<-Return to home page AGREE Investigators Principal Investigator   Jeremy Sugarman, MD, MPH, MA, is a member of the faculty of the Phoebe R. Berman Bioethics Institute and the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Sugarman was previously Professor of Medicine and Philosophy and founding Director of the Center for the Study of Medical Ethics and Humanities at Duke University. Dr. Sugarman went to college, medical school and did residency training in internal medicine at Duke. He subsequently obtained a Masters of Arts in philosophy from Georgetown University and a Masters in Public Health from the John Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Dr. Sugarman served as Senior Policy and Research Analyst for the White House Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments and as a consultant to the National Bioethics Advisory Commission for its project on international research ethics. Dr. Sugarman conducts both theoretical and empirical research in medical ethics. His work concentrates on informed consent, research ethics, and the ethical issues associated with emerging technologies. In addition to publishing numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals, he is co-editor of Beyond Consent: Seeking Justice in Research, Ethics of Research with Human Subjects: Selected Policies and Resources, and Methods in Medical Ethics as well as editor of Ethics in Primary Care. He is a contributing editor for IRB, a member of the Institutional Review Board for Family Health International, a member of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, and serves on the editorial boards of Accountability in Research and the American Journal of Bioethics. Dr Sugarman is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American College of Physicians, and the Hastings Center.   Evaluation Coordinator   Linda S. Lee, PhD, As Associate Director of Duke's Clinical Research Training Program and Project Director for the Distance Learning Models for Clinical Research Training Award (K30), Dr. Lee coordinates the educational team that is responsible for implementing and evaluating collaborative distance learning initiatives in clinical research training. Her scholarly interests include the application of qualitative methods to educational needs assessment and evaluation and to the study of ethical decision-making in academia and in international health settings. Current research efforts focus on assessing dimensions of learner engagement in distance learning environments and the relative effectiveness of varied technologies applied to the teaching-learning process. Dr. Lee also serves on a Special Emphasis Panel (Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer) for the NIH Center for Scientific Review. She is also a co-editor of Working with Patients to Prevent, Treat, and Manage Osteoporosis: A Curriculum Guide for the Health Professions (3rd edition, 2001).     <-Return to home page   The materials on this site and in each module are copyrighted by Duke University and Johns Hopkins University and may not be copied, transmitted, or published without explicit written permission. ©2003-2004 Duke University Medical Center and Johns Hopkins University. Site Design by MediSpin, Inc. Site hosting by Duke Educational Media Services Privacy and Confidentiality | Contact Information | CSMEH