The Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine

The Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM) is supported by the Dean's Office at the University of Michigan Medical School, and the Departments of Internal Medicine, and the Ann Arbor Veterans Administration Medical Center (Center for Clinical Management Research). CBSSM is co-directed by Drs. Brian Zikmund-Fisher and Raymond De Vries. It is a multidisciplinary unit that integrates bioethics with key social science disciplines, bringing together in one entity research, education, policy work, and service. CBSSM attracts scholars from across departmental and disciplinary boundaries and in so doing, provides fertile ground for new synergies.  The primary research interests of CBSSM faculty focus on five overarching themes: (1) clinical and research ethics, (2) health communication and decision making, (3) medicine and society, (4) health, justice and community, and (5) genomics, health and society.