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Jason H. T. Karlawish, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics
Director of the Alzheimer's Disease Center’s Education and Information
Transfer Core
Associate Director of the Memory
Disorders Clinic
Fellow, Center
for Bioethics
Senior Fellow of
the Leonard Davis
Institute of Health Economics
Senior
Fellow of
the Institute on Aging
University
of Pennsylvania
Division of Geriatric Medicine
Ralston-Penn Center
Room 234
3615 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-2676
Telephone: (215) 898-8997
Facsimile: (215) 573-8684
E-mail: Jason.Karlawish@uphs.upenn.edu
Education
| 1991 |
MD |
Northwestern
University |
| 1987 |
BS |
Northwestern
University |
Postgraduate Training and Fellowship Appointments
| 1991 -
1992 |
Intern
in Medicine, Francis Scott Key Hospital, Baltimore |
| 1992 -
1994 |
Resident
in Medicine, Francis Scott Key Hospital, Baltimore |
| 1994 -
1995 |
Fellow,
Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago, Chicago |
| 1995 -
1997 |
Fellow,
Geriatric Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago |
Research/Clinical
Interests
- Research
ethics
- Dementia
- Medical
decision making
Biographical Sketch
Dr. Karlawish serves as faculty for a number of University of Pennsylvania
courses dedicated to issues in medical decisionmaking and research
ethics, and attends at the Memory Disorders Clinic of Penn’s
Alzheimer’s Disease Center. He is a member of the ethics committees
of the American Geriatrics Society and the Alzheimers Disease Cooperative
Study Group, and is a peer reviewer for the Archives of Internal
Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, JAMA, Journal of the American
Geriatrics Society, and Neurology. He participated in the American
College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine’s
End-of-Life Care Consensus Panel. He has published on research ethics,
competency and dementia care in book chapters and journals such
as Archives of Neurology, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society,
JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine, Neurology, and Annals of
Internal Medicine.
His awards include a Brookdale National Fellowship, Paul Beeson
Fellowship, Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar in Bioethics, the
Lancet’s Wakley prize, and a Dorothy Dillon Eweson Lectureship.
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