Physician Amy Caruso Brown, interim chairwoman of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities and associate professor of bioethics and humanities and pediatrics, will serve as director-at-large and Rachel Fabi, Ph.D., associate professor in the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, will serve as secretary of the board.
Their terms began in September at the society’s annual meeting. Fabi has served as a director-at-large since 2021.
The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, based in Chicago, is dedicated to promoting research and the exchange of ideas in bioethics and related disciplines in the health-related humanities. The work of the health humanities is to examine, interpret, and illuminate the representations of human suffering and health in clinical care, public health, and scientific research, and the ethics related to all these endeavors.
Brown joined Upstate in 2014. Her research focuses on social, cultural and legal dimensions of disagreements between families and clinicians in pediatrics and the development of just and equitable hospital policies. Her work has been published in numerous journals, including the American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB), Pediatrics, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), among others.
Brown earned her medical degree from Emory University and also holds master’s degrees from the University of Colorado and the University of Oxford.
Fabi, who joined Upstate in 2018, has written widely on ethical issues, such as health care for undocumented immigrants and refugees, reproductive injustice and public health policy that have appeared in numerous publications, including JAMA, Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, New England Journal of Medicine, the American Journal of Bioethics and the American Journal of Public Health.
She has served as a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics with the National Academy of Medicine and received the Upstate Medical University President’s Award for the Advancement of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Her teaching responsibilities include an intensive weeklong law and advocacy course for first-year medical students and a course on physicians and social responsibility for first, second and third-year medical students, among others.
Fabi holds a Ph.D. in health policy and management with a focus in bioethics and health policy from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.