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Received Distinguished Professor Award for Public Service, 1999

Public Lectures in the Region
“Religions of the World,” six-part lecture series presented at the Pilgrim Collegiate Church, Youngstown, OH, Oct-Nov 1992.
“Ethics & Leadership: (Im)morality in Public Life,” YSU, 17 Nov. 1993.
“Ethics, Abortion, and Fetal Tissue Research,” The Ethics Series, YSU, March 9, 1994. “Ethical Issues of Organ Transplants,” Cleveland Museum of Art, 30 March 1994. “Ethics in the Workplace,” Professional Secretaries International, May 1994.
“Is There a Duty to Treat HIV Positive Patients?” YSU, 26 May, 1994.
“Pluralism and the American Identity,” YSU, 2 March, 1995.
“The Scope of Reproductive Liberty,” Warren Area Clergy Association's Lay Academy, Warren, OH, 14 March, 1995.
“Health Care Reform ­The Case for Rationing by Age,” Unitarian Church, Youngstown, OH, 30 April, 1995.
“Reflections on the Society of Christian Ethics,” YSU, May 1995.
“School Prayer and American Public Life,” YSU, Newman Center, November, 1995. “Ethics & Genetics: May Jack and Jill Enhance the Traits of Their Future Child?” Broad Street Presbyterian Church, Columbus, OH May, 1996.
“The Ethics Boom: What’s It All About?” Kiwanis of Niles, OH, September, 1996.
“End-of-Life Questions,” YSU, Institute for Learning in Retirement, October, 1996. “Civilians and the Problem of Innocence in War,” History Club, YSU, November, 1996. “Origins and Functions of Hospital Ethics Committees,” Valley Home Health Council, November, 1996.
“Ethical Issues in Organ Procurement and Transplantation,” Leadership Mahoning, St. Elizabeth Health Center, Feb. 9, 1997.
“Interpreting the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment,” Westminster Presbyterian Church, Boardman, OH, March, 1997.
“Ethics and Human Cloning,” Quest Program, YSU, April 22, 1997.
“Social Teachings of the Catholic Church,” Newman Center, YSU, May, 1997.
“Ethical Issues in the City,” Leadership Mahoning, Feb. 18, 1998.
“Ethics of Human Cloning” and “Ethical Issues at the End of Life,” Westminster Presbyterian Church, Boardman, March 1998.
“Problems in Medical Ethics,” Institute for Learning in Retirement, YSU, April, 1998
“The Teaching of Ethics” Kent State University, 28 April 1998.
“Medical Ethics as Social History,” Jewish Community Center Youngstown, OH, Oct. 9, 1998.
“Ethics and Medicine,” Leadership Mahoning, 3 March 1999.
“Ethical Issues of the Human Genome Project,” North East Ohio Universities College of Medicine, April 21, 1999.
“Ethics and Reproductive Technologies,” Westminster Presbyterian Church, Boardman, OH 25 March, 1999.
“The Future of Cuba-US Relations,” United Nations Association, Youngstown, OH 29 April, 1999.
“The Supreme Court and Physician-Assisted Suicide,” Institute for Learning in Retirement, YSU, 7 May 1999.
“Private and Public Morality,” Five lectures for Creative Retirement Opportunities Week, YSU, August 9-13, 1999.
“Organizational Ethics,” keynote presentation for the 1999 Fall Retreat of the Mahoning County Mental Health Agency Administrators’s Association” 24 September 1999.
“The Past and Future of the Republic of Cuba,” First Unitarian Church, Youngstown, 26 September 1999.
“Why the U.S. Supreme Court Ruled We Do Not Have a Right to Die and Why the Court is Wrong,” Meeting of the Daughters of the American Revolution,” Poland, Oh, 9 Nov. 1999.
“Cuba: It’s People, Religion, and Music,” First Christian Church, 14 Nov. 1999, Youngstown, OH.
“The Ethics of Human Cloning,” Leadership Mahoning, 1 March 2000.
“The Phar-Mor Case and Institutional Disobedience,” Students In Free Enterprise, YSU, 11 Mar. 2000.
“The Development of Medical Ethics,” Canfield Historical Society 4 May 2000.
“Ethics, Elian, and the Embargo,” First Unitarian Church, Youngstown, OH, 21 May 2000.
“The Cuban Embargo,” Boardman Rotary, 23 May 2000. “Ethics, Cloning, and Genetic Engineering,” Kent State University, 31 May 2000.
“Public and Private Morality,” YSU Elderhostle, 11-15 August 2000.
“The Future of U.S.-Cuba Relations,” Westminster Presbyterian Church, Boardman, OH, Oct. 29, 2000.
“Ethics Issues in Organ Transplantation,” Leadership Mahoning, Mar., 2001
“The Moral Foundation of Professional Integrity,” Mahoning-Trumbull Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, Mar., 2001.
“Ethics in Scientific Research,” YSU, 23 May, 2001.
“Ethics, Medicine, Society,” Institute for Learning in Retirement, YSU, 30 May 2001 “Ethics and Medicine,” 10 lectures at Humility of Mary Health Partners, Youngstown, OH, Fall 2001
“Terrorism and Morality,” St. Elizabeth Hospital,” Nov. 2001
“Public Good: The Soul of the Professions,” Mahoning County Bar Association, Nov. 2001
“Professional Morality and the Public Good,” Leadership Mahoning, January, 2002
“The Changing Meaning of Terrorism and the Return of Pre-Modern War,” 24 Jan. 2002, UNAUSA, Youngstown
“Free or Fair Trade?” Greater Youngstown League of Women Voters, Feb. 2002 “Medicine, Ethics, Technology,” Institute for Learning in Retirement, YSU, 12 April, 2002
“History of Medical Ethics,” The Tourist, Youngstown Country Club, 19 April 2002
“A Moralist’s Reflection on 9-11,” YSU History Club, 11 Sept. 2002 and Poland Presbyterian Church 15 Sept, 2002
“Ethics of War and Terrorism,” Kent State University, 25 Sept 2002.
“Christianity, the State, and War,” St. John’s Episcopal Church, Youngstown, 16 Feb, 2003.
“History of Medical Ethics,” Leadership Mahoning, 3 Mar 2003.
“USA Patriot Act and Intolerance,” Unitarian Church, 21 July 2003.
“Business and Organizational Ethics,” YSU Conference on Business and Industry, Oct, 2003.
“Conceptual and Ethical Issues in Terrorism,” YSU Honors Program, Feb. 2004.
“Ethical Issues in Cloning and Stem Cell Research,” YSU Honors Program, Feb. 2004. “Ethics at the Beginning and End of Life,” YSU, Institute for Learning in Retirement, 5 Mar 2004.
“Ethics and Organ Transplantation,” Leadership Mahoning, March 2004.
“Just War and the War Against Iraq,” Institute for Learning in Retirement, November 2004.
“History of Medical Ethics,” Youth Leadership Mahoning, Mar. 2005.
“Conflict of Interest” Annual Meeting of the Mahoning Chapter of the American Fundraisers Association,” April 2005.
“Ethical Issues of the Day – Medicine, Technology, and War” (four lectures) at the First Presbyterian Church in Sharon, PA, May 2005.
“On the Fundamental Duty of Self-Care” at the Ursuline Center, Canfield, OH, May 2005. Medicine and Society, Leadership, March 2006.
“Organizational and Professional Ethics,” (three lectures) First Presbyterian Church, Sharon, PA, May 2006.
“Ethical Issues at the End of Life,( 3 hour seminar) Omni West, Premier Group, Youngstown, 7 March 2007.
“Ethical Issues at the End of Life (3hr seminar), Solon, OH, 14 March 2007.
“REAL ID Act of 2005,” Arab American Community Center, Youngstown, OH April 22, 2007.
“Whose Life Is It Anyway?” Mahoning County Assoc. of Churches, Sept 30, 2007’
“Patriotism and Morality,” UU Church, Oct 2007.

