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Eleanor Gilmore-Szott

AOS: Bioethics, Clinical Ethics, Medical Decision Making

AOC: Data Science Ethics, Philosophy of Medicine, Philosophy of Psychiatry, Philosophy of Science

Appointments

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Assistant Professor | Department of Medical Humanities and Bioethics | August 2022

Baylor College of Medicine

Clinical Ethics Fellow | Center for Medical Ethics & Health Policy | July 2021 – June 2022

Postdoctoral Associate | Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences | July 2021 – June 2022

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Philosophy | University of Utah | 2021

Dissertation: “The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of the Parts: Facilitating Understanding in Medical Decision Making”

Committee: Chrisoula Andreou, Jeff Botkin, Leslie Francis, Dustin Stokes, and James Tabery (chair).

B.A. Philosophy Cum Laude with Distinction | Hendrix College| 2012

Research

Publications

Eleanor Gilmore-Szott and Thomas Cunningham (2021). "How Do People Make Moral Medical Decisions?" In M Trachsel, S Tekin, NB Andorno, J Gaab, and JZ Sadler (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Psychotherapy Ethics, Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198817338.013.9

Jennifer Kleiner Fausett, Eleanor Gilmore-Szott, D. Micah Hester. (2015). “Networking Bioethics: A Survey of Ethics Networks across the U.S.,” in HEC Forum. DOI: 10.1007/s10730-015-9286-4

Cynthia Peden-McAlpine, Joan Liaschenko, Terri Traudt, and Eleanor Gilmore-Szott. (2015). “Constructing the Story: Nurses Moral Communicative Work with Families at End of Life in ICU,” in The International Journal of Nursing Studies 52(7). DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2015.03.015

Media Publications

“Core Principles in Safeguarding Children,” The Blog of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. (March 25, 2013).

Works in Progress

“Indirect Benefit and Healthcare Disparity in Scarce Resource Allocation: Lessons from COVID-19”

“Epistemic Injustice and Applications of AI in Healthcare”

“Supporting Understanding for Informed Consent and Medical Decision Making”

“Putting the Informed in Informed Consent: Imagination, Games, and Virtual Reality”

“Nudging and Paternalism in Medical Decision Making”

“Ethics and Algorithms: Lessons from Public Health Ethics”

Dissertation Abstract

“The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of the Parts: Facilitating Understanding in Medical Decision Making”

This dissertation clarifies the functions required of “understanding,” as described in the bioethics literature on informed consent. With this elucidation, we can precisely identify under what conditions decision aids are effective. The dissertation presents an analysis of three decision aid types: health literacy, values clarification, and nudging from libertarian paternalism. Ultimately, each of these solutions fails to address a crucial element of understanding needed for informed consent. Accordingly, this dissertation offers a theoretical justification for a new approach to decision aids: substituted experience through the use of guided imagination, virtual reality, and video role-playing games. This new type of intervention offers a path to lessen barriers to meaningful understanding. Ultimately, this solution closes gaps missed by the other proposals.

Empirical Research Experience

Embedded Ethicist | PIs: Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby & Kristin Kostick| Baylor College of Medicine | Houston, TX, | July 2021-Present

A Multi-Site Trial to Test Benefits of Adding a Personalized Risk Calculator to an Online 14 Decision Aid for Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD): An AHRQ Funded study (2020-2025) exploring the use of an integrated clinical decision support tool that utilizes AI/machine learning to provide a patient-specific risk assessment of adverse events associated with receiving an LVAD. This study explores stakeholder perceptions of the ethical dimensions of this tool.

Ethics Research Assistant |Supervisors: James Tabery & Leslie Francis | ItRunsInMyFamily.com | Salt Lake City, UT | 2015 – 2016

Conducted embedded research assessing the ethical considerations during the development of and use of a digital platform for social networking the creation of a family health history.

Research Assistant | Division of Medical Humanities| University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences| Little Rock, AR | 2012 – 2014

Provided research support for Division faculty research projects, including topics on: the presence and use of ethics consortiums, the use of comics for pediatric assent, and the impacts of policy on the use of embryonic stem cells in research.

Contributed to coding and qualitative analysis of the narrative work of nurses in end-of-life care for patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

Clinical Ethics Experience

Clinical Ethics Fellow| Baylor College of Medicine| July 2021 – June 2022

Clinical Ethics Observership | Weill Cornell College of Medicine | March 2022

Research Assistant| D. Micah Hester | Arkansas Children’s Hospital | 2012 – 2014

Consult Service Intern| Mary Faith Marshall | Ethics Consultation Service | The Center for Bioethics University of Minnesota | 2012

Presentations

Invited Talks

·“Health Literacy and the Medical Misunderstanding Problem,” Presented at The Philosophy of Medicine and Mental Health Conference at University of Nebraska Omaha, 2019.

