Faculty

Pediatric Ethics Fellowship

Program Director

Kelstan Ellis, DO, MS-CR, MBe

Fellowship Coordinator

Toni Zaner, BA

Current Fellow

Skylar Bird, PhD

Previous Pediatric Ethics Fellows

Fellows from the program are hard at work!

2014-15: Bradley Thornock, PhD, MPH
- Associate Professor of Medical Humanities, Rocky Vista University, Ivins, UT
2015-16: Michael Deem, PhD
- Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
2016-17: Sarosh Saleem, PhD, MBBS
- Associate Professor of Bioethics, Shalamar Medical and Dental College, Lahore, Pakistan
2017-18: Maura Priest, PhD
- Associate Professor of Philosophy & Bioethicist, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2018-19: Bryanna Moore, PhD, HEC-C
- Assistant Professor, Health Humanities & Bioethics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
2018-19: Maria Cristina Murano, PhD
- Ramón y Cajal Fellow, Department of Philosophy and Society, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2019-20: Ian Wolfe, PhD, MA, RN, HEC-C
- Director of Ethics, Children's Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
2020-21: Fajar Raza, MD
- Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
2021-22: Shika Kalevor, MBE, RN, HEC-C
- Clinical Ethicist, Children's Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
2022-23: Dawn Hood-Patterson, PhD, MDiv, HEC-C
- Clinical Ethicist, Children's Health, Dallas, Dallas, TX
2023-24: Yoo Sun (Sunny) Jeong, RN, BScN, MBE, HEC-C
- Medical Student, Australia
2024-25: Candyce Greene, MD, MPH, MSW, HEC-C
- Pediatric Palliative Medicine Physician, Penn State Health Children's Hospital, Hershey, PA
2025-26: Ellen Keyser Endelman, MDiv, BCC, HEC-C
- Clinical Chaplain and Ethics Consultant, Methodist Hospital, Des Moines, IA
2026-27: Skylar Bird, PhD
- Pediatric Ethics Fellow, Children's Mercy, Kansas City, MO