Mark H. Waymack
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Associate Professor Philosophy Department Loyola University Chicago 6525 N. Sheridan Road Chicago, IL 60626 Contact Information: Office: Crown Center, 3rd floor Lake Shore Campus Phone: 773.508.2738 Fax: 773.508.2292 E-mail: mwaymac@luc.edu |
Mark Waymack is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. He is also a Fellow of the Buehler Center on Aging, an Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University Medical School for its Program on Medical Ethics and Humanities, and an Adjunct Associate Professor in Loyola University’s Neiswanger Institute for Health Ethics..
Before coming to Loyola, Professor Waymack taught at the College of William and Mary, the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University in 1987.
Professor Waymack has published in the history of ethics, but most of his work has been on health care ethics. He is the co-author with George Taler, M.D. of Medical Ethics and the Elderly, 1988 (Health Administration Press), as well as numerous scholarly articles. Waymack is a frequent speaker at professional meetings on topics in health care ethics and has particular interests in the teaching of ethics, the ethics of health care as a business, ethics and aging, cross cultural bioethics, and biomedical research. He is also working on a philosophy of medicine beyond just issues of ethics.
Professor Waymack has served on an Animal Care and Use Committee and has been a member of two institutional clinical ethics committees, and currently also sits on a pediatric research ethics committee (IRB). He is Past President of the Chicago area consortium of medical ethics educators known as Chicago Clinical Ethics Programs. He has participated as a teaching scholar in an NIH-funded program on ethics in biomedical research. He is active in several professional societies, especially the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and the American Society on Aging, and recieved the “Distinguished Service Award” in 2006 from the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities.
