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Ethics in Medicine Expert
New Brunswick, N.J. – A highly-regarded expert on biomedical ethicsand health lawinNew Jersey will be the featured speaker atthe annual Mates David and Hinna Stahl Memorial Lecture on Bioethics, a free community seminar at UMDNJ-Robert WoodJohnson Medical School. Russell L. McIntyre, ThD, professor emeritus, Environmental and Occupational Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School will discuss ethics and the transformation of American medicine during the free seminar at 4 p.m., Monday, March 31, 2008, at the Clinical Academic Building, room 1302, 125 Paterson Street, New Brunswick.
For more than 30 years, Dr. McIntyre served as a full-time faculty member at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School where he taught medical ethics, medicine and the law, death and dying, and human sexuality. He served as chair of the advisory committee for that Stahl Lecture since its inception in 1997 until his retirement in 2006.
Dr. McIntyre also held an appointment as professor of Health Systems and Policy at the UMDNJ-School of Public Health and served as the bioethicist for Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, where he had a medical staff appointment in the Department of Medicine to provide consultations in medical ethics. He served on the hospital's Bioethics Committee for more than 25 years and served as an advisory committee member to its Pastoral Care Program, in which he regularly provided seminars on ethics and pastoral care.
Recognized statewide as an expert on bioethics, Dr. McIntyre served as commissioner of the New Jersey State Bioethics Commission and was a board member of New Jersey Health Decisions, which works to improve end-of-life care and medical decision-making through training, outreach, and policy development. Appointed by the Chief Justice of the New Jersey State Supreme Court, he served on a special Task Force on Judicial Confidentiality and was a member of the National Board of Directors of Planned Parenthood Federation of America for seven years. For 10 years, Dr. McIntyre was the editor-in-chief of Trends in Health Care, Law & Ethics, A Quarterly Journal of Contemporary Issues in Health Care.
In 1982, at the request of the New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners, Dr. McIntyre developed a UMDNJ-sponsored continuing education course in professional ethics and boundaries for physicians under disciplinary action for ethical boundary violations in the practice of medicine. The course, PRIM~E, Professional Renewal in Medicine through Ethics, has been approved by licensing boards in 36 states. He continues to offer this course six times per year.
As professor emeritus, Dr. McIntyre serves as a guest lecturer at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and continues his affiliation at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital as a member of the Bioethics Committee. He provides Grand Rounds and specialty lectures at hospitals and medical societies throughout the tri-state area.
Dr. McIntyre received his undergraduate degree in Philosophy from Wagner College; a divinity degree from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia; two Master’s degrees from Wittenberg University, and his doctorate in Ethics with highest honors from the University of Toronto, where he was designated the Principal Caven Memorial Scholar. He completed his post-doctoral training in medical ethics and health law, as a Kennedy Fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School and at the Center for Law and Health Sciences at Boston University.
The endowed lecture is named in honor of Mates David and Hinna Stahl, parents of Theodore J. Stahl, MD, clinical professor of radiology and medicine. This is the eleventh lecture in the annual series. Parking is available at the Paterson Street deck, adjacent to the Clinical Academic Building; light refreshments will be served following the lecture. For more information, directions and to RSVP for the seminar, call 732-235-5810.
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