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Email

mccullou@bcm.edu

Positions

Distinguished Emeritus Professor

Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy
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Houston, TX US

Education

Post-Doctoral Fellowship from Hastings Center

01/1975 - Garrison, New York United States

Ph.D. from University of Texas at Austin

01/1975 - Austin, Texas United States

A.B. from Williams College

01/1969 - Williamstown, Massachusetts United States

Professional Interests

• Professionalism in medicine
• Ethics in obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry, and surgery
• Ethics of physician leadership
• Ethics of human subjects research
• History of medical ethics
• Ethics consultation

Professional Statement

Laurence B. McCullough, Ph.D., is the associate director for Education and inaugural holder (since May 2008) of the Dalton Tomlin Chair in Medical Ethics and Health Policy in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, º£½ÇÉçÇø, where is he also professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics. Dr. McCullough is also a professor of Family and Community Medicine at BCM and faculty associate of Baylor’s Huffington Center on Aging.

Dr. McCullough has published 370 papers in the peer-reviewed medical and bioethics literature. In addition, he has published 50 original chapters in scholarly books and more than 100 chapters in medical textbooks. Dr. McCullough teaches BCM medical students and residents in BCM’s affiliated hospitals, directs the clinical ethics elective of BCM’s award-winning Ethics Track for its medical students, and teaches courses in medical humanities in the Department of Philosophy at Rice University in his capacity as Adjunct Professor of Philosophy. He directs the Ethics Consultation Program at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, and serves on the ethics committees of the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, St. Luke’s, and Texas Children’s Hospital.

Websites

Selected Publications

• Brett AS, McCullough LB "." N Engl J Med. 1986 20;315(21):1347-51. Pubmed PMID:
• Brody BA, McCullough LB, Sharp R "." JAMA. 2005 Sep 21;294(11):1411-4. Pubmed PMID:
• Chervenak FA, McCullough LB "." Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2009;201(6):560.e1-6. Pubmed PMID:
• Bangdiwala SI, Brown SS, Cunningham FG, Dean TM, Frederiksen M, Hogue CJ, King TL, Lukacz ES, McCullough LB, Nicholson W, Petit NF, Probstfield JL, Viguera AC, Wong CA, Zimmet SC "." NIH Consens State Sci Statements. 2010 Mar 10;27(3):1-42. Pubmed PMID: