About the founder

Ethics is really about what we can and should do, not just what we must. It turns out that the chess board is probably not black and white…it’s made up of all of our diversities and all of our cultures and all of these grays of right and wrong. ​


Dr. Piroska Kopar, originally from Hungary, has earned her undergraduate degree in philosophy and history of science at the Great Books Program of St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD. She received a Robert W. Woodruff Scholarship to attend Emory University’s School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA, earning her MD in 2007. Dr. Kopar trained in general surgery and cardiac surgery at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, followed by clinical fellowships in trauma and acute care surgery at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT. During her research years in residency, Dr. Kopar was first an academic, then a research fellow at Harvard Medical School’s Division of Medical Ethics. Her research focused on developing ethics education for residents, a direction she further pursued as a Fellow of the Association for Surgical Education.