Eva Skinner-Regel is a clinical ethicist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. She performs ethics consultations for adult patients, their families, and health care teams, conducts research, writes on issues in clinical ethics, and leads and participates in medical staff debriefings, support, and education. Eva is also a Clinical Director at Health Tech Without Borders, leading Helping Healers Heal, a program aimed at mental health support for healthcare providers working in humanitarian disaster zones.

 

Eva's research interests also include humanitarian ethics, including areas of research on moral distress and moral injury in responders working in disaster and war regions and disaster mental health. Eva also has extensive mental health experience with expertise in providing mental health support to pediatric and adult patient populations in such service areas as Burn Intensive Care Units, pediatric and adult oncology, and general medicine.

 

Her clinical skills in mental health include crisis interventions, trauma interventions (physical and psychosocial trauma, including childhood abuse/neglect), acute and post-traumatic stress, death and dying, adjustment to illness, anxiety, and depression.

 

Eva is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Bioethics at Loyola University Chicago. Eva received her master’s degree in Bioethics from Harvard Medical School and a master's degree in Clinical Social Work from Boston College. Eva also holds a master’s degree in Economics from Houston University, where she conducted research on determining predictive factors for an international currency crisis. Eva also holds a Master's degree in Biophysics, and as a research associate at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, Eva participated in stem cell and gene targeting research.