·“Patient Understanding in Medical Decision Making,” Presented during Graduate Student Hour at Moral Psychology Research Group Meeting at University of Utah, 2019.

Refereed Presentations

·“Improving Medical Decision Making with Tools from Feminist Epistemology,” | Intermountain Philosophy Annual Conference | Virtual | 2020.

·“Chalk it up to Experience: Improving Medical Decision-Making,” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities | Virtual | 2020.

·“Ethics and Algorithms: Lessons from Public Health Ethics,” | World Congress of Bioethics| Virtual | 2020.

·“Nudges and Paternalism: When to Worry,” | World Congress of Bioethics| Virtual | 2020.

·“Limitations for Improving Informed Consent: Lessons from Informed Consent and Health Literacy,” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Conference| Pittsburgh, PA| 2019.

·“Collaborative Pedagogy: Teaching Ethics in Data Science,” | Intermountain Philosophy Annual Conference, at Utah Valley University| Orem, UT| 2019.

·“Social Networking Your Family Health History: A Case Study,”| American Society for Bioethics and Humanities| Anaheim, CA| 2018.

·“Understanding in Informed Consent and Health Literacy,” | Intermountain Philosophy Annual Conference| at Brigham Young University| Provo, UT| 2017.

·“Masking Death: Intensive Care Units as Liminal Space,”| American Society for Bioethics and Humanities| Washington D.C.| 2016.

·“Explanation for Informed Consent in Psychiatric Care,” | Reductionism and Integration, Bioethics and Behavior: A Conference Celebrating the Career of Kenneth F. Schaffner| Center for Philosophy of Science | University of Pittsburgh| 2016.

·“Race Disparities in Health Care: The Role of Epistemic Injustice,” | American Society for Bioethics and Humanities| Houston, TX| 2015.

·“Rejecting Sex Essentialism: Cases from Human Biology,” | International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology| Montreal, QC| 2015.

Posters

·“Teaching Ethics in Data Science,”| Pacific Teaching Hub Poster Session| American Philosophical Association| 2020. (Canceled due to COVID-19).

·“Crowdsourcing Family Health History: Epistemic Virtues and Vices,” | Philosophy of Science Association| Seattle, WA| 2018.

Commentaries

·“Doubly Disadvantaged: The Recruitment of Diverse Subjects for Clinical Trials in Latin America,” Manuela Fernandez-Pinto| American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting| Seattle, WA| 2017.

·“Rethinking Sovereignty Through Transnational Surrogacy,” Fanny Soderback| American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting| San Francisco, CA| 2016.

· “Betwixt and Between,” Tessa Fontaine| Intermountain West Student Philosophy Conference| University of Utah| Salt Lake City, UT| 2016.

Clinical Presentations to Physicians and Faculty

·“Indirect Benefit and Requests for Inappropriate Treatment”| System Case Conference| Houston Methodist Hospital| June 2022

·“Conspiracy Belief and Requests for Inappropriate Treatment”| Big Topics in Bioethics| Baylor College of Medicine| March 2022

·“Secular Miracles, Conspiracy Belief, and Requests for Inappropriate Treatment”| Weill Cornell & BCM Consortium Retreat| March 2022

·“Applications of AI to Healthcare: What Clinical Ethicists Should Know”| Weill Cornell & BCM Consortium Retreat| March 2022

·“Case Analysis: Incapacitated Refusal”| Weill Cornell & BCM Consortium Retreat| March 2022

Public Philosophy

· Invited Speaker | “The Ethics of Advance Care Planning” | Clarewood House Retirement Community | Houston, TX | May 2022

· Invited Speaker | “Implicit Bias in Health Care” | Legacy Community Health| Houston, TX| October 2021

· Resident Philosopher| AP Environmental Sciences Escalante Trip| Highland High School| Salt Lake City, UT| 2017

Fellowships, Internships, Honors and Awards

FELLOWSHIPS

· Steffensen Cannon Graduate Scholar |Awarded & Accepted | 2020

· Graduate Research Fellowship | Awarded | 2020

· Steffensen Cannon Graduate Scholar |Awarded & Accepted | 2019

· Marriner S. Eccles Graduate Research Fellowship | Awarded | 2019

· The University of Utah Center for Excellence in ELSI Research (UCEER) | Mentored Graduate Research Assistant | 2017

