Graduates from the Saint Louis University Center for Health Care Ethics have an excellent job placement rate. Nearly all of our graduates seeking full-time employment in an ethics-related field have found positions within months of graduation and doctoral candidates are well prepared for placements in academia.
Recent appointments include academic, clinical and corporate positions, such as:
- Tenure-track assistant professor of philosophy
- Tenure-track assistant professor of health services
- Director of a university bioethics institute
- Clinical ethics postdoctoral fellowships
- Vice president of ethics in health care systems
- Director of ethics or mission in health care systems
Academia and Post-Doctoral Fellowships
Shahram Ahmadi Nasab Emran, M.D., Ph.D. (Grad '20)
Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy at Villanova University
Emily Anderson, Ph.D. (Grad ‘07)
Assistant professor of bioethics at the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health
Policy at the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
Alec Arnold, Ph.D. (Grad '21)
Director of Ministry Formation at Bon Secours Mercy Health
Abram L. Brummett Ph.D. (Grad ‘19)
Clinical ethics fellow of the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical College
Kelly Dineen, R.N., J.D., Ph.D. (Grad ‘15)
Assistant professor and co-director of the Bander Center at the Albert Gnaegi Center
for Health Care Ethics
Annie Friedrich, Ph.D. (Grad '21)
Fellowship Staff Scientist at Washington University Bioethics Research Center
Tyler Gibb, J.D., Ph.D. (Grad ‘15)
Assistant professor at the University Western Michigan School of Medicine
Amanda Hine, Ph.D. (Grad '16)
Assistant professor at Regis University
Erika Ann Jeschke, Ph.D. (Grad ‘15)
Post-doctoral research fellow at the Uniformed Services University of Health Services
Jaime Konerman-Sease, M.A. (Ph.D. Candidate)
Clinical Ethics Adjunct Professor at the University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics
Kayla Kostelecky, J.D, Ph.D. (Grad '20)
Affiliate Faculty, Health Services Education at Regis University in Denver
D. Robert MacDougall, M.Div., Ph.D. (Grad ‘12)
Assistant professor of philosophy in New York City College of Technology at CUNY
Ruaim Muaygil, MBBS, MBE, Ph.D. (Grad ‘18)
Healthcare ethics faculty at King Saud University
Gina Noia, Ph.D. (Grad ‘18)
Assistant professor of theology at Ave Maria University
Benjamin Parks , Ph.D. (Grad ‘20)
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Medical Ethics at Mercy College of Ohio
Andrew Plunk, MPH, Ph.D. (Grad ‘11)
Assistant professor of pediatric community health research at Eastern Virginia Medical
School
Erica Salter, Ph.D. (Grad ‘11)
Assistant professor and director of the Ph.D. program at the Albert Gnaegi Center
for Health Care Ethics
Jerome Schmelzer, Ph.D. (Grad ‘09)
River University (NH) and West Essex
Devan Stahl, M.Div., Ph.D. (Grad ‘15)
Assistant professor at Michigan State University’s Center for Ethics and Humanities
in Life Sciences
Bradley Thornock, MPH, Ph.D. (Grad ‘15)
Assistant professor at Saginaw Valley State University
Kevin Valadares, MHA, Ph.D. (Grad ‘03)
Chair of health administration and associate professor at University of Southern Indiana
Rebecca Volpe, Ph.D. (Grad ‘11)
Assistant professor of bioethics at the Hershey Medical Center
Kevin Voss, D.V.M., Ph.D. (Grad ‘12)
Associate professor of philosophy and director of the Concordia Center for Bioethics
Clinical Ethics and Medical Practice
Michelle Bach, Ph.D. (Grad ‘20)
M.D. student
Nathaniel Brown, M.D., Ph.D. (Grad ‘10)
Adult cardiothoracic anesthesiology fellow at the University of Colorado Health Sciences
Center
Christine Gorka, Ph.D. (Grad ‘10)
