Sep 3, 2021Meet Catherine Averillby Providenza Rocco, JD, MSW, MBE, HEC-C What do you do in the Center for Urban Bioethics? As the Senior Advisor for the Urban Bioethics program, I primarily support the daily operations of the program with logistics like course creation, student registration, advising on degree requirements, communication of opportunities for…Urban Bioethics6 min readUrban Bioethics6 min read
Aug 5, 2021Bridging the Gaps 2021An exceptional time, an exceptional group of students This year our Bridging the Gaps scholars were: Erin Russell, Farm to Families Shreya Thakur, Farm to Families, Nausheen Baksh, PHA CARES Julia Carp, Farm to Families Jennifer Deasy, Advance Directives Matthew Dickson, Farm to Families Katrina Juntereal, Advance Directives Andrea Quartey…Temple University4 min readTemple University4 min read
Aug 5, 2021John Lennon’s “Instant Karma” and Meby Michaella Kinloch, Urban Bioethics Master’s Candidate, 2022 At the start of 1970 I was 18 years old, though much less mature than I might have been, certainly less so than most were at that age, and unusually dour, serious, and socially rather badly adjusted. In a term of…John Lennon6 min readJohn Lennon6 min read
Mar 25, 2021MATCH DAY 2021!Congratulations to our MATCH DAY MAUB students! by Providenza Loera Rocco, JD, MSW, MBE, HEC-CMatch Day2 min readMatch Day2 min read
Feb 12, 2021Interview with Alexander Nguyen-conducted by Providenza Loera Rocco, JD, MSW, MBE, HEC-C When did you realize you wanted to become a doctor? To be completely honest, I spent a lot of my life following the stereotypical Asian immigrant instructions of either becoming a doctor, lawyer, and engineer. With most difficult things, unless you…Urban Bioethics9 min readUrban Bioethics9 min read
Jan 5, 2021Interview with Jenny Nguyenconducted by Providenza Loera Rocco, JD, MSW, MBE, HEC-C Jan. 2021 When did you know you wanted to become a doctor? I knew pretty early on that I wanted to be a doctor. Having witnessed the amount of distrust of medicine within immigrant communities while growing up, I wanted to…Urban Bioethics6 min readUrban Bioethics6 min read
Oct 11, 2020What is Urban Bioethics to you?This month, I had the pleasure of asking some of our MA in Urban Bioethics students what Urban Bioethics is to them — and this is what they told me. Enjoy reading their perspectives! — Prof. Providnza Loera Rocco, JD, MSW, MBE, HEC-C “Urban bioethics provides an opportunity to look…Urban Bioethics3 min readUrban Bioethics3 min read
Oct 3, 2020Food insecurity and Covid-19by Providenza Loera Rocco, JD, MSW, MBE, HEC-C Food waste makes up 30–40 percent of the US food supply. In 2018, 88.9 percent of households in the US were food insecure through the year. In North Philadelphia, where I work as an assistant professor at Temple Medicine in the Center…Urban Bioethics3 min readUrban Bioethics3 min read
Jul 6, 2020Interview with Dr. Arianna Ahiagbe, MD/MA in Urban BioethicsClass of 2020 Lewis Katz School of Medicine — How does it feel to be graduated and done with classes? It feels surreal and exciting! When did you know you wanted to be a doctor? Since my Fisher Price doctor’s kit Where are you starting your residency? Nemours Children’s Hospital in Orlando, FL What made you choose Temple Med? …Urban Bioethics2 min readUrban Bioethics2 min read
Jul 5, 2020May 2020 MAUB GraduatesCongratulations to the class of 2020! Micah Landry MacAskill Thesis: The Moral Imperative of Addressing Patient Religion and Spirituality in MedicineBioethics3 min readBioethics3 min read
