2008 John W. Fisher II Lecture in Law and Medicine
Mark R. Wicclair, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
Adjunct Professor of Community Medicine
West Virginia University
Professor Mark R. Wicclair, presented the John w. Fisher II Lecture on Law and Mediceine, Friday, April 18, 2008 in the Marlyn E. Lugar Courtroom at the WVU Law Center. A web cast of the lecture titled Conscientious Objection and Pharmacists’ Obligations was recorded and is available for viewing.
Photos from the event
John W. Fisher II Lecture in Law and Medicine
This annual lecture series is made possible through the generosity of Thomas S. Clark, M.D., and Jean Clark, formerly of Morgantown, now residing in Bruceton, West Virginia. The Clark Family Lecture Series was established in 1998, with a half-million dollar pledge to fund lectures in 10 fields of study throughout WVU.
Thomas S. Clark graduated from the WVU Medical Technology program in 1967 and received his medical degree from WVU in 1975. He is medical director of Mylan Pharmaceuticals and the former CEO and owner of Clinical Pharmacologic Research, Inc. Jean Clark completed her B.A. at WVU in 1967 and earned a master’s degree in education in 1974. She is a member of the WVU Foundation, Inc., Board of Directors. The Clarks have two sons, Stuart, of Nashville, Tennessee, and Chad, who resides in Morgantown.
John W. Fisher II
John W. Fisher II became the 15th WVU Dean of Law on April 2, 1998. Among the recognitions he received, in the form of congratulations, was the John W. Fisher II Lecture in Law and Medicine.
Fisher received his B.A. in History from WVU in 1964 and his J.D. from the WVU College of Law in 1967. He joined the College of Law faculty in 1971 and has been called, “the state’s foremost authority in the field of property law,” by the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. In 1977, he received an appointment as a part-time magistrate for the U.S. District Court, and full professor tenure at the College of Law. During the 1980s, he served a four-year term as WVU Chief of Staff and advisor to the Office of the President. Prior to his 1998 deanship, he fulfilled the leadership role of interim dean three times. He is married to Susan V. Fisher, and they have a daughter, Jennifer, a son, Jay, and two grandchildren, Austin and Emily. In 2007 he was named William J. Maier, Jr. Dean and Professor of of Law.
Mark R. Wicclair
Mark Wicclair is Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Community Medicine at WVU. He has won a total of five awards for outstanding research, teaching, and public service from the University and the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. He received a Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Philosophy from Columbia University and a B.A. from Reed College.
He has published extensively in the areas of ethics and bioethics. His book, Ethics and the Elderly, was published by Oxford University Press. He has written articles on conscientious objection in medicine and pharmacy, and he is currently writing a book on conscientious objection in health care under contract with Cambridge University Press.
He frequently presents talks and workshops on a variety of topics in bioethics. He is a member of the Ethics Consultation Service at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and serves on two hospital ethics committees.