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2024 HEC Advisory Board
HEC Board Eddie Black
HEC Board Mike Cassidy
HEC Board Deke Cateau

James (Eddie) Black, MD

Interim Chief Medical Office

Medical Director, Emergency Services

Phoebe Putney Health System

C. Michael Cassidy, MS

Executive Director, Emory Innovations Inc.

Director, Emory Biomedical Catalyst

Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center


Deke Cateau

Chief Executive Officer

A.G. Rhodes

HEC Board Chair Brian Childs
HEC Board Ren Davis
HEC Board Melissa Faulkner

Brian H. Childs, PhD, HEC-C

Professor of Bioethics and Professionalism

Director of Ethics Education

Mercer University School of Medicine

Render S. Davis, MHA

Former Administrator

Emory University Hospital Midtown

Melissa Spezia Faulkner, PhD, RN, FAAN

Adjunct Professor, School of Nursing

Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions

Georgia State University. Atlanta, GA

Nurse Scientist, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix

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HEC Board Bryan Kibbe
HEC Board Sarah Penna

Jeff Flowers, MDiv, DMin

Retired Director of Spiritual Care

Augusta University Health

Bryan Kibbe, PhD, HEC-C

Director of Clinical Ethics

Wellstar Health System

Sarah Penna, MSW, LCSW

Clinical Social Worker

Emory ALS Center

HEC Board Hellen Ransom
HEC Board Maura Schlairet
HEC Board Bernard Scoggins

Hellen Ransom, DHCE, HEC-C

Clinical Ethicist

Northeast Georgia Health System

Maura C. Schlairet, PhD

Associate Professor, Georgia Baptist College of Nursing

Mercer University

Bernard P. Scoggins, MD

Albany Area Primary Health

Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital

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HEC Board Woody Spackman
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Ashley K. Smith, MMSc, PA-C, Psych-CAQ

Physician Assistant, Psychiatry Consult-Liaison and Psychiatry Emergency Services

Grady Memorial Hospital

Elwood (Woody) H. Spackman, MDiv

Former Executive Director

Emory Center for Pastoral Services

Kevin Wack, JD, MA, MTS, HEC-C

Sr. Clinical Ethicist, EHI Office of Quality

Emory University Hospital

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HEC Board Regina Winters

Helen O. Williams, MD, MA (bioethics)

Co-Chair, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Bioethics Committee

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology

Emory University

Regina M. Winters, MHA, ThM

Senior Director, Consumer Outcomes

AccentCare