Rainbow Center for Pediatric Ethics

(216) 844-8651

Rainbow Pediatric Ethics Center
11100 Euclid Avenue
Mailstop RBC-5016
Cleveland, OH 44106
(216) 844-8709 - fax
Overview

Children deserve special consideration

Medical Director: Anne Lyren, MD

Image of Baby FeetOur mission at the Rainbow Center for Pediatric Ethics (RCPE) is to promote better understanding of our ethical responsibilities to children. The RCPE will impart commitment, credibility, and visibility to the role of pediatric ethics at Rainbow and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.  Our presence will provide physical and emotional space for persons of differing viewpoints to come together, in a non-threatening environment, to help determine what is in the best interest of the child. 

The Center will stimulate a wide range of ethics programs and activities in support of programmatic initiatives at the Case School of Medicine and Rainbow, thereby becoming an integral and vibrant contributor to the medical community.

The Center will accomplish its mission by achieving four primary objectives.
•Education:  To educate students, health care professionals and the public about pediatric ethical issues involving children and their families

•Consultation:  To provide consultation assisting clinicians, families, and children confronted with ethical dilemmas that arise in health care and pediatric research

•Research and Academic Inquiry:  To foster research and scholarship in pediatric ethics

•Advocacy and Community Outreach:  To advocate for the well-being of children by bringing the ethical dimensions of pediatric health care to the community at large.