrdts, C. “Conscientious Objection to Abortion Provision: Why Context Matters," Global Pubic Health.
2015 35. O’Keefe, M., Perrault, S., Halpern, J., Ikemoto, L., Yarborough, M. ‘Editing’ Genes: A Case Study About How Language Matters in Bioethics.“ American Journal of Bioethics, December.
2015 34. Ekman, E.,Halpern, J. “Professional Distress and Well-being among Human Service Care Providers: Professional Empathy Can Help.” Social Work in Mental Health, August.
2015 33. Lantos, J., Halpern, J. “Bullying, Social Hierarchies, Poverty and Health Outcomes.” Pediatrics Mar 2015, 135 (Supplement 2) S21-S23.
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2015 32. Halpern, J., Jutte, D., Colby, J. and Boyce, W.T. Social Dominance, School Bullying, and Child Health: What Are Our Ethical Obligations to the Very Young? Pediatrics Mar 2015, 135 (Supplement 2) S24-S30
2014 31. Portacolone, E.,Halpern, J. “Move or Suffer”: Is Age Segregation the New Norm for Older Americans Living Alone? Journal of Applied Gerontology, November.
2014 30. Decety, J., Smith, K., Norman, G., Halpern, J. “Clinical Empathy: What can we learn from social and affective neuroscience?” World Psychiatry, April.
2014 29. Schicktanz S., Schweda,M., Ballenger,J., Fox, P., Halpern, J., Kramer,J., Micco,G. Post,S., Thompson, C., Knight,R., Jagust. “Before it is too late: professional responsibilities in late-onset Alzheimer’s research and pre-symptomatic prediction.” Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 20 November.
2014 28. Halpern, J. “Narratives Hold Open the Future.” Special Issue on Narrative Ethics, Hastings Center Report, January/February.
2013 27. Halpern, J. “From idealized clinical empathy to empathic communication in medical care.” Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, Journal of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare. December.
2013 26. Halpern, J., “Motivational Interviewing and Rethinking the Relational Basis of Autonomy.” Journal of Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology. Summer.
2013 25. Halpern, J. and Jutte, D. “The Ethics of Pay for Success.” Community Development Investment Review, April.
2013 24. Halpern, J. and Kravitz, Rl. “Authority, Health Advocacy Organizations and Scientific Evidence.” AMA Journal of Ethics- Virtual Mentor. Jan 1;15(1):18-22.
2012 23. Halpern, J, “When Concretized Emotion-Belief Complexes Derail Decision-making Capacity.” Bioethics 26.2.
2012 22. Halpern, J. “Clinical Wisdom is Practical Wisdom,” Journal of
Clinical Ethics, Spring.
2012 21. Halpern, J. “Gathering the Patient’s Story and Clinical Empathy.” The Permanente Journal; January.
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2011 20. Martinson, M. and Halpern, J. “Ethical implications of the promotion of elder volunteerism: A critical perspective.” Journal of Aging Studies, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2011.04.003.
2011 19. Halpern, J. Emotions, “Autonomy and Decision-Making Capacity.” American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience, August.
2011 18. Halpern, J. “Publishing Clinical Cases: Who Owns the Story? Is the Patient’s Consent Needed? “ Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, July; vol 3(7).
2009 17. Halpern, J. “Groupthink and Caregivers’ Projections: Addressing Barriers to Empathy,” Journal of Clinical Ethics, Spring.
2008 16. Halpern, J. “Affective Forecasting: An Unrecognized Challenge in Making Serious Health Decisions,” Journal of General Internal Medicine, October.
2007 15. Halpern, J. “Let’s Value But Not Idealize Emotions,” Journal of Clinical Ethics, Fall.
2007 14. Dhawaan, N., Steinbach, A., Halpern, J. “Physician Empathy and Compassion for Inmate Patients,” Journal of Correctional Health, Fall
2007 13. Shoeb, M., Weinstein, H. and Halpern, J. “Living in Religious Time and Space: Iraqi Refugees in Dearborn, Michigan” Journal of Refugee Studies, September.
2007 12. Halpern, J. “Empathy and Patient-Physician Conflicts,” Journal of General Internal Medicine, May 2007(17): 696-700.
2006 11. Kravitz RL and Jodi Halpern. “Direct-to-consumer drug ads, patient autonomy and the responsible exercise of power.” Virtual Mentor-AMA Journal of Ethics. 2006; 8:407-411.
