Luminaries Comprise New Aquinas Health Care Center’s Council

March 21, 2013

Aquinas College gratefully announces the list of members of the Advisory Council for the newly-established Center for the Study of Human Dignity and Ethics in Health Care. Local and national leaders in health care, business, and religion comprise the Council. Their duty to the Center is to identify current and emerging trends in health care and promote the Center’s important contributions to the needs of health care professionals and the community.

Subhi Ali, M.D., General Surgeon
Maysoon Shocair Ali, M.D. Internal Medicine
Sister Elizabeth Anne Allen, O.P., Ed.D. Professor of Education and Provost and Vice President for Academics, Aquinas College
L. Antoinette Bargagliotti, D.N.Sc., R.N., FAAN, ANEF Professor of Nursing, University of Memphis School of Nursing
Wes Ely, M.D., M.P.H. Professor of Medicine and Critical Care Director of Aging Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
J.D. Elliott President, the Memorial Foundation
Sister Mary Sarah Galbraith, O.P., Ph.D. Professor of History and President, Aquinas College
Rev. James M. Guill, S.S.C. Rector, St. Andrew’s Parish
Timothy L.M. Glover Chief Mission and Ministry Officer, Saint Thomas Health
Marie T. Hilliard, Ph.D., R.N., J.D. Director of Ethics and Public Policy, the National Catholic Bioethics Center, Philadelphia, PA
Brenda Lemus, M.D. Director, Field Medical Affairs Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Peter Pagan, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy, Aquinas College
Kate Payne, J.D., R.N. Chief Executive Officer University Community Health Services
Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D., M.A.C.P. Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Medical Ethics; Senior Research Scholar, the Kennedy Institute of Ethics; Former Director, Center for Clinical Bioethics Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C.
Bro. Ignatius Perkins, O.P., Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., A.N.E.F. Dean and Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing, Aquinas College
Dawn M. Rudolph, M.B.A. President and Chief Executive Officer, Saint Thomas Hospital
Fr. John Raphael, S.S.J. Chaplain, Saint Thomas Hospital
Ron Huff Director, H.C.A. Center for Clinical Ethics Clinical Ethicist: Summit, Skyline and Hendersonville Medical Centers; ICU Family Liaison, Skyline Medical Center
Rickey Schuller, J.D. Director of Development and Community Relations, Aquinas College