Mark Siegler
University of Chicago Lindy Bergman Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Surgery;
Director of the
MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
Mark Siegler, M.D., FACP, practices at the University of Chicago Hospitals
and the Center for Advanced Medicine, and teaches as the Lindy Bregman
Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Surgery for the University of Chicago-Pritzker
School of Medicine. After receiving his B.A. from Princeton University,
he attended medical school at the University of Chicago with his internship
and residency at the same, followed by a year of advanced training at
the Hammersmith-Royal Postgraduate Hospital in London, England.
Since then, he has held many lectureships and visiting professorships
in the United States and abroad and has been the recipient of more than
twenty-five federal and foundation research grants. He has practiced
general medicine for more than thirty years and is one of the few physicians
who combines expertise in medical ethics with an active medical practice.
In 1984, the University of Chicago established the Center for Clinical
Medical Ethics, one of the first in the nation devoted to this clinical
specialty, and appointed Siegler as its Director. The renowned Center
for Clinical Medical Ethics subsequently has trained more than 120 physicians
and nurses, many of whom now direct programs at leading U.S. and Canadian
medical schools. Siegler also serves the University of Chicago on
the Committee on General Studies in the Humanities, The Cancer Research
Center, and The Committee on Clinical Pharmacology. He is a Fellow
of the Hastings Center, serves on the Ethics Committee of American College
Surgeons, and is a member of the Bioethics Institute's Advisory Board,
the American College of Physicians, and the Association of American Physicians.
He has served on a number of National Committee Assignments, including most
recently the Panel on Human Cloning of the National Academy of Science
and the NIH Advisory Committee for the American Society of Transplant
Surgeons. In addition to serving on a number of editorial boards,
he has published more than 150 journal articles, fifty book chapters,
five books, and other publications. His latest text, co-authored with
Drs. Jonsen and Winslade, Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to
Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine, 5th Edition (2002), is widely
used by health professionals throughout the country.
Dr. Siegler is a regular participant in the annual Medical Ethics Conference and delivered a Arthur J. Schmitt lecture entitled, "The Science
and Politics of Cloning: What a Difference a Year Makes," in the autumn
of 2002.
