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GREENVILLE, Pa. - PennZone -- A medical ethicist from Columbus, Ohio, will speak about fairness and bias in healthcare at this year's Community Medical Ethics Project event to be held in Thiel College's Lutheran Heritage Room of the Howard Miller Student Center at 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 24.

The event will explore fairness in public health and how bias influences the delivery of healthcare. The event is free and open to the public.

The speaker, Amy M. VanDyke, Ph.D., a system ethicist at the Mount Carmel Health System in Columbus, will explore the ethical framework that supports decision-making in public health care, and how bias forms and how it can influence systems of public health. VanDyke will also provide participants with tools to recognize and challenge personal or systemic bias in public health campaigns and initiatives.

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VanDyke supervises all ethics activities in a Catholic health care system that includes hospitals, surgery centers and physicians' offices. She also teaches health care ethics at the Mount Carmel College of Nursing in Columbus and is part of the ethics faculty/speakers bureau for the Consortium Ethics Program of the University of Pittsburgh. She received a doctoral degree in healthcare ethics from Duquesne University.

Shuttle service will be provided between Thiel's (https://www.thiel.edu/) Passavant Center parking lot and the Howard Miller Center.

For more information or to register, call 724-983-7168. Registration is also available at the door.

The Community Medical Ethics Project, based in Greenville, is sponsored by Thiel College, UPMC Horizon, St. Paul's Senior Living Community, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity. The presentation is approved for American Medical Association Physician's Recognition Award Category 1 credits and for nurses' continuing education units.

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About Thiel College

Thiel College (https://www.thiel.edu/) is a private liberal arts institution founded in the Lutheran tradition. Located in Greenville, Pa., the College offers 60 majors and minors, 25 varsity sports, and an 11:1 student-faculty ratio to more than 900 students. A dedicated faculty paired with dynamic research and internship opportunities produce numerous graduate school and job placements. Coeducational from its beginnings, the College celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2016 and remains committed to combining tradition with innovation.