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In addition to his faculty appointment in the Center for Health Care Ethics, Griffin Trotter has a secondary appointment in the Department of Surgery, Emergency Medical Division. He is a board certified emergency physician, and retired after 15 years of practice. He received his PhD in philosophy in 1995 from Vanderbilt University and his MD in 1985 from Saint Louis University. Dr. Trotter is CHCE Director of Clinical Consultation and co-Director of Plenary Mentoring for Graduate Students in Health Care Ethics. He teaches several courses in the PhD program in Health Care Ethics, including "Methods in Philosophical Ethics" (G601), "Introduction to Medicine for Ethicists" (G611), and "Ethics in Health Care Reform" (G634). His research focuses on disaster ethics, clinical ethics, health policy reform, and on the relevance of American pragmatism to bioethics. Dr. Trotter is the author of The Loyal Physician (Vanderbilt University Press, 1997) On Royce (Wadsworth, 2001), and The Ethics of Coercion in Mass Casualty Medicine (Johns Hopkins University, 2007), as well as over 70 essays and articles in bioethics and emergency medicine.