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Program
Staff
Robert M. Sade, M.D.
Director
Tabitha L. Brown
Administrative Coordinator
Background
The Institute was created in 1994 as an interdisciplinary program dedicated to
scholarly inquiry at the intersection of bioethics with health policy. The
interdisciplinary membership of the Institute is drawn from the medical, humanities, and
social sciences faculties of the Medical University of South Carolina, the College of
Charleston, the University of South Carolina, and professionals in the lay community. The
work of the Institute is augmented by contributions from other scholars in South Carolina.
Their specific areas of interest encompass such topics as physician-assisted suicide, the
interaction of clinical ethics with managed care, the relation of law enforcement to drug
use in pregnancy, and ethical issues in gene technology. The Institute was created by
Robert M. Sade, M.D., Professor of Surgery at MUSC, with the advice and support of Layton
McCurdy, M.D., Dean of the College of Medicine. The College provides financial support of
the Institute and its activities.
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