Psychiatry : Joy D. Skeel, M. Div 

Professor, Department of Psychiatry Associate Professor, Department of Medicine RESIDENCY POSITION: Ethicist RESEARCH & CLINICAL EXPERTISE: Medical Ethics; Issues in Heart Transplantation; Moral Reasoning by Medical Specialty EDUCATION AND TRAINING: B.S. - Nursing, University of Cincinnati, College of Nursing and Health; Cincinnati, Ohio; 1961 M.Div. - Yale Divinity School; New Haven, Connecticut; 1976 Horace H. Rackham College of Graduate Studies; University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, Michigan. Currently doctoral candidate in Department of Population Planning and International Health; 1984

CERTIFICATIONS/LICENSURES:

Certification:

Ordained to Christian Ministry in United Church of Christ; 1976

Licensure:

State Nursing License; 1961, Ohio

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES & ACTIVITIES:

• The American Academy of Religion - 1979-
• Hastings Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences - 1975 -
• Society for Health and Human Values - 1978 -
• Liaison from Society for Health and Human Values to Task Force on Science, Faith and Technology of National Council of Churches - 1983 -1984
• Member of Nominating Committee, Faculty Section - 1986
• Chairperson, Works in Progress Committee - 1986
• Chairperson, Midwest Region - 1987 - 1988
• Ministers in Medical Education
• Steering Committee - 1980 - 1985; 1987 - 1990
  - President 1983; 1984
• Chairperson, Nominating Committee, Faculty Association - 1987 - 1988
  - Member of Council - 1987 - 1991
• Chairperson, Nominating Committee, Residency Interest Group - 1990
• Long Range Planning Committee - 1987 - 1991 
  - Chairperson, Program Committee, Faculty Association - 1992-1993
• Connecticut Think Tank (Connecticut Conference, United Church of Christ) - 1972 - 1976
• Presbyterian Church in the United States of America; National Task Force on Science, Medicine and Human Values - 1980-1983
• Presbyterian Church (USA); National Consultation on Escalation of Health Care Costs - 1984
• Member, Advisory Committee on Hospice, United Church Board for Homeland Ministries - 1984-1988
• Presbyterian Church (USA); Chairperson, Task Force on Health Costs/Policies - 1984-1987
• Advisory Committee of Science, Faith and Technology Project of United Ministries in Education - 1985 - 1990
• American Society for Law and Medicine - 1985 -
• Invited Conference on Ethics Consultation, National Institutes of Health - October 6-8, 1985.
• Society for Bioethics Consultations, Invited Charter Member - 1986 -
• Advisory Committee of the National Task Force for Science, Technology and the United Church of Christ, 1989 -
• Center for Theological Education (International) Board of Trustees - 1992-1993
• National Task Force of Society for Health and Human Values and Society for Bioethics Consultation to study certification and licensure for clinical medical ethics consultants - 1994-
• Invited Conference (20 participants) on Evaluation of Case Consultation in Clinical Ethics, University of Illinois at Chicago (Co-sponsored by Duke University), September, 1995
• Carl Howie Center for Science, Art and Theology, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia, Board of Directors, 1995-

REGIONAL, STATE AND LOCAL PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES & ACTIVITIES:

• Northwest Ohio Association, Ohio Conference, United Church of Christ - 1976 -
• Church and Ministry Committee - 1991 - 1992
• Ohio Geriatrics Society - 1990 -
• Subcommittee on Bioethics - 1991 -
• Bioethics Network of Ohio - 1991 -
• Steering Committee - 1991 -

AWARDS AND COMMENDATIONS:

Dean's List 1956 - 1959; 1960 - 1961

Alpha Alpha Pi (Honorary Society for Student Nurses); University of Cincinnati

Society for Health and Human Values Annual Award for 1992 recognizing "outstanding contributions to the field of human values and health care, and those professional careers which serve as a model and inspiration." This award is the only award given in the field of medical humanities. The Annual Award was presented at the Society's Annual Meeting in Memphis, Tennessee, November 19-22, 1992.

Acknowledged for teaching by Dean, College of Medicine, Medical College of Ohio, January, 1994.

• Required Ethics / Medical Humanities Course
• Electives

ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS:

Skeel, J.D., and Shapiro, R., "No More Dialysis: The Right Decision for the Wrong Reasons." Dialysis and Transplantation. Vol. 10, No. 3, March 1981, p. 190f.

Skeel, J.D. Commentary on "Watch Me Die: A Patient's Refusal of Medical Care, Continuing Education for Family Physicians, Vol. 19, No. 1, January 1984, pp. 51-53 (reprinted from Commentaries in: Ken Kushner, Ph.D.; Harry E. Mayhew, M.D.; Leroy A. Rodgers, M.D.; and Rita Hermann, M.S.W., "Critical Issues in Family Practice: Cases and Commentaries," New York: Springer Publishing Co., 1982).

Self, D.J. and Skeel, J.D. "The Role of the Medical Ethicist in the Clinical Setting," Theoretical Medicine. Vol. 7, No. 1, February 1986, p. 33-40.

