Linda L. Emanuel, MD, PhD

Director, Buehler Center on Aging
Buehler Professor of Medicine
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University

Linda Emanuel, MD, PhD, is the founder and principal of the national Education in Palliative and End-of-life Care (EPEC) Project. She is also the director of the Ford Center on Global Citizenship’s Health Section at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Prior to joining Northwestern University, Dr. Emanuel was vice president of ethics standards and head of the Institute for Ethics at the American Medical Association. Dr. Emanuel moved to Chicago to create the Institute for Ethics at the AMA and to expand Ethics Standards. Until 1996, Dr. Emanuel was the assistant director, Division of Medical Ethics, and until 1998 the Glessner Lee Associate Professor of Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School. She has published and lectured extensively on clinical ethics, including end-of-life care, the patient-physician relationship, academic integrity, accountability, organizational ethics, and professionalism. Dr. Emanuel was trained at Cambridge University, University College London, Oxford University, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard University. She is a board-certified general internist with fellowship training in public health research methodology and fellowship training in professional ethics. Until 1996, she cared for patients at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She takes part in the Palliative Care Service and Geriatrics Evaluation Services at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Prior to her clinical career, Dr. Emanuel was a research neurophysiologist, in which field she earned her PhD. Dr. Emanuel’s role in the On the CUSP: Stop BSI project is as a curriculum consultant, leading the determination of the content of a CUSP Course Design and CUSP module materials in close collaboration with the JHU Quality and Safety Research Group.