Mission Statement
The Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy at the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine serves the students of the Stritch School of Medicine, the clinicians of the Loyola University Health System, health-care professionals from Catholic and nonsectarian health-care systems across the nation, and medical educators in the United States through educational programming, timely conceptual and empirical research, and case consultation. Two things distinguish the Neiswanger Institute:
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A commitment to educating health-care professionals to be effective leaders for social justice in medicine and society, and;
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A commitment to understanding and respecting the role of religious and spiritual traditions, especially that of the school’s Roman Catholic heritage, in health-care decision making. |
The Neiswanger Institute is a pluralistic bioethics institute that draws upon the commitment to social justice of the Jesuit and Roman Catholic heritage of the Stritch School of Medicine in its teaching, research, and service. The Institute promotes the ideals of Jesuit education in seeking to form “men and women for others” and to make our classrooms a “home for all faiths.” Thus, while giving special regard to Catholic health-care ethics in teaching and research, the Institute also fosters respectful dialogue among all traditions represented in our student body and patient population.
The primary values of the Institute, a regard for social justice and a commitment to understanding the roles of religion and spirituality
in medicine, give rise to a research and teaching focus for institute faculty that includes addressing racial and ethnic disparities in health care, fostering cultural humility and competence, contributing to global health, promoting public health, and advocating a renewal of medical professionalism that evidences a concern for the common good.
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