ETHICS COMMITTEE

Chair - Kristene Gugliuzza, M.D., UTMB  kgugliuz@utmb.edu

• Charles Ferguson, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital
• Tom Brothers, M.D., MUSC
• Lewis Kaplan, M.D., Yale University School of Medicine
• Debra Koivunen, M.D., Univeristy of Missouri-Columbia
• IIan Rubinfeld, M.D., Henry Ford Hospital, MI
• Stephen Wise, M.D., Rosalind Franklin University, NW University
• Kim Lomis, M.D., Vanderbilt, TN
• Mike Holman, M.D., Harrisburg Hospital

Charge to the Ethics Committee

• Examine the relationship between pharmaceutical companies and surgical residency programs.
• Publish guidelines to enable surgical residency programs to deal with industry representatives in an ethical way.
• Specifically work to establish certain tools that will enable residency programs to effectively educate their residents in professionalism.
• Compromise the committee with members from university, hybrid, and community programs.