Halley S. Faust MD MPH MA
Halley Faust grew up in the Philadelphia area and lives in Santa Fe, NM. He was determined to become a physician when he became fascinated by the idea of cancer cells growing out of control in a science module in sixth grade. He went on to attend George Washington University, Jefferson Medical College (MD), the University of Michigan School of Public Health (MPH), and Wesleyan University (MA in philosophy). During his family medicine residency he realized that he was much more interested in preventing disease than treating it - especially the lifestyle-related illnesses he was seeing because of patients smoking or being obese. Thus he transferred to and completed his residency in preventive medicine at the University of Michigan and was offered his first job as an assistant professor of (1) Epidemiology at the public health school, and (2) Family Medicine in the medical school. While teaching at U-M he was the part-time medical director of a Michigan rural county health department for six years.
Since that first job at U-M (Go Blue!), and after a time running his own consulting firm and the Preventive Medicine Center of Ann Arbor (with his fellow resident and friend, Bill Thar) Halley has been a staff model HMO medical director and manager (HealthAmerica), health insurance and strategic investment manager (Aetna), and for the past 20 years a venture capitalist (Medmax Ventures and Jerome Capital). During his career he has held several adjunct positions at various universities, including U-Kentucky (Preventive Medicine), U-Hartford (Business School), U-Connecticut (Community Medicine), U-New Mexico (Family and Community Medicine), and Wesleyan University (Biology and Philosophy). He also spent six months as a clinical ethics fellow at the University of Toronto's Joint Centre for Bioethics.
This book is an outgrowth of all of those experiences and the influence of a workshop he organized in 2004 on the ethics of preventive medicine with Paul Menzel and Doug Weed for the American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM). Halley and Paul met up again at the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, where they agreed to try to expand on a thought experiment used at that first workshop. That expansion became both this book and a friendship with a terrific collaborator - Paul. In the meantime, after many years of work with Halley's primary national specialty medical society (ACPM), last as chair of the committee that developed the Code of Ethics and chair of the newly formed Committee on Ethics, Halley was voted President-Elect of ACPM. He will step up to president in February, 2013.
Halley and his wife moved to Santa Fe fulltime in 2008, where they enjoy hiking in the beautiful mountains, snowshoeing, skiing, chamber music/opera/jazz, and the interesting mix of the Hispanic, Pueblo Indian, and caucasian cultural influences. Halley is also active on the Bioethics Committee of the local hospital, where he does clinical ethics consults.
