About the Directors

 Professor Celia B. Fisher, Director 
 Professor Michael Baur, Associate Director
 Professor Christine Firer Hinze, Associate Director
 Dr. Adam Fried, Assistant Director
 

Celia B. Fisher, Ph.D. Celia Fisher is the Marie Ward Doty Professor of Psychology and Director of the Fordham University Center for Ethics Education. In addition, Dr. Fisher is a member of the DHHS Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP), Co-Chair of the SACHRP Subcommittee on Research Involving Children, Vice-Chair of the APA  Insurance Trust, and a founding editor of the journal Applied Developmental Science. She chaired the American Psychological Association’s ( APA ) Ethics Code Task Force, the New York State Board for Psychology, the Ethics Committee of the Society for Research in Child Development, and the National Task Force on Applied Developmental Science; and is past member of the Ethics Working Group of the National Children’s Study, the NIMH Data Safety and Monitoring Board, and the Institute of Medicine s Committee on Clinical Research Involving Children. Dr Fisher is author of Decoding the Ethics Code: A Practical Guide for Psychologists (Sage Publications), co-editor of 5 books including Ethical Issues in Mental Health Research with Children and Adolescents (Erlbaum Associates), author of over 100 publications in the areas of ethics and life-span development and of commissioned papers for the President’s National Bioethics Advisory Commission on relational ethics and vulnerable populations and on the ethics of suicide research for NIMH.  With support from NICHD she has studied how to assess and enhance research consent capacity of adults with developmental disabilities. With funding from NSF and NIH she has developed research ethics instructional materials for undergraduates, graduate students, senior scientists, and IRBs and examined parent-child perspectives on the ethics of adolescent risk research. Her current federally funded projects include Mentoring the Responsible Conduct of Research (NIAID), Participant Perspectives on Drug Use and Related HIV Research (NIDA) and the Fordham Alcohol Prevention Program (NIAAA). In July 2001 she co-chaired the APA , NIMH, and Fordham Ethics Center sponsored national conference on Research Ethics for Mental Health Science Involving Ethnic Minority Children and Youth (American Psychologist, December 2002).  She has developed assessment instruments to evaluate how teenagers and parents from different racial/ethnic backgrounds prepare for and react to racial discrimination, examined the validity of child abuse assessment techniques in institutional and forensic settings, and family attitudes toward involvement of adolescents in decisions to participate in pediatric cancer research. A more complete account of Dr. Fisher's education, accomplishments, and related professional information can be found in her vita.

Michael Baur, Ph.D. Michael Baur is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Law at the Fordham Law School. Dr. Baur's current work focuses primarily on the metaphysical foundations (or presuppositions) of ethical and juridical discourse.  He serves as the national secretary of the American Catholic Philosophical Association and of the Hegel Society of American, and is Director of Fordham's Natural Law Colloquium.  A more complete account of Dr. Baur's education, accomplishments, and related professional information can be found in his vita.

Christine Firer Hinze, Ph.D. Christine Firer Hinze is a Professor of Theology. Dr. Hinze is the author of Comprehending Power in Christian Social Ethics (1995) and has published extensively on foundational issues in Christian social ethics, Christian feminist ethics, adn Catholic social thought in relation to economy, family and work, and social transformation.  Her current book project is a Catholic feminist treatment of just work in the 21st century. Some Recent Publications:  “Gaudium et Spes ‘Forty Years After:’ Straining Toward Solidarity in a Suffering World,” William Madges, ed., Vatican II: Forty Years After (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Press, 2006).  “U.S. Catholic Social Thought, Gender, and Economic Livelihood,”  Theological Studies 66, 3 (September 2005): 568-91.   “Quadragesimo Anno,” Modern Catholic Social Teaching, ed. Kenneth Himes, OFM (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2005), 151-174.  "What is ‘Enough?’ Catholic Social Teaching, Consumption, and an Ethic of Sufficiency,” Having: Property and Possession in Religious and Social Life, William Schweiker & Charles Mathewes, ed., (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2004), 162-188.  “Response to Michael J. Baxter,”  Proceedings of the Catholic Theology Society of America 2004.  "Whose Marriage? Whose Health? A Christian Feminist Ethical Response,”with Mary Stewart van Leeuwen, Marriage, Health, and the Professions, Don Browning & John Wall, ed., (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2002), 145-166.  “John A. Ryan, Public Policy, and the Quest for a Dignified Ecology of Work,” Religion and Public Life: The Legacy of John A. Ryan, Robert G. Kennedy, et al, eds.  (Washington, DC: University Press of America, 2001), 215-40.  “Dirt and Economic Inequality: A Christian-Ethical Peek Under the Rug,” Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics (2001): 45-62. "Identity in Christian Feminist Theology," Concilium 2000/II, ed. Maureen Junker Kenney & Dietmar Meith, 306-313.

Adam L. Fried, Ph.D.  Adam Fried is the Assistant Director of the Fordham University Center for Ethics Education and director of the Center’s Certificate Program in Health Care Ethics. He earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Fordham University in 2007. Dr. Fried has published in area of research ethics, including informed consent and ethical issues related to the use of the internet in practice and research. In addition to his interest in research ethics, he has has also published articles in the area of college drinking and is a member of a team that evaluates treatments for adolescent substance abuse at the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. Publications: Hogue, A., Henderson, C.E., Dauber, S., Chinchilla, P., Fried, A., & Liddle, H.A. (in press).  Treatment adherence, competence and outcome in individual and family therapy for adolescent behavior problems.  Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.  Hogue, A., Chinchilla, P., Fried, A., Berzins, P., Liddle, H.A., Inclan, J., Reiner, R.H., Henderson, C., & Becker D. (in press).  Assessing fidelity in individual and family therapy for substance abuse, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment.   Glenwick, D.G., Fried, A.L., & Abbey, J. (in press). Field-Based Course in Clinical Geropsychology, Teaching of Psychology. Fisher, C.B., Fried, A.L., & Anushko, A. (2007). Development and Validation of the College Drinking Influences Survey: A Measure of Expectations, Psycho-Social Characteristics and Values Influencing Drinking Choices, Journal of American College Health.  Fried, A.L. & Fisher, C.B. (2007). The Ethics of Informed Consent for Research in Clinical and Abnormal Psychology. To appear in D. McKay (Ed.) Handbook of Research Methods in Abnormal and Clinical Psychology. Fisher, C.B., Cea, C., Davidson, P., & Fried, A.L. (2006). Capacity of Persons with Mental Retardation to Consent to Participation in Randomized Clinical Trials. American Journal of Psychiatry, 163, 1813-1820. Fisher, C.B., Fried, A.L., & Masty, J.M. (2006) Critical Thinking and Ethics in Psychology. In R. J.Sternberg, H. Roediger, III, & D. Halpern (Eds.) Critical Thinking in Psychology. New York: Cambridge University Press. Cecero, J.J. & Fried, A.L. (2005). Parental Rejection and Religiosity: Differential Predictors of Mood and Substance Use. Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion.  Fried, A.L. (2005). Depression in adolescence. In C. B. Fisher and R.M. Lerner (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Applied Developmental Science, pp. 332-334. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.  Fried, A.L. (2005). Adolescents at risk. In C.B. Fisher and R.M. Lerner (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Applied Developmental Science, pp. 39-40. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.  Fisher, C.B. & Fried, A.L. (2003). Internet-mediated psychological services and the American Psychological Association ethics code. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 40, 103-111.