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Teresa Savage,
Adjunct Instructor
Teresa Savage began her nursing career in neonatal intensive care, where she first became interested in bioethics. She also worked in neonatal follow-up, developmental disabilities and pediatric neurology. Dr. Savage pursued her interest in ethics both academically and clinically by serving on ethics committees and becoming an ethics consultant at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center (now Rush University Medical Center). Her research in ethical issues includes a study of nurses' responses to "do not resuscitate" orders in the neonatal intensive care unit; informed consent in persons with intellectual disability; and ethical decision-making by healthcare executives. Currently a co-investigator on a study exploring life-support decisions for extremely premature infants, Dr. Savage splits her time between UIC and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, where she is the former associate director of the Donnelley Family Disability Ethics Program and still serves as a consultant for the program and a member of the Hospital Ethics Committee.
Dr. Savage is a proud UIC alumna, having earned all her degrees—bachelor's, master's and doctorate—at the College of Nursing, the No. 1 nursing college in Illinois. She also completed a post-doctoral fellowship in social ethics/primary healthcare through the WHO Global Leadership program at UIC.
Areas of interest
- Ethical decision-making
- Decision-making capacity and informed consent
- Reconciling the medical and social models of disability
