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APPE Board of Directors

APPE Board members are elected by the APPE membership each spring and serve four-year terms that run July 1 to June 30. If you're interested in learning more about running for an APPE Board member seat, reach out to contact@appe-ethics.org.

Vivian Altiery De Jesus - Residency

Vivian Altiery De Jesus

PGY-3 Internal Medicine and Rising Chief Resident
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

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Jonathan Beever

APPE Board Chair-Elect

Associate Professor of Philosophy
Director, Center for Ethics
University of Central Florida

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Cara Biasucci

Director of Ethics Education
Creator/Director of Ethics Unwrapped
University of Texas at Austin

Dennis Cooley

Dennis Cooley

APPE Board Chair

Director, Northern Plains Ethics Institute
North Dakota State University

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Liza Dawson

Chief of Bioethics, IRB chair, and Research Integrity Officer
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR)

Raquel Diaz Sprague

Raquel Diaz-Sprague

Visiting Scholar
University of Alabama at Birmingham

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Mark Doorley

Director, The Ethics Program
Villanova University

Jun Fudano

Jun Fudano

Professor, Center for Higher Education Studies
Waseda University
Tokyo, Japan

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Mohammad Hosseini

APPE Board Secretary

Assistant Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Deborah S. Mower

Deborah S. Mower

APPE Board Treasurer

Director, The Center for Practical Ethics
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Hume Bryant Associate Professor of Ethics
Department of Philosophy and Religion
University of Mississippi

Julia A. Pedroni

Julia A. Pedroni

Lecturer, Department of Philosophy
Williams College

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Alex Richardson

Associate Director, Content Strategy and Engagement
Prindle Institute for Ethics, DePauw University

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Earl Spurgin

Professor, Chair of Philosophy
John Carroll University

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Ann Thebaut

Director, Center for Applied Ethics and Humanities
Santa Fe College

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Qin Zhu

Associate Professor of Engineering Education
Virginia Tech

Ex Officio Board Members

Appointed by the APPE Board, Ex Officio Members are graduate students, early career scholars, or other professionals early in their engagement with applied ethics. They are non-voting members and serve two-year terms.

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Sally Moore

PhD Student, The Ohio State University

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Elisa Reverman

Clinical Ethics Fellow, Cleveland Clinic

APPE Staff

Kristen Fuhs Wells

Kristen Fuhs Wells

Executive Director

Contact:
kristen@appe-ethics.org
765-658-4164

APPE Committees

APPE IEB® Committee
Alex Richardson (Chair)*
Raquel Diaz-Sprague*
Mark Doorley*
Deborah Mower*
Payton Bucki
Sherri Conklin
John Garcia
Cynthia Jones
Michael Jordan
Leonidas Kirby
Bob Ladenson
Rachel Robison-Greene

Conference Committee
Earl Spurgin (Co-Chair)*
Vivian Altiery De Jesus (Co-Chair)*
Mark Doorley*
Jun Fudano*
Lida Anestidou
Daniel Cheung
Robert Doyle
Patrick Flanagan
Kelly Laas
Katherine Ott Walter
Alif Laila Tisha
Mallory Wietrzrykowski

Finance Committee
(Board members only)

Deborah Mower (Chair)*
Cara Biasucci*
Jonathan Beever*
Alex Richardson*
Ann Thebaut*

Governance Committee
(Board members only)

Jonathan Beever (Chair)*
Vivian Altiery De Jesus*
Raquel Diaz-Sprague*
Sally Moore*
Earl Spurgin*

Membership Committee
Liza Dawson*
Raquel Diaz-Sprague*
Jun Fudano*
Ann Thebaut*

Nominating Committee
Dena Plemmons (Co-Chair)*
Alex Richardson (Co-Chair)*
Julie Pedroni*
Jun Fundano*
Qin Zhu*
Jay Al-Hashimi
Lida Anestidou
Patrick Flanagan
Lisa M Lee

Outreach and Engagement Committee
Raquel Diaz-Sprague (Co-Chair)*
Mohammad Hosseini (Co-Chair)*
Daniel Cheung
Crystallee Crain
Diana Martin
Damilola Oduola
Dena Plemmons
Kingsley Reeves
Niccollette Tamayo-Jimenez

Programming Committee
Julie Pedroni (Co-Chair)*
Qin Zhu (Co-Chair)*
Raquel Diaz-Sprague*
Elisa Reverman*
Jay Al-Hashimi
Jeff Dunn
Charles de Souza
Robert Doyle
Godswill Agbagwa
John Stys
Laine Walters Young

*Board Member