Dr. Stephen J. Ziegler

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Purdue University
Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne
Division of Public and Environmental Affairs
Associate ProfessorAppointed: 2003
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Mailing Address

Indiana University - Purdue University
School of Public & Environmental Affairs
2101 E. Coliseum Blvd.
Neff Hall 260E
Fort Wayne, Indiana 46805-1499
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (260) 481-6964
Fax: (260) 481-6346
zieglers@ipfw.edu

Qualifications

Ph.D., Washington State University, Political Science, 2003.
J.D., Thomas M. Cooley School of Law, Law, 1997.

Expertise and Research Interests

Opioid risk management; end-of-life decision making; regulatory barriers to pain relief; medical error.

Future Research

Reforming the way physicians are investigated when "over-prescribing" is suspected; drug policy reform

Industrial Relevance

Opioid risk management
Pain
Pharmaceutical regulation
Diversion
Criminal enforcement
Liability concerns of health care providers

Keywords

COS Keywords:

'Bioethics', 'Criminal Justice', 'Drugs or Drug Abuse', 'Law', 'Pain', 'Pharmaceuticals', 'Political Science', 'Public Health', Criminal Law, Criminology, Drug Education, Environmental Health, Health and Medicine, Hospices, Nonviolent Crime, Palliative Care, Public Affairs, Public Health Law, Suicide.

Additional Terms:

Assisted Suicide, Bioethics, Criminal, Criminal Justice, Drug Regulation, End-of-Life Care, Euthanasia, Health, Investigation, Law, Medical Politics, Medicine, Pain Relief, Palliative Care, Pharmaceutical Diversion, Physician-assisted Suicide, Politics, Prosecution.

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

English: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent)
Spanish: (Basic, None, Basic)

Memberships

AcademyHealth
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics
Opioid Management Society

Honors and Awards

2005-2005, Teaching Excellence Award, School of Public & Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, Public Affairs
2004-2004, ORES Research Fellow, Office of Research and External Support, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, Public Affairs
2002-2003, Charles Sheldon Fellowship in Public Law, Department of Political Science, Washington State University, Law
2001-2002, John C. & Loella K. Kassebaum Scholarship, Washington State University Foundation, Washington State University
2001-2002, Mayday Scholar, Mayday Pain Foundation, Barriers to Pain Relief
2000-2001, Thomas S. Foley Graduate Fellowship, Thomas S. Foley Public Policy Institute, Washington State University
1999-2001, Edward Meyer Scholarship, College of Liberal Arts, Washington State University
1999-2001, Graduate Scholar Award, Washington State University Graduate School, Washington State University
1999-2003, Teaching Assistantship, Department of Political Science, Washington State University, Political Science
1996-1996, American Judges Foundation Award, American Judges Association, Law
1994-1994, American Jurisprudence Award, Lawyers Cooperative Publishing, Thomas M. Cooley School of Law, Legal Research & Writing
1994-1996, Thomas M. Cooley Merit Scholarship Thomas M. Cooley School of Law, Law

Funding Received

  • Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne: Research Grant, Faculty Summer Research Grant, $7,000, Jun 1, 2004 to Aug 15, 2004.
  • Purdue Research Foundation: Research Grant, Faculty Summer Research Grant, $7,000, Jun 1, 2004 to Aug 15, 2004.
  • Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne: Research Proposal Grant, $2,500, Aug 30, 2004 to Dec 15, 2004.
  • Indiana University, Office of the Vice Chancellor of Research, Bloomington: Research Grant. The Demedicalization of Death: How the Swiss Model of Assisted Suicide Could Change the Way We Die, $10,000, 2007 to 2008.
  • IPFW, Office of Research and External Support: Research on End of Life decisions, $5092, 2006 to 2006.
  • Office of Research and External Support: Travel Grant, $1,000, 2005 to 2005.
  • President's Council on International Programs, Indiana University: Research Grant, $1,000, 2005 to 2005.
  • Greenwall Foundation of New York: Research Grant. Regulating Assisted Suicide in Switzerland: What Lessons Can the United States Learn from the Swiss?, $27,176, 2005 to 2006.
  • Purdue Research Foundation: Travel Grant, $1,059, 2004 to 2004.
  • Office of International Programs, Indiana University: Travel Grant, $600, 2004 to 2004.
  • Washington State University: Travel Grant, $400, 2003 to 2003.
  • Washington State University: Travel Grant, $500, 2001 to 2001.
  • Mayday Pain Foundation: Research Grant, $10,000, 2001 to 2002.
  • Washington State University: Travel Grant, $200, 2000 to 2000.
  • North Texas Council of Governments: Equipment Grant, $210,000, 1991 to 1991.

