Curriculum Vitae (abbreviated)
LARRY R. CHURCHILL

CURRENT POSITION:
Ann Geddes Stahlman Professor of Medical Ethics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Secondary Appointments:
Graduate Department of Religion; Vanderbilt Divinity School

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Center for Clinical and Research Ethics
319 Oxford House
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN 37232
Phone: (615) 936-2686
Fax: (615) 936-3800      
E-mail: larry.churchill@vanderbilt.edu

EDUCATIONAL HISTORY:
Ph.D. 1973 - Duke University (Religion and Culture)
M.Div. 1970 - Duke University (Philosophy of Religion)
B.A. 1967 - Rhodes College (Philosophy)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
• Director, Center for Health Ethics and Policy, UNC, Chapel Hill, 2001-2002
• Chair, Department of Social Medicine, UNC, 1988-1998
• Professor, Department of Social Medicine, UNC, 1988-2002
• Associate Professor, Department of Social Medicine, UNC, 1982-1988
• Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, UNC, 1982-1988
• Assistant Professor, Department of Social Medicine, UNC, 1980-1981
• Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, UNC, 1976-1980
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Duke University, Fall, 1976
• Project Director, Human Values in Medicine, UNC, 1974-1975
• Lecturer, Department of Religion, UNC, 1974-1975
• Instructor, Department of Religion, Duke University, 1973-1974

Current Teaching and Research:
• Director, “The Ecology of Health Care,” (required course for 1st year medical students on medical ethics, social and cultural dimensions of health care and health policy).
• ETHICS 3464—Seminar in Clinical and Research Ethics
• Co-Director (with Matthew Ramsey), Faculty Seminar on “Medicine, Health and Society,” Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt, 2003-2004.
• Co-Investigator, (Gail Henderson & Nancy King, PIs) “The Social Construction of Benefit,” National Humane Genome Research Institute, 1999-2003.
• Co-Investigator, (Barbra Rothschild, PI), “Informed Consent to Maternal-Fetal Surgery,” Greenwall Foundation, 2002.
• Chair, Oversight Committee for Vanderbilt site, NIH trial of maternal-fetal surgery of spina bifida .
• Ethics Committee, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
The Hastings Center (Fellow)
The Hume Society

PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Smith, H.L. and Churchill, L.R.:  Professional Ethics and Primary Care Medicine: Beyond Dilemmas and Decorum, Duke University Press, 1986 (cloth and paper).

Churchill, L.R.:  Rationing Health Care in America: Perceptions and Principles of Justice, University of Notre Dame Press, 1987 (paper, 1988).

King, N.M.P., Churchill, L.R. and Cross, A.W. (eds.):  The Physician as Captain of the Ship: A Critical Reappraisal, D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1988.

Churchill, L.R.:  Self-Interest and Universal Health Care: Why Well-Insured Americans Should Support Coverage for Everyone, Harvard University Press, 1994.

Henderson, G., King, N., Strauss, R., Estroff, S., and Churchill, L.R., (eds.):  The Social Medicine Reader Duke University Press, 1997 (cloth and paper).

Danis, Marion, Clancy, Carolyn and Churchill, Larry R. (eds.): Ethical Dimensions of Health Policy, Oxford University Press, 2002.

Articles and Book Chapters:
total eighty-nine, 1973-2002.

HONORS AND AWARDS:
Phi Beta Kappa;
M.Div. summa cum laude;
Charles E. Culpeper Scholar, 1991-94;
Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study of the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, 1992,1994;
Award for Outstanding Teaching, UNC-CH School of Medicine, 1999; Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Institute for Care at the End of Life, Duke University, 2000-2001.

Revised: October 16, 2002 

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