Daniel Sulmasy

Dr. Sulmasy is the Kilbride-Clinton Professor of Medicine and Ethics in the Department of Medicine and Divinity School at the University of Chicago, where he serves as Associate Director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics.  He has previously held faculty positions at New York Medical College and at Georgetown University.  He received his A.B. and M.D. degrees from Cornell University and completed his residency, chief residency, and post-doctoral fellowship in General Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.  He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Georgetown University in 1995.  He has served on numerous governmental advisory committees.  His research interests encompass both theoretical and empirical investigations of the ethics of end-of-life decision-making, ethics education, and spirituality in medicine.  He is the author of four books—The Healer’s Calling (1997), Methods in Medical Ethics (2001; 2nd ed. 2010), The Rebirth of the Clinic (2206), and A Balm for Gilead (2006).  He serves as editor-in-chief of the journal, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics.  His numerous articles have appeared in medical, philosophical, and theological journals and he has lectured widely both in the U.S. and abroad.