Camille M. Renella, RN, CME, LNC

Camille M. Renella is a veteran clinician and former Associate Faculty Member of The MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago. Camille completed the Post Doctorate Fellowship in Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and served as Chief Ethicist in Patient Services at The University of Chicago Hospitals and The University of Chicago Children’s Hospital for ten years. Camille has an extensive clinical background in adult, child and home health nursing, as well as Nursing Administration and Multidisciplinary staff education. Camille continues to integrate her background in medicine, law and clinical medical ethics as President of her National Consulting Firm, C.M. RENELLA & ASSOCIATES and currently, as Executive Director of Healthcare Competency Program Specialists, LLC.

Throughout her career Camille participated in Clinical Outreach Programs in San Juan, Puerto Rico and in a Capitol Hill, Washington DC nation-wide initiative. Camille provided presentations at local, national and international conferences, was an Ambassador to Eastern European countries of Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland where she participated in ethics discussions with members of the countries’ medical associations, was an Associate of the American Bar Association (ABA), ABA Board Member – New Member Committee – Health Law Division, also an ABA Associate Membership Chair – New Member Committee of the Health Law Division, was a member of the American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics Hastings Center, People to People Ambassador Program, U. S. Ambassador for Medical Ethics, American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants (AALNC), member of the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants (AALNC) Chicago Chapter, Vice President & Program Chairman of the Women’s Council of the Brain Research Foundation at the University of Chicago, was an Institute of Medicine Chicago Fellow and is currently an Institutional Review Board (IRB) Member at Northwestern University, Chicago. Camille also served as a member of the Harrington Institute of Design, Chicago Alumni Board of Directors.