Leaders in Research
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| Jason H. Karlawish, MD Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Dr. Karlawish's research and scholarship focus on ethical issues in research and care that involves patients with dementia and related cognitive disorders. His current projects investigate caregiver and patient decision making capacity for research enrollment and dementia treatment, what factors predict patient and caregiver ratings of patient quality of life, patient participation in presidential elections, and the impact of depression on decision making. His Beeson project is examining how Alzheimer's disease patients and their caregivers want to treat dementia. A provocative set of data examines the treatment preferences of caregivers of severe to terminal stage patients. He is collaborating with his colleague Dr. David Casarett on studies of informed consent that involves patients with chronic pain and terminal illnesses. He continues writing on research ethics, competency, and dementia care. Recent publications include papers in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Neurology, Journal of Palliative Medicine, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, and IRB: A Review of Human Subjects Research. Some short writings on issues in dementia care and research are available on Penn’s Alzheimer's Disease Center's web page at http://pennadc.org. Dr. Karlawish studied medicine at Northwestern University and completed postgraduate training in internal medicine, geriatrics and bioethics at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Chicago. | |
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Jason H. T. Karlawish, MD is finishing his first year as a Beeson Fellow. He continues in a number of roles at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, Director of the Alzheimer's Disease Center's Education and Information Transfer Core, and a Fellow of the Center for Bioethics. Three recent new roles are Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics, member of Institutional Review Board #3, and Acting Director of the Memory Disorders Clinic of Penn's Alzheimer's Disease Center. Just this Spring, he received a Brookdale Foundation Advancement in Leadership Small Grants Program award to study "How do Alzheimer's disease patients and their caregivers make dementia treatment decisions."