MARIETTA — Alexandra Perry, clinical ethicist at INTEGRIS Health in Oklahoma City, Okla., has been named the 2017-18 Fitzgerald Executive-in-Residence at Marietta College’s McDonough Center for Leadership and Business.

Perry, who taught at the McDonough Center from 2013-15, will focus her EIR project on “Ethical Issues in Healthcare.”

“With all of the discussion about health care reform, I think this EIR project will be very timely,” said Gama Perruci, dean of McDonough. “I also like the ethical component, which will be incredibly important for our students as future health care professionals. This will be the first time that we have an EIR project with a focus on the health care field. With so many of our students majoring in this academic area, I think this project will really add an important real-world dimension to their academic experience.”

Perry said that health care is one of the fastest growing areas of employment for college graduates.

“National conversations about health care are beginning to highlight questions about health that stem from the liberal arts, including ethics,” she said. “I hope that this project will prompt discussions on campus about topics such as the ethical issues raised for health care by homeless or unrepresented populations; end-of-life moral issues; communicating about critical information; disagreement and values conflict in medicine, and more.”

Students will be introduced to and asked to explore ethical issues in health care.

Project participants will meet and become acquainted with health care providers and ancillary services to understand some of the more complex ethical challenges in medicine and will develop projects with an aim toward addressing these challenges.

Students interested in being considered for the 2017-18 EIR program should send a resume to Perruci (perrucig@marietta.edu) by April 28. All resumes will be reviewed by Perry, and the EIR project participants will be announced before the end of the spring semester. All Marietta College students, including incoming freshmen, are eligible to apply.