 | | | Sponsored by The Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine and the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences (NUCATS) Institute in collaboration with the Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP). Dr. Emanuel is Chair of the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is also a breast oncologist.
After graduating from Amherst College, Dr. Emanuel received his M.Sc. degree in biochemistry from Oxford University. He received his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School and his Ph.D. degree in political philosophy from Harvard University, receiving the Toppan Award for the finest political science dissertation of the year. From 1987to 1988 Dr. Emanuel 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-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), he joined the DFCI faculty. He was Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School before joining the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Emanuel served on President Clinton’s Health Care Task Force, the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, and the bioethics panel of the Pan American Health Organization. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the University of California, Los Angeles, and Brin Professor at Johns Hopkins Medical School. To learn more about Dr. Emanuel, please click here.
What is Voluntariness? presented by Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., Chair, Department of Clinical Bioethics, Warren G. Manuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health Please check back for a summary description for this lecture. 1. To understand coercion
2. To understand the role in ethics of financial incentives
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