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The following individuals are currently enrolled in the Institute's Greenwall Fellowship. The post-doctoral fellowship is run jointly with Georgetown University.
 Leslie A. Meltzer, J.D.
Email: lam3q@cms.mail.virginia.edu
Fellow, 2006-2008 Leslie A. Meltzer earned her JD at Yale Law School, her MSc in the History of Medicine at University of Oxford, and her BA summa cum laude in both History and Medical Ethics at University of Virginia. She is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Religious Studies (bioethics specialization) at University of Virginia. Ms. Meltzer's undergraduate and Masters theses focused on research ethics, an area of interest that she has pursued in her service on the Yale Institutional Review Board, at the NIH Office of Human Subjects Research, and as Chair of the American Society for Bioethics' research ethics subcommittee. In her doctoral research, Ms. Meltzer is exploring the concept of "dignity", its various interpretations in bioethics and throughout history, and the degree to which it has any moral force as a normative concept. She plans to elaborate on this work in her scholarship as a Greenwall fellow. Drawing on her philosophical, legal and theological training, she will examine how dignity is used at the edges of life, how it differs from notions of personhood, autonomy and identity, and whether rationality and/or sentience are prerequisites to possessing dignity.
 Michelle N. Meyer, Ph.D., J.D.Fellow, 2007-2009
Michelle N. Meyer received her A.B., summa cum laude and with highest honors, from Dartmouth College. She then earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Religious Studies (bioethics concentration) at the University of Virginia, where her doctoral research examined the ways in which Reinhold Niebuhr and Jean-Paul Sartre's theories of human nature influenced their respective work in practical ethics. After completing her doctoral studies, Dr. Meyer was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, where she published on issues related to DNA and the criminal justice system, including post-conviction testing and offender databases. She then earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and a founding co-editor of the Harvard Law Review Forum. Her law review note, on the ways in which the ethics of human subject research can inform the ethics of non-traditional forms of lawyering in which the good of a client may be in tension with the good of a legal cause, was cited as recommended reading in The Green Bag's Almanac of Exemplary Legal Writing of 2006. Most recently, Dr. Meyer was a law clerk to Judge Stanley Marcus of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. During her tenure as a Greenwall Fellow, she plans to explore how closer attention to relatives' interests in genetic information might revitalize longstanding debates about appropriate ways to regulate such information.
 Dan O'Connor, Ph.D.Dan O’Connor is a historian of medicine with research interests in the intersection between social theory and bioethics. Dr O’Connor was awarded his PhD in History from the University of Warwick in 2007. His doctoral dissertation examined the relationship between transsexuality, life-writing, and the signification of sexual difference. From 2005-2006, he was a Lecturer in the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he ran courses on the histories of human experimentation and body modification. His research as a Greenwall Fellow will explore the ways in which a concentration upon psychological beneficence historically came to exclude any considerations of social justice in the bioethical construction of “elective” medical procedures such as cosmetic or transsexual surgery. He is particularly interested in feminist and literary critical analyses of popular cultural representations of bioethical issues.
 Sara Olack, Ph.D.Email: solack@jhsph.edu
Fellow, 2006-2008 Sara Olack received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University and bachelor’s degree from Rice University. During her Fellowship, she is exploring the implications of recent advances in neuroimaging for our understanding of moral judgment. For her summer internship as a Greenwall Fellow, she developed a report for the Institute of Medicine’s Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders on mental health in developing countries.
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Sirine Shebaya
Fellow, 2007-2009
Sirine Shebaya earned her PhD in Philosophy at Columbia University, and her BA in English Literature with High Distinction at the American University of Beirut. Her doctoral work focuses on philosophical and political issues relating to the view that all and only individuals are ultimate objects of moral concern. She has also done some work on the convention of state sovereignty and its complicated relationship with the goal of achieving global justice. During her Greenwall Fellowship, she plans to work on moral considerability, the feebleness of the distinction between insiders and outsiders, and the duty to provide medical care and resources to “outsiders” such as illegal immigrants and citizens of the developing world. |
 Andrea SutherlandFellow, 2007-2009
Andrea Sutherland is currently a Preventive Medicine Resident at Johns Hopkins University. She is a graduate of the College of Medicine of the University of Illinois-Chicago, where she was a James Scholar, and of Stanford University, where she focused on international relations and public policy. Andrea also has a MSc in infectious disease from the University of London and has completed her MPH and vaccine training at Hopkins (as part of her preventive medicine training). Andrea is one of a growing, and much needed, number of physicians working in vaccine policy. During her Greenwall Fellowship, Andrea will focus on ethical challenges that are at the heart of many vaccine policy conundrums including, for example, international obligations with respect to access to viral samples and vaccines for pandemic influenza, what constitutes an acceptable risk profile for a new vaccine, and whether, or under, what conditions the HPV vaccine should be made mandatory for children. Her other interests include global access to new vaccines.
 Yoram Unguru, M.D.Email: Yungur1@comcast.net
Fellow, 2006-2008 Yoram Unguru earned his MD valedictorian at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (the Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine), where he was awarded the Faculty of Medicine President's Award for superior achievement in clinical rotations. His MA summa cum laude and BA cum laude in historical studies were granted at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Dr. Unguru also received a master of science in interdisciplinary studies in biological and physical science at Touro College / Barry Z. Levine School of Health Sciences, where he graduated as valedictorian and was recognized as the most outstanding student in the biomedical program. He completed his pediatric residency at the Children's Hospital at Sinai, where he received the Harry Gordon Pediatric Resident Scholarly Activity Award for his work on ethical dilemmas surrounding the care of newborns with trisomy 18 and 13. During his pediatric residency, Dr. Unguru served on the hospital ethics committee and was a founding member of the pediatric committee on death and dying. Currently, Dr. Unguru is a pediatric hematology/oncology fellow at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC and is a member of the hospital's Institutional Ethics Forum. Dr. Unguru intends to pursue a career as a physician-ethicist in pediatric hematology/oncology. As a graduate student, he focused on informed consent andcodes of medical conduct as they pertain to vulnerable populations - particularly children. He seeks to build on this earlier work by exploring 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.
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