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Exploring Bioethics - A New Model for
Classroom Instruction
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Jeanne Ting Chowning
Jeanne Ting Chowning serves as Director of Education for the nonprofit Northwest
Association for Biomedical Research (NWABR – www.nwabr.org).
Since 1993, Jeanne has focused her professional efforts on improving pre-college
science education and promoting a greater understanding of biomedicine, biotechnology,
and bioethics among teachers and their students.
She is the Principal Investigator of two federal grants related to bioethics: Collaborations
to Understand Research and Ethics, a Science Education Partnership Award
grant (from the National Center for Research Resources at the NIH), engages teachers
and students in biomedical research ethics and Bio-ITEST (from the National Science
Foundation) explores bioinformatics and its social contexts.
She also directs NWABR’s numerous education outreach programs, including the award-winning
Student Bio Expo. She authored NWABR’s Ethics Primer, contributed to development
of curricular units on HIV Vaccines and Stem Cell Research, and has published several
articles on bioethics and science education. She serves as the co-President of the
Genetics Advisory Committee for the Washington State Department of Health and is
past-president of the Board of Trustees of the Washington Biotechnology Foundation.
She contributes her efforts to many regional and national projects related to science
education, ethics, and equity. Prior to joining the staff of NWABR, Jeanne was a
teacher and science department chairperson in a public high school.
Jeanne earned a B.A. in Biology from Cornell University, a B.F.A. from the San Francisco
Art Institute and teaching certification and an M.S. in Biology at the University
of Washington. She served as a curriculum writer for Exploring Bioethics.
Mildred Solomon, EdD
Mildred Solomon, EdD, is Vice President of Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC),
an international non-profit research and development organization of more than 1200
professional staff, and Associate Clinical Professor of Social Medicine, Medical
Ethics, and Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. At EDC, Dr. Solomon directs its
Center for Applied Ethics, an interdisciplinary group of social scientists engaged
in a variety of studies focusing on values questions, medical uncertainty and health
system quality improvement. At Harvard, she directs the medical school’s Fellowship
in Medical Ethics, a program aimed at building the bioethics capacity of the Harvard-affiliated
teaching hospitals.
An expert in ethics education and educational research methods, Dr. Solomon has
more than 30 years’ experience researching, designing, and evaluating a wide variety
of education and quality improvement programs for health professionals, health care
organizations, and the public through projects funded by the National Institutes
of Health, the Centers for Disease Control, the Agency for Health Research and Quality,
and numerous foundations. She is the project director of the National Institute
of Health’s bioethics supplement, produced under contract to the Office of Science
Education and the Clinical Bioethics Center at the NIH. Her policy contributions
include consultations to two committees of the Institute of Medicine, and she currently
sits on the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services’ Advisory Committee on Organ
Transplantation, which makes national policy recommendations to the Secretary for
enhancing organ donation and transplantation. Recently elected a Fellow of The Hastings
Center, an internationally renowned bioethics policy institute, Solomon was honored
in the mid-1990s by the Association of Academic Health Centers for a career demonstrating
“excellence in educational research.” She is a graduate of Smith College and received
her doctorate from Harvard University.
Emily Abdoler
Emily Abdoler is a fellow in the Clinical Center Department of Bioethics at the
National Institutes of Health. Her research interests center on human subjects research
ethics, with a focus on vulnerable populations.
Ms. Abdoler received her B.A. in Molecular Biology through the Oxbridge Honors Program at William Jewell College, where she also double-majored in Bioethics. She has conducted genetics research at William Jewell, Stanford University School of Medicine, and the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. In 2005, she was named a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar, as well as a member of the USA Today All-American Collegiate Academic Third Team, for her work and potential in scientific research. In 2006, she was a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship.
Following her college graduation, Ms. Abdoler served as a lecturer in the Biology Department at William Jewell College. During that time, she developed and directed an interdisciplinary summer science enrichment camp for adolescents through funding from the Kauffman Foundation, personally designing the bioethics curriculum. As an undergraduate, Ms. Abdoler founded a science service organization and regularly volunteered as a science instructor for the after school science club the organization sponsored.
Before beginning the fellowship at the National Institutes of Health, Ms. Abdoler was a long-term intern and volunteer at the Center for Practical Bioethics in Kansas City, MO, where she was involved in work associated with the Kansas City Partnership to Advance Pediatric Palliative Care.
Ms. Abdoler will begin medical school in the fall.
For more information contact symposia@nsta.org
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Underwritten in part by the National Institutes of Health.
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