Bioethics are discussed.
Ronald E. Domen, MD is currently a Professor of Pathology, Medicine, and Humanities; and, Medical Director, Histocompatibility (HLA/transplant) Laboratory at the Penn State University College of Medicine/Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania. His thirty-two year career has focused on the practice of blood banking/transfusion medicine, and HLA. At Penn State he serves on numerous institution-level committees including the Ethics Committee, the Conflict of Interest Review Committee of the IRB/HSPO, and the Equity Advisory Committee; and, from 2005-2013 he was the Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education where he oversaw 58 residency and fellowship training programs with over 550 trainees. He was an elected member of the Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine at the Penn State College of Medicine for ten years. Prior to coming to Penn State fifteen years ago, Dr. Domen’s professional and academic career took him to The Ohio State University, the University of South Florida, to a regional blood center in eastern Pennsylvania where he served as the Medical Director, and The Cleveland Clinic. He is a nationally recognized expert in transfusion medicine and has also been active on the national level in addressing medical education and ethical issues in pathology, transfusion medicine, and transplantation, and has also published in these areas including co-editing the seminal book: Ethical Issues in Transfusion Medicine. Dr. Domen is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Clinical Pathology (Laboratory Medicine), and Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine. He was a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (poetry) and has been writing poetry for many years and has numerous poems published in anthologies and small press magazines including: Whiskey Island Magazine, Yarrow, Slipstream, Riverwind, Earth First!, Slant, Grasslands Review, Green Fuse, and others. He has over 60 peer-reviewed papers published in the medical literature including two scholarly papers published in The International Journal of Healthcare & Humanities entitled, “Ethics and narrative medicine: who owns the story?,” and “The Physician as Poet.” He also served as the poetry editor for The International Journal of Healthcare & Humanities. While at Penn State, Dr. Domen taught medical students for many years in the College of Medicine’s medical humanities program, and has taught and mentored numerous residents and fellows in various graduate medical education venues.
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