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Dr. Walker’s new book, (Oxford University Press 2025), reorients our moral concern about animal research, and offers a moral theory focused on what actually happens in research settings.

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In addition to her role, Dr. Buchbinder is professor of social medicine and adjunct professor of anthropology at ������, as well as a core faculty member in the ������ Center for Bioethics.

A medical anthropologist with broad interests in cultures of health, illness, and medicine in the United States, her recent work focuses on how patients, families, and healthcare providers navigate social and ethical challenges resulting from changes in medical technology, law, and health policy.

Dr. Buchbinder is currently the co-principal investigator of CORE-ICU: Clinical and Organizational Resilience in the ICU, an NHLBI R01 study that will investigate how organizational factors contribute to burnout in ICU clinicians and adverse outcomes in patients with acute respiratory failure. She is also the co-principal investigator of a NIOSH R01 study that investigates mental health and work-related wellbeing among obstetrician-gynecologists in a shifting policy environment.

She will assume the role from Jonathan Oberlander, PhD, who announced last fall he was stepping down as chair at the end of his second five-year term as chair.

Congratulations to Dr. Buchbinder on her new role and thank you to Dr. Oberlander for his years leading the department.

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Dr. Necochea brings an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to teaching, particularly in the integration of humanities, social sciences, and medicine. His work with Latin American students to promote global health equity and his leadership of an oral history project documenting the experiences of the first African American School of Medicine alumni at ������ exemplify his unique teaching methods. Dr. Necochea’s high-quality teaching materials, thoughtful assignments, and well-designed lesson plans provide students with a rich, transformative educational experience. His commitment to fostering a supportive learning environment, where students feel encouraged to engage and share diverse perspectives, has had a lasting impact on his students and the larger curriculum. Additionally, his ongoing contributions to curriculum development in the medical school further underscore his exceptional dedication to education.

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The researchers interviewed providers in community practice or academic medical centers. They asked providers about “their perceptions of the risks and benefits of current and future FA treatment options,” with a focus on biologics.

While most respondents were “enthusiastic,” there were mixed views from the interviews. Some concerns included patient costs and healthcare system costs.

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New research fills a gap in understanding impacts on physicians after these bans. Mara Buchbinder, Kavita S. Arora and colleagues identify sources of moral distress impacting physicians. Moral distress occurs when health care professionals know the right course of clinical action but are prevented from taking that action due to some kind of external constraint, such as a law or institutional policy.

Through interviews with OB-GYNs, the authors characterized sources of moral distress among OB-GYNs in states with abortion bans, including: delaying medically necessary abortion care for obstetric patients, conflict with other clinicians, denying care they would have provided locally prior to Dobbs, and restrictions on clinical counseling due to “aiding and abetting” clauses in some state laws.

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