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Author: Amy Haddad, PhD, RN, FAAN

Amy Haddad, PhD, RN, FAAN helped lead the growing national awareness of the importance for formal ethics education in the health professions. Her expertise was relatively unique in the pharmacy world and she quickly established herself as an innovative and prolific scholar. Her focus was on inculcating a solid foundation in ethical theory that was then explicitly translated to contemporary clinical practice. The ethical care of patients was always the articulated goal of her teaching. Haddad’s list of external awards is long and distinguished. She received recognitions for creativity, intellectual curiosity and rare talent such as Carnegie Scholar, Robert K. Chalmers Distinguished Pharmacy Educator, Pelligrino Medal, Rho Chi Lecture awards and was named a Hastings Center Fellow and a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. She completed an MFA in Creative Writing at Queens University in Charlotte, NC in 2019. Bio on Creighton website: https://spahp.creighton.edu/news/spahp-faculty-awarded-emeriti-status

Poet in Profile – Ted Kooser

Interpreting poems written by renowned poet Ted Kooser in a Nebraskan winter in 1998, his friend Amy Haddad highlights the beauty of the human spirit when faced with life-threatening challenges. Kooser wrote the poems on his two-mile walks before dawn as he recovered from surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation for tongue and neck cancer in 1998. Compact and powerful, they show how one creative mind forged a bit of order in the “chaos” of recovery.

Poem: At Rehab

The power of poetry surfaces from several authors’ perspectives. Dr. Amy Haddad, currently the President-Elect for the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and a published poet, shares her poem “At Rehab.”  Her words and her reflection remind us of the door poetry opens to truly understanding others.