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Cheryl Erwin, JD PhD is a scholar and teacher in Medical Humanities, Bioethics and Health Care Law, as well as a board-certified coach. She has served in a variety of academic and consulting roles as a bioethicist and health law expert, including health care crisis policy development, research ethics and directing Medical Humanities programs for physicians. A trained mediator, she has a special interest in conflict management and communication coaching that seeks to balance multiple perspectives to find common goals and solutions to the normal conflicts of human life and medical practice.

In her coaching work, Dr. Erwin employs both empirical and humanistic tools to cultivating professional identity formation, self-care, ethical awareness, and conflict-communication skills. She is trained in administration of the TAIS assessment, which can be highly beneficial to understanding strengths and preferences in cognitive and attentional styles.

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Licensure and Professional History

Law License, Texas #24012597

2020 Cheryl Erwin CV

• 1994 • BS Summa Cum Laude, with University Honors – Univ of Houston, Houston, TX. Thesis: Construction of a Contig in Sequencing a Leukemia Tumor Suppressor Gene – M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Medical Genetics
• 1999 • JD Law, University of Houston Law Center, Houston, TX
• 2002 • PhD With Distinction – University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
• 1996-1997 • Fellow, Clinical Ethics Consultation Service, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
• 1999-2001 • Fellow, Medical Jurisprudence, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
• 2001-2002 • Adjunct Professor, University of Houston Law Center
• 2002-2006 • Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine Program in Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities, College of Law, College of Public Health
• 2006 – 2013 • Assistant Professor, University of Texas Medical School Houston and Director, Medical Humanities Certificate Program
• 2008 – 2013 • Joint Appointment, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Research Ethics, University of Texas Health Science Center Houston
• 2011 – 2012 • Visiting Professor, Texas Tech University School of Law, Lubbock, TX, Health Law, Torts, Disability Law
• 2013 – 2019 • Professor (2018, tenured), TTUHSC-SOM, Lubbock, TX. Department of Medical Education, Department of Psychiatry and Director, Center for Ethics, Humanities & Spirituality
• 2019 • Board-Certified Coach (BCC), CCE, Executive Coaching Designation
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$200/30 minutes or $325/60 minutes – Individual Coaching or Bioethics-Moral Distress Consultation

$1800/package – Targeted Leadership Coaching with Assessments, includes 90 minute initial session, TAIS assessment and report of findings, and a concluding 90 minute coaching session to focus on application.

$360/hour – Organizational Coaching Services, including Executive, Leadership, and Professionalism/Advocacy-Track
$200 – Administrative Consultation, up to 30 minutes of focus on needs-assessment or triage for organizations

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Mediation and Conflict Training

A trained mediator, Dr. Erwin has a special interest in conflict management and communication coaching that seeks to balance multiple perspectives to identify goals and solutions. Because conflict is a normal part of human life and professional spaces, this specialty coaching improves the ability of leaders and executives to understand why the conflict is occurring and how they can use their own attentional and interpersonal styles to work through conflict towards their goals.

Individual Coaching for conflict mediation skills available now, at current coaching rates.

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Dr. Cheryl Erwin has served as faculty in Medical Humanities, Ethics, Law and Public Health in Iowa and Texas since 2002 and is the current holder of the Giles McCrary/Tom McGovern Chair in Humanities and Ethics at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine where she teaches at the Center for Ethics, Humanities and Spirituality and serves as Professor in the Departments of Medical Education and Psychiatry. She is a dedicated humanist and educator, with experience directing curricula while incorporating the humanities into professionalism training in resilience and wellness for professionals. Dr. Erwin is a Board Certified Executive Coach and coaches physicians nationwide on issues of burnout and conflict management. Her teaching interests include medical humanities, health policy, professionalism and ethics. Since 2011 she has taught students and faculty in classes and Continuing Medical Education presentations at Texas Tech and as an invited speaker across the United States. Dr. Erwin has a BS degree in molecular genetics and JD in law from the University of Houston, as well as a PhD in medical humanities from The University of Texas Medical Branch. She is a licensed attorney in the State of Texas and is a speaker for the legal community on topics in bioethics and wellness for the legal community. Dr. Erwin is an expert in professionalism and professional conduct.

Dr. Erwin’s interests integrate humanistic disciplines with medical science and explore the contribution of the law and medical humanities to the changing nature of medicine in a dynamic and diverse society. She uses the knowledge and methods of the humanities to mediate among different interest groups to re-imagine a future with increased dialogue, better laws, and better policies for the delivery of healthcare. She has been involved with health policy through research and advocacy and through writing about the ethical implications of technological advances. Her teaching explores the intersection of the humanities and healthcare. She directed in Houston the first comprehensive Medical Humanities Certificate Program for undergraduate medical students in the country and combines teaching ethics with coaching and consultation activities through the integration of humanistic practices in medicine. Dr. Erwin is highly experienced in working with academic health care organizations and educational institutions in research, teaching, and patient care. She has mentored and educated professionals from all walks of life and stages of training as they explore the many forms of professional excellence.

