Amy R. Chamness
Program Coordinator
A native of the Indianapolis area, Amy earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Biology, with a minor in Philosophy, from Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana. During college she completed a summer internship with Indiana University Health where she was assigned to the Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplantation Program at Indiana University Health- University Hospital. After graduation, she was immediately hired by the IU BMT Program to work full-time as the Data Specialist. During her three year tenure with the BMT Program, she tracked data on greater than 500 transplant patients, organized a BMT data management committee, assisted with reaccreditations and insurance contract data, compiled reports and statistics, and was the administrator for the program’s database.
Amy joined the Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics as the Program Coordinator in June, 2008. Her responsibilities include providing comprehensive coordination for programs, projects, and events sponsored by the Center, such as the Fairbanks Ethics Lecture Series, website development and maintenance, and support for research projects and quality assessment activities across all programs.