2005 10. Beach, M.C., Meredith, L., Halpern, J., Wells, K., Ford, D. “Physician Conceptions of Loyalty to Patients and Social Justice in Healthcare.” Annals of Family Medicine. January.
2004 9. Halpern, J. and Weinstein, H. “Rehumanizing the Other: Empathy and Social Reconciliation,” Human Rights Quarterly. August. 26 (3): 561-583
2004 8. Halpern, J., Johnson, M., Miranda, J. & Wells, K. “The Partners in Care Approach: Ethics Outcomes in Quality Improvement Programs for Depression,” Psychiatric Services. May; 55(5): 532-39.
2003 7. Halpern, J. “What is Clinical Empathy?” Journal of General Internal Medicine. 18: 670-674.
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2003 6. Halpern, J. “Responding to the Need Behind the Question, ‘Doctor, if This Were Your Child, What Would You Do?’” The Journal of Clinical Ethics. Spring-Summer; 14(1/2): 71-78.
2003 5. Halpern, J. “Beyond Wishful Thinking: Facing the Harm that Psychotherapists Can Do by Writing About Their Patients” The Journal of Clinical Ethics. Spring-Summer. 14(1/2): 118-136.
2002 4. Halpern, J. “Reluctant Patients: Autonomy and Delegating Medical Decisions.” The Journal of Clinical Ethics. Spring; 13(1): 78-84.
1995 3. Halpern, J. "Can the Development of Practice Guidelines Safeguard Patient Values" The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics. Spring; 23: 75-81.
1994 2. Wenger, N. and J. Halpern. "The Physician's Role in Advance Directive Completion.” The Journal of Clinical Ethics. Winter; 5(4): 320-3
1994 1. Wenger, N. and J. Halpern. "Can a Patient Refuse a Psychiatric Consultation?” The Journal of Clinical Ethics. Fall; 5(3): 230-4
Manuscripts in Revision or Under Consideration
Portacolone, E., Covinsky, K., Halpern, J. "Ethical issues raised by the introduction of artificial companions to older adults with cognitive impairment: A call for empowerment." Innovation in Aging, submitted.
Portacolone, E., Covinsky, K., Johnson, J., Rubinstein, R., Halpern, J. “Breaking the News of Cognitive Impairment as an Opportunity to Create Therapeutic Alliances: A multiple-case study.” Journal of Advanced Nursing, Submitted.
Portacolone, E., Johnson, J., Covinsky, K., Halpern, J.. “Expectations and concerns of older adults with cognitive impairment about their relationship with medical providers: A call for therapeutic alliances." Qualitative Health Research, Submitted.
INVITED ARTICLES and BOOK CHAPTERS (PRESENTING ORIGINAL SCHOLARSHIP)
2019 Neff, J., Holmes, S., Strong, S., Chin, G., De Avila, J., Dubal, S., Duncan, L., Halpern, J., Harvey, M., Knight, K., Lemay, E., Lewis, B.,
Matthews, J., Nelson, N., Satterwhite, S., Thompson-Lastad, A., & Walkover, L. “The Structural Competency Working Group: Lessons from Iterative, Interdisciplinary Development of a Structural Competency Training Module” in Structural Competency in Mental
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Health and Medicine: A Case-Based Approach to Treating the Social Determinants of Health, edited by Metzl and Hansen. Springer. April 2019.
2017 Halpern, J., Jutte, D. “The Ethics of Outcomes-Based Funding Models,” What Matters: Investing in Results to Build Strong, Vibrant
Communities, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Non-Profit Finance Fund.
2011 Halpern, J. “Clinical Empathy” in “From Bench To Bedside: Leading Experts on Empathy and the Social Brain,” Jean Decety, ed., MIT Press, December.
2010 Fairweather, A. and Halpern, J. “Facebook, Sympathy and the Empathic Imagination,” Facebook and Philosophy, an edited volume with Open Court’s Popular Culture and Philosophy Series, Spring.
2008 Halpern, J, Little, M. “Health, Risk Communication and the Normative Activity of Coping,” in Walker, M, and Lindeman, H.eds, Naturalizing Bioethics, Cambridge University Press.
1999 Halpern, J. "Philosophical and Ethical Issues in Cost-Effectiveness Psychotherapy Research." in Magruder & Miller (eds.) Cost-Effectiveness of Psychotherapy. Oxford University Press. pp. 33-41.