Some of her most recent publications include articles for Lancet on a decade of lessons from patients experiencing the slow onset of Huntington disease, in Scientific American on the Ethics of Psychiatry, and as a contributing author for the Philosophy of Medical Ethics volume in Macmillan Interdisciplinary Studies: Philosophy series of reference guides. She is an internationally known speaker on ethical, legal, and social issues in medicine and biomedical research, with recent presentations in Vienna and Prague on the ethical issues raised by epigenetic technologies.

Dr. Erwin is a former co-chair of the Ethics and Advocacy core of the Center for Clinical and Translational Studies at the National Institutes of Health and successfully completed NIH funded research into the ethical and legal implications of genetic discrimination in Huntington’s disease. She has served as a reviewer for the National Institutes of Health and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She also serves as a consultant to several agencies of the State of Texas including the Texas Medical Board and the Texas Department of State Health Services. She has advised institutions across Texas concerning justice issues, conflicts of interest, privacy and HIPAA requirements, and institutional review board issues.
Sampling of Scholarship

Erwin, C, Tansey J. Overview of Ethics in Psychiatry. In: Black DW, editor. Scientific American Psychiatry [online]. Hamilton ON: Decker Intellectual Properties; July 2017. DOI: 10.2310/7800.13070.

Erwin, Cheryl. (2016) “Genetic Testing” in Philosophy of Medical Ethics volume in Macmillan Interdisciplinary Studies: Philosophy series. Macmillan International, New York.

Philibert, RA, Erwin, C.(2015) “A Review of Epigenetic Markers of Addiction and Recovery” Behavioral Sciences and the Law 2015 Oct;33(5):675-90. doi: 10.1002/bsl.2202. Epub 2015 Sep 14. PMID: 26365064

Erwin, C. (2015) “Ethical Implications of Epigenetic Markers in Addiction and Recovery” Behavioral Sciences and the Law 2015 Oct;33(5):662-74. Epub 2015 Sep 11.PMID: 26358643

Paulsen JS, Long JD, Ross CA, Harrington DL, Erwin CJ, Williams JK, Westervelt HJ, Johnson HJ, Aylward EH, Zhang Y, Bockholt HJ, Barker RA; PREDICT-HD Investigators and Coordinators of the Huntington Study Group. “Prediction of manifest Huntington’s disease with clinical and imaging measures: a prospective observational study.” Lancet Neurology 2014 Dec;13(12):1193-201. Epub 2014 Nov 3. PMID: 25453459

Erwin, C. (2014) “Development of a Medical Humanities Certificate Program.” Journal of Medical Humanities 35(4): 389-403.

Philibert RA, Penaluna B, White T, Shires S, Gunter T, Liesveld J, Erwin C, Hollenbeck N, Osborn T. (2014) “A pilot examination of the genome-wide DNA methylation signatures of subjects entering and exiting short-term alcohol dependence treatment programs.” Epigenetics. 2014 Sep 1;9(9):1212-9. PMID: 2514791

Paulsen JS, Long JD, Johnson HJ, Aylward EH, Ross CA, Williams JK, Nance MA, Erwin CJ, Westervelt HJ, Harrington DL, Bockholt HJ, Zhang Y, McCusker EA, Chiu EM, Panegyres PK; PREDICT-HD Investigators and Coordinators of the Huntington Study Group. (2014) “Clinical and Biomarker Changes in Premanifest Huntington Disease Show Trial Feasibility: A Decade of the PREDICT-HD Study.” Front Aging Neurosci. 2014 Apr 22;6:78. PMID: 24795630

Philibert, RA, Terry, NP, Erwin, C, et al. (2014) “Methylation array data can simultaneously identify individuals and convey protected health information: an unrecognized ethical concern” Clinical Epigenetics 2014, April 22; 6:28 PMID 24795630

Paulsen JS, Nance M, Kim JI, Carlozzi NE, Panegyres PK, Erwin C, Goh A, McCusker E, Williams JK. (2013) “A review of quality of life after predictive testing for and earlier identification of neurodegenerative diseases.” Progress in Neurobiology 2013 Nov;110:2-28. PMID: 24036231

Goh AM, Chiu E, Yastrubetskaya O, Erwin C, Williams JK, Juhl AR, Paulsen JS; I-Respond-Hd Investigators Of The Huntington Study Group. (2013) “Perception, experience, and response to genetic discrimination in Huntington’s disease: the Australian results of The International RESPOND-HD study.” Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers. 2013 Feb;17(2):115-21. Epub 2013 Jan 4 PMID: 23289616

Erwin, C. (2013) “Social Justice and the Health Professions: Ethical and Experiential Issues.” Journal of Pastoral Psychology 62(2): 235-37.

Erwin, C. (2013) Sex, Gender and Ethics: Does Gender Matter? TTUHSC Health.edu. July.

Shannon, S., Jennings, B., Erwin C. (2013) Long Term Care Monograph. Huntington Disease Society of America.

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