Amanda West

Amanda is the Associate Director of the Minnesota Center for Health Care Ethics. She is a licensed attorney and holds Master’s degrees in Bioethics and Applied Women’s Studies. She is a qualified mediator and a certified health care ethics consultant, health care compliance professional, and advance care planning facilitator. Amanda has served on ethics committees and consulted on policies and clinical ethics cases at five different hospitals and a senior living community. She has worked in the field of Social Security Disability law and externed in the health care frauds division at the United States Attorney’s Office for Minnesota. She has taught health care ethics at St. Catherine University and was an Assistant Adjunct professor in the Health Law Institute at Mitchell Hamline School of Law from 2017-2019. Amanda also served on Mitchell Hamline’s Advisory Board for the Elder Law and Chronic Care certificate program. Her current work also includes a project, with support from Age-Friendly Minnesota, to conduct a needs assessment and provide recommendations for ways to expand access to high-quality, cost-effective ethics resourcing in Assisted Living communities across Minnesota. She also currently chairs the Minnesota Department of Health’s Palliative Care Advisory Council.