Keynote 01 - Keynote I

session DESCRIPTION

Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD, is Vice Provost for Global Initiatives and the Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Emanuel is an oncologist and world leader in health policy and bioethics. He is a Special Advisor to the Director General of the World Health Organization, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, and was founding chair of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health and held that position until August of 2011. From 2009 to 2011, he served as a Special Advisor on Health Policy to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and National Economic Council, and was instrumental in drafting the Affordable Care Act (ACA). He also served on the Biden-Harris Transition Covid Advisory Board. Dr. Emanuel is the most widely cited bioethicist in history. He has over 350 publications and has authored or edited 16 books. Recent books include Eat Your Ice Cream (2026), Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care (2020), Prescription for the Future (2017) and Brothers Emanuel (2013). Dr. Emanuel regularly contributes to the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and appears on BBC, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and other media outlets. He has received numerous awards including election to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Science, the Royal College of Medicine (UK) and is currently a Guggenheim Fellow. Dr. Emanuel has been named the Dan David Prize Laureate in Bioethics and is a recipient of the AMA-Burroughs Wellcome Leadership Award, Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation David E. Rogers Award, President's Medal for Social Justice Roosevelt University, and the John Mendelsohn Award from the MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Emanuel is a graduate of Amherst College, holds a MSc from Oxford University in Biochemistry and received his MD from Harvard Medical School and his PhD in political philosophy from Harvard University.

learning objectives

1. Review the intersection of health policy and clinical practice
2. Discuss bioethics