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Jeremy, You Are Way Way Way too Young for This!


Johns Hopkins School of Medicine has created the Jeremy Sugarman Award to honor individuals who show the potential for excellence in bioethics research. The award is named for Jeremy Sugarman, MD MPH, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics' Deputy Director for Medicine and Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Bioethics and Medicine. This national award consists of $500 and an all expense paid trip to Baltimore to lecture to the Hopkins crowd. 66_Sugarman.jpg

The goal of the award is to promote among house staff that they can be bioethics researchers, too. What could be better than those with the hands-on, in the trenches experience in medicine to start studying those deep moral questions to improve the lives of their patients? Hopefully, the mere existence of such an award will not only benefit those who already do good bioethics scholarship, but also encourage those doctors interested in ethics to begin to ask the tough questions in medicine, to write about, and publish about them.

Huzzah to Hopkins who has honored both the man after which the award is named and doctors who do bioethics well.

Summer Johnson, PhD

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