Dr. Rosa Lynn Pinkus is the Associate Director of the Center for Bioethics and Health Law at the University of Pittsburgh. She is also a Professor of Medicine and Neurosurgery, and the Director of the Consortium Ethics Program. As a historian, she received both her M.A. (1973) and Ph.D. (1975) from the State University of New York at Buffalo. In 1978, she completed a fellowship in the Medical Humanities at Penn State Hershey, and joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 1980. Since arriving at the University, Dr. Pinkus has gained extensive experience as an ethics consultant, and has taught applied ethics for over twenty years in both the medical school, and most recently, the School of Engineering.

Dr. Pinkus has been featured in multiple publications for her clinical work in neurosurgery and her expertise in applied ethics. Currently, she is actively involved in an interdisciplinary study, funded by the NSF-LIS Program, to understand how bioengineering students learn ethics, by using a case-based approach, and how a computer model of this reasoning process can aid future teaching. Still publishing historical articles examining the development of a "tacit ethic" in neurosurgery, Rosa Lynn's commitment to applying what the "academic" ethics center has learned to everyday practice of professionals is the common theme that ties this diverse career together.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Dr. Rosa Lynn Pinkus
Phone: (412) 647-5822
Email: pinkus@pitt.edu