Ezekiel J. Emanuel

Ezekiel Emanuel
Emanuel in June 2009
Born	Ezekiel Jonathan Emanuel 1957 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality	American
Fields	Medicine, medical ethics
Institutions	University of Pennsylvania Harvard Medical School
Alma mater	Harvard University (M.D., Ph.D.) University of Oxford (M.Sc.) Amherst College (B.A.)
Spouse	Linda (m. ca. 1983–2008; divorced)

Ezekiel Jonathan "Zeke" Emanuel (born 1957) is an American oncologist and bioethicist and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. He has served as the Diane and Robert Levy University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy since September 2011 and holds a joint appointment at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Wharton School. He was an associate professor at the Harvard Medical School until 1998 when he joined the National Institutes of Health.

Emanuel is the son of Benjamin M. Emanuel and Marsha (Smulevitz) Emanuel. His father, Benjamin M. Emanuel, is a Jerusalem-bornpediatrician who was once a member of the Irgun, a Jewish paramilitary organization that operated in Mandate Palestine. He provided free care to poor immigrants and led efforts to get rid of lead paint due to its negative consequences for children. and as of 2010 lived in a suburb of Chicago. Emanuel’s mother, Marsha, a nurse and psychiatric social worker who was raised in the North Lawndale community on Chicago's West Side, was active in civil rights, including the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). She attended marches and demonstrations with her children. Emanuel recalled in a 2009 interview that, in his childhood, "worrying about ethical questions was very much part and parcel of our daily routine."

His two younger brothers are Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel and Hollywood-based talent agent Ari Emanuel. He has an adopted sister, Shoshana Emanuel with cerebral palsy. His father’s brother, Emanuel, was killed in the 1936 Arab Riots in the British Mandate of Palestine, after which the family changed its name from Auerbach to Emanuel in his honor.