Karen Gervais
Karen Gervais, PhD, is the Director of the Minnesota Center for Health
Care Ethics. She received her BA from Oberlin College and her PhD from the
University of Minnesota in philosophy. She has been Coordinator of the
Minnesota Network for Institutional Ethics Committees and Center Associate
of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Minnesota. Karen
has held a wide variety of visiting professorships and has written and
lectured extensively on death and dying, advance directives, health care
reform and resource allocation. In 1987, she published Redefining Death
and was a co-author of the Use of Human Fetal Tissue: Scientific,
Ethical and Policy Concerns in 1990. A book she co-edited, Ethical
Challenges in Managed Care: A Casebook, was also published in
January 1990.
Representing: Minnesota Center for Health Care Ethics
601 - 25th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55454