APPE Leadership
APPE Board of Directors
APPE Board members are elected by the APPE membership each spring and serve four-year terms that run July 1 to June 30. If you're interested in learning more about running for an APPE Board member seat, reach out to contact@appe-ethics.org.
Vivian Altiery De Jesus
PGY-3 Internal Medicine and Rising Chief Resident
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Jonathan Beever
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Director, Center for Ethics
University of Central Florida
Andrew I. Cohen
APPE Board Treasurer
Associate Professor, Philosophy
Director, Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics
Georgia State University
Dennis Cooley
APPE Board Chair-Elect
Director, Northern Plains Ethics Institute
North Dakota State University
Liza Dawson
Chief of Bioethics, IRB chair, and Research Integrity Officer
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR)
Raquel Diaz-Sprague
Visiting Scholar
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Jun Fudano
Professor, Center for Higher Education Studies
Waseda University
Tokyo, Japan
Mohammad Hosseini
Assistant Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Deborah S. Mower
Director, The Center for Practical Ethics
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Hume Bryant Associate Professor of Ethics
Department of Philosophy and Religion
University of Mississippi
Julia A. Pedroni
APPE Board Secretary
Lecturer, Department of Philosophy
Williams College
Lee Anne Peck
Professor Emerita, Journalism and Media Studies
University of Northern Colorado
Dena Plemmons
APPE Board Chair
Director, Research Ethics Education Program
University of California, Riverside
Graduate Division
Alex Richardson
Associate Director, Content Strategy and Engagement
Prindle Institute for Ethics, DePauw University
Earl Spurgin
Professor, Chair of Philosophy
John Carroll University
Qin Zhu
Associate Professor of Engineering Education
Virginia Tech
Ex Officio Board Members
Appointed by the APPE Board, Ex Officio Members are graduate students, early career scholars, or other professionals early in their engagement with applied ethics. They are non-voting members and serve two-year terms.
Sally Moore
PhD Student, The Ohio State University
Elisa Reverman
Clinical Ethics Fellow, Cleveland Clinic
APPE Staff
APPE Committees
APPE IEB® Committee
Deborah Mower (Chair)*
Andrew Cohen*
Raquel Diaz-Sprague*
Alex Richardson*
Earl Spurgin*
Payton Bucki
Sherri Conklin
Mark Doorley
John Garcia
Cynthia Jones
Michael Jordan
Leonidas Kirby
Bob Ladenson
Allison Radabaugh
Rachel Robison-Greene
Conference Committee
Earl Spurgin (Co-Chair)*
Vivian Altiery De Jesus (Co-Chair)*
Jonathan Beever*
Jun Fudano*
Lee Anne Peck*
Daniel Cheung
Patrick Flanagan
Kelly Laas
Alif Laila Tisha
Yvette Pearson
Finance Committee
(Board members only)
Andrew Cohen (Chair)*
Jonathan Beever*
Dennis Cooley*
Deborah Mower*
Alex Richardson*
Governance Committee
(Board members only)
Alex Richardson (Chair)*
Vivian Altiery De Jesus*
Dennis Cooley*
Raquel Diaz-Sprague*
Sally Moore*
Membership Committee
Dennis Cooley (Co-Chair)*
Lee Anne Peck (Co-Chair)*
Liza Dawson*
Raquel Diaz-Sprague*
Jun Fudano*
Nominating Committee
Jonathan Beever (Chair)*
Julie Pedroni*
Jun Fundano*
Qin Zhu*
Jay Al-Hashimi
Lida Anestidou
Patrick Flanagan
Lisa M Lee
Programming Committee
Dennis Cooley (Co-Chair)*
Julie Pedroni (Co-Chair)*
Raquel Diaz-Sprague*
Qin Zhu*
Elisa Reverman*
Godswill Agbagwa
Jay Al-Hashimi
Robert Doyle
Jeffrey Dunn
Charles de Souza
John Sys
Laine Walters Young
*Board Member