- Core Faculty
Berman Institute of Bioethics - Professor
Dept. of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Joseph Carrese, MD, MPH, FACP is Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a core faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.
Dr. Carrese’s scholarship focuses on clinical ethics and professionalism, with a particular interest in medical education, examining ethical issues in the context of cultural diversity and clinical ethics consultation. Dr. Carrese’s peer-reviewed articles have been published in leading medical and bioethics journals, he has been a visiting professor at several academic medical institutions and he has been invited to speak at many national and international meetings.
Dr. Carrese was on the Board of Directors for the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities from 2012-15. From 2009-2014 Dr. Carrese was a member of the ASBH standing committee on Clinical Ethics Consultation Affairs (CECA). In 2012 Dr. Carrese was a founding Board member of the Academy for Professionalism in Healthcare (APHC) and he was Chair of the Board of Directors of APHC from 2013-15.
Dr. Carrese is a Fellow of the Hastings Center. He is Chair of the Ethics Committee at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and Chair of an Institutional Review Board at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Research Interests
- Clinical ethics and professionalism, with a particular interest in medical education
- Examining ethical issues in the context of cultural diversity
- Clinical ethics consultation
Education
- MD, University of Buffalo School of Medicine
- MPH, University of Washington
- BA, Williams College
Activities
- Chair, Ethics Committee, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
- Chair of an Institutional Review Board at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Recent Publications
- Collins M, Rum S, Wheeler J, Antman K, MD, Brem H, MD, Carrese J, Glennon M, Kahn J, PhD, Ohman EM, Jagsi R, Konrath S, Tovino S, Wright S, Sugarman J, for the Participants in the Summit on the Ethics of Grateful Patient Fundraising. Ethical Issues and Recommendations in Grateful Patient Fundraising and Philanthropy. Acad Med. 2018 Nov;93(11):1631-1637. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000002365.
- Faigle R, Carrese JA, Cooper LA, Urrutia VC, Gottesman RF. Minority race and male sex as risk factors for non-beneficial gastrostomy tube placements after stroke. PLoS ONE. 2018 Jan 19;13(1):e0191293. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0191293. eCollection 2018.
- Carrese J, Forbes L, Branyon E, Aboumatar H, Geller G, Beach MC, & Sugarman J. Observations regarding treatment with respect and dignity in the intensive care unit.Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics. 2015; 5(1A):45-53.
- Carrese JA, Malek J, Watson K, Lehman LS, Green MJ, McCullough LB, Geller G, Braddock CH, Doukas DJ. “The Romanell Report: The Essential Role of Medical Ethics Education in Achieving Professionalism.” Academic Medicine. 2015; 90(6):744-52.
- Carrese, J. A., Antommaria, A. H., Berkowitz, K. A., Berger, J., Carrese, J., Childs, B. H., … & Wocial, L. HCEC Pearls and Pitfalls: Suggested Do’s and Don’ts for Health Care Ethics Consultants The Journal of Clinical Ethics. 2011; 23(3), 234-240.
- Carrese, J. A., McDonald, E. L., Moon, M., Taylor, H. A., Khaira, K., Catherine Beach, M., & Hughes, M. T. Everyday Ethics in Internal Medicine Resident Clinic: An Opportunity to Teach. Medical Education. 2011; 45(7), 712-721.
- Carrese, J. A. Refusal of Care: Patients’ Well-Being and Physicians’ Ethical Obligations. JAMA. 2006; 296(6), 691-695.