Jim damron

Personal Profile
Jim is a lecturer in the BSRT/MSRC Respiratory Care Program at UNC Charlotte. He
teaches multiple courses, including ethics, leadership, and writing. Before joining UNCC, he
spent over twenty-five years as a bedside clinician, mostly in critical care, and serving as an
ethics consultant.
Education
PhD – Columbia International University, 2025, Theological Studies
MA – Loyola University, Chicago, 2017, Bioethics & Health Policy
MDiv – Southern Evangelical Seminary, 2015, Apologetics
MA – Columbia International University, 2011, Intercultural Studies
AS – Central Piedmont Community College, 1999, Respiratory Care
BA – Queens University, 1995, Biology/Spanish
Certifications
Adult Critical Care Specialty (ACCS), Certified Pulmonary Function Technologist (CPFT),
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), NAUI Scuba Diving Instructor (Sustained)
Research Interests/Areas of Expertise
End-of-life ethics, converging pulmonary medicine and ethics, how worldview impacts
decision-making, affects of burnout on clinical care.
Personal Interests
Traveling, martial arts, weightlifting, photography
National & International Presentations

• Dead Again? DNC Updates, World Bioethics Conference, Porto, Portugal, October 2023
• Recognizing Burnout, Atrium Health, October 2023
• Navigating Your Moral Compass, Atrium Health, October 2022
• Recognizing Burnout Moments, FL Respiratory Conference, September 2022
• Navigating Your Moral Compass, FL Respiratory Conference, September 2022
• Physician Assisted Suicide, SC Society of Respiratory Care, September 2022
• Clinical Medical Ethics, Atrium Health, Biannually, 2018-2022
• Moving Beyond Burnout, Nursing Leadership Summit, May 2022
• Advanced Pulmonary Concepts, Carolinas College, 2019-2022
• Bioethics at the Beginning of Life, Myers Park Baptist Church, March 2022
• Physician Assisted Suicide, World Bioethics Conference, Porto, Portugal, March 2022
• Burnout: The Final Covid-19 Variant, AARC Congress, December 2021
• Bedside Morality, AARC Congress, December 2021
• Crisis in Ethics, Chaplain Rounds Atrium Health, November 2021
• Rekindling the Flame From Burnout, SC Society of Respiratory Care, September 2021
• Brain Death Update, Atrium Health, July 2021
• Unmasking Burnout, Kansas Society of Respiratory Care, May 2021
• Smoke Screening: Breaking Through Burnout, Indiana University Health, March, 2021
• Medical Ethics at the Bedside, Surgical Critical Care Fellows, Atrium Health, 2020
• Dealing With Stress, Colorado Leadership Conference, 2020
• Mitigating Burnout, AARC Congress, 2020
• Advanced Respiratory Concepts, Carolinas College of Health Sciences, 2020
• Introduction to Medical Ethics, Carolinas College of Health Sciences, 2019-2020
• The Jahi McMath Story: Brain Death Atrium Health, Pediatric Grand Rounds, 2018
• Defining Brain Death, Atrium Health, Chaplain Rounds, 2018
• Brain Death: A 50-year Legacy, Atrium Health, Ethics Committee, 2018
• Basics of Respiratory Care, Charlotte AHEC, 2014-2021
• Pulmonary Critical Care, Mercy School of Nursing, 2013-2019
• Care of the Tracheostomy Patient, Atrium Health, 2014-2020
• Is Today A Good Day To Die? Atrium Health, Physician Rounds, 2016
• Righteous Road Rage: Combating Human Trafficking, Apologetics Conference, 2016
• DNR Under The Stethoscope, AARC Congress, 2016