Meet the Eboard
Who are Sanchali and Diya?
Yuchi is in this year of pharmacy school.
What is P2?
The 4 pillars of ethics
What are beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice?
In this movie, the villain Thanos justifies wiping out half the universe by saying it will save resources, raising the classic ethics debate of whether the ends justify the means.
What is Avengers: Infinity War (or Endgame)?
This drug class is being studied not just for weight loss but for other health issues, raising concerns about access, side effects, and fairness. Originally used to treat diabetes, many citizens now have difficulty getting access to this drug due to celebrity usage for weightloss
What is Ozempic or GLP1?
The number of eboard members that are pre-law
What is one?
This board member joined the Rutgers equestrian team this year.
Who is Tejaswini? EQUESTRIAN IS CRAZY
In 1951, Henriette Lacks’ cancer cells were cultured without her consent and were used as an immortal cell line. This most clearly violates this pillar of medical ethics.
This extremely long medical drama often tackles tackled bioethical dilemmas, including organ transplants, patient autonomy, and end-of-life care
What is Grey's Anatomy?
This U.S. state passed a shield law so doctors can't be punished by other states for providing abortion pills to people in states where abortion is banned
What is California?
This board member has visited 17 national parks.
Who is Helena?
This board member has read 38 books this year.
Who is Diya?
One of the pillars can be interpreted as “doing good,” which is the core tenet of this ancient Greek text that many students choose to recite at their graduation ceremonies.
What is the Hippocratic Oath?
In Stranger Things, Eleven and other children are experimented on in secret labs, sparking debate over this issue: whether science justifies violating this fundamental right.
What is human rights (or autonomy/consent)?
In 2022, this country legalized euthanasia for minors, making it one of the most permissive countries in the world.
What is Belgium?
This board member swims for Rutgers.
Who is Manya?
This board member’s least favorite class is molecular genetics.
Who is Mariana?
These two people created the four Pillars of Bioethics in 1979 to create universal guidelines for ethics in biology and medicine.
Who were Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress?
In Gattaca, society uses genetic engineering to determine social class, raising questions about this form of discrimination.
What is eugenics?
This controversial technique was used by a Chinese scientist in 2018 to create the world’s first genetically edited babies.
What is CRISPR–Cas9?
This board member's favorite neurologist is VS Ramachandran.
Both of these board members have multiple majors, and they have one in common
Who are Daksha and Justin?
The four pillars are also sometimes referred to as this mantra, named after their D.C. university that their creators were based at.
Georgetown Mantra
A controversial episode of this show involved a nine-year-old cancer patient who asked her thirty-year-old doctor to give her her first kiss before she died, bringing up the question of to what extent a doctor should ensure their patient’s wellbeing.
What is House MD?
A 2025 study revealed that this emerging technology could allow individuals to have biological children using their own skin or blood cells, raising ethical concerns about genetic manipulation and reproductive rights
What is in-vitro gametogenesis (IVG)?