Robert A. Pearlman, MD, MPH: Chief, Ethics Evaluation

Robert Pearlman, MD, MPH, is a Professor of Medicine (as well as Health Services, and Medical History and Ethics) at the University of Washington. He attended Boston University School of Medicine and completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at Emory University and the University of Washington. He received post-residency training as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, a Fellow in the Ethics and the Professions Program at Harvard University, and a Faculty Scholar in the Project on Death in America. He joined the National Center for Ethics in Health Care (NCEHC) in the summer of 2000. His interests and expertise pertain to empirical research in clinical ethics (especially end-of-life care) and organizational ethics. His research has explored the role of quality of life in decision-making, the validity of life-sustaining treatment preferences, medical futility, advance care planning, and relief of patient suffering. He is the author of two books and over 100 publications in medical journals and book chapters. He has mentored many junior faculty throughout the United States in the technique of combining empirical research methods and ethics.