Robert G. Whiteman
Yale-Hastings Scholar
9/12 - 6/13

Robert G. Whiteman, JD, MA (Theology), MS (Bioethics), has combined a long-standing interest in law and medicine into a career as a healthcare and medical malpractice defense attorney and recently earned a graduate degree in bioethics from Columbia University. He has designed and taught Legal Aspects of Healthcare Organizations at St. John’s University and has lectured on legal issues to national medical societies. He has devised curriculum and implemented courses in Philosophy and Criminal Justice for the U.S. Navy aboard deployed warships. He has a keen interest in end-of-life issues particularly with respect to physician’s assistance in the dying process. He is also interested in the epidemic of obesity particularly with respect to children and the indications for bariatric surgery in that population. A recent work “Medical Tourism and Bariatric Surgery” was published in Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, the journal for the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.

Victoria Koszowski
Yale-Hastings Scholar
8/20/12 – 9/1/12

Victoria Koszowski, MBE is a PhD candidate at the University of Otago in New Zealand. Victoria has a decade of corporate experience in the pharmaceutical industry, where she worked as a pharmacovigilance policy writer. She received her Master's degree in Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania, where she received a Global Framework Fellowship, bringing her to Ghana to work with sickle-cell children at a hospital in Kumasi. This experience was life-changing and contributed to Victoria's current research interests, which are corporate philanthropy and global healthcare and policy. Victoria's PhD project is titled: "An Ethical Analysis of Retention Strategies for Discouraging the Flight of Human Capital in Health Care."   

Katie Watson
Yale-Hastings Scholar
4/15/12 – 4/21/12

Katie Watson, JD, is the Editor of Atrium, a healthcare magazine started by professional & graduate students at Yale in 2007. She is also an Assistant Professor in the Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program at Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University.

Joseph Balog
Yale-Hastings Scholar
3/19/12 – 4/27/12

Dr. Joseph E. Balog received his doctoral degree in health education from the University of Maryland. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Science at The College at Brockport, State University of New York where he has also served as Chair of the department and as the Associate Director of the Child and Adolescent Stress Management Institute. As a member of the American Association of Health Education Ethics Committee, he worked to established ethical standards for the field of health education. He also served on the Joint Committee for the Development of Graduate Level Preparation Standards sponsored by the Society for Public Health Education and the American Association for Health Education to establish competencies, including ethical competencies, which are used throughout the country for certification of professionals and for accreditation of professional health education programs. In addition to teaching and service activities, he has been active in research and his publications have addressed the areas of ethics, public health and health education. One of his recent works, “The Moral Justification for a Compulsory Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Program,” was published in The American Journal of Public Health, the premier journal in public health.

Daniel Brauer
Yale-Hastings Scholar
3/5/12- 3/25/12

Daniel Brauer is Research Assistant at the Center for Medical Law, University of Göttingen (Germany). He is Project Coordinator for the sub-project on family and medical law of the Center’s research project on “Autonomy and Trust in Modern Medicine.”

Sheelagh McGuinness, LLB, MA, PhD
Yale-Hastings Scholar
2/6/12 – 3/4/12

Sheelagh McGuinness is University Fellow at the Centre for Health Law, Science and Policy at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research focuses on ethical and legal issues related to regulation of embryos in reproduction.  

John Coggon
Yale-Hastings Scholar
2/6/12 – 3/4/12

John Coggon is a research fellow in interdisciplinary bioethics at the Institute for Science, Ethics, and Innovation at the University of Manchester, UK. His work focuses on questions in legal, moral, and political theory. He has published works on various issues in law and bioethics. The principal focus of his current work is on public health law and ethics, with his publications on the subject including his book "What Makes Health Public?" (Cambridge University Press, 2012).