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.

Selected Publications

BOOKS

Emanuel EJ, Crouch RA, Arras JD, Moreno JD, Grady C, editors. Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Research: Readings and Commentary (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004).

Pearson SD, Sabin JE, Emanuel EJ. No Margin, No Mission: Health Care Organizations and the Quest for Ethical Excellence in Competitive Markets (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).

Emanuel EJ. The Ends of Human Life: Medical Ethics in a Liberal Polity (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991).

BOOK CHAPTERS

Emanuel EJ, Joffe S. Ethical Aspects of Caring for Patients with Cancer. Cancer Medicine 5th Edition , Holland J, Frei E, Bast R, Kufe Morton D, Weichselbaum R, (editors) (London; B.C. Decker, Inc. 2000).

Emanuel, EJ. Researching a Bioethical Question. Principles and Practice of Clinical Research , Gallin JI (editor) (San Diego: Academic Press 2002).

Truog RD, Burns J, Shurin S, Emanuel EJ. Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Oncology. Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology 4th Edition, Pizzo PA, Poplack DG (editors). (Philadelphia; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002).

Emanuel EJ. Ethics of Treatment: Palliative and Terminal Care. Psycho-oncology Holland JC (editor). (New York: Oxford University Press 1998.

Emanuel EJ. Why Not? Regulating How We Die, Emanuel LL (editor). (Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1998).

Emanuel EJ. Pain and Symptom Control: Patient Rights and Physician Responsibilities. Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America, Foley K, Cherney N. (editors) (Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders 1996).

Emanuel EJ. Rationing of Treatment. Ethical and Legal Dilemmas in Occupational Therapy, Bailey D, Schwartzberg S. (editors) (Medford Mass.: Tufts University/F.A. Davis 1994).

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Emanuel EJ, Wertheimer A. Public health. Who should get influenza vaccine when not all can? Science 2006;312:854-855.

Emanuel EJ, Fuchs VR. Health care vouchers – a proposal for universal coverage. New England Journal of Medicine 2005;352(12):1255-1260.

Sobolski GK, Barton JH, Emanuel EJ. Technology licensing: lessons from the US experience. JAMA 2005;294(24):3137-3140.

Hawkins JS, Emanuel EJ. Clarifying confusions about coercion. Hastings Center Report 2005;35(5):16-19.

Wendler D, Emanuel EJ. What is a “minor” increase over minimal risk? J. Pediatrics 2005;147(5):575-578.

Fuchs VR, Emanuel EJ. Health care reform: why? What? When? Health Affairs 2005;24(6):1399-1414.

Barton JH, Emanuel EJ. The patents-based pharmaceutical development process: rationale, problems, and potential reforms. JAMA 2005;294(16):2075-2082.

Wendler D, Belsky L, Thompson KM, Emanuel EJ. Quantifying the federal minimum risk standard: implications for pediatric research without a prospect of direct benefit. JAMA 2005;294(7):826-832.

Emanuel EJ, Currie XE, Herman A, Project Phidisa. Undue inducement in clinical research in developing countries: is it a worry? Lancet 2005;366(9482):336-340.

Emanuel EJ, Wendler D, Killen J, Grady C. What makes clinical research in developing countries ethical? The benchmarks of ethical research. J. Infectious Diseases 2004;189(5):930-937.

Wood A, Grady C, Emanuel EJ. Regional ethics organizations for protection of human research participants. Nature Medicine 2004;10(12):1283-1288.

Agrawal M, Emanuel EJ. Ethics of phase I oncology studies: reexamining the arguments and data. JAMA 2003;290(8):1075-1082.