Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD, is the Dean’s Professor and Inaugural Chair of the Department of Health Humanities and Bioethics, and the Director of the Paul M Schyve, MD Center for Bioethics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. She also holds secondary appointments in pediatrics and philosophy at the University of Rochester.   Dr. Ross is a graduate of Princeton University (AB from the School of Public and International Affairs), The University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine (MD) and Yale University (MPhil and PhD in Philosophy). She trained in pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian.

Dr Ross’ research portfolio focuses on ethical and policy issues in pediatrics, genetics and rare diseases, organ transplantation, and translational research ethics. She has published 5 books and over 300 peer-reviewed articles.  She is a Hastings Fellow, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.