Jason Karlawish, MD
Jason Karlawish is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics, and Senior Fellow of the Center for Bioethics and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the Associate Director of the Penn Memory Center and the Director of the Alzheimers Disease Center’s Education, Recruitment and Retention Core. His clinical practice focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of persons with Alzheimers disease and related disorders. He serves on the Board of Directors of The Greenwall Foundation, the largest foundation dedicated to supporting research in bioethics.
Doctor Karlawish’s research focuses on ethical issues in human subjects research and the care of older adults with cognitive impairment. His research investigates issues in dementia drug development, informed consent, quality of life, research and treatment decision making, and voting by persons with cognitive impairment and residents of long term care facilities. He is the recipient of a Greenwall Faculty Scholar in Bioethics, and a Paul Beeson Award.
He has disseminated his work in testimony to the Senate Select Committee on Aging and the Department of Health and Human Services Subcommittee on the Inclusion of Individuals with Impaired Decision-making in Research, and collaborations with the American Bar Association, American Association of Retired Persons, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the State of Vermont, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, FINRA and the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
Brookdale Fellow Class of 1998
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