Laura Guidry-Grimes, PhD
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Laura Guidry-Grimes, PhD, HEC-C received her PhD in philosophy from Georgetown University in 2017 with a focus in bioethics. While at Georgetown, she was selected as a Kennedy Institute of Ethics Fellow, and she contributed to a Complex Moral Problems Grant on end-of-life decision making for adults with significant intellectual disabilities. The DC area afforded her opportunities to intern for the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, Pan American Health Organization, and MedStar Washington Hospital Center (MWHC). The John J Lynch, MD Center for Ethics at MWHC then hired her as a staff clinical ethicist in 2015, where she also served as a member of the ethics committee at Children's National Medical Center. In 2017, she joined faculty in the Department of Medical Humanities and Bioethics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). She taught courses for students across the health professions, and she participated in a series of initiatives through the UAMS Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Her clinical responsibilities focused on ethics consultation for the UAMS Health system and Arkansas Children's Hospital. She led policy review for hospital ethics committees for seven years and led data collection for QI/QA purposes. Over the years, she completed a series of training programs in clinical ethics consultation and became Healthcare Ethics Consultant-Certified in 2020. Her research focuses on disability bioethics, psychiatric ethics, and the nature of vulnerability in clinical contexts. She regularly presents at national and international conferences and publishes in prominent bioethics journals, including The Journal of Clinical Ethics, Hastings Center Report, Nursing Ethics, AMA Journal of Ethics, and Journal of Medical Ethics. She co-authored Basics of Bioethics, Fourth Edition with Robert M. Veatch (Routledge, 2020). At the national level, she co-founded and co-chairs the Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Affinity Group of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. Dr. Guidry-Grimes is excited to join the vibrant, trailblazing group at the Cleveland Clinic Center for Bioethics!
Education & Professional Highlights
Appointed
2022
Education & Fellowships
Graduate School - Georgetown University
Philosophy
Washington,
DC
2017
Internship - MedStar Washington Hospital Center
Clinical Ethics
Washington,
DC United States
2013
Internship - Pan American Health Organization
Bioethics
Washington,
DC
2012
Graduate School - Georgetown University
Philosophy
Washington,
DC
2012
Internship - Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
Washington,
DC
2012
Undergraduate - Florida State University
Philosophy
Tallahassee,
FL
2008
Undergraduate - Florida State University
Religion
Tallahassee,
FL
2008
Research & Publications
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