Dr. Herron is an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Family & Social Medicine. He is currently serves as a Clinical Ethicist with the John J. Lynch, MD Center for Ethics at MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C.
He previously served as Director of Bioethics Education; Director of Operations and Educational Programming for Einstein's Ruth L. Gottesman Clinical Skills Center; Co-Director for the Introduction to Clinical Medicine program; and Chair of the LGBTQIA Health Curriculum Working Group for Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Dr. Herron completed his Doctor of Bioethics at Loyola University Chicago and his Master of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He has a Bachelor of Science in Special Education from West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
In 2015, Dr. Herron was awarded the Vivien T. Thomas Award by Einstein's Gold Humanism in Medicine Honor Society and was selected as a faculty inductee by the student members. Dr. Herron was inducted into the Leo M. Davidoff Society in 2017 and selected by the graduating class of 2017 to receive the Samuel M. Rosen Award for Outstanding Teaching. Dr. Herron is an active member of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) and served on the Board of Directors for the Academy for Professionalism in Health Care (APHC) from 2017-2021. In 2021, he was appointed to the Advisory Board for Medical Student Pride Alliance (MSPA).
Scholarly interests include: Medical Education; Bioethics; Clinical Ethics; Professional Identity Formation; Inter-professionalism education; Social Media and Educational Technologies; Standardized Patient Education; Cultural Competency; Sexuality Issues; Violence Prevention; LGBTQ Health; Special Education; Disability Rights and Education; Integrative Medicine; Complementary & Alternative Medicine; Clinical Prevention and Population Health; Faculty Development; Patient Advocacy; and Service Learning.