Health Care Reform Advocate to Retire from Georgetown
December 8, 2008
As 2008 comes to a close, so will Ann Neale's time at Georgetown's Center for Clinical Bioethics. Neale, a senior research associate with the Center, will retire from Georgetown on December 19 with over thirty years of experience in science, technology, and healthcare.
Neale came to Georgetown eight years ago, after working as a senior associate in ethics at the Catholic Health Association and has pursued her interest in social ethics and U.S. healthcare reform.
Neale reflects positively on her time at Georgetown, saying that she's had the flexibility and support to pursue her passion of working on behalf of a more just and sustainable healthcare system. Neale believes that public engagement is required for such a transformation of our health system. While at Georgetown, Neale was integral in designing two healthcare tools to do just that, OurHealthcareFuture and VisionandVoice: Faithful Citizens and Health Care. These tools can be downloaded for communities to conduct their own discussions about their vision and priorities for our healthcare future.
"We need to build a social movement around healthcare. We need that groundswell to transform our deeply embedded, dysfunctional system," explained Neale.
In retirement, Neale looks forward to traveling and spending time with family. But she also plans to stay involved in healthcare reform efforts, remaining with Georgetown as an affiliated scholar. Neale says it's "wonderful" to retire from Georgetown for a number of reasons.
"It's wonderful to end my career at Georgetown because it's where it began almost forty years ago as a graduate student in philosophy. It’s where I’ve been able to complete my worklife bringing together what I’ve learned through my work in the U.S. Senate, HHS, and Catholic healthcare. I’m now one of a number of Neales of Georgetown – including two early presidents of the university; my greatgrandfather Augustine Wills Neale, valedictorian of the class of 1860; my father, James Francis Neale; and my cousin Joe Neale of the biology department," she said.
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