Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Division of Palliative Medicine
erin.bakanas@wustl.edu

• Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, 1993-2018
• Chair, Saint Louis University Hospital Ethics Committee, June 2003-June 2018
• Director, Bander Center for Medical Business Ethics Fellows Program 2008-2018
• Director, Death and Dying course for second year medical students, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, 1998-2018

Peer-reviewed articles:

• Rothschild AJ, Benes F, Hebben N, Woods B, Luciana M, Bakanas E, Samson JA, Schatzberg AF. Relationships between brain CT scan findings and cortisol in psychotic and nonpsychotic depressed patients. Biological Psychiatry. 1989 Oct;26(6):565-75.
• Bakanas EL. Physicians and advanced practice registered nurses: the supervisor-employer relationship. Virtual Mentor. 2010 Jan 1;12(1):12-5.
• Nagaldinne GK, Bakanas EL. Why is Medicare Wasting Away? Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics. 2011 Fall;1920:74-6
• Bakanas EL Resistance to changing roles in the medical team. Virtual Mentor. 2013 Jun 1;15(6):498-503.
• DuBois JM, Kraus EM, Mikulec AA, Cruz-Flores S, Bakanas E. A humble task: restoring virtue in an age of conflicted interests. Academic Medicine. 2013 Jul; 88(7):924-8.
• Dubois JM, Kraus EM, Gursahani K, Mikulec AA, Bakanas E. Curricular priorities for business ethics in medical practice and research: Recommendations from Delphi consensus panels. BMC Medical Education 2014 Nov 15; 14: 235.
• Kraus, EM, Bakanas E, Gursahani K, DuBois JM. Establishing the need and identifying goals for a curriculum in medical business ethics: a survey of students and residents at two medical centers in Missouri. BMC Research Notes. 2014 Oct 9; 7: 708.
• Bakanas E. Personal faith and professional practice. Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics. 2014 Winter; 4 (3):217-19.
• Bakanas EL, Zahrli, TA. Teaching Medical Business Ethics: And Introduction to the Bander Center’s Casebook. AMA Journal of Ethics. 2015 Aug 1:17 (8):744-9.

Book chapters, monographs, case reports, electronic media, non-peer reviewed articles:

• Bhalodia,R. Bakanas E. A 54-year-old man with fever, skin rash, and oral ulcers. Hospital Physician. 2005 Dec; 41(12):22-24,32.
• Du Bois JM, Kraus E, Bakanas E. Will concierge medicine’s image improve as it evolves? http://www.amednews.com/article/20120903/profession/309039953/5/.
• Bakanas E. Review of AMA/Code of Medical Ethics of the American Medical Association: Current Options with Annotations 2012-2013. Doody’s Review Service (online). Available http://www.doody.com.