Last updated on:
6/4/2008 |
Author: ProCon.org
Sean Morrison, MD Biography
- Title:
- Hermann Merkin Professor of Palliative Care at Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- Position:
- Not Clearly Pro or Con to the question "Should Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legal?"
- Reasoning:
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“Persons requesting and receiving assistance in dying are seriously ill with little time to live and a high burden of physical suffering.”
“Characteristics of Patients Requesting and Receiving Physician-Assisted Death,” Archives of Internal Medicine, 2003
- Theoretical Expertise Ranking:
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Experts
Individuals with MDs, JDs, PhDs, or equivalent advanced degrees in fields relevant to end-of-life issues. Also top-level government officials (such as foreign leaders, US presidents, Founding Fathers, Supreme Court Justices, members of legislative bodies, cabinet members, military leaders, etc.) with positions relevant to end-of-life. - Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Established the Acute Care for the Elderly (ACE) Unit at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and served as its director from 1995-1997
- Hermann Merkin Professor of Palliative Care, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- Professor of Geriatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- Principal investigator of a $1.5 million Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality grant designed to improve the detection and management of pain in acute care hospitals
- Brookdale National Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine
- Project on Death in America Faculty Scholars Award
- Recipient, Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award
- Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholar in Aging Research
- Education:
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- Fellowship Training in Geriatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- Residency Training in Internal Medicine, New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center
- MD, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
- BSc, Brown University
- Other:
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