March of Dimes establishes 2 new perinatal bioethics awards

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Thu, 10/22/2009 - 22:00

(March of Dimes Foundation) The March of Dimes established two new awards to honor the work of established scholars in perinatal ethics and to encourage young researchers to enter the field.

John D. Lantos, MD, director of the Children's Mercy Bioethics Center at Children's Mercy Hospital, was honored with the Distinguished Lectureship in Perinatal Bioethics.

Sarah Clark Miller, Ph.D., assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis, Tennessee, was named the Young Scholar Award in Perinatal Bioethics.

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