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Dan W. Brock 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 the 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. 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) in 1995-96, and was a founding Board Member of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. 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. 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. He currently spends his time between his Boston and New York residences with his wife.
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