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M. J. Wirpsa, MA, BCC, HEC-C ((she/her/hers))

Program Director & Clinical Ethicist
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Chicago, Illinois

M. Jeanne Wirpsa, MA, BCC, HEC-C, has over 30 years’ experience as a professional healthcare chaplain, educator/researcher, and clinical ethicist. She currently serves as Director for the Medical Ethics Program at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in downtown Chicago, which boasts a robust clinical consultation service (~600/year), promotes ethical competency of providers through innovative education, and embraces a “preventive ethics” model by embedding in high acuity units and specialty clinics and developing policies and approaches to promote ethical care for cutting edge medical technologies. In her previous role as program manager, she began the innovative Clinical Ethics Resource Nurse Program which trains nurses to serve as point persons for ethical issues arising in their service areas, thereby ensuring the voices of nurses are fully integrated into clinical ethics.

Ms. Wirpsa serves as faculty both for the NUFSM Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities program and for the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Ms. Wirpsa’s academic interests focus on the intersection of religion, bioethics, and medicine; interprofessional shared decision making; mitigating moral distress/promoting ethical climate in healthcare; and ethical issues in the care of culturally and socio-economically marginalized populations.

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