Ezekiel Emanuel , MD, PhD

Chairman
Bioethics
Department of Medical Ethics and Health
Philadelphia, PA

Ezekiel J. Emanuel is the a globally renowned bioethicist currently serving as the chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, the Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor, and Vice Provost of global initiatives. He also serves at the inaugural chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy in the Perelman School of Medicine. From 2009-2011 he served as special advisor for health policy to the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget. Since 1997, he was chair of the Department of Bioethics at the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health. Prior to the Department of Bioethics, Dr. Emanuel was part of the Executive Committee at the Clinical Center at NIH. From 2004-2008, he was the President of the NIH Assembly of Scientists. Before that he was the Chair of the Ethics Committee at the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Dr. Emanuel served on President Clinton's Health Care Task Force, the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC), and on the bioethics panel of the Pan-American Healthcare Organization. Dr. Emanuel has been a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, UCLA, the Brin Professor at Johns Hopkins Medical School, and the Kovtiz Professor at Stanford Medical School. He has received numerous awards including election to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Science and the Association of American Physicians. Hippocrates Magazine selected him as Doctor of the Year in Ethics. He received the AMA-Burroughs Welcome Leadership Award, the Public Service Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the John Mendelsohn Award from the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, and a Fulbright Scholarship (which he declined). In 2007 Roosevelt University presented Dr. Emanuel with the President's Medal for Social Justice. Dr. Emanuel received his B.S. in Chemistry from Amherst College, his M.Sc. in Biochemistry from Oxford University, his M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and his Ph.D in Political Philosophy from Harvard University. His dissertation received the Toppan Award for the finest political science dissertation of the year. In 1987-1988, he was a fellow in the Program in Ethics and the Professions at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. After completing his internship and residency in internal medicine at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital and his oncology fellowship at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, he joined the faculty at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Emanuel was an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School before joining the National Institutes of Health.