Clayton Thomason, JD, MDiv

Clayton L. Thomason, JD, MDiv, holds the Bishop Anderson Endowed Chair of Religion and Ethics in Medicine and is chairperson of the Department of Religion, Health and Human Values and director of the health care ethics program. The department provides spiritual care and ethics consultation services to the medical center and hosts one of the nation’s leading programs in clinical pastoral education, an innovative research program in spirituality and health as well as education programs in health care ethics. He serves on the board of the Chicago End of Life Care Coalition and the POLST Illinois Leadership Taskforce, is a trustee of the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University and of St. Augustine College in Chicago and was elected in 2011 as a Fellow of the Institute of Medicine of Chicago. Thomason has published and taught in the fields of biochemistry, bioethics, law, medical education and spirituality. His work focuses on Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) on congregational wellness to address health disparities, bioethics and law, the role of virtue in professional development and public policy in palliative and end-of-life care.