David John Doukas
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David John Doukas (born 4 November 1957, Washington, DC), is an American family physician and bioethicist. He holds the James A. Knight Chair of Humanities and Ethics in Medicine, and directs the Program in Medical Ethics and Human Values at Tulane University's School of Medicine. Prof. Doukas is also the Executive Director of the Master of Science in Bioethics and Medical Humanities at Tulane University. Professor Doukas was Founding President of the Academy for Professionalism in Health Care from 2012 to 2019, for which he was awarded the first Presidential Award at the Academy for Professionalism in Health Care Annual Meeting in June 2023, for his efforts as Founder and President of APHC for seven years (2012-2019).[1]
Early life
Doukas holds degrees in Biology and Religious Studies (B.A.) from the University of Virginia and an M.D. from Georgetown University School of Medicine. After completing a Family Practice internship at UCLA and residency st the University of Kentucky, he completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Bioethics (1986–87) at the Joseph and Rose Kennedy Institute of Ethics of Georgetown University.
Career
He served on the faculties of Georgetown University (1987-1989), the University of Michigan (1989-1999), the University of Pennsylvania (1999-2004), and as the William Ray Moore Endowed Chair of Family Medicine and Medical Humanism, the Director of the Division of Medical Humanism and Ethics, a Professor in the Department of Family and Geriatric Medicine, and co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Master of Arts in Bioethics Program at the University of Louisville (2004-2017). He joined the faculty of the Tulane University's School of Medicine in December 2017.[2]
Scholarship
His scholarship focuses on the areas of professionalism, primary care bioethics, genetics, and end-of-life care decision-making. He is the originator of the concept termed the family covenant (1991), a health care agreement between a health provider and an entire family that addresses issues revolving around individual and family claims to medical information. Doukas and others subsequently applied the family covenant to genetic and end-of-life ethical circumstances.
He is the co-developer and author of Values History (1988) with LB McCullough[3] as a method for eliciting the values and advance directives of patients toward life-prolonging care. He co-authored Planning for Uncertainty with William Reichel, M.D.. The book examines the evaluation of patient values and their relevance to advance directive selection. According to WorldCat, the book's two editions are held in 1031 libraries.[4]
References
- ^ "Wavemakers in Medicine".
- ^ "David Doukas at Tulane".
- ^ Doukas DJ, McCullough L, "The Values History: The Evaluation of the Patient's Values and Advance Directives." Journal of Family Practice, 32(1): 145-153, 1991
- ^ WorldCat author listing