Skeel, J.D. "The Tough Questions: Birth/Death/Genetics/Technology," Church and Society, September/October, 1986.

Skeel, J.D. and Self, D.J. "AIDS and the Allocation of Limited Resources," Journal of Critical Care, Vol. 3, No. 3, September 1988, p. 195-198.

Self, D.J. and Skeel, J.D. "Professional Liability (Malpractice) Coverage of Humanist Scholars Functioning as Clinical Medical Ethicists, Journal of Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Fall-Winter, 1988.

Edinger, W. and Skeel, J.D. "Introducing Bioethics," Journal of Medical Humanities and Bioethics, January 1989.

Skeel, J.D. and Self, D.J., "An Analysis of Ethics Consultations in the Hospital," Theoretical Medicine, Vol. 10, No. 4, December 1989, p. 289-300.

Edinger, J.W. and Skeel, J.D. "Can Brain Criteria for Life Resolve the Abortion Debate?" New Conversations, Vol. 13, No. 3, p. 57-62, Summer 1991.

Self, D.J. and Skeel, J.D. "A Study of the Foundations of Ethical Decision Making of Clinical Medical Ethicists." Theoretical Medicine, Vol. 12, No. 2, p. 117-127, June 1991.

Skeel, J.D. "Ethics at the Bedside." Medical Humanities Review, Vol. 6, No. 1, p. 27-31.

Skeel, J.D. Guest Editor, Issue on Clinical Ethics. Theoretical Medicine, Vol. 13, No. 1, March 1992.

Skeel, J.D. "Issues in Clinical Ethics: An Introduction." Theoretical Medicine, Vol. 13, No. 1, March 1992.

Self, D.J., Skeel, J.D. "Facilitating Health Care Ethics Research: Assessment of Moral Reasoning and Moral Orientation From a Single Interview." Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics, Vol. 1, No. 4, p. 371-376, Fall 1992.

Edinger, W., Bernal, E., Fulton, G., Skeel, J. "Ohio Hospitals Surveyed on Interplay of PSDA and State Law." Hospital Ethics, pp. 10-12, May/June, 1993.

Skeel, J.D., Self, D.J., Skeel, R.T. "A Description of Humanist Scholars Functioning as Ethicists in the Clinical Setting." Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 485-494, Fall 1993.

Self, D.J., Skeel, J.D., Jecker, N.S. "The Influence of Philosophical versus Theological Education on the Moral Development of Clinical Medical Ethicists." Academic Medicine, Vol. 68, No. 1, pp. 848-852, November, 1993.

Self, D.J., Skeel, J.D., Jecker, N.S. "A Comparison of the Moral Reasoning of Physicians and Clinical Medical Ethicists." Academic Medicine, Vol. 68, No. 1, pp. 852-855, November, 1993.

Skeel, J.D., Humphrey, G.B. "Control at the End of Life: Advance Directives, Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia," PH/O Forum, The American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 1, March, 1994.

Skeel, J.D. "A Review of the Sources of Catholic Teaching in Medical Ethics," Cambridge Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 1, Winter, 1995.

Humphrey, G.B., Skeel, J.D., Boon, C.M.J. "Uncertainty." International Journal of Pediatric Hematology Oncology. (In Press)

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:

Commentaries in: Ken Kushner, Ph.D.; Harry E. Mayhew, M.D.; Leroy A. Rodgers, M.D.; and Rita Hermann, M.S.W., Critical Issues in Family Practice: Cases and Commentaries; New York: Springer Publishing Co., 1982.

Skeel, J.D. and Hargleroad, B.W., editors, The Covenant of Life and The Caring Community. Paper and policy recommendations prepared for the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and accepted by the 195th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Atlanta, Georgia, June 1983.

Skeel, J.D. "A Community Bonded by Life," Life, Faith, Hope and Magic: The Chaplaincy in Pediatric Cancer Care, ed. by J. Van Eys and E. Mohnke, Univ. of Houston: Texas, 1985.

Skeel, J.D. "Ethical Considerations in Cancer Chemotherapy," The Handbook of Cancer Chemotherapy, ed. by Roland T. Skeel, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, Second Edition, 1987.

Self, D.J. and Skeel, J.D. "Legal Liability and Clinical Ethics Consultations: Practical and Philosophical Considerations," Medical Ethics: A Guide for Health Care Professionals, ed. by J.F. Monagle and D.C. Thomasma, Rockville, Maryland: Aspen Publishing Company, 1988.

Skeel J.D. and Self, D.J. "Ethics in the Clinical Setting," Ethics Consultation in Health Care, ed. by John Fletcher, Norman Quist, and Albert R. Jonsen, Ann Arbor: Health Administration Press, 1989.

Skeel, J.D. "Ethical Considerations in Cancer Chemotherapy," The Handbook of Cancer Chemotherapy, ed. by Roland T. Skeel, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, Third Edition, 1991.

Skeel, J.D. "Ethical Considerations in Cancer Chemotherapy," The Handbook of Cancer Chemotherapy, ed. by Roland T. Skeel and Neil A. Lachant, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, Fourth Edition, 1995, pp. 71-79.

E-mail: Joy.Skeel@UToledo.edu