INTERNSHIPS

· Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, Washington D.C. | Intern | Spring 2013

HONORS AND AWARDS

· Invited Participant | Biomedical Data Science Innovation Lab: Ethical Challenges of AI in Biomedicine University of Virginia | Spring 2022

· Sterling M. McMurrin Graduate Student Travel Award | 2018, 2019, 2020

· Associated Students of the University of Utah Travel Award | 2018

· The University of Utah Center for Excellence in ELSI Research (UCEER) Travel Grant | 2018

· Graduate Student Travel Assistance Award | 2015, 2016

· Hendrix College Dean’s List | 2012, 2011, Spring 2010, Fall 2009

· Hendrix College Odyssey Awards:

o Crossings Program: Study of the Mind | 2011-2012

o Bioethics an Odyssey: Applications of Bioethics in a Hospital Setting | May 2011

· Murphy Foundation Award for Literature and Language | Feminism and Virginia Woolf with Oxford Overseas Study Course | Fall 2010

Teaching Experience

Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Facilitator, Seminar: Informed Consent and Truth Telling (MEETH 418): Fall 2021, Spring 2022

Small Group Leader, Small Group Medical Ethics Discussion (MBETH-MAIN): Spring 2022

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Department of Philosophy

Instructor

History and Philosophy of Science (PHIL 3350 - Online): Summer 2020

Ethics of Biomedical Technology (PHIL 3011 - In person): Spring 2019

Bioethics (PHIL 3520 - In Person): Spring 2018, Fall 2018

Bioethics (PHIL 3520 - Online): Summer 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018

Teaching Assistant

Bioethics (PHIL 3520 - In Class): Fall 2017 with Matt Haber

Intro to Ethical Dilemmas (PHIL 1001 – In Class): Spring 2015 with Erin Beeghly

Intro to Ethical Dilemmas (PHIL 1001 – Online): Fall 2014 with Jason Wyckoff

Department of Computer Science

Teaching Assistant, Ethics in Data Science (CS 6962 – Course Development): Summer 2019 with Suresh Venkatasubramanian

College of Medicine

Substitute Small Group Facilitator, Layers of Medicine (MS2020): Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2019

Certifications

Responsible Conduct of Research, 2021

This series of courses provides education on social and ethical considerations related to the conduct of research, including: data storage, mentoring, informed consent for participants, among others. This certification course is a required for research funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Research Mentoring Certificate, 2020

This semester long training provided instruction on core competencies that promote effective mentoring of undergraduates. These sessions included, among others, training on communication, addressing diversity, and promoting professional development.

Service

University Service

· Presenter, New Nurse Orientation, Houston Methodist Hospital, Spring 2022

· Lecturer, Nursing Residency Ethics Education, Houston Methodist Hospital, Spring 2022

· Member, Houston Methodist Hospital Bioethics Committee, Summer 2021-June 2022

· Curriculum Reviewer, Office of Research Education, University of Utah, Fall 2020

· Contributor, Informed Consent Initiative Committee, Utah Trial and Innovation Center, University of Utah, 2017

Departmental Service

· Clinical Mentor, Clinical Ethics Internship, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Spring 2022

· Member, Fellows Writing Group, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, 2021

· Founder and Chair, Bioethics Abstract Workshop, Department of Philosophy, University of Utah, 2018-2019

· Member, Graduate Student Advisory Committee, Department of Philosophy, University of Utah, 2016-2018

· Conference Co-Chair, Intermountain West Student Philosophy Conference, University of Utah, 2016

· Referee, Intermountain West Student Philosophy Conference, University of Utah, 2015-2019

· Prospective Student Host, Department of Philosophy, University of Utah, 2015 – 2020

GRADUATE COURSEWORK

Reproductive Health Ethics (audit) – Peggy Battin

Concepts and Teaching Bioethics – Leslie Francis

Death and Dying – Peggy Battin

Philosophy of Race – Cindy Stark

Philosophy of Experiments – Melinda Fagin

Practical Reasoning – Elijah Millgram

Plato’s Republic – Eric Hutton

Ethics in Psychiatry – Peggy Battin and Brent Kious

Advanced Deductive Logic – Jonah Schupbach

Hume – Lex Newman

Deductive Logic – Lex Newman

Bias and Stereotypes – Erin Beeghly

Kripke: Metaphysics & Epistemology – Matt Haber

MEMBERSHIPS

American Society for Bioethics and Humanities

American Philosophical Association

Philosophy of Science Association