Miles J. Edwards Chair in Professionalism and Comfort Care

Job description

Department Overview OHSU Center for Ethics in Health Care was founded in 1989 with a clear and compelling purpose: to bring justice, compassion, and respect to every aspect of health care in our community. The scope of the Center's work has expanded far beyond the early dreams of its founders, to include: - Innovative education programs for current and future generations of health care professionals throughout the state - A leading national role in transforming care at the end of life, in particular through the development of the ground-breaking Portable Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) program which is now available in most states nationwide as well as a number of other countries - Policy change to address pressing issues such as conflict of interest and access to health care - Research to support important health care reform The OHSU Center for Ethics is a 36 year old, nationally recognized, interprofessional group of individuals seeking to advance ethics in health care. The Edwards Chair is responsible for guiding and supporting the development of teaching about professionalism and ethics with students and trainees of selected OHSU schools and programs and to health...