Center on nanotechnology & society fellows

Debra Bennett-Woods, Ed.D.
Fellow

Debra Bennett-Woods is an associate professor and the Director of the Department of Health Care Ethics in the Rueckert-Hartman School for Health Professions at Regis University, where she has created a highly applied curriculum for teaching health care ethics in the B.S., M.S., and clinical doctoral programs. Prior to initiating the Department of Health Care Ethics, she was the Director of the Department of Health Services Administration and Management, offering graduate and undergraduate programs in health care administration. She holds board certification and credentials in the American College of Health Care Executives and the American Health Information Management Association, respectively. She serves on the Board of the Colorado Foundation for Medical Care and provides ethics consulting services to local hospital systems in the Denver area.

Her current teaching and scholarly interests emphasize the area of emerging technologies, with particular attention to the health care industry. She is currently authoring a book entitled Nanotechnology: Ethics and Society, forthcoming in late 2007. She is a past member of the Task Force on Nano-Ethics and Societal Impacts of the Colorado Nanotechnology Initiative, where she served as the primary author of a white paper, in 2003, entitled Welcoming the Nano Age: Social and Ethical Considerations of Nanotechnology, and she remains active in the Colorado Nanotechnology Alliance.