Mark Siegler
| Mark Siegler | |
|---|---|
| Born | Mark Siegler 1941 |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Medicine, medical ethics |
| Institutions | University of Chicago |
| Alma mater |
University of Chicago (M.D.) Princeton University (B.A.) |
Mark Siegler (born June 20, 1941) is an American physician who specializes in internal medicine. He is the Lindy Bergman Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Chicago. One of the nation's leading medical ethicists, he is the Founding Director of the University of Chicago's MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. Siegler has practiced and taught internal medicine at the University of Chicago for more than 50 years.
In 2011, the Matthew and Carolyn Bucksbaum Family Foundation presented an endowment to the University of Chicago to create the Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence. Siegler was appointed the Executive Director of the Institute. The mission of the Bucksbaum Institute is to improve patient care, to strengthen the doctor-patient relationship, and to enhance communication and decision-making between patients and physicians through research and education programs for medical students, junior faculty and master clinicians.
Siegler has published more than 215 journal articles, 65 book chapters and five books. His textbook, co-authored with Al Jonsen and William Winslade, Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine, 8th Edition (2015), has been translated into eight languages and is widely used by physicians and health professionals around the world.
Clinical medical ethics is a practical, applied field that aims to improve patient care and outcomes. In the 1970s, Mark Siegler helped launch the field of clinical medical ethics in the Biological Sciences Division of the University of Chicago. Clinical ethics helps patients, families, and professionals reach good clinical decisions based on medical facts, patient preferences, and ethical considerations.
The MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago has played a major role in creating, establishing, and expanding the field of clinical medical ethics. In 1983, the MacLean Center was established after receiving a naming gift from Dorothy Jean MacLean and the MacLean family. Inspired by the clinical models of William Osler and Alvan Feinstein, the MacLean Center has helped to change and expand American medical ethics by helping to bring ethics to the bedside. In the words of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, the MacLean Center has "populated the field of clinical ethics in perpetuity."
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