Daniel Sulmasy

Daniel Sulmasy is an American medical ethicist.^[1]

Biography

Sulmasy is the Kilbride-Clinton Professor of Medicine and Ethics in the Department of Medicine and Divinity School at the University of Chicago, where he serves as Associate Director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics and as Director of the Program on Medicine and Religion.^[2] He has previously held faculty positions at New York Medical College and at Georgetown University. He received his AB and MD degrees from Cornell University, completed his residency, chief residency, and post-doctoral fellowship in General Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and holds a PhD in philosophy from Georgetown University. He is also a former Franciscan friar (1985-2012). He has served on numerous governmental advisory committees, and was appointed to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues by President Obama in 2010.^[3] His research interests encompass both theoretical and empirical investigations of the ethics of end-of-life decision-making, ethics education, and spirituality in medicine. He is the author or editor of six books—The Healer’s Calling (1997), Methods in Medical Ethics (1st ed., 2001; 2nd ed., 2010), The Rebirth of the Clinic (2006), A Balm for Gilead (2006), Safe Passage: A Global Spiritual Sourcebook for Care at the End of Life (2014), and Francis the Leper: Faith, Medicine, Theology, and Science (2014). He also serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics.^[4] Dr. Sulmasy began at the MacLean Center in the summer of 2009 as the inaugural Kilbride-Clinton Professor of Medicine and Ethics.

Publications

• The Healer’s Calling (1997)
• Methods in Medical Ethics (1st ed., 2001; 2nd ed., 2010)
• The Rebirth of the Clinic (2006)
• A Balm for Gilead (2006)
• Safe Passage: A Global Spiritual Sourcebook for Care at the End of Life (2014)
• Francis the Leper: Faith, Medicine, Theology, and Science (2014)
• He is currently working on another book on spirituality and medicine tentatively titled, Sacramentum medicinae: Healing in Faith, Hope, and Love.
• He is the editor of Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
• Articles: Since 2011, Dr. Sulmasy has authored or co-authored 21 peer-reviewed articles and has another three currently under review or in press. These have appeared in prestigious journals such as The Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, Theological Studies, the Journal of Clinical Oncology, and Cancer. He has also published 5 book chapters, 2 popular articles, 5 abstracts, and 4 book reviews.

Awards and honors

• Paul Ramsey Award for Excellence in Bioethics. 2014

Grants

• National Cancer Institute
• National Institute of Nursing Research
• John Templeton Foundation, $2.6 million

References