Michael A. Grodin ( born December 26, 1951) is a “Scotch Award for Excellence in Teaching”[1] recipient in the Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights department of Boston University School of Public Health.[2] He is also a professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine. In addition, Dr. Grodin is the Director of the Project on Medicine and the Holocaust at the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies and a member of the faculty of the Division of Religious and Theological Studies. He has been on the faculty at Boston University for 33 years.[3] He is also the medical ethicist at Boston Medical Center.[4]
He holds an M.D. from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. His postdoctoral and fellowship training was done at UCLA and Harvard University. Dr. Grodin is the Co-Founder of Global Lawyers and Physicians: Working Together for Human Rights,[5] Co-Director of the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights: Caring for Survivors of Torture [6] and he has received a special citation from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in recognition of his “profound contributions - through original and creative research - to the cause of Holocaust education and remembrance.” He is an internationally recognized authority on Medicine during the Holocaust. He is a fellow of the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution.
Dr. Grodin has delivered several hundred invited national and international addresses, written more than 200 scholarly papers, and edited or co-edited 5 books, including The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code: Human Rights in Human Experimentation (co-edited with George Annas)[7] and Children as Research Subjects: Science, Ethics and Law[8] of the Bioethics Series of Oxford University Press, a book in the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science Series of Kluwer Academic Press entitled Meta-Medical Ethics: The Philosophical Foundations of Bioethics,[9] and two books published by Routledge: Health and Human Rights: A Reader[10] was selected as 2nd of the top 10 humanitarian books of 1999 and another entitled Perspectives on Health and Human Rights.[3][11]
Dr. Grodin's primary areas of interest include the relationship of health and human rights, medicine and the holocaust, and bioethics.