Ellen Fox, M.D., HEC-C is a bioethics consultant, educator, researcher, policymaker, and former Federal Executive. Her career has focused on working with public and private sector organizations to address pressing ethical issues in health care. She specializes in developing innovative approaches to complex social problems and managing systems-level change. As President of Fox Ethics Consulting, she helps hospitals, health care systems, academic institutions, professional societies, corporations, government agencies, and individuals with ethics consultation, policy development, strategic planning, and quality improvement. She also collaborates with other professionals on national initiatives, research projects, curriculum design, and academic publications and serves as an expert witness on legal cases. Fox is also a researcher who authored one of the most widely cited articles in the field of bioethics - a national study of ethics consultation in U.S. hospitals, which is the American Journal of Bioethics’ #1 most cited article in the last 20 years. From 1999-2014 she served as Chief Ethics In Health Care Officer for the Department of Veterans Affairs and Director of the National Center for Ethics in Health Care, which under her leadership became one of the preeminent ethics centers in the world. In her VA role, Fox served as Principal Advisor to the Under Secretary for Health and was responsible for national policy on matters relating to clinical and organizational ethics. During her tenure with VA she instigated and led multiple high-profile national quality improvement initiatives for VA including IntegratedEthics,® iMedConsent, and the Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions Initiative. Fox's latest study (submitted for publication) focuses on clinical ethics fellowship programs in the U.S. and Canada. She is also spearheading a national initiative to develop accreditation standards for clinical ethics fellowships.
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