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THE FOUR FACULTY for The ProBE Program are experienced medical educators. They bring together a diverse range of expertise in the areas of medicine, philosophy and theology, psychiatry, clinical ethics, health law, public health, health policy and management, and social and ethical theory.

Joseph C. d'Oronzio, PhD, MPH, is Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health where he offer seminars in the development and management of health care ethics policy. He is a Faculty Associate of the Columbia University Center on Bioethics and an Adjunct Professor in the Nursing Executive Program. He was the Raoul Wallenberg Visiting Professor in Human Rights at Rutgers University for the 2003-04 academic year.
    He is ethics consultant to the Department of Pediatrics (CHOP-University of Pennsylvania) at St. Peter's University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ and to the Department of Medicine, Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center (UMDNJ-RWJMS) in Plainfield, NJ. He is a consultant with other hospital ethics committees and is responsible for training resident physicians in bioethics and public health policy in several residency training programs. Before assuming his role as CPEP-ProBE Program Director, he was Executive Director of the Ethics Group, LLC, founders of the ProBE Program (1992-2007).
    Dr. d'Oronzio has served as the academic administrator of Overlook Hospital (Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons) overseeing nine residency programs and was a member of the Task Force on Public and Professional Education of the New Jersey Bioethics Commission. He was health policy advisor to the Executive Council of the NJ Chapter of the American College of Physicians (ACP) from 1992 to 2006. He was the 2001 S. Sandy Sandbar Lecturer of the American College of Legal Medicine awarded for his work in developing the ProBE Program.
     Educated at Syracuse, Columbia, and Harvard Universities, Dr. d'Oronzio has is the author of articles on bioethics, graduate medical education, and public policy. A founding member of the editorial board of HEC (Hospital Ethics Committee) Forum, and was Contributing Editor of The Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. He is a contributor to MKSAP XII (ACP) and to the Encyclopedia of U.S. Biomedical Policy.

Catherine V. Caldicott, MD, FACP is Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Humanities at the SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, where her teaching spans several venues. She teaches the “Bioethics at the Bedside” course to the third-year medical students, leads educational sessions with nurses, social workers, and house staff. She also serves on the University Hospital Ethics Committee and Ethics Consultation Service.
     Dr. Caldicott’s research interests include moral development in medical training and practice, evaluation of bioethics education, and issues of professionalism. She is the PI on a project to develop an instrument to assess ethical reasoning and judgment in medical students and physicians. Dr. Caldicott served on the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (A SBH ) Task Force on Graduate Medical Education in Bioethics and Humanities, a resource to guide residency programs in meeting accreditation standards. Dr. Caldicott’s other research appears in Academic Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, Journal of General Internal Medicine, and Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
     She earned her medical degree at Dartmouth and trained in internal medicine at Yale and the University of Michigan , where she was also a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar.

Richard Martinez, MD, MH is Associate Professor, University of Colorado, Denver Health Sciences Center and Associate Director of their Program in Forensic Psychiatry. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and in 2000, received the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Total Learning Environment Education Award for innovations in teaching and education and for his work in developing the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at UCDHSC. He is currently the Director of Emergency and Forensic Psychiatry Services at Denver Health Medical Center , consults in civil and criminal forensic psychiatry, and teaches forensic psychiatry and professional ethics to residents and fellows. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on professional ethics and social responsibility, healthcare ethics, undergraduate medical education, boundaries in the patient-professional relationship, and the medical humanities.
     Dr. Martinez was educated at Tulane University, Louisiana State Medical School and the University of Colorado. He completed the fellowship at Harvard University in the Medical School Division of Medical Ethics, and subsequently was a fellow at the Center for Ethics and the Professions at the JFK School of Government, Harvard.

David M. Price, MDiv, PhD recently retired as a member of the Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Medicine and Dentistry - New Jersey Medical School in Newark where he has taught healthcare ethics since 1979. He was also Clinical Ethicist at UMDNJ University Hospital. He is a board member and former Chair of New Jersey Health Decisions, a citizen's group active in public education and health policy. Prior to that, he was on the faculty of Michigan State University's College of Human Medicine. From 1992-1999 he also served as the clinical ethicist at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, New Jersey. He currently works as part-time Clinical Ethicist at two community hospitals in New Jersey.
     He is a graduate of the University of Michigan, Yale University, and Michigan State University. He has been a founding member of ethics committees in 6 hospitals, many nursing homes, and 2 hospices. He has served as a consultant to several agencies of the New Jersey state government, including the Board of Medical Examiners, the Department of Health and Senior Services, and the Bioethics Commission.
     Dr. Price's articles have appeared in medical, nursing, ethics and legal journals. His special interests include end-of-life decision-making, nursing ethics, professional communication, informed consent and ethics education.

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Contacts:	Cindy Usick, ProBE Program Coordinator Joseph d'Oronzio, PhD, MPH ProBE Program Director