• Teach two undergraduate level courses, Practicum in Clinical Bioethics and Clinical Bioethics. • The Practicum allows students to spend half time in focused lectures on bioethics and half time in the hospital interacting with various departments including nursing, nutrition, palliative care, legal, surgery, and research on bioethics issues in their roles.• Clinical Bioethics is an application of ethical principles and philosophical reasoning in the health care setting and familiarizes students with the common responsibilities of a clinical ethicist including: consultation, education, and policy review/development.• Created integrated bioethics programs with local hospital system and established internship program.

• Developed and manage MultiCare Department of Bioethics, which handles ethics support for seven adult hospitals, one pediatric hospital, and more than 130 outpatient locations.• Act as co-chair for Bioethics Committees, which includes coordinating and expanding the Bioethics program through an integrated ethics approach.• Oversee the ethics consultation service throughout MultiCare Health System, personally having conducted over 250 ethics consultations, and oversee ethics consult documentation in Epic.• Lead lectures, seminars, panel discussions, and community events related to ethical issues and policies for providers, staff, residents, interns, students, and community members.• Serve as a resource to leadership, committees and teams requiring ethics representation.• Serve on the Institutional Review Board, reviewing protocols monthly.• Coordinate participation in Honoring Choices Pacific Northwest and system-wide administrator for advance care planning initiatives. MultiCare representative on state-wide committees for palliative care and advance care planning. Responsible for various programs designed to increase employee and patient advance directive awareness and participation.• Develop initiatives to alleviate moral distress, provider and staff burnout, and improve wellness.• Work on initiatives to help address social determinants of health including poverty, homelessness, food insecurity, and mental health; strategic partnerships and community affiliations.• Patient experience, quality and satisfaction initiatives; policy and procedure development, implementation, and management. Policy owner for Medical Aide in Dying (Washington Death with Dignity), Withholding/ Withdrawal of Life Sustaining Treatment, Decision Making in Non-Beneficial (Futile) Treatment, Donation After Circulatory Death, and Advanced Directives: Living Will and Mental Health, Ethics Consultation Services.

* Communicate directly with patients and families regarding concerns, complaints, and grievances for outpatient services at UPMC.* Facilitate communication between patients and UPMC facilities to rectify patient complaints andgrievances, distributing to appropriate department when necessary.* Organize and distribute patient feedback to the appropriate department and seek resolution for issues.* Utilize management software including Peoplesoft, Epic, and Risk Master.

* Identified, developed, and implemented projects for palliative care, ICU family meetings, advancedirectives including “Day of Conversation,” and expansion of education across UPMC. Worked withcommunity leaders and organizers, physician champions, ethics departments and committees across the country, and advocacy organizations to develop and expand community education and awareness.* Created, participated, and led educational sessions for physicians, nurses, and other providers forpatient/family communication, palliative medicine, and patient education.* Wrote and developed news articles, internal communications, blogs, and brochures on patienteducation, advance care planning, and patient interaction.

* Conduct research and investigations in health care ethics, including modern health care changes, health care policies, ethical principles, religious approaches to health care, and legal ramifications.* Create interactive learning models aimed at presenting the principles the health care ethics.* Contribute to the company blog, commenting on news and developments in health care ethics.