Sigrid Fry-Revere is a

medical ethicist Medical ethics is an applied branch of ethics which analyzes the practice of clinical medicine and related scientific research. Medical ethics is based on a set of values that professionals can refer to in the case of any confusion or conflict. T ...

and lawyer who has worked on many issues in patient care ethics, but most recently has been working on the rights of living

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Background

Fry-Revere worked as an attorney, practicing bioethics, health, and U.S. Food and Drug Administration law with the law firm of

Arent Fox Arent Fox Schiff LLP (formerly Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn) is a national white shoe law firm and lobbying firm. It represents global corporations, local and national politicians, and large non-profit organizations. The firm is ranked 77 ...

Kintner Plotkin & Kahn. She worked as an adjunct professor of ethics and healthcare law at

George Mason University George Mason University (George Mason, Mason, or GMU) is a public research university in Fairfax County, Virginia with an independent City of Fairfax, Virginia postal address in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area. The university was orig ...

College of Nursing and Health Science and as an associate professor at the

University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United States, with College admission ...

Center for Biomedical Ethics. She has also consulted for hospitals, hospices, and home health agencies. She formerly served as Director of Bioethics Studies at the

Cato Institute The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1977 by Ed Crane, Murray Rothbard, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Koch Industries.Koch Indus ...

Community involvement

Fry-Revere has served as a medical ethicist on the Washington Regional Transplant Community Organ and Tissue Advisory Committee (2008-2018). WRTC is the Organ Procurement Organization (from deceased donors) for Washington, DC and neighboring regions in Maryland and Virginia. Prior, she was a consultant to the Arlington Hospital, Virginia (1995-1996) as well as a consultant to the VNA Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (1994-1995). She was also a bioethics consultant to the Virginia Bioethics Network at the University of Virginia (1993-1994).

Publications

Fry-Revere has written four books, the most recent of which is ''The Kidney Sellers: A Journey of Discovery in Iran'' (2014) which resulted in a TEDMED talk given at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC in 2014. Her research in Iran also resulted in two academic articles, "Coercion, dissatisfaction, and social stigma: an ethnographic study of compensated living kidney donation in Iran" in ''International Urology and Nephrology'' 1-12 (March 2018), and "Introducing an Exploitation/Fair Dealings Scale for Evaluating Living Organ Donor Policies Using Iran as the Test Case" in ''World Medical and Health Policy'' (May 2018). Her article "Where’s the Safety Net?" appeared on the front page of the '' Huffington Post'' (June 2016) and "Between Scylla and Charybdis: Charting an Ethical Course for Research into Financial Incentives for Living Kidney Donation" was published in ''The American Journal of Transplantation'' (February 2016). She has also written ''Defining Death: A New Legal Perspective'' (2014), ''Ethics & Answers in Home Health Care: A Practical Guide for Dealing with Bioethical Issues in Your Organization'' (1995), and ''The Accountability of Bioethics Committees and Consultants'' (1992). To books edited by others she contributed “Terminally Ill Patients Should Be Allowed to Use Experimental Drugs” (''Prescription Drugs'', 2008); “Federal Money and Oversight for Stem Cell Research” (''Should the Government Fund Embryonic Stem Cell Research?'', 2009); and "Bioethics Consultation Services" (''BioLaw'').

Additional articles

* * * "Are We Accidentally Paying Donors to Donate?: There's an Easy Way to Stop These Unintentional Violations of NOTA" (2018)

References

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