Service Program
St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital
The Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy provides ongoing leadership for an ethics consultation program at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital. The coordinator of this program is Laurence B. McCulloug, Ph.D. The ethics consultation program has created a response team comprised of members from the professional staff of St. Luke's and from the faculty of the center. In consultation with the ethics committee at St. Luke's, Dr. McCullough has developed a syllabus for the training of the members of the response team, who are then responsible for ethics consultations on a rotating basis after the training is complete.
The Methodist Hospital-Texas Medical Center
The center coordinates the Biomedical Ethics Service at The Methodist Hospital-Texas Medical Center. Baruch A. Brody, Ph.D. is the director of the program that includes teaching residents, supporting Biomedical Ethics Committee activities, providing quarterly Ethics Grand Rounds and coordinating the Ethics Consult Team.
As part of this service, center faculty members participate in multidisciplinary rounding in the ICUs, provide a range of educational programs for the staff, review and support ethics-related policies and participate in the The Ethics Consult Team. The Ethics Consult Team consists of center faculty members and specially trained TMH professional staff and is a 24-7 on-call service.