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Lawrence Schneiderman, MD Professor, Family & Preventive Medicine / Medicine Cancer Symptom Control Program Contact by Email

Lawrence J. Schneiderman, M.D., professor emeritus in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and adjunct professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, has had a distinguished career in medicine and ethics.

Founding co-chair of the University of California, San Diego Medical Center Ethics Committee, he has been an invited visiting scholar and visiting professor at institutions in the United States and abroad, and is a recipient of the Pellegrino Medal in medical ethics. He is presently a visiting scholar in the Program in Medicine and Human Values at the California Pacific Medical Center.

Schneiderman has written more than 170 medical and scientific publications, including The Practice of Preventive Health Care (Addison Wesley), Wrong Medicine: Doctor’s Patients and Futile Treatment (with Nancy S. Jecker, Ph.D.) (Johns Hopkins), and, Embracing Our Mortality: Hard Choices in an Age of Medical “Miracles” (Oxford).

Schneiderman is a fellow in the American College of Physicians and serves on the editorial board of the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. He conducts empirical research on end-of-life care, and provides ethics consultations and invited talks for a variety of audiences, including academics and practitioners in medicine, law and philosophy, as well as the lay public.