Meet your Health Care Alchemist

NIH Clinical Center ^ | Senior Staff

[Thebaddog]

Senior Staff

Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD Chair (on extended detail to the Office of Management and Budget) Department of Bioethics

Academic Degrees M.Sc., Oxford University M.D., Harvard Medical School Ph.D., Harvard University

Email: eemanuel@mail.cc.nih.gov

Phone: 301-496-2429

Biosketch

Ezekiel Emanuel earned his PhD and MD degrees from Harvard University where his doctoral dissertation received the Toppan Award for the finest political science dissertation of the year. After earning his MD PhD, he was a Fellow in the Program in Ethics and the Professions at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Dr. Emanuel completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital and an Oncology Fellowship at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and then joined the faculty at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Before accepting his current position as the Chair of the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health in 1998, Dr. Emanuel was an associate professor at Harvard Medical School.

Widely published on the ethics of clinical research, advance care directives, end-of-life issues, euthanasia, the ethics of managed care, and the physician-patient relationship, Dr. Emanuel’s articles have appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Journal of American Medical Association, and many other medical and ethics journals. His book, The Ends of Human Life, has been widely praised and received the Rosenhaupt Memorial Book Award by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.

Dr. Emanuel served on the ethics section of former President Clinton’s Health Task Force, the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, and the International Advisory Board on Bioethics of the Pan American Health Organization. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, UCLA, and Brin Professor at Johns Hopkins Medical School. He is an oncologist.

Honors and Awards

Honors and Awards include election to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies in 2004 and the Association of American Physicians in 2003. Dr. Emanuel received the John Mendelssohn Award from MD Anderson Cancer Center in 2005, the American Society of Clinical Oncology Public Service Award in 2003, the Hippocrates Magazine Ethicist of the Year Award in 1996; Barui Benacerraf Clinical Investigator Award in 1994; the Hans Rosenhaupt Memorial Book Award, Honorable Mention, in 1993; a Fulbright Scholarship, refused, in 1993; the American Cancer Society/Career Development Award in1992; and the American Medical Association/Burroughs Welcome Leadership Award in 1990.

[Thebaddog]

Here is your Health care alchemist.

Email: eemanuel@mail.cc.nih.gov

[Rummyfan]

Quite a resume..... but Mengele was a doctor too.

[musicman]

It appears from the bio, if Obamacare passes, that Ezekiel Emanuel is a definite lock for front runner of the Jack Kevorkian Lifetime Achievement Award.

[12Gauge687]

Rahm’s brother is not a practicing physician as far as I know. That says it all.

[Rummyfan]

He is the Director of the Clinical Bioethics Department at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, whatever the heck that is, and was appointed such in 1998 under the Clinton Admin. Of course his political connections through his brother had nothing to do with this appointment.