Bioethics Expert Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel Transitions to New Opportunities, Keeps CC Connection
Episode # 66
Uploaded: August 25, 2011
Running Time: 01:56
CROWN: From the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, this is CLINICAL CENTER RADIO.
When Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, chair of the Clinical Center’s chair of Department of Bioethics, first came to the NIH 15 years ago, he said his charge from Director Dr. John Gallin was to create a bioethics department that would train the next generation. Dr. Emanuel, now departing his position with the NIH, says his team has achieved that and more.
EMANUEL: I think we’ve delivered a highly productive and one of the best -- if not the world’s best – programs. And it’s been a privilege to have been able to go along for the ride.
CROWN: Dr. Emanuel’s tenure at the Clinical Center included such major accomplishments as helping to revise government regulations regarding human subject research and publishing the first comprehensive Oxford textbook of clinical research ethics.
EMANUEL: Could not have happened any other place in the NIH. To give us the multi-year support for that endeavor. That’s a major landmark that I think will last a long time.
CROWN: Dr. Emanuel goes on to join the University of Pennsylvania to teach and serve as the vice provost for Global Initiatives and chair a new department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy. He’ll also write for the New York Times. However, in many ways he remains connected to the Clinical Center. Still invested in ongoing projects, he’ll maintain his ties – ones he’s happy to keep.
EMANUEL: Bioethical questions aren’t going away from research. They’re just not. And we need good research to answer those questions and if we don’t fund good research, it ain’t going to happen.
CROWN: From America's Clinical Research Hospital, this has been CLINICAL CENTER RADIO. In Bethesda, Maryland, I'm Ellen Crown, at the National Institutes of Health, an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
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