Anita J. Tarzian, PhD, MS, BSN, BA

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1 Anita J. Tarzian, PhD, MS, BSN, BA Anita Tarzian serves as Program Coordinator for the Maryland Health Care Ethics Committee Network (MHECN), which is run out of the Law and Health Care Program at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. Dr. Tarzian is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, in the Department of Family and Community Health. She serves as an IRB Co-Chair at Chesapeake Research Review, Inc., in Columbia, MD, and also as an independent ethics consultant. She served as Chair of the Clinical Ethics Consultation Affairs (CECA) Standing Committee of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH), and ASBH s Core Competencies Update Task Force, which produced a second edition of the report, Core Competencies for Health Care Ethics Consultation. Dr. Tarzian received her doctorate in Nursing (focus in Ethics) from the University Of Maryland School Of Nursing, and a Masters from the same university in Intercultural Nursing. She has a clinical background in surgical oncology and hospice nursing, and is a returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Dominican Republic). Her professional focus has been in clinical and research ethics, including clinical ethics consultation in acute and long-term care settings, ethics education, palliative care, hospice, the influence of culture on health care decision-making, and disability rights.

2 Donna Newman Donna Newman is Network Compliance and Business Integrity Officer at Department of Veterans Affairs VA Capitol Health Care Network. She received a B.S. degree in Social Work from Shepherd University and M.A in Communication Studies with a concentration in Health Administration from West Virginia University. She has been active in the area of Integrated Ethics for seven years and a frequent contributor to the National Center for Ethics in Health Care. She serves as Network Integrated Ethics Point of Contact, leading program efforts in Ethical Leadership, Preventive Ethics and Ethics Consultation.

3 Evan D. DeRenzo, PhD Evan G. DeRenzo, Ph.D., is the Assistant Director of the Center for Ethics at MedStar Washington Hospital Center (MWHC), Washington, D.C. Moving into this position recently, she was Senior Clinical Ethicist at the Center for 15 years after moving from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). There, she was the First Senior Staff Fellow in Bioethics at the NIH where she specialized in research ethics. Since moving to the Center, she has focused on clinical ethics and has now more formally turned her attentions to organizational ethics as well. Chairperson of her hospital s ethics committee s Subcommittee on Organizational Ethics, she is the Co-Convener of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) Organizational Ethics Affinity Group. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Maryland in Human Development/ Gerontology. Dr. DeRenzo has consulted for not-for-profit and for-profit organizations in both research and clinical ethics and holds a business process patent in organizational ethics. She is now retired as adjunct faculty at The Johns Hopkins University, where she taught in the Graduate Program in Biotechnology. She is widely published in research and clinical ethics.

4 Mark T. Hughes, M.D., M.A. Mark Hughes is a clinician-educator in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins and a core faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. He received his B.A. in philosophy at the University of Virginia, his M.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and his M.A. in philosophy with a concentration in bioethics from Georgetown University. Following residency training at the University of Rochester, Dr. Hughes completed a HRSA fellowship in Primary Care Research in the bioethics track at Georgetown. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and in Hospice and Palliative Care. He has maintained an active practice in general internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center since 1997, and in 2013, he became an attending physician on the palliative care service at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. In addition to his clinical care, he divides his time between research in ethics and end of life care issues, and education of medical students, residents, fellows, and faculty. As a core faculty member of the Berman Institute of Bioethics (the BI), Dr. Hughes is involved in several programs. He is a member of the Research Ethics Achievement Program (REAP), which is a part of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR); His work in research ethics has included serving as an alternate member on the JHM IRB and coordinating an educational experience for the IRB members in the School of Public Health. Dr. Hughes is the director of the course REWards, Research Ethics Workshops about responsibilities and duties of scientists, aimed at investigators performing human subjects research in the School of Medicine. He also directed the predecessor course, CORE, the Course on Research Ethics, which was mandatory for all School of Medicine faculty and fellows who conduct human subjects research. He is co-developer and co-director of the course, Introduction to Research Ethics, for graduate students in the School of Medicine. He is also a lecturer on research ethics for the Research Coordinator course in the School of Nursing. From 1997 to 2002, Dr. Hughes served as a guest observer on the I.R.B. of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). In recent years, he has served as the ethics consultant on two different Data Safety and Monitoring Boards at the NHLBI. In his work on clinical ethics at the Berman Institute, Dr. Hughes is a member of the Program on Ethics in Clinical Practice (POECP), in which the BI provides ethics training for Hopkins graduate and undergraduate medical education. From 2005 to 2012, he was awarded a Blaustein Scholarship through the BI to conduct empiric research and develop curricula in clinical ethics. Dr. Hughes collaborates with other POECP faculty to deliver clinical ethics education in the departments of medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics/gynecology, neurology, neurosurgery, and ophthalmology. Dr. Hughes has been co-chair of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Ethics Committee and Consultation Service (Ethics Service) since He has served on the Ethics Service since 1997, participating in numerous ethics consults and helping to formulate hospital policy on issues such as futility, medical orders for life-sustaining treatments, ethics consultation, acceptance of philanthropic gifts, and management of Ebola virus disease. From 1999 to 2014, he served on the executive committee of the Ethics Service, chairing the subcommittee on ethics consultation standards.

5 In the School of Medicine, Dr. Hughes was a core faculty member of the Florence R. Sabin College from 2005 to 2014; in this role, he served as an advisor to medical students from all classes and taught clinical skills to first year medical students. He currently teaches ethics in the first year course Fundamentals of Public Health and Ethics, in the second year course Transition to Wards, in TIME (Topics in Interdisciplinary Medicine) intersessions throughout all four years, and in the fourth year course TRIPLE (Transition to Residency and Internship and Preparation for Life). He is a preceptor in the Longitudinal Clerkship, where he is paired with first and second year students as they have their outpatient clinical experience. For several years, he served as a preceptor in the Master Clinician program, which provided pre-medical, undergraduate students an opportunity to shadow experienced clinicians as they saw patients. Dr. Hughes is co-developer and associate editor of the Internal Medicine Curriculum on the PEAC Physician Education and Assessment Center, formerly the Internet Learning Center, an Internet-based curriculum used by over 200 residency programs across the country. Dr. Hughes has served as a lecturer and facilitator in the Faculty Development Program course Curriculum Development, helping to oversee the development of several curricular projects at Johns Hopkins. He is also co-editor of and contributor to the book Curriculum Development for Medical Education: A Six-Step Approach Second Edition and is currently working on the third edition. Extracurricularly, Dr. Hughes is involved in several professional organizations. He has been a member of the Society of General internal Medicine (SGIM) since 1996, and from , he was the organizer of the SGIM End of Life Interest Group. From 2002 to 2004, he served as an Associate Editor at JGIM, the Journal of General Internal Medicine. From 2005 to 2006, he was the secretary/treasurer of the Mid-Atlantic region for SGIM and since 2011, he has been a member of the SGIM Ethics Committee. He has been involved in the research ethics organization Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R) and its former adjunct, the Applied Research Ethics National Association (ARENA). In ARENA, he served on the organization s governing council as alternate or full representative for the Mid-Atlantic Region from and was a faculty member at several national workshops. He is a member of the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.