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J. David Newell
Ph.D., Leadership Ethics

David Newell is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Washington College, Chestertown, MD. He is also Director of Wye Programs and a Senior Fellow at the Aspen Institute where he moderates seminars both in the United States and in Europe. Dr. Newell received the M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy and ethics from the University of Maryland in College Park. He also holds a master of divinity degree from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and a B.A. from Gordon College. The recipient of two awards for distinguished teaching, Professor Newell has been on the faculty of Washington College since 1968. From 1984 – 86, he served on the faculty at the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia where he held the Fellowship in Medical Humanities. From 1989 – 91, he was awarded the Outstanding Civilian Service Medal by the Department of the Army. While at West Point, Dr. Newell taught a graduate course on ethical issues in public administration for the City University of New York and gave seminars on ethics for the Federal Bureau of Prisons. In the fall semester of 1993, he taught philosophy and medical ethics in Grinnell College's Study Abroad Program in London. Dr. Newell served as a Visiting Scholar at the Hastings Center in New York, as an ethicist for a Health and Human Services National Task Force on AIDS in Emergency Medicine, as a Visiting Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg, Germany, as a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow in Biomedical Ethics at Indiana University (1981 – 82), and as Director of Graduate Studies for 18 years at Washington College. His published works include books entitled Medicine Looks at the Humanities (1987), Ethical Issues in Psychology (1984), and Philosophy and Common Sense (1980); and more than a dozen articles in scholarly journals on topics in medical ethics, business ethics and philosophy.

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