Dr. Lynn Jansen Appointed Executive Director of John J. Conley Center for Ethics and Sisters of Charity Chair in Ethics at Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers
10/20/2009
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New York, NY – October 20, 2009 – Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers (Saint Vincent’s) today announced the appointment of Lynn A. Jansen, PhD as executive director of the John J. Conley Center for Ethics and Sisters of Charity Chair in Ethics. The Center is named for Dr. John Conley, who was chief of head and neck surgery at St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan for 48 years as well as a leader in the then-emerging field of medical ethics. Dr. Jansen has been serving as acting chair since May.
“Dr. Lynn Jansen is a distinguished ethicist who has tackled some of the most complex medical ethics issues of our time. We are very pleased that she will serve as the Executive Director of the John J. Conley Center for Ethics and Sisters of Charity Chair in Ethics,” said Dr. Akram Boutros, interim chief medical officer of Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers.
The Center, which had been a medical department of St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan, has been made a system-wide center of ethics for Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers. Under the leadership of Dr. Jansen, the Center will formalize its long-standing role of providing ethics consults to the other service divisions of Saint Vincent’s. The John J. Conley Center for Ethics continues to be closely linked to the Bioethics Institute at New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York, where undergraduate medical student teaching, faculty development, research ethics, and health policy research are conducted.
Dr. Jansen is an associate professor in the department of medicine at New York Medical College and acting director of its Bioethics Institute. She began her career at Saint Vincent’s as senior medical ethicist in 2000.
Dr. Jansen earned her doctorate as well as master of philosophy and master of arts degrees in political science at Columbia University. She served as clinical medical ethics fellow at the University of Chicago MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. She also is a registered nurse with extensive direct clinical experience.
Dr. Jansen is widely published in the field of medical ethics including numerous peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and academic conference papers. She was honored with the Columbia University President's Fellowship, 1990 to 1996, and by The Catholic Press Association for her essay entitled, “Evil, Forgiveness, and the Moral Community,” in 2003. She currently is the principal investigator of an NIH study entitled, “Understanding Optimism in Clinical Research.”
Saint Vincent’s
Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers (Saint Vincent’s) is anchored by St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan, an academic medical center located in Greenwich Village, St. Vincent’s Westchester, a behavioral health hospital in Westchester County, and continuing care services that include two skilled nursing facilities in Brooklyn, another on Staten Island, a hospice, and a home health agency serving the Metropolitan New York area. Its behavioral health services also provide supportive housing programs for people with mental illness throughout the Metropolitan area. Saint Vincent’s is the designated provider for the New York and New Jersey region of the US Family Health Plan sponsored by the US Department of Defense.
Saint Vincent’s serves as the academic medical center of New York Medical College in New York City. The healthcare organization is sponsored by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Brooklyn and the president of the Sisters of Charity of New York.
