Arthur R. Derse, M.D., J.D., director of medical and legal affairs and associate director of the Center for the Study of Bioethics at the Medical College of Wisconsin, is this year's recipient of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities' (ASBH) Distinguished Service Award.
ASBH is the professional organization of scholars who teach bioethics and medical humanities in universities and professional schools and those who engage in clinical ethics consultation.
Dr. Derse is also director of the medical humanities program and professor of bioethics and of emergency medicine at the Medical College. He is chairman of the ethics committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians and the Veterans Health Administration's National Ethics Committee, a member of the American Bar Association's Commission on Law and Aging, and senior consultant for academic affairs at the American Medical Association's Institute for Ethics.
He serves on the advisory board and as faculty for the Education in Palliative and End-of-life Care Project. He is co author of Practical Ethics for Students, Interns and Residents, 3rd Edition and the Code of Ethics of the American College of Emergency Physicians.
