M.A. in Health care Ethics: Faculty
A large number of Loyola's large philosophy faculty have a role in the graduate offerings in applied and theoretical moral philosophy, and a number of these play a central role in the health care ethics program. Currently four faculty are heavily committed to teaching and research in health care ethics, and other faculty are part of the program by offering courses in ethics, moral theory, and the history of ethics.
Heidi Malm, Ph.D. Dr. Malm's areas of specialization include ethical theory, bioethics and law. Her academic research focuses on ethical issues involving autonomy and the prevention of harm, with a current focus on issues within the field of preventive medicine and law. She has published on the topics of killing vs. letting die, legal paternalism, medical screening, bad samaritan laws and the duty to aid, consent and the law on rape, and surrogate motherhood, among others, and her articles have appeared in a variety of high-profile journals including Ethics, The Hastings Center Report, Law and Philosophy, American Journal of Bioethics and Philosophy and Public Affairs. She continues to serve as the bioethicist on several committees for the National Institutes of Health and has been an invited speaker at numerous schools of medicine and public health, including Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Northwestern.
David Ozar, Ph.D. Dr. Ozar is Co-Director of the Program in Health Care Ethics. In addition to his duties at Loyola, Ozar serves on the ethics committee at Evanston Hospital and teaches health care ethics on a regular basis for Evanston Hospital's Department of Medicine. He is the co-editor of Philosophical Issues in Human Rights, was the founding editor of the ethics column of the Journal of the American Dental Association, and is the author of many articles in health care and professional ethics.
Jennifer Parks, Ph.D. Dr. Parks recently joined the department, in 1997, and brings to the program her expertise in health care ethics, ethical theory, feminism, and social philosophy, as well as some sound clinical experience.
Mark H. Waymack, Ph.D. Dr. Waymack, Co-Director of the Program in Health Care Ethics, is the co-author of Medical Ethics and the Elderly. In addition to his teaching at Loyola, he is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine (Program in Medical Ethics and Humanities) at Northwestern University's Medical School. He also is a Fellow of Northwestern University's Center on Aging and serves on the ethics committee of the Council for Jewish Elderly.
Victoria Wike, Ph.D. The author of Kant's Antinomies of Reason, Dr. Wike has focused on issues of reason and autonomy and on issues of nursing ethics. Dr. Wike is also the Director of the undergraduate Minor in Bioethics.
