Eric D. Kodish, M.D. (2014)
Eric D. Kodish is the director of the Center for Ethics, Humanities and Spiritual Care at Cleveland Clinic, where he is the F.J. O’Neill professor and chairman of bioethics. He is executive director of the Cleveland Fellowship in Advanced Bioethics and professor of pediatrics at the Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.
Kodish trained in pediatrics at Children’s Memorial Hospital and in medical ethics and pediatric hematology and oncology at the University of Chicago. From 1993 to 2004, he cared for children with cancer and blood diseases at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, where he also was the founding director of the Rainbow Center for Pediatric Ethics. He has been principal investigator on a series of three NIH-funded multisite studies of informed consent in childhood cancer.
Kodish served as chair of the Bioethics Committee of the Children’s Oncology Group from 2002 to 2008, as a member of the Committee on Bioethics of the American Academy of Pediatrics from 1999 to 2005, and as a director-at-large of the Association of Bioethics Program Directors from 2008 to 2010. He also has served on the NIH Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Safe and Effective Medicines for Children, and the National Cancer Institute’s Pediatric Central Institutional Review Board. Kodish currently chairs the board of trustees of the Northeast Ohio Medical University. He is an author on more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and the editor of Ethics and Research with Children: A Case-Based Approach (Oxford University Press, 2005).
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