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2006 Winners for Student Stipends in Ethics

Geneva Brundage | Arts & Sciences undergraduate

Project: To produce guidelines for medical students and continuing education materials for healthcare professionals about how to better disclose doctor errors to patients. These guidelines will be given to the medical treatment and education communities to enhance this aspect of the doctor-patient relationship by honoring both doctors' and patients' values.

Advisors: Bradley Stoner, MD, PhD. | Associate Professor in the Washington University in St. Louis Departments of Anthropology and Internal Medicine
Thomas Gallagher, MD | Assistant Professor in the University of Washington School of Medicine's Departments of Medical History and Ethics and General Internal Medicine

Matthew Carter Cashen | Ph.D candidate in the Department of Philosophy

Project: To research and draft a paper in the field of biomedical ethics. The goal is to introduce a set of practical limitations on patient autonomy in end-of-life decision procedures.

Advisor: Larry May | Professor of Philosophy

Rahul Kasukurthi | First Year Medical Student Washington University School of Medicine

Project: Healthcare Delivery, Allocation, and Disparities in South India. He will gain a general understanding of the overarching philosophies and policies that drive the delivery of Indian healthcare and will explore how scarce healthcare resources are aggregated and distributed, and will investigate disparities among different populations.

Advisor: Cynthia Wichelman, MD | FACEP, Asst. Professor of Emergency Medicine in Medicine,Washington University School of Medicine

Clare D. Masson | MSW candidate George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis

Project: Faces of Poverty: Whose Responsibility is it? This project's overarching goal is to study the Chilean reaction to Chilean poverty and whose responsibility it is to care for the indigent.

Advisor: Michelle Putnam, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, George Warren Brown School of Social Work

Eric Scott Repice | PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology | MFA Candidate, Printmaking and Drawing Department

Project: Good Work: Values, Evaluation, and Justification in Graduate Art Training. He will conduct literature reviews and prepare the questions and issues that will form the basis for conducting interviews and a series of roundtable discussions with art students and faculty here at Washington University concerning values, evaluation, and justification in art training.

Advisor: John Bowen | Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences

Claire Wolff | Arts & Sciences sophomore

Project: Picture the Future is an educational and artistic after-school program that combines photography and creative writing to engage children in a new way of learning about themselves and their world. The project aims to provide high-risk children with the technical skills of photography as well as the opportunity to have an artistic and creative outlet that they would otherwise lack.

Advisor: Stephanie N. Kurtzman | Director of Community Service