Patricia Backlar
Research Associate Professor of Bioethics
Office: NH M424
Phone: 503-725-3499
Email: backlarp@pdx.edu
Biography
Patricia Backlar is Research Associate Professor of Bioethics, and
Director of the Biomedical
Ethics Certificate Sequence, Department of Philosophy, Portland
State University; Senior Scholar, Center for Ethics in Health Care,
and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Oregon
Health Sciences University; Editor of the Ethics Section of the
Community Mental Health Journal. Among her current professional
positions, she serves on the Oregon State Hospital Ethics Committee,
the Oregon Public Health Genetics Plan Advisory Council, co-chairs the
Oregon Advisory Committee on Genetic Privacy and Research, chairs the
Multnomah County Behavioral Health Advisory Council (Adult Mental
Health and Substance Abuse), and co-chairs the Oregon Stop Stigma
Campaign to eliminate discrimination toward individuals with mental
illness and addiction.
Professor Backlar has authored and co-authored over 65 journal
articles, book chapters, books, and government reports on bioethical
and policy issues relevant to biomedical research, clinical practice,
and community psychiatric practice. Included among her publications
are: The Family Face of Schizophrenia, New York: Putnam; 1994,
paperback, 1995; Can I Plan Now for the Mental Health Treatment I
Would Want If I Were In Crisis? A Guide to Oregon's Declaration for
Mental Health Treatment, State of Oregon: Office of Mental Health
Services, Mental Health and Developmental Disability Services
Division; 1994, updated, August 2000. Her most recent book (co-edited
with David L. Cutler) is Ethics in Community Mental Health Care:
Commonplace Concerns, Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, 2002.
In 1996, Professor Backlar was appointed by President Clinton to serve
as a commissioner on the presidentially chartered National Bioethics
Advisory Commission (NBAC), where she participated in drafting its
reports which include "Cloning Human Beings" (1997), "Research
Involving Persons with Mental Disorders that May Affect Decisionmaking
Capacity" (1998), "Research Involving Human Biological Materials"
(1999), "Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research" (1999), "Ethical
and Policy Issues in International Research: Clinical Trials in
Developing Countries" (2001), and "Ethical and Policy Issues in
Research Involving Human Participants" (2001).
Among her research activities, Professor Backlar was the Principal
Investigator on the NIMH funded study "Impact of advance directives
for mental health treatment," and co-investigator on a multi-site
SAMHSA funded study, "Evaluation of managed care for persons with
severe mental disorders."
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