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Kathy Kinlaw

Kathy KinlawAssociate Director
Director, Program in Health Sciences and Ethics
(404) 727-2201
kkinlaw@emory.edu

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Kathy Kinlaw is Associate Director of the Emory University Center for Ethics and Director of the Center's Program in Health Sciences and Ethics. She serves as Bioethics Associate in Pediatrics, Emory School of Medicine; and Director of the Health Care Ethics Consortium of Georgia. 

Kathy has served as a member of the CDC Ethics Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee to the Director, and is actively involved in emergency preparedness scholarship and practice, including work on ethical issues in pandemic planning.   She is a member of the Georgia Composite Board of Medical Examiners. Since 1994 she has co-directed the School of Medicine's teaching in Clinical Ethics.  Her publications and scholarly interests are primarily in the areas of:  palliative and end of life care, ethics and medical education, perinatal and neonatal ethics, the work of ethics committees, and public health ethics.

Areas of Expertise:
Patient and family decision making
Palliative and end of life care
Neonatal and pediatric ethics
Public health ethics
Public engagement, ethics, and health policy
Ethics and spirituality/religious beliefs
Reproductive ethics
The work of ethics committees and ethics consultation
Teaching medical ethics