1993 Halpern, J. “Empathy: Using Resonance Emotions in the Service of Curiosity.” in Howard Spiro, M.D., et al (eds.) Empathy and the Practice of Medicine. Yale University Press. pp. 160-173.
REVIEW CHAPTERS
2013 Halpern, J. and Lewis, B. Editors, “Special Section: Why Psychiatry Needs the Humanities,” Psychiatric Times, March
2004 Halpern, J. “Special Section: From Detached Concern to Empathy. Author Responds to Critics: Thoughts on Empathy and Respecting Autonomy in the Real World.” The Journal of Clinical Ethics. Winter; 14(4) 298-307.
1991 Ross, J. and J. Halpern. "Ethics and Geriatrics." Invited chapter in Kaplan and Saddock (eds.) The Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry. William and Wilkins.
1991 Halpern, J. “Review of Female Psychology,” The Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry. 10(2).
POPULAR PRESS/MEDIA
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2018 “Empathy Vs. the Machines,” Swissnex Panel, July. https://nextrends.swissnexsanfrancisco.org/empathy-vs-the-
machines/
2018 “The Evolution of Consciousness.” Davos Panel with Daniel Dennett, Yuvai Harari and Amy Bernstein (Editor of Harvard Business
Review), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbOP0IKpsZ0
2018 “A Code of Ethics For Science,” Davos Panel with the leader of the European Research Council and Philip Campbell, Editor in Chief,
Nature https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaWjUOW48vw
2018 “Nurturing Empathic Curiosity for Leadership,” World Economic Forum. Davos, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaFihINOV5s
2017 ‘Philosophy Talk” NPR. Psychology and Ethics of Medical Consent.
2013 “Don’t Blame Empathy” Huffington Post, 5/20/13.
2013 “What to Say to the Boston Marathon Survivors,” Bay Area News Group Sunday Papers Op Ed, 4/27/13.
2013 “Traumatic Photographs, Media’s Ethical Responsibility,” Panel with war photographers, Huffington Post Live
2010 “Clinical Empathy and Social Reconciliation After War,” Huffington Post, February.
2009 Invited response to Daniel Batson on empathy in On the Human, National Humanities Center
2007 Interview regarding patient-physician relationships, empathy and conflict: Wall Street Journal Media
INVITED LECTURES, PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS
2019 Invited Speaker on six panels, Davos 2019 January-Promise and Progress of Bioengineering- Future of Bio-Innovation: How to Evolve Governance-What if Everyone had their Genome Sequenced at Birth?-World in Transformation: Virtual and Augmented Reality-Global Future Council: Virtual and Augmented Reality- Emerging Biothreats: Envisioning a Universal Platform to Prevent Illicit
Gene Synthesis
2018 Chan-Zuckerberg Forum on Germline Gene Editing: With co-panelists Jennifer Doudna, Ken Taymor and Matthew Porteus
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2018 Invited Plenary Speaker, OECD meeting: “Minding Neurotechnology: Responsible innovation for health and well-being,” Shanghai
2018 Invited Keynote, PRIM&R (Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research), Hope and Hype in Research Decision-Making, Annual
Conference, San Diego, November
2018 SwissNex (Swiss Embassy SF, Science and Technology), Panel on “Empathy and the Machines,” July
2018 SwissNex, SF, Speaker on “Ethics and Brain-Machine Interface,” May
2018 World Economic Forum Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, “Artificial Intelligence Vs. Intelligence Augmentation.” SF, March
2018 “Al, Big Data, Ethics & Health,” Columbia University in SF, April.
2018 World Economic Forum, DAVOS, panels and talks including:
“The Evolution of Consciousness” AI and Working with Robots, with Daniel Dennett and Yuvai Noah Harari
“Genome Editing” with Francis Collins and Feng Zhou
“A Code of Ethics for Science,” with Philip Campbell (Editor-in Chief, Nature) and Jean-Pierre Bourguignon (President, European
Research Council)
“The Science of Empathy,” Solo talk.
