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John D. Lantos (born 1954) is an American pediatrician and a leading expert in medical ethics.〔(John D. Lantos, MD ), uncc.edu〕〔(John D. Lantos, MD ), sgu.edu〕 He is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine and Director of the Children's Mercy Bioethics Center at Children's Mercy Hospital. His research fields are bioethics, doctor–patient communication, research ethics, end-of-life care, and religion and medicine, and especially the ethics of clinical trials.〔(John D. Lantos, MD ), Children's Mercy〕 He is a former President of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities and of the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics, and is an advisor to the American Academy of Pediatrics on bioethics issues. Lantos earned his MD from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 1981 and did his residency at the Children's National Medical Center. He was on faculty at the Pritzker School of Medicine for two decades, before he moved to Kansas City where he was the inaugural holder of the John B. Francis Chair in Bioethics at the Center for Practical Bioethics. He then became the founding director of the Children's Mercy Bioethics Center. He is a member of the PCORI Advisory Panel on Clinical Trials. He has published over 250 journal papers and book chapters and five books on bioethics.〔(John D. Lantos, MD ), PCORI〕〔(John Lantos, MD ), Children's Mercy〕 Lantos has appeared on ''The Oprah Winfrey Show'', ''Larry King Live'', ''National Public Radio'' and ''Nightline''. He has been an associate editor of the ''American Journal of Bioethics'', ''Pediatrics'', and ''Perspectives in Biology and Medicine''.〔(The American Journal of Bioethics Announces Two Additions to Editorial Team ), taylorandfrancisgroup.com〕 He is an active member of the Congregation Beth Torah, a modern Reform Jewish congregation which emphasizes ethical living, spiritual and personal growth, and social justice, and also writes and lectures on Jewish issues, especially Judaism and healthcare. ==Selected works== *''Neonatal Bioethics'' *''The Lazarus Case: Life and Death Issues in Neonatal Intensive Care'' *''The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine'' *''Do We Still Need Doctors?'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John D. Lantos」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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