Wayne Shelton, Ph.D., M.S.W.Director, AMBI Program on Ethics in Health Outcomes
Associate Professor of Medicine
Albany Medical Center
Tel: 518.262.6423
Email:
sheltow@mail.amc.eduResearch InterestClinical Ethics Consultation, Medical Ethics Education, Ethics in Physician-Patient Relations, Futility, American Pragmatism
BioWayne Shelton earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Tennessee, with a concentration in medical ethics. He also has a Masters in Social Work from the University of Chicago with a certificate in Health Administration and Policy from the Harris School of Public Policy, and was a Fellow at the McClean Center For Medical Ethics, University of Chicago Medical Center.
Dr. Shelton is program director of a Charitable Leadership Foundation funded study of ethical issues in intensive care and in particular the effect of ethics and social work interventions on length of stay.
He is an Associate Professor in the Alden March Bioethics Institute at The Albany Medical Center and Co-Director of AMBI graduate programs. Dr. Shelton is Associate Project Director of a project on "E-Education in Research Ethics: Central and Eastern Europe" funded by the Fogarty Center, National Institutes of Health.
In recent years Dr. Shelton's research activity has focused on ethical issues in alcoholism, physician-patient relationship, medical futility and the challenges of ethics education in medical schools. He has published in professional journals, as well as the editor of two books, and is Co-Editor of the book series
Advances in Bioethics published by Elsevier.
