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Professor
99 Jonathan Lucas Street
PO Box 250160
Charleston, SC 29425
Telephone: (843) 792-3816
Fax: (843) 792-9258
benedics@musc.edu | | Dr. Susan Benedict is a tenured Professor in the College of Nursing. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from Villa Maria College in Erie, PA and her master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Alabama. She is a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist and a graduate of Charity Hospital/Xavier University anesthesia program in New Orleans, LA. In 1996, she was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Iceland where she worked with that faculty to establish the first graduate program in nursing in Iceland. In 2002, she was awarded a Lady Davis Fellowship to be a Visiting Professor at Hadassah Hebrew University in Jerusalem and in 2003 she was invited to be a Visiting Professor at the University of Haifa in Israel. In 2003, as a continuation of her international activities, she took nurse practitioner students to work in rural villages in India. | | Dr. Benedict has two areas of research: breast cancer screening and nursing ethics during the Holocaust. To support the latter, she received a Fellowship in Medical Ethics and the Holocaust from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC in 1997. She has been the only nurse to receive this award. Annually, she chairs the nursing research panel at the International Scholars Conference on the Holocaust. Her recent research on nurses and the Holocaust was supported by an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health. | | Dr. Benedict has been at the Medical University of South Carolina since 1991. She has held the positions of Assistant Dean for Graduate Programs, Associate Dean for Research, and Department Chairperson. She currently teaches two courses in the PhD program: Ethical Aspects of Research with Vulnerable Populations and Global Perspective of Vulnerability. | Community of Science profile: http://myprofile.cos.com/benedics |
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