{"id":2352,"date":"2018-01-25T09:51:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T14:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalethics\/?page_id=2352"},"modified":"2020-08-26T13:37:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T17:37:38","slug":"hec","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalethics\/people\/hec\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital Ethics Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An advisory body and standing committee of the Medical Staff Executive Committee, our Hospital Ethics Committee (HEC) was created in the mid-1980s in response to the growing recognition that hospitals require mechanisms to address the ethical issues that arise in patient care. The HEC is well-described at its own web site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncmedicalcenter.org\/uncmc\/patients-visitors\/hospital-ethics-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Current chairs:<br \/>\n&#8211; Co-Chair: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/psych\/directory\/gary-gala\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gary Gala, MD, Psychiatry<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; Co-Chair: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/socialmed\/directory\/arlene-davis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arlene Davis, JD, Social Medicine<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; Vice Chair: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/childrensresearch\/directory\/benny-joyner-md-mph\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Benny Joyner, MD, MPH, Pediatrics, Social Medicine, and Anesthesiology<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Past chairs include:<br \/>\nWatty Bowes, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology<br \/>\nDavid Klein, MD, Neurosurgery<br \/>\nMia Doron, MD, Neonatal Intensive Care<br \/>\nNancy King, JD, Social Medicine<br \/>\nMarion Danis, MD, Medicine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An advisory body and standing committee of the Medical Staff Executive Committee, our Hospital Ethics Committee (HEC) was created in the mid-1980s in response to the growing recognition that hospitals require mechanisms to address the ethical issues that arise in patient care. The HEC is well-described at its own web site here. Current chairs: &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalethics\/people\/hec\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Hospital Ethics Committee\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33453,"featured_media":0,"parent":2231,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2352","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2352\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/clinicalethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}