Miles J. Edwards Chair in Professionalism and Comfort Care

Department Overview

OHSU Center for Ethics in Health Care was founded in 1989 with a clear and compelling purpose: to bring justice, compassion, and respect to every aspect of health care in our community. The scope of the Center's work has expanded far beyond the early dreams of its founders, to include:

• Innovative education programs for current and future generations of health care professionals throughout the state
• A leading national role in transforming care at the end of life, in particular through the development of the ground‑breaking Portable Orders for Life‑Sustaining Treatment (POLST) program which is now available in most states nationwide as well as a number of other countries
• Policy change to address pressing issues such as conflict of interest and access to health care
• Research to support important health care reform

The OHSU Center for Ethics is a 36‑year‑old, nationally recognized, interprofessional group of individuals seeking to advance ethics in health care. The Edwards Chair is responsible for guiding and supporting the development of teaching about professionalism and ethics with students and trainees of selected OHSU schools and programs and to health care professionals in Oregon and nationally.

The appointee shall provide services as assigned by the supervisor in furtherance of the university’s missions and goals of teaching, research, patient care, outreach and public service.

This position reports to (supervisor):
Fabrice Jotterand, PhD, MA

Please include CV, letter of intent and four references with your application.

Teaching

• Guiding and supporting the development of teaching about professionalism and ethics with students and trainees of selected OHSU schools and programs and to health care professionals in Oregon and nationally.
• Teaching curricula on professionalism and comfort care to be included in selected OHSU schools and program courses, including curriculum for the Living with Life‑Threatening Illness course for medical students. The individual will also participate in teaching at other Center events.
• Facilitating the planning and leading the Oregon Bioethics & Humanities Colloquium (OBHC) series.
• Participating in the education of students, residents and fellows to become the next generation of ethics leaders for the Center, OHSU and the community.
• Mentoring junior faculty in professionalism, ethics and end‑of‑life comfort care knowledge and teaching leadership process skills.
• Modeling intercultural competence and employing innovative technology to enhance the educational effectiveness of campus‑based and distance teaching, learning and research.

Scholarship

• Scholarly activities related to the field of professionalism and ethics issues related to end‑of‑life care, fulfilling all requirements for the ethical conduct of research, and complying with all rules, regulations and requirements of the sponsoring organization and OHSU.
• Assisting in the translation of theory and research into practical usefulness in policy and patient care.
• Focusing scholarship on primary research and the development of educational and translational resources regarding professionalism and clinical ethics issues related to end‑of‑life care, as well as innovative educational and curricular materials for application across professions and care settings.
• Publishing and sharing research findings with the broader community by submitting and presenting abstracts and papers for publication at local, regional, national and international meetings.

Service

• Serving on Center‑related committees and participating in key fund‑raising activities for the Center; participating in Ethics Center recruitment of faculty and staff; and other organizational activities.
• Partnering with other schools to build interprofessional teaching opportunities on professionalism and comfort care.
• Participating in the development of educational grant proposals and subsequent implementation.

This is a 0.5 FTE position and requires that the individual have FTE in another department or program  successful candidate will have either:

• A doctoral degree in a health profession with a master’s or doctoral…