2025-2026 Board of Directors

**Sarah Roberts-Cady, PhD -** President

Professor of Philosophy, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO
**Areas of interest**: End-of-life decision-making, clinical ethics consultations, health equity, ethical theory, ethics education

**Ryan Westhoff, MD-**Treasurer

Palliative Care Physician, CommonSpirit Health
**Areas of interest:** Care of people with serious illness, surrogate decision making, advance care planning.

Benjamin Foster, MS Bioethics-Secretary

Intermountain Health

Areas of interest: Clinical ethics, neuroethics, behavioral immune system.

Erin Liebman, DNP, RN, APN, AGCNS-BC- Past President

Clinical Nurse Specialist, Behavioral Health, Fort Collins, CO

Areas of interest: Behavioral health, palliative care, healthcare ethics, nurse resilience, healthcare policy, end-of-life planning and ethics, just culture, workplace violence mitigation

**Nicole Michels, PhD**
Chair of Medical Humanities/Associate Professor of Physiology

Rocky Vista University
**Areas of interest:** The role of immune responses in host defense and autoimmunity.

**Amanda Hine, PhD**

Assistant Professor, Rueckert-Hartman College for Health Professions, Regis University - Denver, CO
**Areas of Interest:** Informed consent, decision-making capacity, conceptions of autonomy

Aseel Dalton, PH.D., LLM, RPh

Update coming.

Chelsey Patten

Update Coming

Anisha Perez

Update Coming

Robin Downing

Update Coming

Associate Members

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