Mark Siegler is an American physician who specializes in internal medicine. He is the Lindy Bergman Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Chicago., He is the Founding Director of Chicago's MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. Siegler has practiced and taught internal medicine at the University of Chicago for more than 50 years. In 2011, the Matthew and Carolyn Bucksbaum Family Foundation presented an endowment of $42 million to the University of Chicago to create the Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence. Siegler was appointed the Executive Director of the Institute. Siegler has published more than 215 journal articles, 65 book chapters and five books. His textbook, co-authored with Al Jonsen and William Winslade, Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine, 8th Edition, has been translated into eight languages and is widely used by physicians and health professionalsaround the world. His most recent book, co-edited with Laura Roberts, MD, is Clinical Medical Ethics: Landmark Works of Mark Siegler, MD.
He is a pioneer in naming, developing, and leading the new field of Clinical Medical Ethics whose main goal is to improve the quality of patient care by identifying, analyzing, and contributing to the resolution of ethical problems that arise in the routine practice of clinical medicine. He also pioneered Clinical Ethics Consultations and developed the oldest and largest Clinical Medical Ethics fellowship in the world.
Selected awards and honors
1996 - Chirone Prize, Accademia Nazionale di Medicina and the University of Bologna 1997 - Appointed Lindy Bergman Professor at the University of Chicago type Chicago WMF 2000 - Named Lindy Bergman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago 2006 - 2010 Served on the Board of Trustees at Princeton University 2007 - Distinguished Service Award, Medical and Biological SciencesAlumni Association, University of Chicago 2010 - Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities 2011 - Executive Director of the Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence at the University of Chicago 2013 - MacLean Center received the Cornerstone Award from the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities 2014 - Presented 25th Annual Coggeshall Lecture on medical ethics, I niversity of Chicago 2015 - Lohn Conley Foundation Award for Outstanding Contributions to Clinical Ethics. 2015 - Elected a Master of the American College of Physicians 2016 - Johns Hopkins Berman Institute Harvey M. Meyerhoff Leadership in Bioethics Award
Selected books
Jonsen AR, Siegler M, Winslade WJ. Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine. 8th Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 2015.
Roberts L, Siegler M, eds. Clinical Medical Ethics: Landmark Works and the Legacy of Mark Siegler, MD. New York: Springer, 2017.
