Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD, Author of Eat Your Ice Cream: Six Simple Rules for a Long and Healthy Life, is vice provost for global initiatives, co-director of the Healthcare Transformation Institute and Diane vs. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
As a practicing oncologist and one of the world’s leading bioethicists, Dr. Emanuel received his doctorate Harvard Medical School, a doctorate in political philosophy from Harvard University, and an MSc from the Oxford University. With more than 350 publications and 15 books written or edited, he is the most cited bioethicist in history.
Dr. Emanuel previously served as special adviser for health policy in the Obama administration, where he helped shape the Affordable Care Act, and was founding chair of the Division of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, special advisor to the Director General of the World Health Organization, a Guggenheim Fellow, recipient of the 2026 Hastings Center Founders’ Award for contributions to bioethics, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2026.