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Nov 10 | Rethinking Healthcare Reform: Universal Healthcare Vouchers

The Bioethics Program of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center and the Emory University Center for Ethics invites you to join Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD, Chair of the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health, as he addresses "Rethinking Healthcare Reform: Universal Healthcare Vouchers."

Emanuel will speak 4:30pm, November 10 in the Rita Anne Rollins Room (8th Floor), Rollins School of Public Health. Refreshments will be served before the lecture.

Ezekiel J. Emanuel is the Chair of the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health. He is also a breast oncologist. After completing Amherst College he received his M.Sc. from Oxford University in Biochemistry. He received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his Ph.D. in political philosophy from Harvard University. His dissertation received the Toppan Award for the finest political sciences dissertation of the year. He was a fellow in the Program in Ethics and the Professions at the Kennedy School of Government and 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, he joined the faculty at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Emanuel was an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. He has published widely on the ethics of clinical research, advance care directives, end of life care issues, euthanasia, the ethics of managed care, and the physician-patient relationship in The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, JAMA, and many other medical journals. His book on medical ethics, The Ends of Human Life, has been widely praised and received honorable mention for the Rosenhaupt Memorial Book Award by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. He has received numerous awards including the AMA-Burroughs Welcome Leadership Award and a Fulbright Scholarship. Dr. Emanuel served on the ethics section of President Clinton's Health Care Task Force,the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, and on PAHO. Dr. Emanuel has been a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the Brin Professor at Johns Hopkins Medical School.

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