Dan W. Brock

Dan W. Brock
Marcia Angell, Dan W. Brock, and Rebecca Grow at Harvard Medical School reception
Born 1937
Residence Newton and New York
Nationality American
Other names Dan Brock, Dan Willets Brock
Education Cornell University
Alma mater Columbia University
Spouse(s) Shon
Awards Lifetime Achievement Award of American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, October 18, 2018
Era 20th-21st century
Region New England
Institutions Harvard Medical School
Main interests
 Philosophy, bioethics

Dan W. Brock (born 1937) is an American philosopher, bioethicist, and professor emeritus. He is the Frances Glessner Lee Professor Emeritus of Medical Ethics in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, the former Director of the Division of Medical Ethics (now the Center for Bioethics) at the Harvard Medical School, and former Director of the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health (PEH). He has held the Tillinghast Professorship at Brown University and served as a member of the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health.[1][2][3] Brock earned his B.A. in economics from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University.

Dan Brock has published over 150 articles relating to bioethics and philosophy and has served on numerous editorial boards. He has also worked with various international organizations on bioethics as a consultant including the World Health Organization and has given papers and talks all over the world.

He was President of the American Association of Bioethics (AAB)[4][5] in 1995-96, and was a founding Board Member of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities.[6][7] He is a Fellow of the Hastings Center, a bioethics research institution.

Dr. Brock is currently retired as a professor, but is an editorial board member of 12 professional journals in ethics, bioethics and health policy, and has lectured widely at national and international conferences, professional societies, universities, and health care institutions.[8] Most recently he served on a panel that updated 20-year-old guidelines and recommendations for evaluating cost-effectiveness in health and medicine, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Sept 13th 2016.[9] He currently spends his time between his Boston and New York residences with his wife.[10]

HMS Center for Bioethics

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Awards

The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, a bioethics research institution of which he was a founding Board Member[11][12] announced that they will confer upon Dan Brock their Lifetime Achievement Award[13] on October 19, 2018, in Anaheim CA, during their 20th Annual Meeting (October 18-21, 2018)[14], when their theme is 'The Future is Now: Bioethics and Humanities Re-Imagine an Uncertain World'.[15][16][17]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.bioethics.nih.gov/people/past_visiting.shtml
  2. ↑ The Department of Bioethics - About Us
  3. ↑ http://www.bioethics.nih.gov/about/blossoming.shtml
  4. ↑ http://www.asbh.org/about/archives/aab.html
  5. ↑ American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Records, (1998-2001)
  6. ↑ http://www.asbh.org
  7. ↑ ASBH History
  8. ↑ "Dan Brock | Center for Bioethics". bioethics.hms.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
  9. ↑ "New Guidelines Enhance Evidence-Based Health Care". Retrieved 2016-11-18.
  10. ↑ Clark, Maynard S. (2016-06-09). "Daniel Brock". ResearchGate.
  11. ↑ http://www.asbh.org
  12. ↑ ASBH History
  13. ↑ ASBH website, Lifetime Achievement Award
  14. ↑ ASBH website, Past and Future Annual Conferences
  15. ↑ ASBH website, Program Theme
  16. ↑ Literature, Medicine, Medical Humanities: An MLA Commons site. CFP: Bioethics and Humanities Re-Imagine an Uncertain World (ASBH). January 23, 2018. Thomas Lawrence Long
  17. ↑ 2018 Annual Conference, ASBH 2018 Annual Conference

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