Dr. J. Brooke Hamilton, III., holds an appointment in the Department of Management at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He teaches courses on management and organizational behavior and a course on professional ethics in the Department of Philosophy. In 1995 he was appointed the J. J. Burdin, M.D. and Helen B. Burdin, LEQSF Regents' Professor of Professional Ethics. He also serves as an adjunct faculty member of the Louisiana State University School of Medicine for its residency programs in Internal Medicine and Family Practice at University Medical Center in Lafayette. He is chair of the Hospital Ethics Committee and Institutional Review Board of University Medical Center, Medical Center of Southwest Louisiana and Women's and Children's Hospital, and serves on the IRB of Lafayette General Hospital. A graduate of Cathedral High School in Lafayette, he holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in Philosophy from Georgetown University and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Emory University. He taught for 7 years and was Head of the Philosophy Department at Tuskegee Institute and returned to Lafayette in 1977 to work for 14 years as Marketing Vice President for Elks Concrete Products, Inc. In 1991, after completing his M.B.A. at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, he returned to teaching as coordinator of the ethics program in the College of Business at U.S.L. He has published articles on business ethics and professional practice with an emphasis on translating academic theory and research into usable concepts for business practitioners and on teaching excellence and ethics in academic research. These writings appear in Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, Professional Ethics, Southeastern Journal of Legal Studies in Business, and the Journal of Education in Business. His research and teaching in medical ethics has continued since the early 1970's when the discipline of medical ethics, as it is practiced today, began. |