BANDER PROFESSORSHIP
he Steven J. Bander Professorship of Medical Ethics and Professionalism was established through a generous gift from the BF Charitable Foundation to Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. In March of 2015, Dr. James M DuBois was installed as the inaugural chair holder. Chancellor Mark Wrighton said of the gift, “The generosity of the Banders will enable James DuBois to remain at the forefront of medical ethics and continue his important research and teaching. We are extremely grateful for this gift, which will benefit clinicians and researchers for generations to come.”
“It is a great honor to be named the Steven J. Bander Professor of Medical Ethics and Professionalism,” Dr. DuBois says. “I have known Dr. Bander for almost 10 years. He is a generous person who beautifully balances a realism about the challenges physicians face and an idealism about what medical research and practice can be.”
About Dr. Steven J. Bander
Steven J. Bander, M.D., a native of St. Louis, has spent more than 35 years in the practice of critical care medicine and nephrology. He graduated from Saint Louis University with a bachelor’s degree in biology and earned his medical degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia. After completing a residency at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Dr. Bander completed a fellowship in nephrology at Washington University. He continues to practice medicine as an interventional nephrologist and medical director of the Vascular Access Center in Frontenac, a service of St. Luke’s Hospital.
Dr. Bander has vast past experiences in the development, operations, and senior executive leadership positions of local, national, and international outpatient healthcare facilities. Soon after receiving a settlement from a qui tam action in 2005, Dr. Bander established the BF Charitable Foundation to promote ethical business practices in medicine. In 2010, Dr. Bander received the FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award for the development of medical ethics programs.