Senior Clinical Ethicist and Assistant Professor @ Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
The Department of Bioethics (DoB) at the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine invites applications for the position of Senior Clinical Ethicist in the Center for Biomedical Ethics (CBME) at The MetroHealth System (MHS) and Assistant Professor (non tenure track) in the DoB at CWRU.
MHS is Cuyahoga County’s safety-net hospital system, serving more than 300,000 patients, two-thirds of whom are uninsured or covered by Medicare or Medicaid, and is a teaching hospital for CWRU. MHS is home to the county’s most experienced Level 1 Trauma Center and its renowned American Burn Association-verified adult and pediatric critical care burn center. MHS also provides medical care at the Cuyahoga County Corrections Center and is the County’s medical home for children in foster care. For more about The MetroHealth System and its mission see https://www.metrohealth.org/about-us.
The CBME at MHS has a longstanding history of outstanding service, education, outreach, and research. Its clinical ethics consult service is very active, with over 400 consults in 2024. The CBME also maintains robust educational programming, including monthly hospital-wide Bioethics Grand Rounds, many regularly scheduled ethics lectures and presentations, including nursing orientation, correctional health care staff orientation, general practice dentistry residency ethics didactics, and Coffee with Clinical Ethics, semi-monthly discussions promoting engagement between clinical ethics and nursing. The CBME also welcomes rotating undergraduate, graduate, and medical students as observers and leads discussions about ethical issues students encounter. The CBME’s nationally- and internationally-recognized faculty have expertise in clinical ethics, burn ethics, correctional health care ethics, advance care planning outreach, capacity and autonomy, and medical facilitation.
Applicants must have a terminal degree (PhD, JD, MD, DO, etc.) at the time of appointment. The successful candidate will have a strong record of clinical ethics consultation experience in addition to being an outstanding clinical educator, accomplished scholar, and motivated collaborator, who is prepared to contribute to MHS’s mission and support its highly diverse patient population.
This position will be based in the CBME at MHS, and a significant majority of the successful candidate’s efforts will be dedicated to clinical ethics consultation, clinical education, community outreach, and related scholarship. In addition, there will be some opportunities for participation in the CWRU DoB, which has teaching programs at the undergraduate, graduate, and medical school levels.
The successful candidate will (after an appropriate on-boarding and training period):
● Serve as the senior clinical ethics consultant on-call, assist with consult review and quality control, and help train junior clinical ethicists.
● Develop and deliver clinical bioethics educational and outreach programs ● Contribute to CBME research and scholarship
● Attend and participate in relevant CBME and MHS meetings and assist with various administrative tasks
The expected start date for this position is July 1, 2025.
Applicants should submit the following materials to Interfolio:
● letter of interest
● current Curriculum Vitae
● one-to-two page summary detailing your approach to clinical ethics consultation ● recent writing sample
● one-to-two page research statement
Applicants should also arrange to submit three reference letters to Interfolio.
In employment, as in education, Case Western Reserve University is committed to Equal Opportunity and Diversity. Women, veterans, members of underrepresented minority groups, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Review of applications will begin March 1, 2025, and continue until the position is filled. Applications received by that date will receive full consideration.