“The Neuroscience of Pro-social Behavior,” with Ron Dahl and Dacher Keltner
2018 Herrenhausen Conference on Emerging Neuroscience Technologies, Germany
2018 Penny Rybka Endowed Lecture, “Affective Forecasting and Decision-Making Challenges in Clinical Research.” Pennsylvania State
University Medical Center
2017 World Economic Forum, “Human-Centered High-Tech: Virtual and Augmented Reality.” Dalian China
2017 World Economic Forum, “The Benefits of a Curious Mind: Enhancing Empathy.” Dalian, China
2017 World Economic Forum, “Working with Robots.” Dalian, China
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2017 Future of Medicine Conference, “New Research and Challenges to Empathy in Healthcare,” Centura, Denver
2016 CRISPR and gene modification: Ethical Challenges, UC Davis.
2015 Physician Aid in Dying Conference, UCSF, UC Bioethics Collaboratory,
2015 World Precision Medicine Conference, Bioethics Panel, Computer Science Museum, Silicon Valley, CA
2015 Keynote, Annual Ethics Conference, Bay Area Hospitals, California 2014 Holzang Scholar, Four Lectures in Healthcare Ethics, Providence Center
for Healthcare Ethics, Portland, Oregon2014 Kinsman Lecture, Joint Conference of Oregon and Washington Medical
Schools, Bend Oregon2014 5th Bi-Annual Bartholome Lecture, University of Kansas School of
Medicine and Hospital.2014 UCLA Anthropology Research Seminar: “Rethinking Informed Consent
in Social Science Research.”2013 Inaugural Lecture, “Humanism in Medicine” Center, Department of
Psychiatry, LSU Medical Center.2013 Distributive Justice and Public Health Ethics, SOCAP (International
Meeting on Social Capital), San Francisco.2013 Thinking Outside the Box on Empathy: Integrating Neuroscience,
Psychology Research, Anthropology and Philosophy, International Society of Emotion Research, UC Berkeley.
2012 Alexandra Main, Jodi Halpern, Joseph Campos. "Emotion Regulation During Mother-Adolescent Conflict Discussions: The Role of Empathy, abstract presented by Main, SRCD, Fall.
2012 Keynote, Conference on “Bringing Theory and Empirical Evidence on Clinical Empathy Together,” Center for Practical Thought, Stockholm, Sweden
2012 Consultant on Neuroscience and Philosophy of Caring Research, UC Riverside, California
2012 Closing, “Cultivating Clinical Empathy—an Ethical Imperative,” Collaborative Ethics Conference, UCLA Ethics Center, Los Angeles
2012 Psychiatry, Countertransference and Ethical Challenges, Kaiser Ethics Conference
2012 Conflict and Emotions in Clinical Encounters, Kaiser of Northern California Annual Conference.
2011 Keynote and additional talks on “Empathy, Barriers to Communication and Emotional Challenges,” Emory University Center for Bioethics and Georgia Healthcare Consortium Annual Conference
2011 “Empathy and Social Reconciliation in the Aftermath of War,” Project on Empathy and Virtue, University of Indiana, Bloomington
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2010 Human Rights, research from Tuskegee to Guatemala, Response to Susan Reverby, with Eric Stover
2010 “Barriers to Clinical Empathy” University of Oslo Center for Medical Ethics, Keynote
2009 Moral Dilemmas for International Health Leaders, San Francisco, California
2008 Making Decisions for our Future Selves/Careers, Stanford Summer Bioethics Camp
2008 University of Washington, Hope and Therapeutic Mis-estimations in Medical Decisions
2008 Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Alta Bates, Berkeley, California2008 University of Chicago, Joint Philosophy-Medicine Seminar on Clinical
Empathy2007 NIH-Georgetown Joint Bioethics Symposium: Emotions and Health
Decisions2007 Affective Forecasting, Risk and Health Policy Decisions, Leiden, Holland 2007 European Meeting on Emotions and Risky Technologies, Delft, Holland2007 Endowed Lectures in Philosophy and Medicine, University of Miami 2007 Oncology Fellows Seminar, Johns Hopkins2007 Pediatric Grand Rounds, Johns Hopkins2007 Brinn Endowed Lecturer in Oncology, Johns Hopkins2007 California Kaiser Annual Ethics Symposium, Keynote Speaker: Risk
