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Nancy S. Jecker, PhD is Professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Medical History and Ethics. She is Adjunct Professor at the University of Washington School of Law and Department of Philosophy. She received her PhD from the University of Washington after first earning Masters degrees in Philosophy from both the University of Washington and Stanford University.

Dr. Jecker has conducted research as a visiting scholar at the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics, the Georgetown University Kennedy Institute of Ethics, and the Hastings Center. She was a visiting fellow in Princeton University's DeCamp Program in Ethics and the Life Sciences and was twice awarded Rockefeller Resident Fellowships, by the University of Texas Medical Branch Institute for Medical Humanities and the University of Maryland Center for Philosophy and Public Policy.

Dr. Jecker is editor (with Albert Jonsen and Robert Pearlman) of Bioethics: An Introduction to the History, Methods, and Practice, 2nd edition (2007, Jones and Bartlett).  She is the author (with Lawrence Schneiderman) of Wrong Medicine: Doctors, Patients, and Futile Treatment (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995) and of Aging and Ethics: Philosophical Problems in Gerontology (1991, Humana Press).  Dr. Jecker has authored over 100 articles and chapters on ethics and health care. Her articles have appeared in The Journal of the American Medical Association, Hastings Center Report, Annals of Internal Medicine, The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, and other publications.

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