Clinical Ethics
We provide ethics consultation for the entire M Health Fairview system. We help educate teams across system hospitals from bedside teaching to educational forums on issues raised by site ethics committees to webinars on common challenges across the system. We also conduct background research and provide input on system policies and on organizational ethics issues, working with the system’s Clinical Ethics Council.
Debra DeBruin, PhD, oversees the clinical ethics work. Joel Wu, JD, MPH, MA, HEC-C and Jennifer Needle, MD, MPH serve as the system wide clinical ethics co-leads; they also co-chair the ethics committee at the University of Minnesota Medical Center. Jaime Konerman-Sease, PhD and Justin Penny, DO, MD serve as clinical ethicists.