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Jos V. M. Welie, PhD
Professor, Center for Health Policy and Ethics (School of
Medicine)
Professor, Department of Community of Preventive Dentistry
(School of of Dentistry)
Professor, Graduate School
PhD, 1994, Radboud University School of Medical Sciences (Nijmegen,
The Netherlands)
JD, 1990, University of Maastricht (The Netherlands)
MA, 1987, Radboud University (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
M.Med.S., 1987, University of Maastricht (The Netherlands)
Dr. Jos Welie
Creighton University Medical Center
Center for Health Policy and Ethics, 203
2500 California Plaza
Omaha, NE 68178
(402) 280-2034 tel
(402) 280.5735 fax
jwelie@creighton.edu
Biography
Dr. Jos Welie studied medicine and law at the University of Maastricht, and philosophy at the Radboud University of Nijmegen, both in the Netherlands. He received his doctorate from the Radboud University School of Medical Sciences with a dissertation in the area of medical ethics. A Fulbright grant brought him to Loyola University of Chicago where he studied clinical ethics and medical humanities.
Before joining the Center for Health Policy and Ethics, Dr. Welie taught at universities in San Antonio, TX; Nijmegen (The Netherlands) and in the Ft. Lauderdale/Miami metropolitan area.
His primary areas of research include:
- Issues in death and dying
- Chronicity and care for chronic patients
- The history and future of health sciences education in Jesuit universities
- Issues in the field of dental ethics
- The relationship between health care ethics and health law
- Philosophy of medicine, in particular, the relationships between philosophical anthropology and medicine
Selected publications:
- Welie, Jos V.M. (Ed.). (2006) Justice in Oral Health Care: Ethical and Educational Perspectives. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press.
- Welie, J. V. M. (2006/2002). An educational guide on end-of-life care law and public policy in Nebraska. Lincoln, NE: Nebraska Coalition for Compassionate Care. (2006 edition available online.)
- Have, H.A.M.J. & Welie, J.V.M. (2005): Death and Medical Power. An Ethical Analysis of the Dutch Euthanasia Practice. London: Open University Press.
- Welie, J.V.M. (2004): Is Dentistry a Profession? Journal of the Canadian Dental Association. Vol. 70. Part 1: pp 529–32; Part 2: pp. 599-602; Part 3: pp. 675-678. Also on-line: Part I: Professionalism Defined.; Part II: Hallmarks of Professionalism ; Part III: Future Challenges.
- Welie. J.V.M. & Kissell, J.L. (Eds.) (2004): Jesuit Health Sciences and the Promotion of Justice. An Invitation to a Discussion. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2004.
- Welie, J.V.M. (2004): The Tendency of Contemporary Decision-Making Strategies to Deny the Condition of Alzheimer’s Disease. In: Purtilo, RB & Have, HAMJ ten (Eds.): Ethical Foundations of Palliative Care for Alzheimer’s Disease. Johns Hopkins University Press, 163-180.
- Welie, J.V.M. & Welie, S.P.K. (Eds.) (2001): Decision-Making Incompetence. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 4/2.
- Have, H.A.M.J. ten, & Welie, J. V. M. (Eds.). (1998). Ownership of the body. Philosophical considerations on the use of the human body and its parts. Dordrecht (The Netherlands): Kluwer Academic Publishers.
- Welie, J.V.M. (1998). In the face of suffering: The philosophical foundations of clinical ethics. Omaha, NE: Creighton University Press.
Dr. Welie sits on the editorial boards of several publications and is the Founding Secretary of the International Dental Ethics and Law Society, and a member of several other professional societies, including
- American Society for Dental Ethics
- European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare
- Nebraska Coalition for Compassionate Care
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