Faculty
      Mark Sheldon, Ph.D.
          mps747@northwestern.edu       

Mark Sheldon, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the department who teaches our course "The Clinic and the Classics" for the Masters in Health Care Ethics. Dr. Sheldon is also Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department at Indiana University Northwest and Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In addition he is Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Northwestern University and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University of Chicago.  He received his PhD from Brandeis University where he was awarded the Sachar International Fellowship to study at Oxford University.  He served as Adjunct Senior Scholar at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago, and as Senior Policy Advisor at the American Medical Association. He is a member of the Committee on Philosophy and Medicine of the American Medical Association, and Associate Editor of the Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine of the APA. He has over fifty publication on topics such as informed consent, confidentiality, disclosure, children as organ donors, and the forced transfusion of children of Jehovah's Witnesses. He has published in such journals as The Hastings Center Report, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and The Journal of Emergency Medicine.


 


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