Lainie Friedman Ross
American physician and bioethicist
Lainie Friedman Ross is an American physician and bioethicist who works at the University of Rochester as Dean's Professor and inaugural Chair, Department of Health Humanities and Bioethics.
Early life
Lainie Friedman Ross is a 1982 graduate of Princeton University where she graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She has a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and she also obtained an M.Phil and a PhD in philosophy from Yale University.
Career
Currently she is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics where she serves on various committees. She also serves as a member of the United Network for Organ Sharing and National Institutes of Health and have over 60 peer-reviewed articles. Besides articles she also published two books called Children, Families and Health Care Decision Making and Children in Medical Research: Access Versus Protection both of which were published by Oxford University Press in 1998 and 2006 respectively. Aside from being an author, she is also an editor of various peer-reviewed journals including Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, the Journal of Clinical Ethics and Perspectives in Biology and Medicine among others.
Ross is the Carolyn and Matthew Bucksbaum Professor of Clinical Medical Ethics; Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Medicine, Surgery and the College; and Associate Director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. Ross has published two books on pediatric ethics: Children, Families and Health Care Decision Making (Oxford University Press, 1998) and Children in Medical Research: Access versus Protection (Oxford University Press, 2006) and has co-authored two books with Robert M. Veatch (Transplantation Ethics, 2nd edition, Georgetown University Press, 2015; and Defining Death: The Case for Choice, Georgetown University Press, 2016). Ross has also published over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals in the areas of pediatric ethics, transplantation ethics, research ethics and genetics and ethics.
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