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Washington, D.C. — The Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University Medical Center today announced the appointment of Ann Neale, Ph.D., as a senior research scholar. Neale’s duties will include policy research and ethical issues surrounding human experimentation, as well as other activities on behalf of the students and faculty at the Medical Center.
Neale comes to Georgetown from St. Louis, Mo., where she was a senior associate for ethics in the Mission Services Department of the Catholic Health Association, and had an adjunct faculty appointment in the Center for Health Care Ethics at St. Louis University Health Sciences Center. Ann served CHA members in a variety of areas, including organizational ethics, supportive care of the dying, mission-based investing, social accountability, and budgeting.
For 15 years Neale served as a vice president in the mission departments of two Catholic health systems: Bon Secours Health System in Baltimore and Franciscan Health System in Aston, Pa. (now part of Catholic Health Initiatives). Her responsibilities in those organizations included mission, clinical and organizational ethics, advocacy, and socially responsible investing. Neale also has worked extensively in the area of health care reform.
Neale received her doctorate in philosophy from Georgetown University in 1976, after which she was appointed the first executive director for the Committee for Human Values, an office that represented the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in the areas of science, technology, and values. She also served as Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy’s special assistant to the Office of Technology Assessment, the science arm of the United States Congress; and as ethicist for the National Center for Health Care Technology, a center in the office of the Surgeon General that coordinated technology assessments for the Department of Health and Human Services.
Neale has served on the boards of the American Society of Christian Ethics, the Dallas Mercy Health System, the Churches Center for Theology and Public Policy, the Maryland Hospital Education Institute, and Bayard House, a home for pregnant teenagers in Wilmington, Del. She was a member of Health and Human Services Secretary Califano’s Advisory Committee on the Rights and Responsibilities of Women, Maryland Gov. Hughes’ Organ Transplant Study Commission, and the National Institutes of Health’s Consensus Advisory Panel on Infant Apnea and Home Monitoring.
Neale is currently a member of two boards: Network, a national Catholic social-justice lobby, and The Center for Ethics and Advocacy in Health Care: A Community Based Health Care Support System.
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