Stephen Wear, Emeritus

Stephen Wear, Ph.D. is associate professor emeritus, and founding former co-director of the Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care at the University at Buffalo. He is the ethics officer at the Buffalo VA Medical Center where he leads the IntegratedEthics program. He had been responsible for the stewardship of the Patrick and Edna Romanell Fund for Bioethics Pedagogy since its inception. 

Wear's research interests span the range of clinical ethics, but is particularly focused on informed consent. He is the author of many articles and book chapters on various topics as well as a book on informed consent. He has been the primary source for medical ethics education at the University at Buffalo for more than three decades.​