David Magnus

David Magnus is the Thomas A. Raffin Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Ethics and professor of pediatrics at Stanford University.[1][2][3] He is also the director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics and the co-chair of the Ethics Committee at Stanford Hospital.[4]

David Magnus
OccupationProfessor of Medicine and Biomedical Ethics,
Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine
Academic background
EducationUniversity of California, Riverside (BA)
Stanford University (PhD)
Academic work
InstitutionsStanford University
Main interestsBioethics
Websitehttps://med.stanford.edu/profiles/david-magnus

Early life

Magnus completed his undergraduate work at the University of California at Riverside, where he majored in philosophy. He completed his graduate work at Stanford University, receiving a PhD in philosophy.

Career

He has since become a researcher in the field of bioethics, publishing over 100 articles, book chapters, and reviews on a wide range of topics, including organ transplantation, genetics, stem cell research, end of life care, patient communication, and research ethics. He is a co-founder and current editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Bioethics,[5] and is a former president of the Association of Bioethics Program Directors.[6][7]

Magnus has served on the National Research Council Ad Hoc Committee on the Bioconfinement of Genetically Engineered Organisms and on the California Human Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee. He has also consulted for both the World Bank on Food Security and Biotechnology and the National Conference of State Legislatures on cloning.

He is currently the Vice-Chair of the IRB for the Precision Medicine Initiative "All of Us" program.

Magnus also served as the principal editor of a collection of essays entitled Who Owns Life? (2002).[8]

Media

In addition to his scholarly work, he has published opinion pieces in the Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Star-Ledger, and the San Jose Mercury News.[9]

Magnus has appeared on The Today Show,[10] 60 Minutes, Good Morning America, ABC World News Tonight, Fox News Sunday, CBS This Morning, and NPR.[11]

gollark: All you need are some nanometre-precision scissors and a very steady hand.
gollark: It's hard to make things which are good at *both* of those, and you would deal with twice the heat in one place.
gollark: CPUs have to execute x86 (or ARM or other things, but generally a documented, known instruction set) very fast sequentially, GPUs can execute basically whatever they want as long as it can be generated from one of the standard ways to interface with them, and do it in a massively parallel way.
gollark: It's not very efficient to have one thing do both because being specialized means they can make specific optimizations.
gollark: But they're not as good because thermal constraints and no ability to swap the bits separately.

References
  1. "David Magnus, Ph.D." Stanford Medicine Profiles. Retrieved 2016-11-04.
  2. Guthmann, Edward (2016-05-31). "Stanford go-getter has become go-to guy for those facing quandaries over new medical technologies". Retrieved 2016-11-08 – via SF Chronicle.
  3. "David Magnus | Public Policy Program". publicpolicy.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  4. "David Magnus". Stanford University. Retrieved 2016-11-29.
  5. "Editorial Board". Homepage. The American Journal of Bioethics. Retrieved 2016-11-04.
  6. "Officers". Homepage. Association of Bioethics Program Directors. Retrieved 2016-11-04.
  7. "David Magnus - Distinguished Speakers Series". honors.nova.edu. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  8. Magnus, D; Caplan, A; McGee, G, eds. (2002). Who Owns Life?. New York: Prometheus Books. ISBN 9781573929868.
  9. "Brain Death Really Is Death". TIME.com. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  10. "Researchers customize stem-cell lines". The Today Show. NBC News. Retrieved 2016-11-04.
  11. Dembosky, April (2015-05-21). "Coded Talk About Assisted Suicide Can Leave Families Confused". All Things Considered. NPR. Retrieved 2016-11-04.
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