 Michael GrodinMichael Alan Grodin, M.D., is Director of the Bioethics and Human Rights
Program and Professor of Health Law, Bioethics, Human Rights, Socio-Medical
Sciences and Community Medicine and Psychiatry at the Boston University Schools
of Public Health and Medicine, where he is the recipient of the Norman A. Scotch
Award for Excellence in Teaching. In addition, Dr. Grodin is a Professor of
Philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences. He completed his B.S. degree at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his M.D. degree at the Albert
Einstein College of Medicine, his postdoctoral and fellowship training at UCLA
and Harvard, and he has been on the faculty of Boston University for the past 25
years.
Dr. Grodin is the Medical Ethicist at Boston Medical Center and for thirteen
years served as the Human Studies Chairman for the Department of Health and
Hospitals of the City of Boston. He is a fellow of the Hastings Center, served
on the board of directors of Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research, the
American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics, and serves on the Advisory Board
of the Center for the Philosophy and History of Science. He was a member of the
National Committee on Bioethics of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the
Committee on Ethics of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Professor Grodin serves on the Ethics Committee of the Massachusetts Center for
Organ Transplantation, is a consultant to the National Human Subjects Protection
Review Panel of the National Institutes of Health AIDS Program Advisory
Committee, and is a consultant on Ethics and Research with Human Subjects for
the International Organizations of Medical Sciences and the World Health
Organization. He is a member of the Ethics Review Board of Physicians for Human
Rights. Dr. Grodin is the Co-Founder of Global Lawyers and Physicians: Working
Together for Human Rights, Co-Director of the Boston Center for Refugee Health
and Human Rights: Caring for Survivors of Torture and he has received a special
citation from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in recognition of his
"profound contributions - through original and creative research - to the
cause of Holocaust education and remembrance." The Refugee Center which he
Co-Directs received the 2002 Outstanding Achievement Award from the Political
Asylum/Immigration Representation Project for "sensitivity and dedication
in caring for the health and human rights of refugees and survivors of
torture." He is a Member of the Global Implementation Project of the
Istanbul Protocol Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of
Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and an
Advisor to UNESCO. Dr. Grodin was the 2000 Julius Silberger Scholar and is an
elected member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the
American Psychoanalytic Association. He has received a national Humanism in
Medicine Award for "compassion and empathy in the delivery of care to
patients and their families."
Dr. Grodin has delivered several hundred national and international
addresses, written more than 150 scholarly papers, and edited or co-edited 5
books: The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code: Human Rights in Human
Experimentation and Children as Research Subjects: Science, Ethics and
Law of the Bioethics Series of Oxford University Press, a book in the Boston
Studies in the Philosophy of Science Series of Kluwer Academic Press entitled Meta-Medical
Ethics: The Philosophical Foundations of Bioethics, and two books published
by Routledge one Health and Human Rights: A Reader selected as 2nd of the
top 10 humanitarian books of 1999 and another entitled Perspectives on Health
and Human Rights. Professor Grodin is presently writing a paper on Ethics and
Psychoanalysis and working on a new book entitled Mad, Bad or Evil: Physician
Involvement in Human Rights Abuses From Nazi Germany to the Former Yugoslavia.
Dr. Grodin's primary areas of interest include: the relationship of health and
human rights, bioethics and the philosophy of psychiatry and psychoanalysis.
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