Joseph Carrese, MD, MPH, FACP is a Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and emeritus faculty at the University’s Berman Institute of Bioethics. Joe is mostly retired at this point, working part-time for the School of Medicine. Over the years his leadership roles at Hopkins included chairing the ethics committee at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center; chairing an Institutional Review Board that provided oversight for clinical research; and directing educational programs in clinical ethics and professionalism for medical students and residents throughout the School of Medicine. Joe’s scholarship focused on clinical ethics and professionalism, with a particular interest in examining ethical issues in the context of cultural diversity; clinical ethics consultation; and medical education. Joe served on the Board of Directors of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and was a founding Board member and Chair of the Board Directors of the Academy for Professionalism in Healthcare. In recognition of his leadership in the field of bioethics, Joe was elected a Fellow of the Hastings Center. Joe was in clinical practice as a primary care doctor for nearly 40 years. Joe attended Williams College, the University of Buffalo School of Medicine and the University of Washington, where he studied bioethics and anthropology.

JOE’S CRS STORY

My experiences at Camp Rising Sun in summers of 1973 and 1974 were transformative. Many of the values and beliefs I brought with me to Camp were challenged and gave way to new understandings and insights. For the first time I appreciated my own cultural positioning and was in turn open to alternative world views and the beauty and strength of diversity. I was able to listen to and learn from others with an open heart and mind. Ultimately, I became a different person. The mission of LAJF/CRS, through its international summer leadership program and other educational initiatives, is to offer this experience to current and future generations of adolescents from across the globe, to help them appreciate their common humanity and to instill in them a desire to serve their communities, wherever they live. As a proud and grateful alumnus, I am honored to be on the Board of Directors of LAJF/CRS and serve the organization that so profoundly changed my life. Please consider supporting this incredible organization with a personally generous donation, so that its ability to transform the lives of future youth, and thereby improve the global community, can be sustained.

We thank our Board of Directors for their passionate leadership of LAJF and CRS!