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. McCullough, 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.
Texas Children's Hospital
Laurence B. McCullough, P.hD. serves as the ethicist for the Texas Children's Hospital Fetal Center, in which capacity he attends weekly multi-disciplinary case conferences and providing an ethics perspective on these cases. Dr. McCullough is also chair of the Fetal Therapy Board of the Fetal Center. The board is charged with the reviewing of all planned innovative procedures for fetal benefit.
Dr. McCullough is also the ethicist on the TCH Gender Medicine Team in the new Center for Excellence in Gender Medicine, led by Dr. Lefkothea Karaviti. He attends the monthly (soon to be biweekly) case conferences while also working with the Team on practice guidelines and publications. He is a member of the Bioethics Committee, which also includes service on the subcommittee of the Bioethics Committee that provides ethics consultations.