Director of the Clinical Ethics Center at Memorial Medical Center
Barbara Hinze, Ph.D. (Grad ‘14)
Clinical ethicist at Memorial Medical Center
James Hynds, Ph.D. (Grad ‘05)
Senior clinical ethicist and fellowship director at UCLA Ethics Center, and visiting
professor of medicine at David Geffen School of Medicine
Elena Kraus, M.D., Ph.D. (Grad ‘13)
Resident in obstetrics and gynecology at Saint Louis University
Jay R. Malone, M.D., Ph.D. (Grad ‘19)
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Critical Care Medicine & Section Leader for Ethics
and Health Policy at Washington University
Medical Director of Ethics at St. Louis Children's Hospital Services
Anji Wall, M.D., Ph.D. (Grad ‘09)
Clinical instructor of general surgery and abdominal transplant at Stanford Children's
Hospital
Health Care Systems Ethics Executives
Rachelle Barina, MTS, Ph.D. (Grad ‘16)
System director of ethics and formation at SSM Health
Elliott Bedford, M.A., Ph.D. (Grad ‘14)
Systems director of ethics integration at St. Vincent Health
David Belde, Ph.D. (Grad ‘05)
Senior vice president of mission services at Bon Secours Richmond Health System
John Brehany, Ph.D. (Grad ‘03)
Director of institutional relations at the National Catholic Bioethics Center
Nathaniel Blanton Hibner, PhD (Grad ‘19)
Ethics director at the Catholic Health Association of the United States
Sarah Hill, Ph.D. (Grad '16)
Systems director for palliative care initiatives at Ascension Health
Ryan Holmes, Ph.D. (Grad ‘18)
Bioethicist in Program of Medicine and Human Values at Sutter Health
John Robert Becket Gremmels, Ph.D. (Grad ‘15)
Systems director of ethics at Christus Health
Birgitta Sujdak Mackiewicz, Ph.D. (Grad ‘15)
Director of ethics at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center and Children's Hospital of
Illinois
Daniel O’Brien, Ph.D. (Grad ‘00)
Senior vice president of ethics, discernment and church relations at Ascension Health
Michael Panicola, Ph.D. (Grad ‘00)
Senior vice president of mission, legal and government affairs at SSM Health Care
Mark Repenshek, Ph.D. (Grad ‘05)
Senior director of ethics integration and education at Ascension Health
Alan Sanders, M.A., Ph.D. (Grad ‘08)
Vice president of ethics integration and strategy at Trinity Health
Sarah Sawicki, M.A. (Ph.D. Candidate)
Ethicist at the UAB Hospital Clinical Ethics Program
Kristen Senetar, M.A., MSPH (Ph.D. Candidate)
Director of Ethics at Mercy Oklahoma City
Kaitey Sheldon, M.A. (Ph.D. Candidate) Ethicist at OSF Healthcare St. Francis Medical Center
John Paul Slosar, M.A., Ph.D. (Grad ‘03)
Vice president of ethics integration and education at Ascension Health
Ann Suziedelis, Ph.D. (Grad ‘04)
Vice president of spiritual care and ethics at Holy Cross Hospital
Private Practice (Bioethics Consulting)
Heather Danesh, Ph.D. (Grad ‘10)
Attorney at law and consultant
Craig Paterson, Ph.D. (Grad ‘10)
Director and consultant at BioEthics World
Jill Van Derven, Ph.D. (Grad ‘06)
Bioethics Consultants of Florida
Religious Orders and Clergy
Thomas Knoblach, Ph.D. (Grad ‘03)
Pastor for St. Cantius Church in the St. Cloud Diocese
Louise Lears, Ph.D. (Grad ‘01)
Teaching adjunct for the Sisters of Charity (Ohio)
Research Oversight and Government Policy
Holly Bante, Ph.D., MPH (Grad ‘12)
Director of research affairs at the University of Cincinnati
Aaliyah Eaves, J.D., Ph.D. (Grad ‘19)
Healthcare Resolutions Specialist for the U.S. Army
Martin Onwu, J.D., Ph.D. (Grad ‘06)
Associate general counsel for the Department of Justice’s Department of Community
Policing
Tim Rubbelke, Ph.D. (Grad ‘18)
Research compliance specialist, conflict of interest programs, office of research
integrity and ethics at Washington University