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Dr. Edward F. Gabriele
Special Assistant for Ethics and Professional Integrity
Office of the Surgeon General of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Washington, DC
Dr. Edward Gabriele currently serves as Special Assistant for Ethics and Professional Integrity to the Surgeon General of the United States Navy. He is Professor of Clinician Education in the Department of Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center. He is Adjunct Assistant Professor for the Doctoral Program in the Graduate School of Nursing at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, where he also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Military and Emergency Medicine.
For his second tour in academic and professional ethics to the Navy Surgeon General, he provides educational services and executive consultations regarding policy, oversight, education, and training in healthcare ethics, research ethics, organizational ethics, and values formation. In addition, he provides research administration leadership in strategic planning and collaboration/partnership development through executive level liaison officer services with diverse academies, professional societies, institutions of higher learning, and other national and international agencies. Prior to his present assignment, he served as the Director of Educational Conferences and Liaison Development for the Office of Research Integrity within the Office of Public Health and Science at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Among his accomplishments, Dr. Gabriele has supported and/or founded a number of executive level programs in research ethics leadership and education for the protection of human research participants and other areas central to the responsible conduct of research. For several institutions, he has served as the chief executive responsible for policy development, oversight activities, educational programs, training initiatives, and extramural collaborations relevant to human research ethics. Since 1991 he has served in various executive level capacities supporting strategic planning, mission entrepreneurship, research administration and research ethics for United States military medical research. He has been the designer and executive for original and innovative education and enrichment programs in professional integrity in healthcare and values formation, research ethics, ethics faculty initiatives, ethics internship opportunities, and the promotion of ethics publications.
Dr. Gabriele holds a bachelor of science as well as a bachelor of arts from Villanova University, a master's degree from CTU-Chicago, and a doctorate from The Catholic University of America in Washington DC. He is a member of the Society of Research Administrators International, the American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities, the National Council of University Research Administrators, Kappa Delta Pi: An Honor Society in Education - Villanova University Chapter, and diverse memberships in his academic fields.
With a publication record from 1985, he is the author of nine books in his academic field including his doctoral dissertation; and, since 1997 he continues to add to a record of extensive professional publications, abstracts, posters and multimedia presentations in research administration, research ethics, and human subjects protections theory and practice including discussions regarding the philosophy of research administration as an ethos-activity. Over the years, he has amassed a number of significant achievements. He created and chaired a college of senior ethicists and ethics advisors for Professional Integrity and Ethics serving Navy Medicine under the 34th Surgeon General of the Navy, Vice Admiral Michael Cowan, MC, USN. He designed a de novo Human Research Protections Program for Navy Medicine that included the efforts of a unique Board of Advisors comprised of federal, private sector, and international leaders in human research ethics theory and practice. He initiated a unique Human Research Knowledge System, and spearheaded innovative Cooperative Research and Development Agreements for research ethics education and technologies with the Society of Research Administrators International and with Apple, Inc. At the Naval Medical Research Center, Dr. Gabriele co-founded and directed a de novo executive office of research administration and human subjects programs supporting military medical research. For this effort, he directed programs in research project management, research compliance and integrity, research-education partnerships, and research mission and metrification for laboratories in the United States and overseas. Under this same aegis, he directed research ethics policy, oversight, education and training needs of human research personnel working on three continents. As part of this effort, he was the original designer of the first on-going education, training and certification program for medical research and development personnel participating in human research efforts. Of particular meritorious note, for research-education partnerships, Dr. Gabriele founded the first research administration and research ethics scholars program for high school students, undergraduates, and faculty fellows. For the Society of Research Administrators International, Dr. Gabriele is a member of the SRA Distinguished Faculty. He founded and then directed the Society’s Research Ethics curriculum from 2002-2008. Since 2006, he has been serving as the Editor of the Journal of Research Administration. In the same year, he assumed duties as the Founding Director of the Society’s Senior Executive Institute for the development of senior level curricula for research executives and administrators. From 2002-2006, he served as the Founding Director and Chair of the SRA Symposium for the presentation, publication and competition of contributed papers, posters, abstracts and institutional milestones. In 2001, he received the SRA Award for Excellence. In 2001, 2002 and 2008, he received the Society Award for Best Concurrent Session for his educational lectures at the Society's annual meetings. In 2004, he received the Society’s Hartford-Nicholsen Award. In 2008, as Editor of the Journal of Research Administration he accepted the 2008 Publications Award from the National Grants Management Association in Washington, DC. He has also received various leadership commendation awards for his SRA services and contributions. Dr. Gabriele was one of the original executive founders of the Responsible Conduct of Research Education Consortium for which he served, until 2006, as Councilor on the RCREC Executive Committee. Dr. Gabriele has been selected over the years as a Keynote Speaker for various major convocations of international repute and continues to provide educational leadership in diverse fields supporting healthcare, medicine and research excellence around the world.
Dr. Edward F. Gabriele