This medical student initiative became operational in the 2014 Academic Year.
Sixteen students per year are selected to participate in this intensive four-year
ethics program that includes mentoring and shadowing activities.
Mentoring Program
Monthly small group mentoring sessions with the Leadership Through Ethics students
and other electives students are conducted with Ethics Committee faculty member.
Shadowing Program
Both the Office of Pastoral Care and the MCG Clinical Instructor Nurses provide students
with the opportunity to shadow them on their daily rounds and to observe the importance
of their contribution to the promotion of ethical behaviors and their potential to
preempt the need for a formal ethics consult.
Interest within Bioethics: Palliative care and the role of religion/spirituality in
medical care.
Matthew Hopkins
Interest within Bioethics: Medical decision-making capacity, patient autonomy, end
of life care.
Hisham Kashif
Interest within Bioethics: End of Life Care.
Ahmad Rathor
Interest within Bioethics: Patient autonomy, genetic testing, healthcare disparities.
Stephanie Jiang
Interest within Bioethics: Health literacy, palliative care, social determinants of
health.
Nick Orris
Interest within Bioethics: Resource allocation, access to care, healthcare disparities,
patient autonomy.
Grant Whitebloom
Interest within Bioethics: End of life care, Physician-Patient Relationship, Resource
Allocation.
Luke Scanlan
Interest within Bioethics: End of life care, euthanasia, autonomy.
Rashi Agrawal
Interest within Bioethics: End of life care, confidentiality issues.
Class of 2024
Ahana Gaurav
Interest within Bioethics: Access to care, patient autonomy, abortion, genetic testing,
physician assisted suicide.
Brian Basden
Interest within Bioethics: Optimal use of palliative care.
Camelia Malkami
Interest within Bioethics: Reproductive justice, health disparities and social determinants
of health.
Cortney Sugihara
Interest within Bioethics: Capacity for medical decision-making, Distributive justice.
Daley Morera
Interest within Bioethics: Resource allocation, Palliative care, Gene-therapy.
Disha Patel
Interest within Bioethics: Genetic testing and engineering, discrimination in healthcare,
access to care and treatment.
Jake Weiser
Interest within Bioethics: Recognizing Person Biases.
Leslie Adams
Interest within Bioethics: End of life care, public health ethics (especially surrounding
COVID-19).
Lilley Cushman
Interest within Bioethics: Animal rights ethics and patient autonomy.
Merry Chen
Interest within Bioethics: Reproductive, Rural Healthcare, End of Life ethics.
Naema Daino
Interest within Bioethics: Equity of resources, beginning and end of life care, weathering
hypothesis, and biomedical enhancing tools.
Natasha Ramaswamy
Interest within Bioethics: Pediatric Ethics, Newborn Screening, Maternal/Women’s Health.
Preethi Redi
Interest within Bioethics: Healthcare systems.
Sydney Erickson
Interest within Bioethics: Health Disparities, Pediatrics, End of Life Care, and much
more.
Viktoriya Sapkalova
Interest within Bioethics: End of life care, physician assisted suicide.
Vunya Srinivasa
Interest within Bioethics: Use of Reproductive and Genetic Technology, Euthanasia,
End of life decision-making.
Class of 2023
M3: Idris Ali Amghaiab, Lorry Aitkens, Rohan Bagga, Ha Eun Cho, Amanda Delgado, Elena
Diller, Dae Gun Chung Kim, Oladoyin Oladosu, Elizabeth Pryor, Peyton Raley, Dhairya
Shukla, Mary Thomson, Lakshmi Thulluri, Margaret Tyre, Ugochi Uzoigwe, Sarah Vick.
