The ECG Team
Bruce White, DO, JD (Director)
Kathryn Payne, RN, JD
Gretchen Fair, JD, MA
Bruce White, DO, JD (Director, Principal) is a pharmacist, a board-certified pediatrician, and an attorney with fellowship training in clinical medical ethics. He came to from Nashville, Tennessee in March 2004 to join the general pediatrics residency faculty. Presently he serves as . He has previously held faculty appointments as Clinical Professor of Pediatrics in the University of Arizona College of Medicine and Clinical Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Science in the College of Pharmacy, Tucson, Arizona; Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, and; academic chair of the pediatrics department and Clinical Ethics Fellowship Program Director for St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona. He also serves as Professor and Director of the campus-wide, interdisciplinary Healthcare Ethics and Law (HEaL) Institute at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama.
Kate Payne, RN, JD is Director of Ethics at Saint Thomas Hospital (Nashville) and an adjunct professor at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. Before taking her position at Saint Thomas, she was at the University of Chicago where she managed a Critical Care Unit and completed a fellowship in clinical medical ethics.
Gretchen Fair, JD, MA, MSW holds law and bioethics degrees from the University of Virginia and a masters in social work from the Catholic University of America. She practiced labor and employment law in Washington, D.C. before serving as the 2005-06 fellow in clinical ethics at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona. She now works as a clinical social worker in Washington, D.C.
