Name Lainie Ross | ||
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Education Yale University (1996), Perelman School of Medicine (1986) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada | ||
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Lainie Friedman Ross is an American physician and bioethicist who works at the University of Chicago.
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Early life
Lainie Friedman Ross is a 1982 graduate of Princeton University where she majored in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She has a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and she also obtained an M.Phil and a PhD in philosophy from Yale University.
Career
Currently she is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics where she serves on various committees. She also serves as a member of the United Network for Organ Sharing and National Institutes of Health and have over 60 peer-reviewed articles. Besides articles she also published two books called Children, Families and Health Care Decision Making and Children in Medical Research: Access Versus Protection both of which were published by Oxford University Press in 1998 and 2006 respectively. Aside from being an author, she is also an editor of various peer-reviewed journals including Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, the Journal of Clinical Ethics and Perspectives in Biology and Medicine among others.