Alden March Bioethics Institute formed
The Center for Bioethics and Clinical Leadership has joined with its sister institution, the Center for Medical Ethics at Albany Medical College, to form the Alden March Bioethics Institute, or AMBI.
Based at the medical college, the institute conducts comprehensive and innovative research, teaching and outreach concerning ethical issues in the health sciences.
The two centers have been collaborating closely for half a decade, sponsoring conferences and speakers and offering a master's program, graduate certificates in bioethics, and dual degree programs in law, medicine, pastoral care, public health and social work. The master's program enrolls students from throughout the United States, Europe and Japan.
“AMBI provides a basis for closer integration and collaboration with Albany Law School, the philosophy department at the University at Albany, the Ordway Research Institute, the SUNY schools of Social Work and Public Health, Union College and the Wadsworth Center of the New York State Department of Health,” said AMBI Chair Robert Baker, professor of bioethics at the Graduate College of Union University and professor of Philosophy at Union College.
Glenn McGee, the John A. Balint Endowed Chair of Medical Ethics at the medical college, is director of AMBI.
With the support of more than $3 million in federal and foundation grants, AMBI faculty produce widely-cited first-rate scholarship in medical, legal, philosophical and scientific journals and books. AMBI is also home to The American Journal of Bioethics, the leading peer-reviewed journal in the field, and to http://bioethics.net.
AMBI is named for Alden March, M.D., co-founder of the American Medical Association, leading 19th century surgeon and professor of anatomy. He founded the Albany Medical College in 1839.
For more on AMBI, visit http://bioethics.org.