Our History
The Center for Bioethics is rooted in a longstanding commitment to clinical bioethics at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The Hospital Ethics Committee first convened almost 25 years ago and was one of the first hospital ethics committees in the United States. In 1996 the hospital staffed its first dedicated clinical ethics service, providing ethics consultation services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week upon request by any hospital clinician, patient or patient family member. In 2005 Dr. Lisa Lehmann was appointed the first Director of the newly created Center for Bioethics. The Center draws from the hospital’s clinical ethics programs with further emphasis on interdisciplinary research and education.
How to Find Us
Center for Bioethics
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
75 Francis Street
Boston, MA 02115
Tel (617) 732-8590
Fax (617) 730-2868
Find Us From Inside the Hospital
The Center for Bioethics is located at Exit 7A off the Pike (second floor main hallway of the hospital). Walk through the Department of Orthopedic Surgery and continue following signs for the Center for Bioethics.
Find Us From Outside the Hospital
The Center for Bioethics is located in the main hospital campus at 75 Francis Street in Boston. Click here for a link that provides driving directions to the hospital and a map of the hospital and surrounding area.
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