Arnold R. Eiser, MD

Description of Bioethics Expertise

Vice President, Medical Education, Internal Medicine Residency Director, Mercy Health System of SE PA and Professor of Medicine & Associate Dean
Drexel University College of Medicine

EDUCATION:
University of Pennsylvania, B.A, magna cum laude with Honors in Natural Sciences
Northwestern University Medical School, M.D.


PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Visiting Scholar in Bioethics at the Hastings Center, November, 1994
Adjunct Associate in Bioethics, The Hastings Center 1994-8
Traub-Byfield Fellowship in Bioethics University of Illinois at Chicago 2000-2002
President Chicago Clinical Ethics Program 2002

PUBLICATIONS:

Eiser A.R. The ethics of dialysis withdrawal. Amer J Kidney Dis 27(3): 451-457,1996.

Eiser A.R. Cross-cultural aspects of violence. Mt. Sinai Med J 63:87-89, 1996.

Eiser AR, Goold SD, Suchman AL. Bioethics and Business Ethics in the Management of Healthcare. J Gen Int Med 14: S58-62, 1999.

Eiser AR, Schade SG, Anderson-Shaw L, Murphy T. Electronic communication in ethics committees: experience and challenges J Med Ethics 27: suppl I:i30-i32, 2001

Eiser, AR. Weiss M. The underachieving advance directives: recommendations to increase completion. Amer J Bioethics 2001. Fall;1(4):W10.

Wong W. Eiser AR. PS Heckerling R Mrtek. Factors Involved in Clinical Ethical Decision-Making: Results From A Study Using Q Sort Methodology American Journal of Bioethics 4: W-W22, 2004

Lynch D, Surdyk P, Eiser AR. Assessing Professionalism Medical Teacher 26(4): 366-373, 2004

Schwartz A, Mosnain H, Eiser AR, L. Lincoln, Elstein A. Patient-Physician Fit: A Exploratory Study of a new Instrument. Medical Decisionmaking 26:122-133, March 2006.

Eiser AR, Ellis G. Cultural Competence and the Care of the African American patient, Acad Med 82: 176-183, 2007.