Justin T Clapp, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Senior Fellow, Center for Public Health Initiatives (CPHI)
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
Senior Scholar, Penn Center for Perioperative Outcomes Research and Transformation (CPORT)
Affiliated Faculty, Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center (PAIR)
Department: Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Graduate Group Affiliations
Contact information
Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy
University of Pennsylvania
423 Guardian Dr.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
University of Pennsylvania
423 Guardian Dr.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 914-356-5435
Education:
B.A. (Literature)
College of William and Mary, 2006.
Ph.D. (Anthropology)
University of Pennsylvania, 2012.
M.P.H. (Public Health)
University of Pennsylvania, 2017.
Permanent linkB.A. (Literature)
College of William and Mary, 2006.
Ph.D. (Anthropology)
University of Pennsylvania, 2012.
M.P.H. (Public Health)
University of Pennsylvania, 2017.
Selected Publications
Clapp, J.T., Kruser, J.M., Schwarze, M.L., Hadler, R.A.: Language in Bioethics: Beyond the Representational View. American Journal of Bioethics Epub ahead of print, 2024.Kruser, J.M., Clapp, J.T., Arnold, R.M.: Reconsidering the language of serious illness. JAMA 330(7): 587-588, 2023.
Karlawish, J., Peterson, A., Kleid, M., Harkins, K., Largent, E.A., Sittes, S.D., Coykendall, C., Clapp, J.T.: Caregiver Accounts of Lucid Episodes in Persons with Advanced Dementia. The Gerontologist 64(6), 2024.
Hadler, R.A., Clapp, J.T. [co-first author], Chung, J.J., Gutsche, J.T., Fleisher, L.A.: Escalation and withdrawal of treatment for patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO): A qualitative study. Annals of Surgery 227(1): e226-e234, 2023.
Clapp, J.T., Schwarze, M.L., Fleisher, L.A.: Surgical Overtreatment and Shared Decision-making—The Limits of Choice. JAMA Surgery 157(1): 5-6, 2022.
Lynch, H.F., Eriksen, W., Clapp, J.T.: “We measure what we can measure”: Struggles in defining and evaluating institutional review board quality. Social Science & Medicine 292: 114614, 2022.
Burson, R.C., Familusi, O.O., Clapp, J.T.: Imagining the ‘structural’ in medical education and practice in the United States: A curricular investigation. Social Science & Medicine 300: 114453, 2022.
Clapp Justin T, Arriaga Alexander F, Murthy Sushila, Raper Steven E, Schwartz J Sanford, Barg Frances K, Fleisher Lee A: Surgical Consultation as Social Process: Implications for Shared Decision Making. Annals of Surgery 269(3): 446-452, Mar 2019.
Clapp, J.T., Diraviam, S.P., Lane-Fall, M.B., Szymczak, J.E., Muralidharan, M., Chung, J.J., Gutsche, J.T., Curley, M.A.Q., Berns, J.S., Fleisher, L.A.: Nephrology in the Academic Intensive Care Unit: A Qualitative Study of Interdisciplinary Collaboration. American Journal of Kidney Diseases 75(1): 61-71, 2020.
Graff, V., Clapp, J.T. [co-first-author], Heins, S.J., Chung, J.J., Muralidharan, M., Fleisher, L.A., Elkassabany, N.M.: Patient involvement in anesthesia decision making: A qualitative study of knee arthroplasty. Anesthesiology 135: 111-121, July 2021.