The Institute on Medicine as a Profession and the Open Society Institute have convened a Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centers. The Task Force is analyzing the dynamics of health professionals’ involvement in interrogation, force feeding, and other areas of potential detainee abuse. Its mission is to identify initiatives both internal, in the military and Department of Defense, and external, in the civilian community, that will encourage adherence to medical professional standards.
The Task Force will make policy recommendations that seek to promote internal structural reform within the military, enhance pre-deployment education of health professionals, expand undergraduate and graduate medical education on dual loyalty and national and international codes of conduct, create awareness of these issues among Professional Medical Associations, and encourage the enactment of state laws to create accountability mechanisms.
In the second year of the project (2011-2012), the Task Force will seek to implement these policy recommendations.
Members of Coordinating Committee:
Aryeh Neier
Open Society Institute
David J. Rothman
Institute on Medicine as a Profession
Leonard Rubenstein, JD
Johns Hopkins University
Gerald Thomson , MD
Columbia University
Members of Task Force:
Scott Allen, MD
Brown University
George Annas, JD
Boston University
Karen Brudney, MD
Columbia University
Sondra Crosby, MD
Boston University
Hon. Richard Gottfried, JD
New York State Assembly
Vincent Iacopino , MD, PhD
Physicians for Human Rights
University of Minnesota
Robert Lawrence , MD
Johns Hopkins University
Jonathan Marks, JD
Harvard University
Steven Miles, MD
University of Minnesota
Deborah Popowski, JD
Harvard Law School
Steven Reisner, PhD
New York University
Hernan Reyes, MD
International Committee of the Red Cross
Steven Sharfstein , MD
Sheppard Pratt Health Systems
Albert Shimkus, Jr.
Capt., US Navy ret; Naval War College
Eric Stover
Human Rights Center (UC Berkeley)
Frederick Turton , MD
American College of Physicians
Stephen Xenakis, MD
Brig. Gen, US Army, ret.