13 Facts About Dan Wikler

Daniel Isaac Wikler was born on 1946 and is an American public health educator, philosopher, and medical ethicist.

Dan Wikler is Director and a core faculty member in the Harvard Program in Ethics and Health.

Dan Wikler is a fellow of the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution.

Dan Wikler was born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky, where he was graduated from Henry Clay High School.

Dan Wikler earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Oberlin College in Ohio in 1967.

Dan Wikler served for two years as Social Science Analyst in NIMH, the National Institute of Mental Health, in Washington, DC.

Dan Wikler completed his doctorate in philosophy at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1976.

Dan Wikler began his career working on natural language semantics at the intersection of philosophy, linguistics, and mathematics.

Dan Wikler served as the first staff ethicist for the World Health Organization, and remains a consultant to several WHO programs.

Dan Wikler was co-founder and second president of the International Association of Bioethics and has served on the advisory boards of the Asian Bioethics Association and the Pan American Health Organization Regional Program in Bioethics.

Dan Wikler writes, lectures, and advises in bioethics and professional ethics, both internationally and in Greater Boston, including at Harvard.

Dan Wikler is considered a world expert on ethics of the medical definition of death, specifically related to the dead-donor rule with regard to organ transplantation.

Dan Wikler serves on numerous Harvard University and other professional committees and advises several student groups, including the Harvard Undergraduate Bioethics Society, sponsor in March 2008 of the National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference.