Amy Haddad Named Director at Creighton’s Center For Health Policy and Ethics

Amy M. Haddad, Ph.D., R.N., has been named director of the Center for Health Policy and Ethics at Creighton University. Haddad has served as interim director of the Center since July of 2004. She will also become the holder of the Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Endowed Chair in Health Sciences.

The Center for Health Policy and Ethics is a multidisciplinary group of scholars dedicated to the study and teaching of ethical dimensions of health care and health policy. The Center members’ work of addressing the most challenging social justice and other ethical issues faced by society has resulted in national and international recognitions and distinctions. The Center also supports education in the ethics of health care practice and policy in Creighton University Medical Center’s four health professions schools.

Dr. Haddad is a nationally known expert in ethics education, providing leadership in the development of novel methods to shape ethically competent and committed health professionals. She teaches ethics and health policy in the Schools of Pharmacy and Health Professions, Medicine and Nursing, and has been teaching ethics in the health sciences at Creighton University Medical Center since 1984.

Haddad recently received the Robert K. Chalmers Distinguished Pharmacy Educator Award from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP). The AACP bestows this national award annually on one pharmacy educator who has made major contributions to the profession. In 2001, Haddad was named a Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie Center for the Advancement of the Scholarship of Teaching, a prestigious honor bestowed on select individuals in higher education around the country.

Haddad has also been honored with a 2003 Alpha Sigma Nu National Jesuit Book Award and as Marian High School’s 2004 Alumna of the Year.
Haddad is the author or editor of nine books and more than 50 journal articles including Health Professional and Patient Interaction, Case Studies in Pharmacy Ethics and The Arduous Touch: Women’s Voices in Health Care. She is the author of a bimonthly column, entitled "Ethics in Action," that has appeared in RN Magazine since 1991.

"We are fortunate indeed, to have Dr. Haddad fill this important position at Creighton," said Cam E. Enarson, M.D., M.B.A., vice president for health sciences and dean of the School of Medicine at Creighton University. "Her many contributions to teaching and promoting ethics in the health sciences will enhance the success of the Center for Health Policy and Ethics as a source of inspiration, knowledge and understanding for the Creighton community," said Enarson.