I'm Assistant Staff Bioethicist and Transplant Ethicist at Cleveland Clinic's Center for Bioethics. In this role, I serve on the Ethics Consultation Service and provide embedded support to several of the Clinic's transplant teams. My scholarship focuses on transplant ethics, gender care, issues around pain and death, and ethical analyses of clinical innovations such as those around uterine transplantation and normothermic regional perfusion. 

I earned my PhD in Philosophy from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2022. In my dissertation, entitled "Dignifying Decisions: The Role of Dignity in Surrogate Decision-Making," I develop a relational understanding of dignity to facilitate an ethically supportable decision-making process for patients without surrogates. I subsequently participated in the Cleveland Fellowship in Advanced Bioethics at the Cleveland Clinic, where I developed my clinical ethics skills and engaged in a broad variety of bioethics-related projects and scholarship.

Outside of clinical bioethics, my primary area of scholarship is (applied) ethics, and I have done extensive work in the areas of animal ethics, environmental ethics, metaethics, metaphysics, and practical reason, with special interests in Merleau-Ponty and Hume. My more outré interests include philosophy of popular culture. I'm passionate about teaching to a variety of learners and certified in best practices for instructional design. My last name is Dutch for Pancake.