Journal of Fertilization: In Vitro - IVF-Worldwide, Reproductive Medicine, Genetics & Stem Cell Biol
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Ruth L Fischbach

Biography

 Dr. Fischbach is Board member of the Morris Jumel Mansion in historic Washington Heights and is an emeritus member of the Board of Directors of PRIM&R (Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research). Dr. Fischbach served from 1998 to 2001 as Senior Advisor for Biomedical Ethics in the Office of the Director of Extramural Research at the National Institutes of Health. Here she participated in many federal interagency committees designed to protect the rights and promote the welfare of research participants. While at the NIH, she produced Bioethics Resources on the Web, a useful Web site resource for the research community, and two guidance documents: Protection of Participants in Behavioral and Social Sciences Research and Research Involving Individuals with Questionable Capacity to Consent: Points to Consider. She received an NIH Award of Merit for her efforts in establishing the Tuskegee Center for Bioethics. From1990 -1998 Dr. Fischbach was a bioethicist/ medical sociologist at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Social Medicine and the Division of Medical Ethics. She was Director of the Program in the Practice of Scientific Investigation, served on the HMS IRBand served as a consultant for Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Hospitals. While at Washington University from 1983 - 1990, as an Assistant Dean, she headed the Ethics Program and founded the Humanities in Medicine Program.

Research Interest

Bioethics

 End of life issues

Autonomy of the elderly

Neuroethics

Reproductive technology

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