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I am a Clinical Ethicist based in Seattle. I serve Providence-Swedish facilities throughout the Puget Sound.

I was UCLA Health Ethics Center’s 2022-2024 Clinical Ethics Fellow. In addition to consulting on over 400 cases, I served on three ethics committees, and assisted in hospital policy development. My teaching responsibilities included all levels of staff in the three hospitals I served as well as graduate education of residents and fellows in the David Geffen School of Medicine.

My research focuses on bioethics (with a specialization in clinical ethics), global health, political philosophy, and environmental ethics. I’m currently researching various topics that surround surrogate decision-makers: the ethics of the law surrounding default surrogate selection, the ethical justification of individual default surrogate selections, the limits of any permission that surrogates have to discharge patients against medical advice, and the conditions to capably reject some or all surrogates.

I received my PhD in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania in 2022. I did my undergraduate degree at the University of Glasgow, and my masters at the Central European University when it was in Budapest.