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ProBE FACULTY

The faculty for The ProBE Program are experienced medical educators. They bring together a diverse range of expertise in the areas of medicine, philosophy, psychiatry, clinical ethics, health law, public health, health policy and management, and social and ethical theory.

Joseph C. d'Oronzio, PhD, MPH, is Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health where he offers seminars in the development and management of health care ethics policy. He is a Faculty Associate of the Columbia University Center on Bioethics and an Adjunct Professor in the Nursing Executive Program. He was the Raoul Wallenberg Visiting Professor in Human Rights at Rutgers University for the 2003-04 academic year.

Before assuming his role as CPEP-ProBE Program Director in 2007, he was Executive Director of the Ethics Group, LLC, founders of the ProBE Program, since 1992.  As an independent consultant, Dr. d’Oronzio provided monthly healthcare ethics conferences for numerous residency programs since 1985.  He has also consulted with hospital ethics committees, developing hospital policy, clinical consultation services and educational programs.


Other positions held by Dr. d'Oronzio include academic administrator of Overlook Hospital (Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons), providing oversight to nine residency programs.  He was a member of the Task Force on Public and Professional Education of the New Jersey Bioethics Commission and was health policy advisor to the Executive Council of the NJ Chapter of the American College of Physicians (ACP) from 1992 to 2006.  In 2001, he was awarded the S. Sandy Sandbar Lectureship of the American College of Legal Medicine for his work in developing the ProBE Program. 

Educated at Syracuse, Columbia and Harvard Universities, Dr. d'Oronzio is the author of articles on bioethics and professional ethics, graduate medical education, and public policy and a founding member of the editorial board of HEC (Hospital Ethics Committee) Forum.  He was Contributing Editor of The Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics as well as a contributor to MKSAP XII (ACP) and to the Encyclopedia of U.S. Biomedical Policy.

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Catherine V. Caldicott, MD, FACP, is Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, where her teaching spans several venues. She teaches the required bioethics courses for third- year medical students and nursing and health professions students, and leads educational sessions with faculty, residents, and other clinical staff. She also serves on the University Hospital Ethics Committee and Ethics Consultation Service. 

Dr. Caldicott's research interests include moral development in medical training and practice, evaluation of bioethics education, and issues of professionalism. She is the PI on a project to develop an instrument to assess ethical reasoning and judgment in medical students and physicians. Dr. Caldicott served on the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH ) Task Force on Graduate Medical Education in Bioethics and Humanities, a resource to guide residency programs in meeting accreditation standards. Dr. Caldicott's other research appears in Academic Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, Journal of General Internal Medicine, and Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. 

After graduating from Princeton University, she earned her medical degree at Dartmouth Medical School and trained in internal medicine at Yale and the University of Michigan, where she was also a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar.

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Elizabeth S. Grace, MD, is the Medical Director of CPEP (Center for Personalized Education for Physicians), where she oversees all CPEP services, including Assessment and Education Services, the Quality Review Program, and continuing medical education courses.  She serves as faculty and collaborates in the development of individualized tutorials and small group seminars including CPEP’s Patient Care Documentation Seminar, individualized communication courses, and the ProBE Program.  Dr. Grace has had the opportunity to speak at national meetings about issues such as physician re-entry, documentation practices, and physician assessment.  Since June 2005, Dr. Grace has directed the Assessment of over 300 physicians and other health care providers at CPEP. 

Dr. Grace is a board-certified family physician.  She is a magna cum laude graduate of the State University of New York Upstate Medical University and completed her residency at Duke University Medical Center.  Dr. Grace has experience in clinical family medicine, teaching, and as the medical director of an external quality review organization.  She has been with CPEP since 2001 and is a member of the clinical faculty of the University of Colorado at Denver Health Sciences Center. 

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Richard Martinez, MD, MH, is the Robert D. Miller Endowed Professor of Psychiatry and Law at the University of Colorado, Denver (UCD) Department of Psychiatry and Director of the Program in Forensic Psychiatry. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. In 2000, he received the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Total Learning Environment Education Award for innovations in teaching and education and for his work in developing the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at UCD. He is currently the Director of Forensic Psychiatry Services at Denver Health Medical Center, consults in civil and criminal forensic psychiatry, and teaches forensic psychiatry and professional ethics to residents and fellows. He is adjunct Professor at the Denver University School of Law. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on professional ethics and social responsibility, healthcare ethics, undergraduate medical education, boundaries in the patient-professional relationship, and the medical humanities.

Dr. Martinez was educated at Tulane University, Louisiana State Medical School and the University of Colorado. He completed his fellowship at Harvard University in the Medical School Division of Medical Ethics, and subsequently was a fellow at the Center for Ethics and the Professions at the JFK School of Government, Harvard.  

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David M. Price, MDiv, PhD, recently retired as a member of the Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Medicine and Dentistry - New Jersey Medical School in Newark where he taught healthcare ethics since 1979. While at UMDNJ, he also served as Clinical Ethicist at UMDNJ-University Hospital. Prior to that, he was on the faculty of Michigan State University's College of Human Medicine. From 1992-1999 he served as part-time clinical ethicist at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, New Jersey. He is currently a part-time clinical ethicist at Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen, New Jersey. 

 

Dr. Price is a graduate of the University of Michigan, Yale University, and Michigan State University. He has been a founding member of ethics committees in 6 hospitals, many nursing homes, and 2 hospices. He has served as a consultant to several agencies of the New Jersey state government, including the Board of Medical Examiners, the Department of Health and Senior Services, and the Bioethics Commission.  

Articles by Dr. Price have appeared in medical, nursing, ethics and legal journals. His special interests include end-of-life decision-making, nursing ethics, professional communication, informed consent and ethics education.

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