FOX News Channel Signs Oncologist and Affordable Care Act Architect Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel to Contributor Role
February 21 2017 - 12:04PM
Business Wire
FOX News Channel (FNC) has signed oncologist and Affordable Care
Act architect Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel as a contributor. In this role,
effective immediately, he will offer healthcare and policy analysis
across FNC and FOX Business Network’s (FBN) daytime and primetime
programming.
Emanuel is the Vice Provost for Global Initiatives, the Diane
v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor and Chair of the
Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of
Pennsylvania. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for American
Progress and an op-ed contributor to The New York Times. Before
joining the University of Pennsylvania in August 2011, he was the
founding chair of the Department of Bioethics at the National
Institutes of Health and previously served as an associate
professor at Harvard Medical School.
From January 2009 until January 2011, Emanuel served as a
Special Advisor on Health Policy to the Director of the Office of
Management and Budget and National Economic Council in former
President Barack Obama’s administration, where he was notably one
of the designers of the Affordable Care Act. He is also a member of
the Council on Foreign Relations and the chair of the meta-council
on the Future of Health Care Committee for the World Economic
Forum. Emanuel served on President Clinton’s Health Care Task
Force, the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC) and on the
bioethics panel of the Pan-American Healthcare Organization.
Additionally, he has been a visiting professor at many universities
and medical schools, including the Brin Professor at Johns Hopkins
Medical School, the Kovitz Professor at Stanford Medical School,
the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, UCLA and a
visiting professor at New York University Law School.
The recipient of numerous awards, Emanuel was elected to the
Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Science, the
Association of American Physicians and the Royal College of
Medicine (UK). He also received the AMA-Burroughs Wellcome
Leadership Award, the Public Service Award from the American
Society of Clinical Oncology, the John Mendelsohn Award from the MD
Anderson Cancer Center, a Fulbright Scholarship (which he
declined), the President’s Medal for Social Justice from Roosevelt
University and was selected as Hippocrates Magazine’s Doctor of the
Year in Ethics.
Emanuel developed The Medical Directive, a living will that has
been endorsed by Consumer Reports on Health, Harvard Health Letter,
The New York Times and Wall Street Journal, among other
publications. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles on
the ethics of clinical research, health care reform, international
research ethics, end of life care issues, euthanasia, the ethics of
managed care and the physician-patient relationship. Emanuel’s work
is featured in the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and
JAMA, among other medical journals. Additionally, he has authored
six books and co-edited seven books, including “Reinventing
American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act will Improve our
Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly
Inefficient, Error Prone System,” “Brothers Emanuel: A Memoir of an
American Family” and “Healthcare, Guaranteed: A Simple, Secure
Solution for America.”
Emanuel graduated from Amherst College and later received his
M.Sc. from Oxford University in Biochemistry. He earned his M.D.
from Harvard Medical School and his Ph.D. in political philosophy
from Harvard University, where his dissertation received the Toppan
Award for the finest political science dissertation of the year.
Additionally, he was a fellow in the Program in Ethics and the
Professions at the Kennedy School of Government. Emanuel completed
his residency in internal medicine at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital
and his oncology fellowship at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute,
where he later joined the faculty.
FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news
service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political
and business news. The number one network in cable, FNC has been
the most-watched television news channel for 15 years and according
to a Suffolk University/USA Today poll, is the most-trusted
television news source in the country. Owned by 21st Century Fox,
FNC is available in 90 million homes and dominates the cable news
landscape, routinely notching the top ten programs in the
genre.
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