Faculty/Staff

Geriatrics Education
Clinical Care

Research
Ralston Center


Jason H. T. Karlawish, M.D
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Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics
Director of the Alzheimer's Disease Center’s Education and Information Transfer Core
Associate Director of the Memory Disorders Clinic
Fellow, Center for Bioethics
Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
Senior Fellow of the Institute on Aging


University of Pennsylvania
Division of Geriatric Medicine
Ralston-Penn Center
Room 234
3615 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-2676

Telephone: (215) 898-8997
Facsimile: (215) 573-8684
E-mail: Jason.Karlawish@uphs.upenn.edu


Education


1991 MD Northwestern University
1987 BS Northwestern University

Postgraduate Training and Fellowship Appointments


1991 - 1992 Intern in Medicine, Francis Scott Key Hospital, Baltimore
1992 - 1994 Resident in Medicine, Francis Scott Key Hospital, Baltimore
1994 - 1995 Fellow, Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago, Chicago
1995 - 1997 Fellow, Geriatric Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago


Research/Clinical Interests
  1. Research ethics
  2. Dementia
  3. Medical decision making
Biographical Sketch

Dr. Karlawish serves as faculty for a number of University of Pennsylvania courses dedicated to issues in medical decisionmaking and research ethics, and attends at the Memory Disorders Clinic of Penn’s Alzheimer’s Disease Center. He is a member of the ethics committees of the American Geriatrics Society and the Alzheimers Disease Cooperative Study Group, and is a peer reviewer for the Archives of Internal Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, JAMA, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, and Neurology. He participated in the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine’s End-of-Life Care Consensus Panel. He has published on research ethics, competency and dementia care in book chapters and journals such as Archives of Neurology, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine, Neurology, and Annals of Internal Medicine.

His awards include a Brookdale National Fellowship, Paul Beeson Fellowship, Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar in Bioethics, the Lancet’s Wakley prize, and a Dorothy Dillon Eweson Lectureship.


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