The Authors
Ezekiel Emanuel is the Chair of the Department of Bioethics at the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health (NIH); he is also a breast oncologist. He is a graduate of Amherst College, with an MSc from Oxford University in Biochemistry. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School and his PhD in political philosophy from Harvard University. He was a fellow in the Program in Ethics and the Professions at the Kennedy School of Government. Prior to moving to the NIH, Dr. Emanuel was on the faculty at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School.
He has published on the ethics of clinical research, end of life care issues, the ethics of managed care, and the physician-patient relationship. He has authored or co-authored two books, including The Ends of Human Live, and co-edited three books, including the Oxford Textbook of Research Ethics. He has received numerous awards including the AMA-Burroughs Wellcome Leadership Award and a Fulbright Scholarship. Dr. Emanuel served on the ethics section of President Clintons Health Care Task Force, on the National Bioethics Advisory Commission. He has been elected to the Institute of Medicine and the Association of American Physicians.
Victor R. Fuchs, MA, PhD
Victor Fuchs is the Henry J. Kaiser, Jr., Professor of Economics and of Health Research and Policy, emeritus, Stanford University; an FSI senior fellow; and a core faculty member at the Center for Health Policy/Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research (CHP/PCOR). He uses economic theory to provide a framework for the collection and analysis of health care data. He has written extensively on the cost of medical care and on determinants of health, with an emphasis on the role of socioeconomic factors. He has been particularly interested in the role of physician behavior and financial incentives in determining health care expenditures. His current research examines the role of attitudes and beliefs in public support for national health insurance.
Fuchs is a member of the Institute of Medicine and was president (1995) and distinguished fellow (1990) of the American Economic Association. He received the Distinguished Investigator Award 91988) and the Distinguished Fellow Award (1996) from the Association for Health Services Research, and was awarded the Baxter Foundations Health Services Research Prize (1991). He received a BS in business administration from New York University, and an MA and PhD in economics from Columbia University. He is an honorary member of Alpha Omega Alpha.
