Positions
- Associate Professor
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FCM-Research Programs
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US
- Assistant Professor by Courtesy
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Baylor Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy
United States
- William W. O'Donnell, M.D. & Regina O'Donnell Chair in Family Medicine
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Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States
Education
- JD from Stanford Law School
- 01/1998 - Stanford, California United States
- Advanced Training from Swedish Medical Center-Seattle
- 01/1979 - Seattle, WA United States
- MD from New York University School Of Medicine
- 06/1979 - New York, NY United States
- B.A. from Yale University
- 01/1974 - New Haven, CT United States
- Fellowship at Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics
- 06/1999 - Stanford, California United States
Certifications
- Diplomate
- American Board of Family Medicine
Professional Interests
- The regulation of research
Professional Statement
I study the regulation of research by institutional review boards, also called ethics review boards outside the United States. I have written a manual for IRB members, "Balanced Ethics Review," and am now working on a book about how we can best regulate research.Websites
Selected Publications
- Whitney SN "A new model of medical decisions: exploring the limits of shared decision making.." Med Decis Making.;23(4):275-80. Pubmed PMID: 12926577
- Whitney SN, McGuire AL, McCullough LB "A typology of shared decision making, informed consent, and simple consent.." Ann. Intern. Med.. 2004 Jan 6;140(1):54-9. Pubmed PMID: 14706973
- Brown AE, Whitney SN, Schneider MA, Vega CP "Alcohol recovery and spirituality: strangers, friends, or partners?." South. Med. J.. 2006 Jun;99(6):654-7. Pubmed PMID: 16800434
- Brown AE, Pavlik VN, Shegog R, Whitney SN, Friedman LC, Romero C, Davis GC, Cech I, Kosten TR, Volk RJ "Association of spirituality and sobriety during a behavioral spirituality intervention for Twelve Step (TS) recovery.." Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2007;33(4):611-7. Pubmed PMID: 17668347
- Whitney SN, McCullough LB, Frugé E, McGuire AL, Volk RJ "Beyond breaking bad news: the roles of hope and hopefulness.." Cancer. 2008 Jul 15;113(2):442-5. Pubmed PMID: 18484591
- Whitney SN, Holmes-Rovner M, Brody H, Schneider C, McCullough LB, Volk RJ, McGuire AL "Beyond shared decision making: an expanded typology of medical decisions.." Med Decis Making.;28(5):699-705. Pubmed PMID: 18556639
- McCullough LB, McGuire AL, Whitney SN "Consent: informed, simple, implied and presumed.." Am J Bioeth. 2007 Dec;7(12):49-50; discussi. Pubmed PMID: 18098025
- Whitney SN, Ethier AM, Frugé E, Berg S, McCullough LB, Hockenberry M "Decision making in pediatric oncology: who should take the lead? The decisional priority in pediatric oncology model.." J. Clin. Oncol.. 2006 Jan 1;24(1):160-5. Pubmed PMID: 16382126
- Stewart DJ, Whitney SN, Kurzrock R "Equipoise lost: ethics, costs, and the regulation of cancer clinical research.." J. Clin. Oncol.. 2010 Jun 10;28(17):2925-35. Pubmed PMID: 20406924
- McGuire AL, Colgrove J, Whitney SN, Diaz CM, Bustillos D, Versalovic J "Ethical, legal, and social considerations in conducting the Human Microbiome Project.." Genome Res.. 2008 Dec;18(12):1861-4. Pubmed PMID: 18971311
- McGuire AL, McCullough LB, Weller SC, Whitney SN "Missed expectations? Physicians' views of patients' participation in medical decision-making.." Med Care. 2005 May;43(5):466-70. Pubmed PMID: 15838411
- "Perspectives on human microbiome research ethics.." J Empir Res Hum Res Ethics. 2012 Jul;7(3):41288. Pubmed PMID: 22850139
- Whitney SN, McCullough LB "Physicians' silent decisions: because patient autonomy does not always come first.." Am J Bioeth. 2007 Jul;7(7):33-8. Pubmed PMID: 17654382
- Whitney SN, Alcser K, Schneider C, McCullough LB, McGuire AL, Volk RJ "Principal investigator views of the IRB system.." Int J Med Sci. 2008;5(2):68-72. Pubmed PMID: 18392146
- Gossey JT, Whitney SN, Crouch MA, Jibaja-Weiss ML, Zhang H, Volk RJ "Promoting knowledge of statins in patients with low health literacy using an audio booklet.." Patient Prefer Adherence. 2011;5:397-403. Pubmed PMID: 21949603
- Whitney SN, McCullough LB "Responses to open peer commentaries on Physicians' silent decisions: because patient autonomy doesn't always come first"."." Am J Bioeth. 2007 Jul;7(7):W1-3. Pubmed PMID: 17654368
- Slashinski MJ, McCurdy SA, Achenbaum LS, Whitney SN, McGuire AL ""Snake-oil," "quack medicine," and "industrially cultured organisms:" biovalue and the commercialization of human microbiome research." BMC Med Ethics. 2012 Oct 30;13:28. Pubmed PMID: 23110633
- Brown AE, Whitney SN, Duffy JD "The physician's role in the assessment and treatment of spiritual distress at the end of life.." 2006 Mar;4(1):81-6. Pubmed PMID: 16889326
- Whitney SN "The python's embrace: clinical research regulation by institutional review boards.." Pediatrics. 2012 Mar;129(3):576-8. Pubmed PMID: 22371469
- Whitney SN, Schneider CE "Viewpoint: a method to estimate the cost in lives of ethics board review of biomedical research.." J. Intern. Med.. 2011 Apr;269(4):396-402. Pubmed PMID: 21410788
- Whitney SN, Schneider CE "Was the institutional review board system a mistake?." Clin. Infect. Dis.. 2009 Dec 15;49(12):1957; author re. Pubmed PMID: 19929389
- Whitney SN "Whose decision is it? The microstructure of medical decision making.." Z Evid Fortbild Qual Gesundhwes. 2008;102(7):423-5. Pubmed PMID: 19209569
Projects
- Ongoing study of the regulation of research by IRBs and RECs
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