EZEKIEL J. EMANUEL, M.D., PH.D.
	- Chair, Department of Clinical Bioethics at theWarren G. Magnuson Clinical Center (National Institutes of Health) Phone: (301) 435-8706 - Chicago: (847) 424-9017 Fax: (301) 496-0760 Email: eemanuel@nih.gov

Ezekiel J. Emanuel is the Chair of the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center at the National Institute of Health. He is also a breast oncologist.
After completing Amherst College he received his M. Sc. from Oxford University in Biochemistry. He received 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 1987-88, 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-Faber Cancer Institute, he joined the faculty at the Dana- Farber Cancer Institute.

He has received numerous awards including the election to the Association of American Physicians, The AMA-Burroughs Wellcome Leadership Award, and a Fullbright Scholarship (wich he declined)

Principal Research Interests

- Ethics in clinical research
- End of life care issues
- Euthanasia

Principal Teaching Activities

At Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor

At University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Visiting Professor

At Johns Hopkins medical School
Brin Professor

Selected University & Public Service
President Clinton’s Health Care Task Force NBAC (National Bioethics Advisory Commission )
Pan- American Healthcare Organization (Bioethics)

Selected Publications

He has published widely on the ethics of clincal research, advance care directives, end of life care issues, euthanasia, the ethics of managed care, and the physician-patient relationship in the The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, JAMA, and many other medical journals. His book on medical ethics, The Ends of Human Life, has been widely praised and received honorable mention for the Rosenhaupt Memorial Book Award by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.