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DisclosuresDr. Wynia helped to create the Ethical Force program tools for assessing communication climate in health care organizations, which are now available for use through a set of trained consultants.
Dr. Matthew Wynia is director of the Institute for Ethics at the American Medical Association. Dr. Wynia is an internist and a specialist in infectious diseases. Dr. Wynia oversees a wide range of research projects on ethics in health care and is the the author of more than 125 published articles, book chapters and reports and a book on fairness in health care benefit design. His work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Health Affairs and other leading medical and ethics journals.
Dr. Wynia is a past president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH), and has chaired the Ethics Forum of the American Public Health Association (APHA) and the Ethics Committee of the Society for General Internal Medicine (SGIM). He cares for patients at the University of Chicago Hospital, where he is a clinical assistant professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases.
Dr. Wynia received his MD from Oregon Health Sciences University School of Medicine. He completed his residency at the Deaconess Hospital in Boston. Dr. Wynia completed fellowships in geographic medicine and infectious diseases at Tufts' New England Medical Center, and completed an AHCPR post-doctoral fellowship in health services research at the New England Medical Center, both located in Boston.