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Carol is a retired “country lawyer,” having practiced law for several decades on Boston’s North Shore focused on real estate and estate planning. She now devotes her professional time to an area of inquiry she is passionate about – medical ethics. Carol served as a community member on the Children’s Hospital Ethics Committee for over twenty years. She is currently the Chairperson for the Ethics Committee of the Regional Office of the Department of Developmental Services (formerly the Department of Mental Retardation).

In addition, as a Fellow with the Center for Bioethics at Harvard’s Medical School, Carol co-founded and Chairs the Community Ethics Committee. They are a group of volunteers from the greater Boston area with diverse ages and backgrounds who have been providing consultative services to the Harvard teaching hospitals since 2007. The group has provided review of policies on such diverse topics as pediatric organ donation on cardiac death and access to medical care for undocumented individuals. In addition, they have provided community responses to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues in their review of the Guatemalan syphilis study and Ebola pandemic policies. They also participated with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health in their review of implementing regulations governing "Crisis Standards of Care" in the context of the current COVID pandemic. Carol has also contributed to academic journals with articles in the American Journal of Bioethics, the Annals of Surgery, and Dignitas.