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Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD
Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD, holds the Carolyn and Matthew Bucksbaum Professorship at the University of Chicago, as well as appointments in the Departments of Pediatrics, Medicine and Surgery, History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences, and Medicine at the University of Chicago. She is also the associate director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the university.
Dr. Ross earned an AB from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and her MD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Dr. Ross received her pediatrics training at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Babies Hospital of Columbia University. After finishing her medical training, Dr. Ross earned her MPhil and her PhD in philosophy from Yale University.
Dr. Ross conducts research on ethical and policy issues related to pediatrics, genetics, human experimentation and transplantation. At the University of Chicago, she directs the clinical ethics and research ethics consultation services, and continues to provide pediatric services in the in-patient and out-patient settings. She served on the University of Chicago Institutional Review Board for 13 years and currently serves on the IRB Council and numerous national Data Safety Monitoring Committees at the National Institutes of Health.
She is currently on the Executive Committee of the Section on Bioethics at the American Academy of Pediatrics and a member-at-large on the Ethics Committee of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network and United Network for Organ Sharing.
Dr. Ross has published more than 200 articles, editorials and book chapters on medical ethics in medical, legal and medical ethics journals and books. She has published two full-length manuscripts. Her first book, Children, Families and Health Care Decision Making, was published by Oxford University Press in 1998, and her second book, Children in Medical Research: Access Versus Protection, was published by Oxford University Press in 2006.
Dr. Ross has lectured widely, both nationally — particularly in New York and Chicago — and internationally on pediatric ethics, ethical issues in genetic screening and ethical issues in transplantation. She is currently writing two books: one on the ethical and policy issues of genetic testing and screening of newborns and children; the other on ethical and policy issues in living donor transplantation.
