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Michael Alan Grodin | |
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Born | December 26, 1951 |
Died | March 1, 2023 71) | (aged
Awards | Norman A. Scotch Award for Excellence in Teaching |
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Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
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Main interests | Health law,bioethics,and human rights |
Michael Alan Grodin (born December 26,1951) is Professor of Health Law,Bioethics,and Human Rights at the Boston University School of Public Health,where he has received the distinguished Faculty Career Award for Research and Scholarship,and 20 teaching awards,including the "Norman A. Scotch Award for Excellence in Teaching." [1] [2] [3] He is also Professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine. In addition,Dr. Grodin is the Director of the Project on Medicine and the Holocaust at the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies,and a member of the faculty of the Division of Religious and Theological Studies. He has been on the faculty at Boston University for 35 years. He completed his B.S. degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,his M.D. degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine,and his postdoctoral and fellowship training at UCLA and Harvard University. [4]
Michael Grodin is the Medical Ethicist at Boston Medical Center, [5] and for thirteen years served as the Human Studies Chairman for the Department of Health and Hospitals of the City of Boston. [2] [3] He is a fellow of the Hastings Center;served on the board of directors of Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research,and the American Society of Law,Medicine and Ethics;and serves on the Advisory Board of the Center for the Philosophy and History of Science. He was a member of the National Committee on Bioethics of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Committee on Ethics of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Professor Grodin served on the Ethics Committee of the Massachusetts Center for Organ Transplantation,was a consultant to the National Human Subjects Protection Review Panel of the National Institutes of Health AIDS Program Advisory Committee,and is a consultant on Ethics and Research with Human Subjects for the International Organizations of Medical Sciences and the World Health Organization. He is a member of the Ethics Review Board of Physicians for Human Rights.
Grodin is the Co-Founder of Global Lawyers and Physicians:Working Together for Human Rights; [6] Co-Director of the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights:Caring for Survivors of Torture; [7] [8] and has received a special citation from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in recognition of his "profound contributions - through original and creative research - to the cause of Holocaust education and remembrance." [2] [3] He is an internationally recognized authority on Medicine during the Holocaust. [9] The Refugee Center which he Co-Directs received the 2002 Outstanding Achievement Award from the Political Asylum/Immigration Representation Project for "sensitivity and dedication in caring for the health and human rights of refugees and survivors of torture." He is a Member of the Global Implementation Project of the Istanbul Protocol Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel,Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment,and an Advisor to UNESCO. Grodin was the 2000 Julius Silberger Scholar and 2014 Kravetz award recipient as an elected member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the American Psychoanalytic Association.[ citation needed ] Four times named one of America's Top Physicians,he has received four national Humanism in Medicine and Humanitarian Awards for "integrity,clinical excellence and compassion," "outstanding humanism in medicine and integrity as a faculty member," and "compassion,empathy,respect and cultural sensitivity in the delivery of care to patients and their families."[ citation needed ]
Grodin's primary areas of interest include the relationship of health and human rights,medicine and the holocaust,and bioethics.[ citation needed ]
Grodin died March 1,2023. [10]
Grodin has delivered over 600 invited regional,national,and international addresses,written more than 200 scholarly papers,and edited or co-edited seven books.[ citation needed ]
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