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UH Ethics Grand Rounds: "Childhood Cancer Research: An Exploration of History and Ethics" with Eric Kodish, MD
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Eric Kodish, MD is a pediatric hematologist and Professor of Pediatrics at the Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. He is Vice-Chair for Professional Staff Affairs and Faculty Development in the Pediatric Institute. He also co-directs the Art and Practice of Medicine (APM) course in the Lerner College of Medicine Years 1 and 2 curriculum and chairs the APM Steering Committee. He has joint appointments as Professor of Bioethics and Oncology at CWRU, and in the Cleveland Clinic Center for Bioethics. He previously served as the Program Director for the Cleveland Clinic Fellowship in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology (2017-22). Prior to that, he was Director of Cleveland Clinic's Center for Ethics, Humanities, and Spiritual Care (2010-16) and the F. J. O'Neill Professor and Chairman of the Department of Bioethics (2004-16). He was the founding Executive Director of the Cleveland Fellowship in Advanced Bioethics. From 1993-2004, he cared for children with cancer and blood diseases at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, where he was the founding director of the Rainbow Center for Pediatric Ethics. His areas of expertise include childhood cancer and blood diseases, pediatric ethics, end-of-life issues, and research ethics. He received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Northeast Ohio Medical University in 2001, and was elected Chair of its Board of Trustees in 2011. He is frequently invited to present lectures nationally and internationally on ethics, childhood cancer and informed consent. He is the author of more than one hundred peer-reviewed publications in journals including JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine, as well as book chapters and reviews. He is the editor of "Ethics and Research with Children: A Case-Based Approach," published by Oxford University Press, first published in February 2005 with Second Edition in 2018. Dr. Kodish was elected as a Fellow of the Hastings Center in 2013 and received the Distinguished Service Award from the Children's Oncology Group (2005) and the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (2016).
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Eric Kodish, MD
Pediatric Hematologist, Professor, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University Professor, Department of Bi
Cleveland Clinic
Eric Kodish, MD is Professor of Pediatrics at the Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. After fellowships at the University of Chicago in both pediatric hematology-oncology and medical ethics, he joined the staff at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, where he was the founding director of the Rainbow Center for Pediatric Ethics. His areas of expertise include childhood cancer and blood diseases, pediatric ethics, end-of-life issues, and research ethics. He received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine in 2001.
Dr. Kodish is Principal Investigator of an NCI funded multi-site study on informed consent for pediatric leukemia trials (2RO1 CA 83267). The American Cancer Society, Greenwall Foundation and the Cancer Treatment Research Foundation have also funded his research. He is Chair of the Bioethics Committee of the Children’s Oncology Group, and served as an appointed member of the Committee on Bioethics of the American Academy of Pediatrics from 1999-2005. Dr. Kodish has been a member of multiple Special Emphasis Panels and Study Sections at the National Institutes of Health, and is a member of the Pediatric Oncology and Pediatric Ethics Subcommittees at the Food and Drug Administration. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of IRB: Ethics and Human Research, and on the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee at the NIH. He has been a member of the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections Subcommittee for Research Involving Children at the Office of Human Research Protections and the NCI’s Pediatric Central IRB. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed publications in journals including JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine, as well as book chapters and reviews. He is the editor of Ethics and Research with Children: A Case-Based Approach, published by Oxford University Press (February 2005).
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