Medical Ethics Interest Group

• 2025-2026 - General Exec 
  • President - Kate Stillman
  • Vice President - Lauren Tierney
  • Treasurer - Ronak Venkata
  • Public Relations Manager: Hannah Dykxhoorn
  • M1 Social Media Liaison: Megan McGrath
  • M1 Symposium Committee Director: Luna Jiang-Quin
  • Senior Advisor: Elena Bosack

• Ethics Committee Liaisons
  • VP Ethics Committee Liaison (UMH) - Andrew Sasser
  • VP Ethics Committee Liaison (Jackson Adult) - Arjun Ghodasara
  • VP Ethics Committee Liaison (Jackson Peds) - Charity Chen

• Policy
  • Policy Co-Directors: Alexandria Hawkins & Amy Pham
  • M1 Policy Liaison: Aziza Ayoub
• Research
  • Research Director: Zhuochen Yuan
  • M1 Research Liaison: Mateen Jangda 
    
    
• Events
  • Events Director: Pooja Ghay
  • M1 Events Liaison: Kamal Amirneni
• Faculty Advisor
  • Michael Huber, mth131@med.miami.edu 

Medical students are encouraged to observe monthly hospital ethics committee meetings via the MedEthics interest group! Please note that like any discussions of patient cases, these meetings are confidential and must be attended in a private setting.

• UHealth Ethics Committee
  • Zoom, Fourth Tuesday of each month, 12-1pm
  • 2025-2026 Liaison: Andrew Sasser, ajs5730@med.miami.edu
• JMH Adult Ethics Committee
  • Zoom, Second Wednesday of each month, 12-1pm
  • 2025-2026 Liaison: Arjun Ghodasara, arjun.ghodasara@med.miami.edu
• Holtz Pediatric Ethics Committee
  • Zoom, First Thursday of each month, 5-6pm
  • 2025-2026 Liaison: Charity Chen, cxc2549@med.miami.edu

Please reach out to our ethics committee liaisons above for more information about how to access the confidential Zoom invite for any of the committee meetings.

If you are unable to attend the meetings, no worries! Our exec members post Education Points on our Microsoft Teams page following each meeting, so you will never miss the main takeaways. Our Teams can be accessed here: Medical Ethics Interest Group | General | Microsoft Teams

Events

• May 2, 2025: Inaugural 2025 Miller School of Medicine Ethics Symposium
• April 23, 2025: Med Ethics Book Club: Lessons from the Pitt

• JHS 400.018 - Donation after Circulatory Determination of Death - Rachna Rahul & Giselle De La Rua
• JHS 400.015 - Withholding, Withdrawing, & Foregoing Life Sustaining Treatment - Rachna Rahul & Giselle De La Rua
• JHS 400.087 - Death by Neurological Criteria - Kate Stillman, Kyle Edwards, Arya Kermanshah
• UM Guidelines for Crisis Standards of Care in Public Health Emergencies - Rebecca Soistmann

• Arya Kermanshah, The Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Radiologic Detection of Intimate Partner Violence, Poster Presentation at AI4Health Conference
• Cinthia Del Toro, Artificial Intelligence Use of Genome-Wide Association Studies in Clinical Decision Making and Sampling Bias, Poster Presentation at AI4Health Conference
• Rachna Rahul & Giselle De La Rua, The Benefits of Medical Student Involvement in Hospital Policy Review, Annual Medical Student Ethics Conference (AMSEC) Presentation
• Kunju AT. Using Narrative Accounts of Early Astronauts to Understand Ethical Concerns of Space Medicine. Lecture presented at: ASBH Astroethics Affinity Group Grand Rounds; January 2025; Zoom (Online).

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