The IU Center for Bioethics (IUCB) is excited to announce the addition of Tom Doyle, PhD. as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the IUCB and the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at IU School of Medicine. His role includes participating in and leading projects related to precision health, pharmacogenomics, and genetic testing. Dr. Doyle received his undergraduate degree from Southern Illinois University and his PhD in philosophy from Purdue University in 2022. He also has completed a fellowship in clinical medical ethics at the Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics at IU Heath.
Dr. Doyle’s dissertation focused on the phenomenology of illness and developing a practical framework for understanding the concept of personhood within medicine. He will continue to develop his research interests in the phenomenology of health and illness, healthcare access, and patient behavior, as well as participating in other projects at the Center. A significant percentage of his effort is dedicated to a project funded by a supplement that Dr. Schwartz’s team received from the NIH to assess the understanding of pharmacogenomics by participants in the ADOPT trial (A Depression and Opioid Pragmatic Trial in Pharmacogenetics – PI Skaar). Since coming to IU, Dr. Doyle has published a paper with IUCB Faculty Investigator Dr. Colin Halverson. You can find their paper here: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.a.63016.