The Alden March Bioethics Institute (AMBI) is a multi-institutional bioethics research institute based at the Albany Medical College and its Medical Center, and directed by Dr. Glenn McGee. AMBI was founded in 2005 to conduct state-of-the-art research, teaching and outreach concerning ethical issues in the health sciences.

AMBI conducts a comprehensive and innovative bioethics research and education program through Faculty and Fellows representing the unique educational, research and government institutions in New York's capital district.

Institute faculty receive in excess of $3 million in bioethics research dollars, and produce and disseminate widely-cited first-rate scholarship in medical, legal, philosophical and scientific journals and books. We offer a unique online masters program in bioethics as well joint degree programs in law, medicine, pastoral care, public health and social work.

The Institute is home to the leading peer-reviewed journal in bioethics, The American Journal of Bioethics, and to the world's most utilized bioethics resource on the Internet, bioethics.net. It publishes the most-read bioethics news and opinion resource, The Editors Blog of The American Journal of Bioethics, better known as blog.bioethics.net.

The Institute is named for Alden March, M.D., co-founder of the American Medical Association, leading 19th century surgeon and innovative professor of anatomy, and founder in 1839 of the Albany Medical College in New York. In 1993, Dr. John Balint was given charge by Albany Medical College to develop an intensive undergraduate medical ethics education program, to develop an ethics consultation service and to hire a faculty that could produce high-quality and useful research on prominent ethical issues. Dr. Balint created and served as Director of the Center for Medical Ethics, Education and Research, which in twelve years created a 140 contact-hour course for medical students entitled "Health, Care and Society," a Scholars-in-Bioethics program for medical students, and a full-time ethics consultation service providing more than 100 consults per year for Albany Medical Center. Professor Balint, emeritus Director of the Center and the recipient an endowed chair named for him in honor of his outstanding contributions to medicine and medical ethics, remains a member of the core faculty of the Institute.

For more information on the Institute and its research Journal, website, graduate programs, medical education and outreach, contact Glenn McGee, Director, Alden March Bioethics Institute, 47 New Scotland Avenue MC153, Albany NY 12208. 518.262.6082.