Charlotte H. Harrison, PhD, JD, MPH, HEC-C
Charlotte Harrison, JD, MPH, PhD, HEC-C, is the immediate past Hospital Ethicist and Director of the Office of Ethics at Boston Children’s Hospital, where she also co-chaired the Ethics Advisory Committee for ten years. She has served as director of the hospital’s literature and medicine program and has co-chaired organizational ethics task forces that addressed the provision of extracorporeal life support and the conduct of organ donation after circulatory death. At the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics, she has served on the steering committee for the Attorney-Bioethicist Working Group and she is currently a co-convener of the Organizational Ethics Consortia Series.
Charlotte is a graduate of Harvard Law School. She practiced intellectual property law at private firms and served as an associate director of the Office of Technology Affairs at Massachusetts General Hospital. She then returned to Harvard for graduate-level training in ethics and public health. She completed her PhD with a dissertation addressed to the ethics of professional collaboration in conditions of uncertainty. She has lectured on a range of topics in the annual Harvard Clinical Bioethics Course. She has been a fellow in medical ethics at Harvard Medical School and a fellow at the Salzburg Global Seminar. She has served on the Institutional Review Board of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Her bioethics-related writing is featured in the American Journal of Law and Medicine, American Journal of Transplantation, JAMA Pediatrics, Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Pediatrics, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Transplantation Proceedings and other publications.
1. Ethical Issues Considered When Establishing a Pediatrics Gender Surgery Center.
Boskey ER, Johnson JA, Harrison C, Marron JM, Abecassis L, Scobie-Carroll A, Willard J, Diamond DA, Taghinia AH, Ganor O.
Pediatrics. 2019 Jun;143(6):e20183053. doi: 10.1542/peds.2018-3053. Epub 2019 May 13.
PMID: 31085738 Review.
2. When a Child Needs a Transplant but Lacks Familial Social Support.
Mabel H, Harrison CH, Ahmad MU, Blume ED, Boyle GJ, Bester JC, Lantos JD.
Pediatrics. 2019 Jan;143(1):e20181551. doi: 10.1542/peds.2018-1551.
PMID: 30563878
3. Ethical Challenges Confronted When Providing Nusinersen Treatment for Spinal Muscular Atrophy.
Burgart AM, Magnus D, Tabor HK, Paquette ED, Frader J, Glover JJ, Jackson BM, Harrison CH, Urion DK, Graham RJ, Brandsema JF, Feudtner C.
JAMA Pediatr. 2018 Feb 1;172(2):188-192. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2017.4409.
PMID: 29228163
4. Ethical dilemmas with the use of ECMO as a bridge to transplantation.
Truog RD, Thiagarajan RR, Harrison CH.
Lancet Respir Med. 2015 Aug;3(8):597-8. doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(15)00233-7. Epub 2015 Jul 19.
PMID: 26201841 No abstract available.
5. Pediatric staff perspectives on organ donation after cardiac death in children.
Curley MA, Harrison CH, Craig N, Lillehei CW, Micheli A, Laussen PC.
Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2007 May;8(3):212-9. doi: 10.1097/01.PCC.0000262932.42091.09.
PMID: 17417125
6. Neither Moore nor the market: alternative models for compensating contributors of human tissue.
Harrison CH.
Am J Law Med. 2002;28(1):77-105.
PMID: 12025539 No abstract available.
7. Controversy and consensus on pediatric donation after cardiac death: ethical issues and institutional process.
Harrison CH, Laussen PC.
Transplant Proc. 2008 May;40(4):1044-7. doi: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2008.03.064.
PMID: 18555111
8. 2016 Mar;16(3):767-72.
doi: 10.1111/ajt.13519. Epub 2015 Nov 20.
What Is the Role of Developmental Disability in Patient Selection for Pediatric Solid Organ Transplantation?
D S Kamin 1 , D Freiberger 2 , K P Daly 3 , M Oliva 4 , L Helfand 5 , K Haynes 6 , C H Harrison 7 , H B Kim 8
Affiliations
• PMID: 26588043
• DOI: 10.1111/ajt.13519