Publications

  • Ziegler, S.J., Bosshard, G. (2007) Role of non-governmental organizations in physician assisted suicide, BMJ, 334 (7588), 295-298
  • Bosshard, G., Ziegler, S.J. (2008) Assessment of Requests for Assisted Suicide by a Swiss Right-to-Die Society, Death Studies, In Press
  • Fischer, S, Huber, C.A, Imhof, L., Imhof, R.M, Furter, M, Ziegler, S. J., Bosshard, G. (2008) Suicide assisted by two Swiss right-to-die organisations, Journal of Medical Ethics, In Press
  • Ziegler, S.J. (2007) Pain, Patients, and Prosecution: Who is deceiving whom?, Pain Medicine, 8 (5), 445-446
  • Ziegler, S.J. (2006) Increasing Response Rates in Mail Surveys without increasing Error: A Research Note, Criminal Justice Policy Review, 17 (1), 22-31
  • Ziegler, S.J. (2006) Euthanasia and the Administration of Neuromuscular Blockers Without Ventilation: Should Physicians Fear Prosecution?, Omega: The Journal of Death and Dying, 53 (4), 295-310
  • Ziegler, S.J. (2005) Physician-Assisted Suicide and Criminal Prosecution: Are Physicians At Risk?, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 33 (2), 349-358
  • Ziegler, S.J. (2005) The World Institute of Pain: Advancing Research and Clinical Practice, Journal of Opioid Management, 1 (4), 223-224
  • Ziegler, S.J., Lovrich, N.P. (2004) Pain Relief, Prescription Drugs, and Prosecution: A Four-State Survey of Chief Prosecutors (Reprinted with permission of ASLME), ICFAI Journal of Health Care Law, 2 (1), 45-81
  • Ziegler, S.J., Jackson, R.A. (2004) Who's Not Afraid of Proposal B? An Analysis of Exit-poll Data From Michigan's Vote on Physician-assisted Suicide, Politics and the Life Sciences, 23 (1), 42-48
  • Nice, D., Ziegler, S.J. (2003) Metropolitan Governmental Fragmentation, Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, 766-770 pages (bookchapter)
  • Ziegler, S.J., Prosecutors, Palliative Medicine, and Physician-Assisted Death: An Empirical Assessment of the Likelihood of Prosecution Stemming from Opioid and Non-Opioid Administrations, Dissertation, Pullman, WA, Washington State University, Unpublished, 2003
  • Ziegler, S.J., Lovrich, N.P. (2003) Pain relief, prescription drugs, and prosecution: A four-state survey of chief prosecutors, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 31 (1), 75-100
  • Ziegler, S.J., Lovrich, N.P., Examining the Link between Physical Pain and Requests for Hastened Death: Different Results or Different Values, Pain and the Law, 2002
  • Ziegler, S.J., Lovrich, N.P., OxyContin and the Need for Perspective, Pain and the Law, 2002
  • Ziegler, S.J., Lovrich, N.P., Pain Relief and PAS: The Saga Continues, Pain and the Law, 2001
  • Ziegler, S.J., Lovrich, N.P., Prohbiting Physician-Assisted Suicide at the Expense of Pain Relief, Pain and the Law, 2001
  • Ziegler, S.J. (1996) Applying 804(b)(3) to domestic violence cases: Is the jury the only one that needs to be educated?, Court Review, 33, 15-23

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