Nixon, Lois LaCivita, PHD, MAT, MLitt, MPH

Program Director

PHD, MPH University of South Florida

MAT, M.Litt. Rollins College, Middlebury College

·       National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. University of California, San Diego.

·       Fulbright Fellow. Jordan: Islamic Culture and Civilization.

·       National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. Princeton University.

·       National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. Hiram College.

·       PEW Fellow. National Public Health and Hospital Institute and York University Graduate School of Public Administration.

Professor, Internal Medicine

Division Medical Ethics and Humanities

Areas of interest:  medical ethics and humanities, women's issues, aging, and the impact of globalism on health care.

Courses: Med I Medical Ethics and Humanities; Med IV Electives

Published Books:

·         On Doctoring 1st, 2nd and 3rd Edition (with Reynolds, Stone, and Wear)

·         Trials,Tribulations, and Celebrations: African-American Perspectives on Health,Illness, Aging and Loss (with Secundy)

·       Literary Anatomies: Women's Bodies and Health in Literature (with Wear)

·      Medical Ethics & Humanities (with Paola & Walker). Jones & Bartlett 2009 

Adair, W. Lee, Jr., PHD

PHD Georgetown University

Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Core Course Co-director for Health Sciences (MABMH Core Course: Biotechnology and Bioethics)

Area of interest: early transmembrane steps in glycoprotein biosynthesis

Courses: Biochemistry, Human Molecular Genetics & Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Metabolic and Genetic Basis of Human Diseases

Gregory, S. Joan, PHD, ARNP

PHD University of Florida

MN (Nursing) University of Florida

MS (Counseling) Barry University

BSN (Nursing) Loyala College

Associate Professor, Adult Health

Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine Core Course Co-director: Bioethics in Contemporary Society

Courses: Bioethics in Contemporary Society, Ethical/Legal Policy Issues

Selected Publications:

• Gregory, S.J. & Clark, P. (1992). The "big three" cardiovascular risk factors among American blacks and Hispanics. Journal of Holistic Nursing, 10(1), 76-88.
• Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioner, 6(10), 479-483.
• Factors influencing post-menopausal African-American women's participation in a clinical trial. Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, 7(10), 483-488.

Osman, Hana, PHD, MSSW

PHD University of South Florida

MSSW University of Missouri

Assistant Professor, Department of Community & Family Health

Areas of Interests:  end-of-life decisionmaking; advance directives; research ethics; ethics committees

Courses: Ethics at the end of life (Fall), Research ethics (Spring), Public health and aging (Summer), Successful aging and health promotion (Spring), Social & Behavioral Sciences Applied to Health (every semester)

Paola, Frederick, MD, JD, FACP, FCLM

MD Yale University

JD New York University

Courtesy Assistant Professor,  Department of Internal Medicine

Medical Director/Associate Professor, Nova Southeastern University Physicians Assistant Program

Assistant Professor, Attending Physician VA Department of Spinal Cord Injury

Area of Interest:  Interest is legal medicine

Courses: Med I, Med III and Med IV MedicalEthics and Humanities

Published Books:

·      Medical Ethics & Humanities (with Walker & Nixon). Jones & Bartlett 2009

Petrila, John, JD, LLM

JD, University of Virginia School of Law

LLM, University of Virginia School of Law

Department Chair and Professor, Department of Mental Health Law and Policy, Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, USF

Core Course Co-director: Bioethics in Contemporary Society

Areas of interest: impact of statutory and regulatory chances on people with mental disability, impact of managed care, influence of the consumer and family movements on disability law, ethics and health care law

Courses: Health Care Law, Regs, Ethics; participates in Medical Ethics

Wagaman, Marcia, MD, PHD

MD University of Pennsylvania

PHD Union Institute

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine

Areas of interest:  health psychology-behavioral medicine

Courses: participates in Medical Ethics, Medical Humanities, Behavioral Medicine, and Patient-Doctor Communication courses

Walker, Robert, MD

MD Louisiana State University

Webb, Mary S., PHD, RN

Ph.D. University of South Florida

Assistant Professor, College of Nursing

Core Course Co-director: Research Ethics

Areas of interest:  Hypertension in African-American Women and Dyspnea in End-State Pulmonary Patients

Courses: Cardiopulmonary assessment and pathophysiology, rehabilitation, and legal-ethical issues in health care.

Linda Whiteford, PHD, MA, MPH

Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

M.A., Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

M.P.H., University of Texas School of Public Health

B.A., Anthropology, Beloit College

Professor, Anthropology

Professor, Community and Family Health

Areas of Interest:  applied medical anthropology, public health, health care delivery, reproduction, disasters and health, political economy of health, international health, infectious disease; Caribbean, Latin America

Courses:  Foundations of Applied Anthropology, Theories of Culture, Legal and Ethical Issues in Anthropology, International Health, Health and Disaster