Prof. Kreitmair joined the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in 2018 after receiving her Ph.D. in philosophy and serving as a clinical ethics fellow at Stanford University. She has broad ranging interests, including clinical ethics, research ethics, and neuroethics. Recent scholarly work has included consciousness and neuroethics, the rationing of scarce health-care resources during the COVID-19 pandemic, philosophical questions around in situ perfusion of organs for donation after circulatory death, and ethical issues arising from in direct-to-consumer digital behavioral technology.

Prof. Kreitmair is a member of the UW Hospital Ethics Committee and performs clinical ethics consults for the UW Hospital and for American Children’s Hospital. She served as a member of the UW Hospital’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Ethics Team, which worked to develop protocols for critical care rationing at UW Hospital in 2020, and on the Ventilator Allocation Advisory Workgroup for the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.