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Matthew McCoy, PhD, MBE

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Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
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34 University of San Francisco, 2003.
21 a M.Sc. 1d (Political Theory) c
49 London School of Economics and Political Science, 2008.
21 a Ph.D. 1d (Political Theory) c
2d Princeton University, 2015.
21 b M.B.E. 16 (Bioethics) c
33 University of Pennsylvania, 2017.
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Selected Publications

149 Moore B, McCoy MS, Taylor L, Nelson RH, Stahl R, Ubel PA, Blumenthal-Barby J : What Can We Ask of Hospitals? Conceptual Foundations for an Ethics of Healthcare Organizations. American Journal of Bioethics Page: 1-15, Feb 2026 Notes: Online ahead of print.

e0 Shen MM, Clapp JT, Lynch HF, McCoy MS: Mapping the Landscape of Medical Venture Philanthropy. AJOB Empirical Bioethics 16(4): 286–296, October 2025.

94 McCoy MS: Patient Organizations, Venture Philanthropy, and the Ethics of Pursuing Cures Over Care 4b Journal of Medical Ethics Page: 110875, Sept 2025.

100 Greenberg KS, Hopen J, Draw M, McCoy MS, Kanter GP, Lynch HF: Difficulty With Binary Voting Among FDA Oncology Advisory Committee Members. JAMA Network Open 8(7): e2522759, July 2025.

128 McCoy MS, Gaines ME, Joffe S, Kanter GP, Largent EA, Lo B, Lynch HF, Whelan AM, Mello MM: A Framework for Assessing the Permissibility of Academic Leaders’ Outside Activities. Milbank Quarterly 103(3): 755-778, June 2025.

ff Lynch HF, Largent EA, McCoy MS, Joffe S: Advancing Trust in Science: Institutional Obligations to Promote Research Integrity. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 53(1): 1-5, June 2025.

189 Zeng E, Wu X, Ertmann EN, Huang L, Johnson DF, Mehendale AT, Tang BT, Zhukoff K, Adjei-Poku M, Bauer L, Friedman AB, McCoy MS: Measuring Risks to Users’ Health Privacy Posed by Third-Party Web Tracking and Targeted Advertising. Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 384: 1-26, April 2025.

1b4 Greenberg KS, Lynch HF, Nwakama C, Frumovitz J, Setru S, Johnson AM, Shah SM, Schadt L, McCoy MS, Hoffman AK, Largent EA: A Review of Public Comments Submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in Response to the 2022 National Coverage Decision on Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease. Journal of Law and the Biosciences 12(1): lsaf004, April 2025.

ee Smith JN, Barnhill A, Savulescu J, Liao SM, McCoy MS, Blumenthal-Barby J: "Why Do You Ask?" Revisiting the Purpose of Eliciting the Public’s Moral Judgments About Emerging Technologies. 4b AJOB Empirical Bioethics 16(3): 127-39, Mar 2025.

f2 McCoy MS, Dellgren JL, Emanuel EJ: What Justifies Public Engagement in Health Financing Decisions? Bulletin of the World Health Organization 103(1): 32-36, January 2025.

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