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Name
Joel Frader
Bio
Joel Frader, M.D. is Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. He is also the Director of the Lurie Children’s Hospital ethics program and a pediatric palliative care clinician at Lurie Children’s Chicago.
Dr. Frader received a B.A. from Columbia University (1970), a M.D. from Tufts (1974), and a M.A. in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania (1980) where he was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar. He is active in and served in leadership positions for national organizations concerned with pediatrics and bioethics. He teaches, consults and conducts research in bioethics and palliative care, focusing on ethical issues involving children in the health care system and innovation in health care. He has special interests in ethical issues regarding the allocation of scarce medical resources, organ transplantation, children with differences in sex development (intersex) and gender nonconformity, decision making at the end of life, and the ethics of human subjects research.
Dr. Frader received a B.A. from Columbia University (1970), a M.D. from Tufts (1974), and a M.A. in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania (1980) where he was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar. He is active in and served in leadership positions for national organizations concerned with pediatrics and bioethics. He teaches, consults and conducts research in bioethics and palliative care, focusing on ethical issues involving children in the health care system and innovation in health care. He has special interests in ethical issues regarding the allocation of scarce medical resources, organ transplantation, children with differences in sex development (intersex) and gender nonconformity, decision making at the end of life, and the ethics of human subjects research.