Communication and Ethics 2006 UCB-UCSF Stem Cell Ethics Conference: Publics, Advocacy and the
Practice of Science2006 UCB Stem Cell Science and Policy, Asilomar Conference: Therapeutic
Mis-estimation2006 Portland Kaiser Keynote Speaker: Overcoming Barriers to Clinical
Empathy2006 California Kaiser Annual Ethics Symposium, Keynote Speaker: Conflicts
and Healthcare Teams2006 Biomedical Ethics Grand Rounds, Stanford University Medical Center2005 Kaiser Annual Psychiatry Symposium, Keynote Speaker: Limited
Resources and Conflicts of Interest in Mental Health Care2005 Keynote speaker: Quandaries in Health Care Annual Conference:
Emotions in Health Care, Givens Institute of the University of Colorado, Aspen (September 2005). Sponsored by University of Colorado Health Sciences Center; University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio; University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
2005 “Emotional interferences with the capacity to consent to research” Invited Panel, American Philosophical Association, Ethics & Research on Human
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Subjects for the 25th Anniversary of the Belmont Report; panel members include Tom Beauchamp & Ruth Macklin
2004 Cowan Lecturer in Humanities and Medicine, University of Utah2004 “Psychotherapy and Case-Writing – tensions between truth, therapy,
research & medical education” National Meeting of American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, Philadelphia
2004 “Beyond the Enhancement/Treatment Divide: The Ethical and Psychological Basis for Using SSRI’s to Treat Symptoms of Psychological Trauma” Robert Wood Johnson Conference on Medical Enhancements, University of Chicago
2004 “Concretized Emotions and Deliberative Incapacity” Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University
2004 “Barriers to Clinical Empathy” UCLA Medical Center2004 “Fear, Competency and the Capacity for Autonomy” Grand Rounds,
UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute2003 “Rethinking Clinical Empathy” Toronto Centre for Bioethics2003 “Fear, Anxiety and Decision-making” American Society for Bioethics and
Humanities, Montreal2003 “Rethinking the conflicts and ties between Autonomy and Beneficence”
Bioethics Annual Summer Conference, Shanty Creek, Michigan2003 “From Detached Concern to Empathy: Author Meets Critics”, American
Philosophical Association, San Francisco2002 “Listening and Seeing: What do Dying Patients Need their Clinicians to
Recognize?” Townsend Humanities Center2002 NIMH Medical Scientist Training Program, Mentoring Session at Yale
School of Medicine2002 “Misunderstanding, Empathy and Ethical Dilemmas in Current
Healthcare” National Bioethics Summer Meeting, Lake Placid, New York2002 Keynote Speaker- First Yale Medical School “Power Day” Integrating
Medical and Nursing Education2002 “Tolstoy and Patient Autonomy” Conference on Ivan Illych, Townsend
Humanities Center 2000 “Trauma, the Clinical Gaze and Shame” UC Faculty Interdisciplinary
Psychoanalytic Consortium, Lake Arrowhead, California2000 “Alleviating Suffering: The Role and Limits of Conventional Patient-
Physician Conversations” National Conference on the Arts, Humanities and Death and Dying, Townsend Center
2000 A New Model for Clinical Empathy, The American Society for Bioethics Annual Meeting
1999 “Conceptual Foundations Relating Medical Ethics and Public Health Ethics” Grand Rounds, Stanford University Medical Center & the Center for Biomedical Ethics
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1999 “Character, Ethics and Psychological Change” UC Faculty Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic Consortium, Lake Arrowhead, California
1999 “Autonomy, Feminist Theory and Bioethics” Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry
1999 “Diversity, Ethics and Respecting Patient Values” American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.
