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Robert Truog, MD, MA (he/him/his)

Frances Glessner Lee Distinguished Professor of Anesthesiology, Pediatrics, and Bioethics
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, Massachusetts

Dr. Robert Truog is the Frances Glessner Lee Distinguished Professor of Anaesthesiology, Pediatrics, and Bioethics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Truog received his medical degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and is board certified in the practices of pediatrics, anesthesiology, and pediatric critical care medicine. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Philosophy from Brown University.

He served as Director of the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School from 2014 to 2023, where he had overall responsibility for the Center’s many activities, including the Master of Bioethics graduate program, the Bioethics Fellowship Program, required courses in Medical Ethics and Professionalism for Harvard medical students, and the Center’s many workshops, seminars, and public forums. He has served as chair of the Harvard Human Subjects Research Committee, and currently chairs Harvard University’s Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee (ESCRO). Dr. Truog also practices pediatric intensive care medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital, where he has served for more than 30 years, including a decade as Chief of the Division of Critical Care Medicine.

Dr. Truog has published more than 300 articles in bioethics and related disciplines. Much of his scholarship has focused on the ethical and scientific challenges surrounding the definition of death and practices in organ procurement and transplantation.. His books include “Talking with Patients and Families about Medical Error: A Guide for Education and Practice (2010, JHUP, translated into Italian and Japanese), and Death, Dying, and Organ Transplantation (2012, Oxford).

He has received several awards over the years, including the William G. Bartholome Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Christopher Grenvik Memorial Award, and the Shubin-Weil Master Clinician-Teacher Award, both from the Society of Critical Care Medicine. In 2013 he was honored with the Spinoza Chair at the University of Amsterdam.

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