NCEHC Leadership
Anita Tarzian, PhD, RN: Acting Director
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Dr. Anita J. Tarzian serves as the acting Director of the National Center for Ethics in Health Care, VA’s authoritative resource for addressing complex ethical issues in patient care, health care management, and research. In this role, she provides executive leadership for the Veterans Health Administration’s national health care ethics program, which establishes policy, delivers education, and offers consultation to support ethical health care practice across VA. Dr. Tarzian joined the Center as Deputy Executive Director in June 2020. Before coming to VA, Dr. Tarzian worked as an ethics and research consultant in Baltimore, Maryland, and served as an associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. For more than two decades, she coordinated the Maryland Healthcare Ethics Committee Network, a statewide initiative of the University of Maryland School of Law that supports health care ethics committees. A widely published scholar, Dr. Tarzian has contributed extensively to the field of bioethics. Creighton University’s Center for Health Policy and Ethics recognized her contributions as part of its Nursing Legacy project, and in 2019 she was elected a fellow of The Hastings Center, a nonpartisan bioethics research institution. |
Karinne R. Davidson, MBA: Director of Operations |
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Ms. Davidson currently serves as the director of operations for the National Center for Ethics in Health Care. In 2020, she joined NCEHC as the associate director of operations performing a broad variety of activities related to the center’s daily operations. Ms. Davidson began her VA career in 2010 at the Fargo VA Health Care System where she served as the chief of development and civic engagement and VISN 23 liaison to the VHACO Center for Development and Civic Engagement. Ms. Davidson served on the Fargo VA Healthcare Ethics team as the preventive ethics coordinator from 2015 to 2020. Ms. Davidson holds a master’s degree in business administration, with an emphasis in human resources, from the University of Mary, Bismarck, ND, and is a graduate of North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND where she earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in public relations/mass communications with a minor in political science. |
