Faculty
  Russell Burck, Ph.D.
   
rburck@rushu.rush.edu
Russell Burck, Ph.D., Associate Professor, is Director of the Program in Ethics and the Ethics Consultation Service. He holds degrees from Princeton University and Princeton Theological Seminary from which he received his Ph.D. in pastoral theology. He studied and taught at Tuebingen University in Germany. He is a certified Chaplain-Supervisor in the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education and a board-certified member of the Association of Professional Chaplains. He has been teaching at Rush since 1980. His publications include articles in the Dictionary of Pastoral Care and Counseling, and the book, Clergy Ethics in a Changing Society: Mapping the Terrain, which he co-edited and for which he wrote a chapter. The Academy of Parish Clergy named this book one of the ten best books for ministry published in 1991. A past president of the Chicago Clinical Ethics Programs, he was the lay member of the Ethics and Peer Review Committee of the American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine. Since the Fall of 1997, he has been co-director of the Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training Program at Rush. Dr. Burck is an ordained Presbyterian minister. He is one of four chaplains to be recommended by the Association of Professional Chaplains to the White House for the National Bioethics Committee.


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