Center for Ethical Solutions Inc
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Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Kidneys for Sale: The Iranian Experience
The Center for Ethical Solutions has three projects planned to study ways to meliorate the organ shortage crisis. The first is a book by Dr. Fry-Revere and Dr. Bastani to study Iran’s purported solution to their organ shortage crisis. The book is based on interviews done in Iran with actual people who sold or were about to sell a kidney, their recipients and the intermediaries who help arrange the transactions.
Legal Trends
The Center regularly publishes updates on legal developments in healthcare ethics. Our Legal Trends in Bioethics is an easy to use way to track developments in court cases, laws, and regulations both at federal and state levels.
As Time Runs Out
This is a short documentary film that cronicles the experience of one U.S. kidney disease patient, Steve Lessin -- His quest for a kidney and his life on dialysis. It is a heart felt insight into the emotional roller coaster associated with being on the organ waiting list and dealing with the trials and tribulations of dialysis treatment.
Documentary Film on Kidney Sales in Iran
Center researchers have more than 100 hours of video footage from their interviews with kidney sellers, recipients, and the NGOs that match donors and recipients in Iran. The footage from this unprecedented research needs to be edited into a cooherent documentary film on how Iran has been the only country for more than 20 years with legalized kidney sales.
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Number of volunteers
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Context Notes
The Center for Ethical Solutions receive assistance from a number of volunteers across a wide age spectrum.
Total dollar amount of grants awarded
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Number of youth who volunteer/participate in community service
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Youth volunteers have tremendously benefitted the Center for Ethical Solutions. Most youth volunteers serve as interns and are enrolled in postsecondary education.
Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
We want to help the general public understand medical ethics and make more confident and sound healthcare decisions for themselves on that basis. The founder of the Center for Ethical Solutions has a Ph.D. in bioethics and worked as a clinical ethicist, helping patients make difficult decisions in the hospital setting. She realized that patients and their families were overwhelmed by information and concepts they understood little to nothing. The Center exposes the public to academic thought on topics in patient care ethics,enabling and inspiring those most impacted by the debates being had into those discussions.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We produce tools to empower patients to make their own decisions. Our greatest strength is in the output of our volunteer scholars and researchers (interns). We have heard over and over again, particularly with regard to organ donation, that we have the most thorough and easily understood collection of articles and Fact Sheets on the topic.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Our website is filled with information: Fact sheets about important patient-care ethics topics such as organ donation, end-of-life decision making, veterans issues, and pain management. We have started two more in-depth projects for solving the organ shortage — one was funding the start of a lobbying organization that argues for changing the law to make donation more equitable for blue-collar workers, the unemployed, and the self-employed; and the other a charity that empowers living organ donors to help by covering their non-medical expenses.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We have accomplished a great deal with the help of fantastic volunteer scholars and interns; however, in order to maintain some of the programs we have already begun, and to explore new projects, grants or sponsors are absolutely essential. We have received several small grants, but our big push in the coming years is to find a source of steady income so we can hire some full-time staff.
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Center for Ethical Solutions Inc
Board of directorsas of 06/07/2016
Sigrid Fry-Revere
No Affiliation
Term: 2008 -
Sigrid Fry-Revere
Center for Ethical Solutions
Shane Steinfeld
Creative Group of Washington DC
Rod Carveth
University of Hartford
Michele Battle-Fisher
Ohio State University
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes