Ethical Care

Jessica Ginsberg is a Clinical Ethicist at Wellstar Health System in Atlanta, GA. She received her B.A. in Middle East and South Asian Studies from Emory University. Thereafter, she enrolled in a dual degree graduate program where she received her Juris Doctor and Master of Arts in Bioethics at Emory University. After graduating, she practiced workers’ compensation law in Atlanta, GA. She then completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Bioethics at Wellstar. She is thrilled to continue her career in clinical ethics as a Clinical Ethicist at Wellstar. Ms. Ginsberg’s areas of interest include legal and ethical issues in reproductive ethics, end of life ethics, organ donation and transplantation ethics, the intersection of religion and bioethics, and clinical ethics consultation.

Bryan Kibbe, PhD, HEC-C, is a certified healthcare ethics consultant. He works with frontline healthcare workers and patients and their families to address and resolve challenging ethical questions, dilemmas, and issues that frequently arise in healthcare settings. He completed his doctorate in philosophy in 2014 and a fellowship in advanced bioethics at the Cleveland Clinic in 2016. In addition to ethics consultation work, Dr. Kibbe contributes to organizational policy development, conducts scholarship, and provides ethics related education to healthcare professionals and others. Dr. Kibbe’s research interests include the ways in which healthcare technologies intersect with, inform, fulfill, imperil and otherwise shape ethical ideals and norms in healthcare as well as the work of moral repair after harms and errors occur.

Hilary Mabel is a Clinical Ethicist at Wellstar Health System in Atlanta, GA. She specializes in clinical ethics consultation with a focus on providing compassionate decision-making support to patients and families and pragmatic guidance to healthcare colleagues. Hilary has experience designing and leading hospital-based ethics programs, advancing organizational ethics and values-based alignment efforts, providing moral distress support to healthcare colleagues, developing innovative ethics programming, and teaching conceptual content and skills-based competencies to a variety of learners. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her B.A. in Religion and English from the University of Florida. She completed a fellowship in Advanced Bioethics at the Cleveland Clinic. Prior to joining Wellstar, Hilary worked as a clinical ethicist at Cleveland Clinic, where she led the ethics programs at two hospitals and served as the Associate Director of the Clinical Ethics Immersion Program. Prior to transitioning into bioethics, Hilary practiced law. Her research and scholarship centers on complex issues in clinical ethics, professionalization of the field, clinical ethics programming and program development, transgender care and bioethics, and reproductive ethics.

Jeff S. Matsler (Major, US Army, Retired) is a Clinical Ethicist at Wellstar Health System. Recently retired from the US Army, Matsler was most recently an instructor of medical ethics at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (USUHS) and the US Army’s Bioethicist. Matsler’s education includes advanced degrees from Yale, Duke and Southern Methodist University. An alumnus and former assistant director of Yale’s Bioethics Institute, Jeff has guest-lectured at the Yale School of Medicine and regularly teaches a summer course at Yale in military bioethics. As the US Army’s Bioethicist, Jeff annually hosted two national educational events on bioethics at Walter Reed—The Medical Ethics Short Course and The Defense Medical Ethics Symposium. He provides guidance to the senior levels of Pentagon leadership and lectures regularly around the nation to academic communities and community-based healthcare organizations on the importance and nuances of medical ethics from the military and veteran perspectives as well as on moral injury/PTSD and spirituality. In the field of medical research, he is CITI-certified and sits on two Capital Region IRBs, is a peer reviewer for the AMSUS journal Military Medicine, lectures at USUHS, advises command on all issues of medically ethical and bioethical significance as well as providing technical guidance to the WRNMMC Ethics Committee through participation on the committee’s Leadership Team. Because of his research on PTSD and moral injury Jeff has been interviewed in Christianity Today Magazine (June ’15) and featured in LEADERSHIP Journal (Summer 2015). His work on military medical ethics appears in many journal publications including MILITARY CHAPLAIN.

His military education includes the Army Civilian Schooling’s Fellowship in Bioethics (Yale University), the Army Advanced Officer Course, the Army Officer Basic Course, Critical Incident Stress Debriefing/Management Training (CISD/CISM), Spiritual Reintegration Training (SRT) and Spiritual Resiliency and Readiness Training (SRRT) Courses. He is CITI and ACPE certified.

His military awards include the Bronze Star, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal and Meritorious Service Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters. Chaplain Matsler is endorsed by the General Board of Higher Education of the United Methodist Church and is a member of the Association of Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) and the American Society for Bioethics & Humanities (ASBH).

Dr. Kate Molchan is a Clinical Ethics Fellow at Wellstar Health System. She completed her PhD in healthcare ethics at Duquesne University, a MA in bioethics and a JD at Case Western Reserve University, and a BA in philosophy from Westminster College. Her research interests include clinical ethics, advance directives and medical decision-making, and the intersection of organizational ethics and patient safety. Dr. Molchan is also a licensed attorney and has served as Assistant General Counsel for Health Sciences at West Virginia University.

Dr. Jordan Potter is a Clinical Ethicist at Wellstar Health System. In addition to performing clinical ethics consultations, teaching ethics throughout the health system, and completing ethics research, Dr. Potter is Fellowship Supervisor of the Wellstar Fellowship in Clinical Ethics, and he also teaches the ethics curriculum for Wellstar’s Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship. He received his BA in philosophy from Greenville College, his MA in philosophy from the University of Missouri – St. Louis, and his PhD in healthcare ethics from Duquesne University. He additionally completed a postdoctoral fellowship in advanced bioethics at the Cleveland Clinic prior to joining Wellstar. Dr. Potter’s research expertise lies in the areas of end of life ethics and organ donation and transplantation ethics, especially how these two broad areas interact and influence each other. He also specializes in clinical ethics consultation and has a special interest in the professionalization of clinical ethics, specifically the professionalization of clinical ethics training and education.

Steven Shields is a Clinical Ethicist at Wellstar Health System. In addition to performing clinical ethics consultations and teaching ethics throughout the health system. He received his bachelor degree in political science and philosophy from Spring Hill College, his masters of arts in religious studies from Georgia State University, and his juris doctorate from Mercer University. Steven’s research interests are focused on the intersection of law and ethics, the impact of religious beliefs on medical decision-making, and the rights of incarcerated persons.