Mark Siegler (born June 20, 1941) is an American

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who specializes in internal medicine. He is the Lindy Bergman Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the

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. , He is the Founding Director of Chicago's

MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics The MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, founded in 1981, is a non-profit clinical medical ethics research institute based in the United States. Founded by its director, Mark Siegler, the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics aims to ...

. Siegler has practiced and taught internal medicine at the University of Chicago for more than 50 years. In 2011, the

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and Carolyn Bucksbaum Family Foundation presented an endowment of $42 million to the University of Chicago to create the Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence. Siegler was appointed the Executive Director of the Institute. Siegler has published more than 215 journal articles, 65 book chapters and five books. His textbook, co-authored with Al Jonsen and William Winslade, ''Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine'', 8th Edition (2015), has been translated into eight languages and is widely used by physicians and health professionals around the world. His most recent book, co-edited with Laura Roberts, MD, is ''Clinical Medical Ethics: Landmark Works of Mark Siegler, MD''.

Clinical Medical Ethics

He has developed a field called Clinical Medical Ethics whose main goal is to improve the quality of patient care by identifying, analyzing, and contributing to the resolution of ethical problems that arise in the routine practice of clinical medicine. He also supervised the initiation of Consultations in Clinical Ethics as a hospital service and developed the oldest and largest Clinical Medical Ethics fellowship in the world.

Selected awards and honors

*2010 -

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from the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) *2013 - MacLean Center received the Cornerstone Award from the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities *2015 - Elected a Master of the

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(MACP)

Selected books

* Jonsen AR, Siegler M, Winslade WJ. ''Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine''. 8th Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 2015. * Roberts L, Siegler M, eds. ''Clinical Medical Ethics: Landmark Works and the Legacy of Mark Siegler, MD''. New York: Springer, 2017.

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University of Chicago bio
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