SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Upstate Medical University recently announced that it has named Amy Caruso Brown chair of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities. She had served as interim chair of the center since September 2021. The Center for Bioethics and Humanities, a department of the College of Medicine, advances the scholarly and professional understanding of […]
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Upstate Medical University recently announced that it has named Amy Caruso Brown chair of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities.
She had served as interim chair of the center since September 2021.
The Center for Bioethics and Humanities, a department of the College of Medicine, advances the scholarly and professional understanding of bioethics, law and health humanities and promotes health care and health policy that is patient-centered, compassionate, and just, Upstate said. The Healing Muse is a literary arts journal published by the Center each year.
Last year, Caruso Brown was appointed to serve as director-at-large of the board of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities.
Caruso Brown joined Upstate Medical University in 2014. Her research focuses on the social, cultural, and legal dimensions of disagreements between families and clinicians in pediatrics and the development of just and equitable hospital policies, Upstate said. Her work has been published in numerous journals, including the American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB), Pediatrics, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), among others.
Caruso Brown earned her medical degree from Emory University and holds master’s degrees from the University of Colorado and the University of Oxford. She completed residency training in general pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (2008-2009) and the University of Colorado (2009-2011). and fellowship training in pediatric hematology/oncology at the University of Colorado (2011-2014). She is board-certified in general pediatrics and pediatric hematology/oncology and is also certified in health-care ethics consultation (HEC-C). She is a member of Upstate’s Ethics Consultation Service.