Consultation
Expert witness on behalf of the State of Ohio in a First Amendment case: Alan Kunselman, et al. vs. Board of Education of Western Reserve Local School District in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio Eastern Division, Case No. 4:92CV0613.
Ethics Committee, Valley Home Health Council, Youngstown, OH, 1994-98.
Ethics Committee, Hillside Hospital, Youngstown, OH, 1995-96.
Ethics Consultant, Comprehensive Strategic Plan for Mahoning County, 2000-04.
Forum Health, Hospice Ethics Committee,” 2003-04.
Mahoning County Board of Public Health, Code of Organizational Ethics, 2003 -.
Institutional Review Board, Forum Health, February 2005 -.

Media Interviews
WFMJ-TV 21, “Human Cloning,” Youngstown, OH, 24 Feb. 1997.
WKBN-TV 27, “Public Morality.” Youngstown, OH, 29 April 1999.
WASN, 1330 AM, Alyssa Lenhoff Program, “Assisted Suicide,” 28 May 1999.
WASN 1330 AM, Alyssa Lenhoff Program, “Reproductive Technologies,” 25 June 1999.
WYSU-FM 88.5 Guest on Commentary Cafe “Cuba” May 11, 2000.
Channel 33, “Cuba” Youngstown, OH, 21 May 2000.
WFMJ-TV 21, “Stem Cell Research,” Youngstown, OH, 24 August 2000.
WFMJ-TV 21 “Academic Integrity,” Youngstown, OH, 17 Oct. 2000.
WFMJ-TV 21, “Corruption, Ethics, and the Schools,” Youngstown, OH, 15 Nov. 2000.
WKBN-TV 27 “Stem Cell Research,” Youngstown, OH, 9 Aug. 2001.
KUPR-TV, Ch 2, “Religion and War,” Salt Lake City, Utah, Oct 18, 2001.
WKBN-27, “Domestic Partner Benefits,” 23 Aug. 2002.
Metro Monthly, “Political Corruption,” Aug. 2002.
WFMJ-TV 21, “Equality and Domestic Partner Benefits,” 12 Sept 2002.
WYSU-FM, Commentary, “Why Under Present Circumstances I Cannot Support Any
Military Action Against Iraq,” 12 Feb. 2003.
Vindicator, Religion and War, 22 Mar. 2003.
WKBN- AM “Embedded Journalists and Ethics,” 31 Mar. 03.
WYSU-FM “Conscientious Objection to War,” Mar 2004.
WKSU-TV, “Ohio Senate Bill 24,” Feb, 22, 2005.
WFMJ-TV 21, “Terri Schiavo Case” Feb. 2005.

Community Work
Bicentennial Commission, City of Youngstown, 1996.
Schaff Lectureship Committee, 1995, ‘96.
Task Force on Political Corruption, ACTION, Youngstown, OH 1999-2000.
Juvenile Justice Community Advisory Board, Youngstown, 2002-
Judicial Campaign Ethics Committee, Mahoning County Bar Association, 2002-
Board of Directors, Planned Parenthood of Mahoning Valley, 2003 –06
Torch Ethics Award Committee, Better Business Bureau, Youngstown, October 2004.
Board of Directors, ACLU of Ohio, 2007 -.

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