Mark Siegler

Mark Siegler
Born Mark Siegler
1941
Nationality United States
Fields Medicine, medical ethics
Institutions University of Chicago
Alma mater University of Chicago (M.D.)
Princeton University (B.A.)

Mark Siegler (born June 20, 1941) is an American physician who specializes in internal medicine. He is the Lindy Bergman Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Chicago. One of the nation's leading medical ethicists,[1] he is the Founding Director of the University of Chicago's MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. Siegler has practiced and taught internal medicine at the University of Chicago for more than 53 years.

In 2011, the Matthew and Carolyn Bucksbaum Family Foundation presented an endowment to the University of Chicago to create the Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence. Siegler was appointed the Executive Director of the Institute. The mission of the Bucksbaum Institute is to improve patient care, to strengthen the doctor-patient relationship, and to enhance communication and decision-making between patients and physicians through research and education programs for medical students, junior faculty and master clinicians.

Siegler has published more than 215 journal articles, 65 book chapters and five books. His textbook, co-authored with Al Jonsen and William Winslade, Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine, 8th Edition (2015),[2] has been translated into eight languages and is widely used by physicians and health professionals around the world.

Clinical medical ethics

In the 1970s, Mark Siegler helped launch the field of clinical medical ethics in the Biological Sciences Division of the University of Chicago. Clinical medical ethics is a practical, applied field that aims to improve patient care and outcomes. Clinical ethics helps patients, families and professionals reach good clinical decisions based on medical facts, patient preferences, and ethical considerations. The MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago has played a major role in creating, establishing, and expanding the field of clinical medical ethics. In 1983, the MacLean Center was established after receiving a naming gift from Dorothy Jean MacLean and the MacLean family. The MacLean Center was inspired by the clinical models of William Osler and Alvan Feinstein. The Center has helped to change and expand American medical ethics by helping to bring ethics to the bedside. During the past 40 years, clinical ethics has emerged as one of the core components of the American bioethics movement. Today, virtually every major hospital has an ethics committee or ethics consultation service available to help resolve most ethical problems; scholarly clinical ethics papers are published widely in both bioethics and medical journals; medical organizations now have ethics committees and codes of ethics; newspapers cover important clinical ethics issues; and most importantly, clinical ethics deliberations and analyses have become part of the clinical conversation that occurs routinely in doctors’ offices and hospitals across the country.

Selected awards and honors

1996 - Chirone Prize, Italian Medical Association and the University of Bolognia

2006 - Served on the board of trustees at Princeton University

2007 - Distinguished Service Award, Medical and Biological Sciences Alumni Association

2010 - Received Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities

2011 - Named Executive Director of the Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence at the University of Chicago

2013 - On September 30, celebrated 50th Anniversary at the University of Chicago; Presented White Coat Talk to the incoming first year medical students at Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago; MacLean Center received the Cornerstone Award from the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities

2014 - Chosen to present the 25th Annual Coggeshall Lecture on medical ethics, Biological Science Division, University of Chicago

2015 - The John Conley Foundation Award for Outstanding Contributions to Clinical Ethics.

2015 - Awarded Mastership by the American College of Physicians[3]

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ Dirk Johnson (September 22, 2011). "A $42 Million Gift Aims at Improving Bedside Manner". The New York Times.
  2. ↑ Fine RL (2010). "Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine" JAMA. 296(15):1905-1906. doi:10.1001/jama.296.15.1905-b
  3. ↑ url=http://www.acponline.org/about_acp/awards_masterships/awards1415.htm

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