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Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, FACP

Director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities
University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus

Dr. Wynia is a Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Colorado School of Public Health and the Director, Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado.

Trained in internal medicine, infectious diseases, public health and health services research, Dr. Wynia was a leader in several program areas at the American Medical Association (AMA), including the AMA Institute for Ethics, the Center for Patient Safety, the Commission to End Health Care Disparities, and the Improving Health Outcomes’ section on Patient and Physician Engagement. In 2015 he became the Director of the University of Colorado’s Center for Bioethics and Humanities.

Dr. Wynia has led projects related to ethics and professionalism in health care with the National Academies, the Joint Commission, professional associations and multiple government agencies, on topics including: public health and disaster ethics; understanding and measuring the ethical climate of health care organizations and systems; ethics and quality improvement; communication, team-based care and engaging patients as members of the team; medicine and the Holocaust; and inequities in health and health care. He has delivered dozens of named lectures and visiting professorships nationally and internationally and has authored more than 170 published articles. He is an elected Fellow of The Hastings Center, past president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and past-chair of the Ethics Forum of the American Public Health Association and the Ethics Committee of the Society for General Internal Medicine.

Dr. Wynia is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.

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