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<p>DALLAS TWP. &#8212; From the questions of cutting-edge medical experimentation to the age-old issue of end-of-life decisions, the medical field has grown ripe &#8212; and rife &#8212; with ethical ramifications, so much so that Misericordia University unveiled a new Center for Human Dignity in Bioethics, Medicine and Health on Wednesday.</p><p>&#8220;Ethics training is very, very important in today&#8217;s society,&#8221; center director Stacy Gallin said. &#8220;And Misericordia University is uniquely qualified to take something like this on&#8221; thanks to the school&#8217;s large programs in two fields: health sciences and humanities.</p><p>&#8220;This center really lies at the intersection of those two areas,&#8221; said Gallin, the founder and director of the Maimonides Institute for Medicine, Ethics, and the Holocaust centered in Freehold, N.J. That organization is focused on exploring ethical implications of medical transgressions during the Holocaust on modern medicine and health care policy.</p><p>Gallin&#8217;s background in Holocaust issues means she has connections at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and she expects that will help the new institute get speakers from the museum.</p><p>Along with working to bring nationally and internationally known speakers to the area, the center &#8220;plans to work with students to incorporate the topic into the education curriculum,&#8221; Gallin said, and to offer students internships with the Institute for which &#8220;they would receive course credits.&#8221;</p><p>An advisory board has been set up to devise other ideas. One plan Gallin hopes to launch is to have &#8220;students do some rounds with doctors in local hospitals&#8221; as part of a broader goal &#8220;to incorporate the topic within the larger community.&#8221;</p><p>And the topic covers a lot of territory, she added.</p><p>&#8220;People automatically think you are talking about medical experimentation when you talk about medical ethics,&#8221; Gallin said. &#8220;Medical experimentation is an important part, but it&#8217;s just one of a very long list of topics.&#8221; Others include both the beginning and end of life, access to health care, treatment of vulnerable populations, and &#8220;working within the confines of public policy.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;These are all things that are real issues that need to be discussed. We need to be able to start a dialogue about these things.&#8221;</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Misericordia University announced formation of The Center for Human Dignity in Biothethics, Medicine and Health during a media conference Wednesday in the president&#8217;s office. From left are Medical and Health Humanities Program Director Amanda Caleb, Univeristy President Thomas J. Botzman, Center for Human Dignity Director Stacy Gallin and Vice President of Academic Affairs David Rehm. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/web1_center-for-diginity-RGB.jpg</photo0><caption0>Misericordia University announced formation of The Center for Human Dignity in Biothethics, Medicine and Health during a media conference Wednesday in the president&#8217;s office. From left are Medical and Health Humanities Program Director Amanda Caleb, Univeristy President Thomas J. Botzman, Center for Human Dignity Director Stacy Gallin and Vice President of Academic Affairs David Rehm. </caption0><photoCredit0>Submitted photo </photoCredit0></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/web1_Center-for-dignity-CMYK.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">Misericordia University announced formation of The Center for Human Dignity in Biothethics, Medicine and Health during a media conference Wednesday in the president&#8217;s office. From left are Medical and Health Humanities Program Director Amanda Caleb, Univeristy President Thomas J. Botzman, Center for Human Dignity Director Stacy Gallin and Vice President of Academic Affairs David Rehm. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo1>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/web1_Center-for-dignity-CMYK.jpg</photo1><caption1>Misericordia University announced formation of The Center for Human Dignity in Biothethics, Medicine and Health during a media conference Wednesday in the president&#8217;s office. From left are Medical and Health Humanities Program Director Amanda Caleb, Univeristy President Thomas J. Botzman, Center for Human Dignity Director Stacy Gallin and Vice President of Academic Affairs David Rehm. </caption1><photoCredit1>Submitted photo </photoCredit1></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Mark Guydish</p><p>mguydish@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Mark Guydish at 570-991-6112 or on Twitter @TLMarkGuydish</p></shirttailMeta></div>

Misericordia announces new Center for Human Dignity