John D. Lantos

John D. Lantos MD
Born	12 October 1954

John D. Lantos (born 12 October 1954) is an American pediatrician and a leading expert in medical ethics. He is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine and Director of the Children's Mercy Bioethics Center at Children's Mercy Hospital.

Lantos earned his MD from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 1981 and did his residency at the Children's National Medical Center. He was on faculty at the Pritzker School of Medicine for two decades, before he moved to Kansas City where he was the inaugural holder of the John B. Francis Chair in Bioethics at the Center for Practical Bioethics. He then became the founding director of the Children's Mercy Bioethics Center at Children's Mercy Hospital and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine.

His research fields are bioethics, doctor–patient communication, research ethics, end-of-life care, and religion and medicine, and especially the ethics of clinical trials. He is a former President of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities and of the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics, and is an advisor to the American Academy of Pediatrics on bioethics issues. According to Google Scholar, Lantos has been cited over 7,000 times in scientific literature and has an h-index of 44.

He is a member of the PCORI Advisory Panel on Clinical Trials. He has published over 250 journal papers and book chapters and five books on bioethics.

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