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Mark Siegler
Born
Mark Siegler

1941
NationalityUnited States
Alma materUniversity of Chicago (M.D.)
Princeton University (B.A.)
Scientific career
FieldsMedicine, medical ethics
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago

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. ,[1] He is the Founding Director of Chicago's MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics.[2] 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 of $42 million to the University of Chicago to create the Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence. Siegler was appointed the Executive Director of the Institute.[3]

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),[4] has been translated into eight languages and is widely used by physicians and health professionals around the world. His most recent book, co-edited with Laura Roberts, MD, is Clinical Medical Ethics: Landmark Works of Mark Siegler, MD.[5]

Clinical Medical Ethics

He is a pioneer in naming, developing, and leading the new field of Clinical Medical Ethics[6] whose main goal is to improve the quality of patient care by identifying, analyzing, and contributing to the resolution of ethical problems that arise in the routine practice of clinical medicine.[7] He also pioneered Clinical Ethics Consultations[8] and developed the oldest and largest Clinical Medical Ethics fellowship in the world.


Selected awards and honors

1996 - Chirone Prize, Accademia Nazionale di Medicina and the University of Bologna

1997 - Appointed Lindy Bergman Professor at the University of Chicago type Chicago WMF

2000 - Named Lindy Bergman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago

2006 - 2010 Served on the Board of Trustees at Princeton University

2007 - Distinguished Service Award, Medical and Biological Sciences Alumni Association, University of Chicago

2010 - Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH)[9]

2011 - Executive Director of the Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence at the University of Chicago

2013 - MacLean Center received the Cornerstone Award from the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities[10]

2014 - Presented 25th Annual Coggeshall Lecture on medical ethics, I niversity of Chicago

2015 - Lohn Conley Foundation Award for Outstanding Contributions to Clinical Ethics.

2015 - Elected a Master of the American College of Physicians (MACP)[11]

2016 - Johns Hopkins Berman Institute Harvey M. Meyerhoff Leadership in Bioethics Award

Selected books

  • Jonsen AR, Siegler M, Winslade WJ. Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine. 8th Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 2015.
  • Roberts L, Siegler M, eds. Clinical Medical Ethics: Landmark Works and the Legacy of Mark Siegler, MD. New York: Springer, 2017.

References

  1. ^ Johnson, Dirk (September 22, 2011). "A $42 Million Gift Aims at Improving Bedside Manner". The New York Times.
  2. ^ "Mark Siegler, MD founder of the clinical medical ethics field, will step down from the MacLean Center – University of Chicago – Department of Medicine". medicine.uchicago.edu.
  3. ^ Johnson, Dirk (September 22, 2011). "A $42 Million Gift Aims at Improving Bedside Manner". The New York Times.
  4. ^ Jonsen, Albert; Siegler, Mark; Winslade, William (2015). Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethics Decisions in Clinical Medicine. McGraw-Hill Education. ISBN 978-0-07-184506-9.
  5. ^ Clinical Medical Ethics: Landmark Works of Mark Siegler, MD. Springer International Publishing. 2017. ISBN 978-3-319-53873-0.
  6. ^ Siegler, M (2019). "Clinical Medical Ethics: Its History and Contributions to American Medicine". The Journal of Clinical Ethics. 30 (1): 17–26. PMID 30896440.
  7. ^ Singer, PA; Pellegrino, ED; Siegler, M (2001). "Clinical ethics revisited". BMC Medical Ethics. 2: E1. doi:10.1186/1472-6939-2-1. PMID 11346456. S2CID 17627582.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  8. ^ Fletcher, JC; Siegler, M (1995). "What are the goals of ethics consultation? A consensus statement". The Journal of Clinical Ethics. 7 (2): 122–6. PMID 8889887.
  9. ^ "Mark Siegler to receive lifetime achievement award from national bioethics group". University of Chicago News.
  10. ^ "MacLean Center wins prestigious Cornerstone Award". www.uchicagomedicine.org.
  11. ^ "ACP Announces New Masters and Awardees for 2014-2015". American College of Physicians (Press release).
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