Post currently serves as Director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at
Stony Brook University in the Stony Brook Renaissance School of Medicine, with a focus on professional identity development. In 2019 Stony Brook received the annual
Alpha Omega Alpha Professionalism Award for development of its Professional Identity Formation Curriculum. Prior to his arrival at Stony Brook University, he was (1988–2008) Professor of Medical Ethics, Social Science, and Religious Studies in the School of Medicine at
Case Western Reserve University. He was also a member of the Center For Adolescent Health in the Case School of Medicine, Directed by Nobel Laureate Frederick C. Robbins, MD. Post served as editor-in-chief of the 5-volume 3rd edition of The Encyclopedia of Bioethics (Macmillan Reference, 2004) while at Case Western. At the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics Post and colleagues address the crisis of the dehumanization of healthcare and examine the perennial importance of compassionate care in the art of healing and the experience of recovery. He is an elected fellow of the
Hastings Center and a senior scholar of the
Kennedy Institute of Ethics at
Georgetown University. Post is a senior research fellow (non-resident) in the Center for Law and Religion in the School of Law of
Emory University, and a visiting scholar (non-resident) in the Positive Psychology Center of the
University of Pennsylvania. Post served as senior research fellow in the Becket Institute at
St. Hugh's College at
Oxford University. In 2003 he was invited to become one of the Founding Fellows of the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR), a multidisciplinary learned society based at Cambridge University. Founded in 2002, ISSR is the world's preeminent scholarly organization devoted to this intersection. The Society has about 200 Fellows, mostly from the physical and biological sciences, philosophy, history, and spirituality Through the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, an Ohio-based non-profit
501(c)(3) organization that Post founded in 2001 with support from his friend and mentor Sir John Templeton, he was able to competitively fund research at more than sixty universities on the science of unselfish giving and its underpinnings in philosophy and spiritual wisdom. He has examined the dynamic of benevolence with regard to the happiness and health of the caregiver. For this work Post received the Hope in Healthcare Award for "pioneering research and education in the field of unconditional love, altruism, compassion, and service" (2008), and the "Pioneer Medal For Outstanding Leadership in Health Care" presented by the Trustees of HealthCare Chaplaincy Network (2012). His writings also address the roles of humility, spirituality and helping others in 12-Step recovery programs. ==Awards and honors==