Jaime Konerman-Sease, PhD, HEC-C
Clinical Ethics Assistant Professor
Expertise: Clinical Ethics | Disability Bioethics | Religious Bioethics | Narrative Bioethics | Medicine and Literature
Dr. Jaime Konerman-Sease is a Clinical Ethics Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics. She is a member of the team at the Center for Bioethics that provides clinical ethics services for the MHealth Fairview System. Her role includes clinical ethics consultation, policy development, and education for all hospitals in the MHealth Fairview system. Additionally, she is a member of the UMMC Ethics Committee.
Dr. Konerman-Sease's academic work focuses on Disability Bioethics, Medicine and Literature, and Religious Bioethics. By drawing from historical sources, she highlights novel solutions to modern-day health care problems. Her current project draws on the novels of Jane Austen to provide solutions to the marginalization of patients with chronic and incurable illnesses in Medicine. Her future work will continue to focus on the intersection of Medicine, Literature, Theology and Disability.
Dr. Konerman-Sease completed her PhD in Health Care Ethics and Theology at Saint Louis University in 2022. Konerman-Sease was a 2020-2021 Student Intern for Ethics and Theology at CommonSpirit Health where she assisted in clinical ethics consultation, policy development, and scarce resource allocation. She received the 2023 Emerging Scholar Award from the Institute on Theology and Disability for her doctoral work on chronic illness, Jane Austen, and Christian theology.
Selected Publications
- Konerman-Sease, J. (2024). Afterlife and Life-After. Literature and Medicine 42(1), 21-25. https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2024.a935829
- Konerman-Sease, J. (2024). On the Ground: Terrestrial Theopoetics and Planetary Politics, by O’neil Van Horn. Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology, 28(2), 222-225. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685357-02802003
- Konerman-Sease, J. (2024). People on Floors: Creating Relics Out of Medical Waste. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 67(4), 556-565. https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2024.a942078
- Konerman-Sease, J., & Penny, J. (2024). Applying the Harm Principle to Elder Care. The American Journal of Bioethics, 24(1), 144–145. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2023.2278560
- Konerman-Sease, J. (2023). Responding to people in pain with Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park. Christian Bioethics: Non-Ecumenical Studies in Medical Morality, 29(3), 207–220. https://doi.org/10.1093/cb/cbad018
- Konerman-Sease, J. (2022). What Bioethics Grad Students Want in Catholic Health Internships. In The Third Annual Catholic Healthcare Innovation in Ethics Forum (Vol. 18, No. 1). https://www.chausa.org/docs/default-source/hceusa/what-bioethics-grad-students-want-in-catholic-health-internships.pdf?sfvrsn=d578c7f2_0