Center for Bioethics / People / Lanken
Paul N. Lanken
Professor of Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department: Medicine
Contact information
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
8.43 W. Gates Pavilion
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
8.43 W. Gates Pavilion
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: (2115) 614-0913
Fax: (215) 614-0914
Fax: (215) 614-0914
Email:
lanken@mail.med.upenn.edu
lanken@mail.med.upenn.edu
Education:
A.B. (Chemistry and Physics)
Harvard College, 1966.
M.D. (Medicine)
Harvard University, 1970.
A.B. (Chemistry and Physics)
Harvard College, 1966.
M.D. (Medicine)
Harvard University, 1970.
Certifications
American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM #52290), 1975.
Pulmonary Diseases Subspecialty Board (ABIM #52290), 1978.
Critical Care Medicine (ABIM #52290) , 1997.
Permanent linkAmerican Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM #52290), 1975.
Pulmonary Diseases Subspecialty Board (ABIM #52290), 1978.
Critical Care Medicine (ABIM #52290) , 1997.
Description of Bioethics Expertise
Associate Director for Undergraduate Medical EducationLeader, Humanism and Professionalism Module, Curriculum 2000
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Bioethics and professionalism education for undergraduate medical students, and end-of-life issues
ABOUT:
Paul N. Lanken, M.D. is the Director of Medical Education at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the Medical Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Lanken's clinical interests are critical care medicine and pulmonary diseases. His clinical research interests currently include randomized clinical trials involving ICU patients with sepsis or adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). He is currently the principal investigator of an NIH funded clinical network for the study of Prevention and Treatment of ARDS. Not only is he interested in applying techniques of clinical epidemiology to his clinical and bioethics research, but he is also currently enrolled in the Masters Science program in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
He is particularly interested in areas of bioethics relevant to intensive care situations, such as withholding and withdrawing life support, informed consent of critically ill patients and the allocation of scarce and expensive resources.
Dr. Lanken also serves as the center's "point person" for the development of a new curriculum in Bioethics and Professional Responsibility for the School of Medicine. He previously served as Chairman of the School's Task Force that developed a curriculum of bioethics and professional responsibility. He is currently working with the Medical School Dean's Office, course directors and other members of the Center for Bioethics to integrate bioethics into appropriate course work as well as to develop a free standing 1 week bioethics course for third year medical students after their first year of clinical rotations.
Selected Publications
Bates DW, Yu DT, Black ER, Sands KE, Schwartz JS, Hibberd PL, Graman PS, Lanken PN, Kahn KL, Snydman DR, Parsonnet J, Moore R, Platt R for the AMCC Sepsis Project Working Group: Resource utilization in patients with sepsis syndrome. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 24: 62-70, 2003.Yu DT, Black ER, Sands KE, Schwartz JS, Hibberd PL, Graman PS, Lanken PN, Kahn KL, Snydman DR, Parsonnet J, Moore R, Platt R and Bates DW for the AMCC Sepsis Project Working Group: Severe sepsis: variation in resource use among academic centers. Critical Care 7: R24-R34, 2003.
Christie JD, Gaughan C, Gallop R, Landis JR, Lanken PN. : Clinical Risk Factors for Development of ARDS in a Cohort Study of Patients with Major Trauma. May 2003 Notes: Presented at the International Meeting of the American Thoracic Society, Seattle, Washington.
The ARDS Clinical Trials Network : A randomized placebo controlled trial of lisofylline for early treatment of acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome. Crit Care Med 30(1): 1-6, 2002 Notes: PN Lanken, Principal Investigator at University of Pennsylvania.
Arcasoy SM, Lanken PN: Images in clinical medicine. Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis. New Engl J Med 347(26): 2133, 2002.
Kalhan R, Christie JD, Gaughan C, MS, Lanken PN, Fuchs BF: Frequency of using protective ventilation in patients with acute lung injury. Nov 2002 Notes: Presented at CHEST 2002, the International Meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians, San Diego, California.
Christie JD, Lanken PN. : Patient 63. A 73-year-old man who fears suffocating yet requests withdrawal of life-supportive care. Palliative and End-of-Life Pearls. Heffner JE, Byock I (eds.). Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, Page: 198-201, 2002.
Christie JD, Lanken PN. : Patient 63. A 73-year-old man who fears suffocating yet requests withdrawal of life-supportive care. Palliative and End-of-Life Pearls. Heffner JE, Byock I (eds.). Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, Page: 198-201, 2002.
Lanken PN: Approach to Acute Respiratory Failure. The Intensive Care Unit Manual. Lanken, PN, Hanson CW III, Manaker S. (eds.). Philadelphia, WB Saunders, Page: 1-12, 2001.
Lanken PN: Mechanical Ventilation. The Intensive Care Unit Manual. Lanken, PN, Hanson CW III, Manaker S. (eds.). Philadelphia, WB Saunders, Page: 13-30, 2001.