Rate My Professor Ezekiel Emanuel

Ezekiel J. Emanuel is the Vice Provost for Global Initiatives and Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, holding appointments in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy in the Perelman School of Medicine and as Professor of Health Care Management at The Wharton School. He serves as Co-Director of the Healthcare Transformation Institute and is a breast oncologist. Emanuel earned his BA in Chemistry from Amherst College in 1979, MSc in Biochemistry from Exeter College, Oxford University in 1981, MD from Harvard Medical School in 1988, and PhD in Political Philosophy from Harvard University in 1989. After completing his internal medicine residency at Beth Israel Hospital and oncology fellowship at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, he joined the Harvard Medical School faculty. His career trajectory includes roles as founding Chair of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health from 1997 to 2011, Special Advisor for Health Policy to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the White House from 2009 to 2011—where he helped draft the Affordable Care Act—and Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Penn from 2011 to 2020. He has held visiting professorships at UCLA, Johns Hopkins as Brin Professor, Stanford as Kovitz Professor, and New York University Law School.