Mitch Irvin, RN, MSN
Contact: mirvin@salud.unm.edu
Phone: 505-272-6663
Mitch Irvin, RN, MSN is a Lecturer II and Director of the Direct Entry Pre-Licensure Program in the College of Nursing at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. In addition to his teaching and program leadership responsibilities, Mr. Irvin has developed deep expertise in clinical ethics through sustained professional development training and extensive applied ethics work within the hospital setting. He serves as Co-Chair of the UNM Health Sciences Center Ethics Committee, where he contributes to institutional ethics consultation, policy development, and the cultivation of an ethical culture of care across the health sciences enterprise.
Mr. Irvin's commitment to ethics education extends beyond the clinical environment into interprofessional and academic contexts. He co-created a professional development certificate course in clinical ethics, providing practicing clinicians and health sciences professionals with a structured framework for ethical reasoning and decision-making at the bedside. He also chairs the Health Sciences Center's Interprofessional Education Shared Values and Ethics Conference, a collaborative forum designed to engage students across the health professions in the foundational ethical principles that underpin patient-centered, team-based care. Through his combined roles as educator, program director, ethics committee leader, and curriculum developer, Mr. Irvin brings a practitioner-scholar perspective to the preparation of the next generation of nursing professionals.
Program Director:
Annie Larkin, Master of Library and Information Science, BA Psychology
Contact: adlarkin@salud.unm.edu
Phone: 505-272-5430
Coffee Brown MD is a retired Emergency Medicine physician and lecturer in the UNM Emergency Medical Services Academy. He has developed innovative educational programming for EMS students, residents and medical students.
Rev. B. Gail Joralemon has been a United Church of Christ minister for more than 40 years. Her ministry has been in non-parish settings: campus ministry, the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome project, as the Executive Director of the Abortion and Pregnancy Testing Center, co-founder and President of New Mexico Health Decisions, and instructor at Central New Mexico Community College in ethics and religion. She has served on the UNMH’s Biomedical Ethics committee; the Institutional Review Boards of St. Joseph Hospital, Lovelace Hospital and Ardent Health Care; and consulted with local and state agencies and organizations on issues of bioethics. Rev. Joralemon has spoken at numerous bioethics conferences, taught bioethics in a variety of settings, and has published in the field of bioethics. She has a Master of Divinity degree from Pacific School of Religion, a B.A. in Religion and Sociology degree from Boston University, and attended the Kennedy Institute Intensive Bioethics Course, Georgetown University.
Stephanie Larson PhD, HEC-C completed her doctorate in English at Emory University. She has been engaged in ethics for many years. She completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic, during which she performed over 450 consultations. She currently teaches ethics at Case Western Reserve University.
Mitch Irvin RN is a nurse educator in the College of Nursing. His undergraduate education is in philosophy and religion. He has been active in activities related to research ethic. He completed the CECP and is planning to continue his graduate studies in nursing and ethics.
If you would like to support the activities of the Institute please contact us here.