The RESI leverages Pitt’s intellectual resources to provide curricular, consultative and analytical support on the ethical, legal and social issues arising in the full range of Pitt’s research activities. Pitt Research charged the University’s Center for Bioethics & Health Law, with its experience in the health sciences, to develop this initiative addressing ethical issues in the full range of Pitt research.
Research Ethics Consultation Service Director
Jonathan Fuller, PhD, MD
Assistant Professor of History and Philosophy of Science
Clinical trials and communicating results; death, disorders of consciousness, and dementia research; medical research and medical education research; research during pandemics or involving pandemic-potential pathogens
Research Ethics Consultation Service Members
Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote Professor of Bioethics
Community-based, genetic/genomic, neuro-engineering, psychiatric, transplantation research
Douglas B. White, MD, MAS
Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Medicine, and Clinical Translational Science
Research with patients who lack decision-making capacity, pragmatic trials, end-of-life research
Psychiatric/mental health (pediatric and adult), epidemiology, survey, and behavioral research; suicide, social media, eHealth, and clinical trials
RESI Director
Lisa S. Parker, PhD
Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote Professor of Bioethics
RESI Programming Director
Bridget Keown, PhD
Teaching Assistant Professor
RESI Program Coordinator
Research Ethics Advisory Board Members
Bettina Beech, DrPH, MPH
Clinical Professor of Population Health, Department of Health Systems and Population Health Sciences, Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine, and previously the founding dean of the John D. Bower School of Population Health, University of Houston
Jeremy Berg, PhD
Associate Senior Vice Chancellor for Science Strategy and Planning in the Schools of Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
C. K. (Tina) Gunsalus, JD
Director of the National Center for Professional and Research Ethics; Professor Emerita of Business and Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Eric Hirschhorn, JD
Former Under Secretary for Industry and Security, U.S. Department of Commerce
Michael Holland, PhD
Vice Chancellor for Science Policy and Research Strategies at the University of Pittsburgh
Adam Lee, PhD
Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Programs in the School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh
Audrey Murrell, PhD
Professor of Business Administration, Psychology, Public and International Affairs and Senior Research Fellow for the David Berg Center for Ethics and Leadership within Pitt Business, University of Pittsburgh