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Elizabeth Lanphier, PhD, MS


  • Clinical Ethicist, Ethics Center
  • Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
  • Asssitant Professor, UC Department of Philosophy; Affiliated Faculty, UC Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

About

Certification: Healthcare Ethics Consultant (HEC-C), 2020. 

Fellowship: Clinical Ethics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 2020.

PhD: Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2019.

MS: Narrative Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2013.

Interests

Clinical ethics; medical humanities; health care justice

Publications

Selected

Trauma Informed Ethics Consultation. Lanphier, E; Anani, UE. The American Journal of Bioethics. 2022; 22:45-57.

Selected

Pediatric Off-Label Use of Covid-19 Vaccines: Ethical and Legal Considerations. Lanphier, E; Fyfe, S. The Hastings Center Report. 2021; 51:27-32.

Selected

Narrative and Medicine: Premises, Practices, Pragmatism. Lanphier, E. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. 2021; 64:211-234.

Advocacy, Bioethics, and Regulating COVID-19 Vaccines for Children Under 5. Harbin, A; Lanphier, E. 2025.

Building Trauma-Informed Hospital Ethics Cultures. Lanphier, E; Hulkower, A. The American Journal of Bioethics. 2025; 25:90-92.

Defining and Refining Trauma-Informed Ethics Consultation. Lanphier, E; Anani, UE. The Journal of Clinical Ethics. 2025; 36:52-57.

Social media or scholarly submission? Appropriate responses and academic attention. Lanphier, E. Bioethics. 2025; 39:224-225.

Relational Space: How Setting of Care Changes the Content of Care for Young Adults. Lanphier, E; Campelia, GD. Journal of Adolescent Health. 2024; 75:694-695.

Microaggressions in Medicine: Narratives, Trauma, and Silence. Lanphier, E. International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. 2024; 17:163-168.

A Logic Model Approach to Trauma-Informed Care. Shanbhag, PR; Zawaly, S; Lanphier, E; Shah, A. Hospital Pediatrics. 2024; 14:e458-e460.