Sarah B Vittone
Title
Assistant Professor on the Educator Track
Department of Nursing; Consultant-Center for Clinical Bioethics; Research Subject Advocate-GHUCCTS.
Department of Nursing; Consultant-Center for Clinical Bioethics; Research Subject Advocate-GHUCCTS.
Department
Department of Nursing
General profile
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Phone
+1 202-498-9356
Alt. phone
202-687-4679
Location
St Mary's Hall
Bio
Sarah B. Vittone is an assistant professor at Georgetown University joined the the School of Nursing and Health Studies in 2007. Ms. Vittone's teaching interests are in pediatrics and clinical ethics. She teaches undergraduate and graduate students in the School of Nursing as well as in Health Studies. She is an Engelhard Fellow.
Ms. Vittone has 16+ years experience in clinical ethics consultation and since 2007 has been a consultant with the Ethics Consultation Service of the Center for Clinical Bioethics here at GUMC and MGUH. She provides ethics education to the MGUH staff and for their residency program. Ms. Vittone also provides regular Ethics Rounds for the BSN students.
Since 2011, Ms. Vittone has received 50% salary support for her work in human protection and research ethics for the Clinical and Translational Sciences Award with Georgetown-Howard Universities-Veterans Admnistration and Medstar Health Research Institute as a Research Subject Advocate. She also currently serves on IRB-E at Georegtown. She is the course director for the Ethics, Regulatory and Implementation of Clinical Research Studies with Human Subjects provided by the GHUCCTS CTSA.
Ms. Vittone has been a speaker at a number of national meetings on nursing, and ethics, including the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities; and the National Teaching Institute, American Association Critical Care Nurses Annual Conference, and the National Press Foundation.
Ms. Vittone collaborates globally in clinical ethics with the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) Nurses Association in Davao City.
Ms. Vittone has 16+ years experience in clinical ethics consultation and since 2007 has been a consultant with the Ethics Consultation Service of the Center for Clinical Bioethics here at GUMC and MGUH. She provides ethics education to the MGUH staff and for their residency program. Ms. Vittone also provides regular Ethics Rounds for the BSN students.
Since 2011, Ms. Vittone has received 50% salary support for her work in human protection and research ethics for the Clinical and Translational Sciences Award with Georgetown-Howard Universities-Veterans Admnistration and Medstar Health Research Institute as a Research Subject Advocate. She also currently serves on IRB-E at Georegtown. She is the course director for the Ethics, Regulatory and Implementation of Clinical Research Studies with Human Subjects provided by the GHUCCTS CTSA.
Ms. Vittone has been a speaker at a number of national meetings on nursing, and ethics, including the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities; and the National Teaching Institute, American Association Critical Care Nurses Annual Conference, and the National Press Foundation.
Ms. Vittone collaborates globally in clinical ethics with the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) Nurses Association in Davao City.
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Education
- Master of Arts (1994) University of Virginia, Clinical Ethics/Religious Studies
- Master of Science (1989) University of Virginia, Nursing
- Bachelor of Science (1988) University of Virginia, Nursing