Professor of Medicine, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, and Neurology
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Jason Karlawish is a professor of medicine, medical ethics and health policy, and neurology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. He is co-director of the Penn Memory Center, where he cares for patients and their families. Dr. Karlawish directs the Penn Program on Precision Medicine for the Brain (P3MB). The Program examines the bioethics of aging with a focus on diseases of the brain such as Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body disease. Dr. Karlawish the author of The Problem of Alzheimer’s: How Science, Culture and Politics Turned a Rare Disease Into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It and the novel Open Wound: The Tragic Obsession of Dr. William Beaumont. His essays on ethics and aging have appeared in publications such as The Hill, The New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, StatNews, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. He serves on the Boards of Directors of The Greenwall Foundation, a foundation dedicated to expanding bioethics knowledge to improve clinical, biomedical, and public health decision-making, policy and practice, and Play On! Philly, a non-profit providing orchestral music education for underserved children throughout Philadelphia. To learn more about his research and writing, visit www.jasonkarlawish.com.
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Jason Karlawish is a professor of medicine, medical ethics and health policy, and neurology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. He is co-director of the Penn Memory Center, where he cares for patients and their families. Dr. Karlawish directs the Penn Program on Precision Medicine for the Brain (P3MB). The Program examines the bioethics of aging with a focus on diseases of the brain such as Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body disease. Dr. Karlawish the author of The Problem of Alzheimer’s: How Science, Culture and Politics Turned a Rare Disease Into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It and the novel Open Wound: The Tragic Obsession of Dr. William Beaumont. His essays on ethics and aging have appeared in publications such as The Hill, The New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, StatNews, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. He serves on the Boards of Directors of The Greenwall Foundation, a foundation dedicated to expanding bioethics knowledge to improve clinical, biomedical, and public health decision-making, policy and practice, and Play On! Philly, a non-profit providing orchestral music education for underserved children throughout Philadelphia. To learn more about his research and writing, visit www.jasonkarlawish.com.