Rebekah Apple is the director of the Master of Medical Management program at Carnegie Mellon University and a medical ethicist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.  Apple has worked in bioethics for fifteen years, within both hospital and hospice settings, with a special interest in organ donation/transplantation issues and also in organizational ethics.  She teaches medical ethics to first- and third-year medical students, applied ethical analysis to graduate students, and organizational ethics with a management focus to physicians.  Apple consults with hospitals and health systems around the country and has designed and delivered education to the American College of Cardiology and the American Medical Women’s Association, among others. She earned her Master’s degree in Bioethics from the University of South Florida and doctorate in Health Science from A.T. Still University.