1999 “What is the Status of Empathic Understanding: Knowledge versus Belief” The Townsend Humanities Center, University of California, Berkeley
1998 “Autonomy, Suffering and Clinical Empathy” Princeton Center for Human Values
1998 “Rethinking Autonomy in a Social Context” School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley
1998 “Psychiatry, Managed Care and Conflicts of Obligation” Faculty Yearly Visiting Lectureship. Rutgers Medical School Department of Psychiatry, Newark, New Jersey
1998 “Psychiatry, Practice Guidelines and Conflicts of Obligation” Visiting Professor, Menninger Clinic, Kansas
1998 “Challenges in Public Health Ethics: Can Ethical Theory be as Progressive as the Field Demands?” University of California, Berkeley
1998 “Ethical Issues in Mental Health Services for Women” California Statewide Conference on Women and Mental Health
1997 “Conflicts of Obligation in Medicine Today: Challenges for Residency Training” Keynote Speaker, AADPRT (Residency Training Director's) Annual Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina
1997 “Ethical Conflicts in Managed Care” American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting
1997 “Defining Appropriate Care” University of California, Berkeley1997 “Can Psychiatrists Serve Each Patient’s Best Interests in an Era of
Managed Care” Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Francisco
1996 “Defining Clinical Empathy for an Era of Managed Care” University of Chicago
1996 “Diverse Patient Values and Guidelines Based on Medical Appropriateness” University of Chicago
1996 “Distributive Justice in Health Care: Can there be Universal Standards for Treatment Benefits?” Philosophy Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1996 “Conflicts of Obligation in Managed care” Keynote Speaker, California Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting
1996 “Diverse Patient Values, Professional Norms and Practice Guidelines” University of Chicago
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1996 “Rationing Health Care: “Are There Universalizable Standards for the Goals of Medicine?” Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1996 “Clinical Ethics in an Era of Rationing” MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago
1996 “Managed Care, Ethics, and Conflicts of Obligation” UCSF/San Francisco Psychiatric Society
1995 “Empathy, Impartiality and the Doctor-Patient Relationship” University of Illinois
1995 “Managed Care: Balance Quality and Cost” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Meeting
1995 “AIDS, Informed Consent and Minors” Panelist, American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting
1995 “Managed Care and Ethics in Psychiatry” Philosophy Department, University of Illinois
1995 “Psychiatry, Managed Care, and Ethical Conflicts” Keynote Speaker, California Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Yosemite
1995 “Academic Careers for M.D.-Ph.D.’s in the Humanities and Social Sciences.” Invited Fellow, University of Illinois Medical Scholar Program
1994 “Informed Consent and Minors with Cancer” The Cancer Center, Cedar Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
1994 “What Ethical Frameworks Shape the Development of Practice Guidelines?” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program National Meeting
1994 “Practice Guidelines and Rethinking the Benefits of Medical Treatments for Pain and Depression” Ethics Grand Rounds, University of Iowa
GRANTS
2018-2020 Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative: Genomic Testing and Newborn Screening, Ethical Issues.
2017-2020 Co-PI. Gene Modification Therapies: Facilitating Regulatory Pathways and Research Subject Understanding,$351,000. Innovative Genomics Institute
2018-2020 Expert Faculty Consultant (Focus on Disability and Respect) The Human Story of Illness: Health Humanities Portraits for Physicians in Training. National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities Initiatives for Hispanic-Serving Institutions. National Endowment for the Humanities. $100,873 Sufian PI. KC Award #090003/IP #00364980
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2016-2018 Funding for 2018 Conference on “Ethical Challenges in Translating Neuorscience into Clinical Research” PI Mark Yarborough. Organizing committee member. Volkswagen Foundation Herrenhausen Conferences.
2014-2016 Co-PI, UC North Bioethics Collaboratory for Life & Health Sciences, University of California Office of the President, $298,289.
2013 Committee on Research, UC Berkeley Humanities Research Awards (for two projects) $5,000
2006-2009 Greenwall Faculty Fellowship: “Affective Forecasting, Emotions and Predicting Subjective Well-being in Health Decisions.” Approx $450,000
2004 Center for Health Research Fellowship, University of California Berkeley
2004 Regent’s Faculty Summer Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley
2003-2007 “Ethical Implications of Health Disparities,” in “Social Disparities in the Early Neurobiology of Stress.” Co-PI NIMH R21 Grant
1999-2000 Townsend Center for the Humanities, Faculty Fellowship, University of California Berkeley.
TEACHING AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
2018 Redesigned and Head UC Berkeley SPH Online On Campus Masters in Public Health (OOMPH) Interdisciplinary Course, Innovative
Integration of Ethics and Negotiation
2017- Co-Founder and Co-Lead, BERGIT: Berkeley Group for Ethics and Regulation of Innovative Technologies
2017- Consultant, “The Empathy Project,” Film Series Sponsored by NYU Langone with Norman Lear and Actors from Major Studios
2016 AMA Education Module on Empathy, contributed core ideas, reviewed and edited the program. https://www.stepsforward.org/modules/empathetic-listening
2016- NEH Working Group Developing Contextualized Bioethics Case-based Curriculum with an emphasis on Living with Disabilities
2015-2017 UC Collaboratory Co-PI: Developing bioethics education across the UC system, including seminars and discussion groups for medical and graduate students, undergraduates and post-doctoral fellows and early career faculty.
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2015-2017 UC Collaboratory Co-PI: Planned and held three national conferences on: CRISPR/Cas 9 and gene “editing”; Big data and Justice; Physician aid in dying.
