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The faculty of the Berman Institute is one of the largest and most varied concentrations of bioethics specialists in the world. Faculty are drawn from four different schools at Johns Hopkins: the School of Medicine, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the School of Nursing, and the School of Arts and Sciences.
Core Faculty
Core Faculty
 Joe Ali, J.D.
Areas of interest: International research ethics; moral and political philosophy; philosophy of law; bioethics and law.
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 Mary Catherine Beach, M.D., M.P.H.
Areas of interest: Patient-physician communication and relationships; respect for persons; social justice; health-care quality for underserved populations; ethics in medical education |
Areas of interest: Need and unmet need for mental health care; quality of life; decision-making and end-of-life care for people with dementia; ethical aspects of dementia research |
Areas of interest: Bioethics; moral philosophy; freedom of the will; the works of Immanuel Kant |
Areas of interest: Clinical ethics, with a particular interest in ethical issues that arise in the context of cultural diversity; research ethics; ethics education at all levels; empirical research, particularly involving qualitative methods |
Ruth Faden, Ph.D., M.P.H., Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics; Director, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
Areas of interest: Bioethics and public policy; ethics and cellular engineering; ethics and bioterrorism; genetics and public policy; research ethics; and justice |
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Areas of interest: Medical ethics; spirituality/religion of the doctor-patient relationship |
Areas of interest: Avoiding over treatment and under treatment of the frail elderly; teaching and learning about over/under treatment of the frail elderly; advance directives |
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Areas of interest: Ethical and psychosocial implications of genetic technologies; provider-patient communication and informed consent; ethics and professionalism in medical education; cross-cultural variation, including complementary and alternative medicine; research ethics |
Areas of interest: Empirical bioethics and health-services research related to sickle cell disease; respect for persons, trust, social justice; African-American perspectives in bioethics |
Areas of interest: Advance-care planning, end-of-life decision-making, professionalism, everyday ethics in the clinical setting, research ethics, ethics in medical education |
Areas of interest: Empirical ethics, equity and vulnerability, health-systems ethics, and priority setting for health-decision making |
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Areas of interest: Developing policy options to guide the development and use of reproductive technologies; currently leading an initiative to improve oversight of genetic-testing quality |
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Areas of interest: Intersection of ethics and health/science policy, including research ethics, ethics and public health, and ethical issues in leading edge biomedical technologies |
Nancy Kass, Sc.D., Phoebe R. Berman Professor of Bioethics and Public Health
Areas of interest: Research ethics, including identifying simpler ways of conducting informed consent in order to increase research participants understanding; public-health ethics and the ethics of infectious diseases, including pandemic influenza; and the ethics of international public-health research and community engagement |
 Dave Kaufman, Ph.D.
Areas of interest: Design and analysis of public opinion surveys relating to health policy.
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 Debra Mathews, Ph.D., M.A., Assistant Director for Science Programs, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
Areas of interest: Stem cell research, neuroscience, genetics; intersection of science, public policy and society
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Areas of interest: Bioethics, global health ethics, international research ethics, moral philosophy, moral psychology |
Areas of interest: Ethics education in the clinical and pre-clinical setting; ethics and professionalism in outpatient care; empiric evaluation of the outcomes of ethics education, and issues of consent and confidentiality in adolescent medicine |
Areas of interest: Patient and family decision-making in serious illness; end-of-life decision making; living organ donor decision-making |
 Dan O'Connor, Ph.D
Areas of interest: Social media and social networking in healthcare and health policy; ethics of body modification (cosmetic surgery, transsexuality, transableism); history of bioethics.
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Areas of interest: How family members make decisions for persons with end-stage dementia; how consent is determined for research studies that impair cognition; and how the concept of self reflects the organization of specific brain structures
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Areas of interest: Palliative and end-of-life care, moral distress and caregiver suffering, clinical ethics, ethical issues that arise in nursing practice and pediatrics |
Areas of interest: Genetics counseling and testing
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Areas of interest: Ethical and legal issues in human stem cell research; exploitation in research; and privacy |
Jeremy Sugarman, M.D., M.P.H., M.A., Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Bioethics and Medicine; Deputy Director for Medicine, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
Areas of interest: Informed consent, research ethics, and the ethical issues associated with emerging technologies |
Areas of interest: Research ethics; local implementation of federal policy relevant to human subject research; HIV/AIDS policy; and qualitative research methods |
Areas of interest: Ethics education in medical school and in-house staff programs; end-of-life decision-making; conflicts of interest, and relationships between physicians and the pharmaceutical industry |
Areas of interest: Communication between patients and health-care providers, with an emphasis on children and disclosure of mental-health issues |
Areas of interest: Ethical discussions regarding newborns with congenital defects, the right to life, death and dying
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Associate Faculty
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Areas of Interest: Law and bioethics, health policy, reproductive health policy and research ethics |
Areas of interest: The intersection of bioethics and human rights, with particular focus on ethics of medicine and physiology
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Areas of Interest: Surrogate decision-making and the role of children and providers in facilitating shared decision-making among all relevant parties; moral issues that frequently arise in the context of pediatric hematology/oncology; ethics education and research ethics |
Areas of interest: Jewish law and medical ethics; ethical issues in the care of geriatric patients with dementia and other psychiatric conditions; the interface between psychiatry and religion |
Areas of interest: International clinical research; development of complementary and alternative medicines; ethics of human experimentation; and clinical pharmacology of antiviral drugs |
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Carlton Haywood Jr
Peter Rabins
