Megan Kitts

Dr. Megan Kitts is an Assistant Professor who is jointly appointed in the School of Nursing and the Center for Global Health Ethics. She received her MA in Bioethics from New York University and her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Colorado Boulder. After graduate school, she completed the Clinical Ethics Fellowship program at Baylor College of Medicine, where she performed clinical ethics consultations at Houston Methodist Hospital. She is interested in a wide variety of research questions in reproductive ethics, such as ethical concerns in medicalized fertility, and clinical ethics, such as surrogate decision-making that respects adults with marginal decision-making capacity.

• Clinical Ethics Fellowship, Baylor College of Medicine
• PhD in Philosophy, University of Colorado Boulder
• MA in Bioethics, New York University
• BA in Philosophy and Biology, College of William & Mary

• Reproductive ethics and emerging reproductive technologies  
• Surrogate decision-making for adults
• Social epistemological questions in clinical ethics