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Ezekiel J. Emanuel

Vice Provost for Global Initiatives,
the Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor,
and Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania.

Ezekiel J. Emanuel served as special advisor for health policy to the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget from Jan. 2009 to Jan. 2011. Since 1997 he was chair of the Department of Bioethics at The Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health and a breast oncologist. Dr. Emanuel received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his Ph.D. in political philosophy from Harvard University. 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. He has since been a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, UCLA, the Brin Professor at Johns Hopkins Medical School, and the Kovitz Professor at Stanford Medical School and visiting professor at New York University Law School. Dr. Emanuel has written and edited 9 books and over 200 scientific articles. He is currently a columnist for The New York Times.

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