John D. Lantos MD

John D. Lantos is a pediatrician and nationally recognized bioethicist. After 20 years on the faculty of The University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine, he moved to Kansas City to create and direct a pediatric bioethics centre at Children’s Mercy Hospital. His research focuses on the ethics of clinical trials, and he has analyzed the ethical issues in neonatology, cancer chemotherapy, renal dialysis, cardiac assist devices, and primary care pediatrics. His research has been funded by National Institutes of Health, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and The John Templeton Foundation. He is an advisor to the American Academy of Pediatrics on bioethics issues and a past president of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, and he directs the Ethics Program for the Heartland Clinical and Translational Science Program. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers and written or edited five books on bioethics.