Chad F. Slieper

Faculty Co-Director, Leadership in Progress and Service Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP)

Member Of:
  • School of Public Policy
Office Hours:
By Appointment

Overview

Pronunciation of Name:
SLEEP-uhr
Personal Pronouns:
he/him/his

Chad F. Slieper currently serves as Faculty Co-Director of Georgia Tech's Leadership in Progress and Service Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) in the Office of Undergraduate Education.  He also retains a partial appointment as an Academic Professional in the School of Public Policy where he serves as Director of the Law, Science, and Technology program overseeing recruitment and retention of the program's part-time attorney faculty.  Having earned a Bachelor of Science in Public Policy with highest honor from Georgia Tech and a Juris Doctor from Emory University School of Law, he has over a decade of experience in higher education having previously held appointments with The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center where he was Chief, ad interim, of Clinical Ethics and Emory University School of Law where he directed a program in Global Health Law and Policy.  An attorney and ethicist, he has leadership experience with curriculum development, program administration and development, faculty recruitment and retention, service and experiential learning, professional identity development, and student advising. He teaches in the fields of law and medical ethics, and he has won a number of teaching awards at Georgia Tech, including a 2022 CIOS Award, recognizing Georgia Tech's top fifty instructors as measured by the course instructor opinion survey, and a Distinguished Teaching Award from the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.  In 2021, he was a Georgia Tech "Faces of Inclusive Excellence" honoree for his work as co-founder of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Diversity Council, and he also serves as a faculty liaison to Georgia Tech's LGBTQIA Resource Center.  A member of the State Bar of Georgia and former board member and secretary of the Stonewall Bar Association of Georgia, he also previously worked in the area of professional responsibility for two global law firms, and he was honored by the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy in 2013 with its Outstanding Alumni Award.

Education:
  • J.D., Emory University School of Law
  • B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, Public Policy, with highest honor
Awards and
Distinctions:
  • Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching: 2022 CIOS Award (Top 50 instructors at Georgia Tech as measured by CIOS Scores), Georgia Tech
  • Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching: Spring Semester 2022 CIOS Honor Roll, Georgia Tech
  • Ivan Allen College Distinguished Teaching Award, 2022, Georgia Tech - Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
  • Faces of Inclusive Excellence Honoree, 2021, Georgia Tech - Institute Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Level Up Completion Award, 2020, Georgia Tech LGBTQIA Resource Center
  • Outstanding Alumni Award, 2013, Georgia Tech School of Public Policy
  • Administrative Leadership Program, 2008, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
  • Pupil, Inn of Court, 2004, Emory University School of Law
  • Special Commendation, 2004, Kessler-Eidson Program for Trial Techniques, Emory University School of Law
  • Undergraduate Student of the Year, 2001, Georgia Tech School of Public Policy
  • Georgia Tech Honor Scholar, 2001, Georgia Tech (one of eight awarded annually campus-wide)
  • President’s Undergraduate Research Award, 2001-02, Georgia Tech (for bioethics research with Prof. Roberta M. Berry – Medical Hope and Utopian Temptation)
  • National Merit Scholarship Recipient, 1998, Sponsored by BellSouth

Interests

Research Fields:
  • Ethics and Philosophy of Science and Technology
  • Policy Process, Leadership, and Pre-Law
Issues:
  • Bioethics, Bioscience, Biotechnology

Courses

  • PUBP-3000: US Constitutional Issues
  • PUBP-3610: Pre-Law Seminar
  • PUBP-4630: Law, Medicine, and Ethics
  • PUBP-4843: Special Topics
  • PUBP-4843: Special Topics: Law, Medicine, and Ethics

Selected Publications

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