Carolyn and Matthew Bucksbaum Professor of Clinical Ethics
Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Medicine, Surgery and the College
Co-Director, Institute for Translational Medicine
Associate Director, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
University of Chicago

My areas of research include: ethical and policy issues in organ transplantation, pediatrics, genetics, and human subjects protections/research ethics. I am currently writing a book on sibling obligations in health care that is funded by the National Library of Medicine.

Books
Lainie Friedman Ross, Children, Families, and Health Care Decision-Making (Oxford University Press [UK], 1998).
Lainie Friedman Ross, Children in Research: Access versus Protection (Oxford University Press [UK], 2006).
Robert M Veatch and Lainie F. Ross, Transplantation Ethics, 2nd ed. (Georgetown University Press, 2015).
Robert M Veatch and Lainie F Ross, Defining Death: The Case for Choice (Georgetown University Press, 2016)
Lainie Friedman Ross and J. Richard Thistlethwaite Jr. The Living Donor as Patient: Theory and Practice (Oxford University Press [US], 2021 in press)

AB 1982 Princeton University (School of Public and International Affairs)
MD 1986: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Residency (1986-1989):
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (PGY-1 &2)
Columbia University (PGY-3)
M Phil 1992: Yale University (Philosophy)
PhD 1996: Yale University (Philosophy)