2015 UC Extension Program for Heath Professionals
2012-present Designing and implementing Online MPH Ethics Curriculum
2005-present Seminar on Clinical Empathy, UCSF MEPN (Masters in Nursing) Program
2005-present Experientia in Psychiatry, UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program
2001-present Partner in designing, implementing and mentoring masters research program for fifty Joint Medical Program students yearly
2001-present Dissertation mentor to multiple students each year
2000-present Contextualized Integrated Case-Based Curriculum, UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program--Assisted in the development of new, innovative curriculum; teach at multiple levels.
1999-present Public Health Ethics Course, UC Berkeley--Designed and developed unique case-centered approach.
1998-present Masters Thesis Year Long Seminar, Joint Medical Program, UC Berkeley
1998 Faculty, Interdisciplinary Campus Dissertation Seminars, Ford Foundation/Townsend Humanities Center
1997 Attending Physician, Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute
1996 Clinical Medical Ethics Weekly Case Conference, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute
1996 Visiting Professor, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics (October-November)
1995 Ethics Curriculum Development, "Doctoring Course," UCLA School of Medicine
1993-1995 "Doctoring I" Seminar Leader, Physician-Patient Relationship Course, UCLA School of Medicine
1992-1993 Consultant, Weekly MICU Ethics/Psychosocial Rounds
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1991-1992 Process Group Leader, UCLA Family Practice Medicine Residency
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
SERVICE TO PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS
2019-present Reviewer, New England Journal of Medicine
2003-present Editorial Board, Journal of Clinical Ethics
2002-present Reviewer, Journal of General Internal Medicine
2001-present Reviewer, Journal of the American Medical Association
2000-present Reviewer, Oxford University Press
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2007-present Director. Advisory Board for the Institute of Personality and Social Research, UCB
2007-present Affiliated Faculty, Kadish Center for Morality, Law and Public Affairs, UCB
2007-present Human Rights Center Faculty Council, University of California, Berkeley2006-present Affiliated Faculty, Philosophy Department, University of California,
Berkeley2017-2018 Chair, Academic Personnel Committee, SPH, UCB2016- Member of UCB Vice Chancellor for Research’s Committee on Conflicts
of Interest2016- Member of UCB Campus Committee for Pre-health Students/Career
Mentoring2016- International Working Group on “Moral residue, moral distress and fallibility in
medical ethics,” Oslo, Norway.2013-2014 Visiting Scholar, San Francisco Federal Reserve Community
Development Division.2012 Advisory Board, Center for Child and Youth Policy, UC Berkeley2012 Invited Consultant, University of Chicago Wisdom Research Grant2010-2011 ASPH Global Health Competency Workgroup Member 2008-2011 Collaboration with Dutch Government Group on Women’s Health Care
Decision-making2004 Consultant, Social Science Research Council2004-2007 Chair, Student Well-Being, Joint Medical Program2004-2010 Member, Multi-Cultural Concern’s Committee, School of Public Health
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2004 Advisory Committee, UCB Center for the Development of Peace and Well-being
2003 Chair, Conference on Genomics, Science and Society, UCB, April2002-2004 Member, Curriculum Committee, Joint Medical Program2002-present Steering Committee, Robert Wood Johnson Scholar’s Program on Health
& Society2001-2002 Member, Faculty Council for the School of Public Health1999-present Member, University of California Working Group on Psychoanalysis1998-present Member, University of California Psychoanalytic Consortium1998 Founder and Chairperson, Clinical Ethics Services, UCLA
Neuropsychiatric Institute1997 Ethics Consultant, UCLA AIDS Institute and CRC for Schizophrenia1997 Consultant, Center for the Study of Physician Behavior, RAND1997 Member, UCLA Hospital Ethics Committee1996 Member, Group on Social Cognition, Brain Research Institute, UCLA1996 Conference Head, “Reporting Child Abuse and Medical Ethics,” UCLA1994 Member, NIMH Working Group, Cost-Effectiveness of Psychotherapy1992 Invited Fellow, Research on the Interaction of Cognition & Affect, UCSF1989-1990 Member, UCLA AIDS and Ethics Committee1988 Evaluator, Caring for Dying Patients, University of Connecticut1982-1988 Member, Dean’s Committee on the Status of Women, Yale University1982 Chairperson, National Student Conference on Bioethics, Yale University
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