The Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care was established at the University at Buffalo in 1994. It is a multi-disciplinary center which coordinates a variety of clinical and academic activities in the Western New York area.
Gerald Logue, MD and Stephen Wear, PhD are Center Co-Directors. Jack Freer, MD is Associate Director and Webmaster. Andrea Ott is Research Associate and Newsletter Editor. The Center's focus is represented by its 3 standing committees. The Education Committee seeks to coordinate ongoing educational activities in a variety of settings, both within and outside the University. This includes but is not limited to clinical ethics courses in the health sciences, bioethics courses in local institutions of higher education, relevant humanities and social sciences programs, and continuing medical education programs.
The Community Affairs Committee is integrated with the Western New York Institutional Ethics Committee Network and maintains an active dialogue with most of the hospital ethics committees in Western New York. Ongoing activities include regularly scheduled City-Wide Ethics Grand Rounds, and development of a uniform training program for new members of all ethics committees.
The Scholarship Committee promotes the development of research and study groups to analyze issues related to clinical ethics, and the intersection of the humanities and health care. Currently, there are active groups studying health care reform, philosophical and ethical issues in primary care, and medical futility.
The Center publishes a monthly Center Newsletter which is also available via this WWW area. Questions about this WWW service should be directed to the Webmaster, Jack Freer, jfreer@buffalo.edu. Original website design (including graphics) created by Cameron Freer, freer@math.harvard.edu. New 2000 graphics (including new UB visual identity), created by Ben Freer, bafreer@gmail.com
The Center also maintains two automated e-mail listservers. BIOETH-LIST is primarily designed for those in the Greater Buffalo area and permits subscribers to post to the list. This list is available for posting local announcements, as well as a medium for discussion of relevant topics. It will also distribute the Center newsletter, "Bioethics Bulletin." If you are on this list, you can send a message to the entire list by addressing the message to: BIOETH-LIST@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu. Archives of old BIOETH-LIST messages are maintained at: http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/archives/bioeth-list.html
BIOBUL-LIST is strictly used for distribution of "Bioethics Bulletin" and is mainly for those outside of Western New York. If you have further questions about this service, contact Jack Freer at 887-4852 or at: jfreer@buffalo.edu.
The Center Office is located at
The Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 3495 Bailey Avenue
Buffalo, New
York 14215
Telephone: 716-862-6563 FAX: 716-862-5649 or 716-862-8533
Last updated: 04/13/07