Ezekiel Emanuel

Zeke Emanuel
Chief of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
In office
1998–2010
Member of the COVID-19 Advisory Board
In office
November 9, 2020 – January 20, 2021
Preceded byPosition established*
Succeeded byPosition abolished*
Vice Provost for Global Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania
Assumed office
Mid 2021
Personal details
Born
Ezekiel Jonathan Emanuel

(1957-09-06) September 6, 1957 (age 67)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Spouse
Linda Emanuel
(m. 1983; div. 2008)
[1]
Children3
RelativesRahm Emanuel (brother)
Ari Emanuel (brother)
EducationAmherst College (BA)
Exeter College, Oxford (MSc)
Harvard University (MD, PhD)

Ezekiel Jonathan "Zeke" Emanuel (born September 6, 1957) is an American oncologist and bioethicist.[2] He is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. He is the current Vice Provost for Global Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania and chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy. Previously, Emanuel served as the Diane and Robert Levy University Professor at Penn. He holds a joint appointment at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Wharton School and was formerly an associate professor at the Harvard Medical School until 1998 when he joined the National Institutes of Health.

On November 9, 2020, President-elect Joe Biden named Emanuel to be one of the 16 members of his COVID-19 Advisory Board.[3]

  1. ^ Medical visionary at Penn Philly.com, August 06, 2012
  2. ^ "Our People: Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD". NIH, The Department of Bioethics. Archived from the original on 2007-10-12.
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