1. Ezekiel Jonathan "Zeke" Emanuel was born on September 6,1957 and is an American oncologist and bioethicist.
23 Facts About Ezekiel Emanuel
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Ezekiel Emanuel is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.
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Ezekiel Emanuel is the current Vice Provost for Global Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania and chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy.
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Previously, Emanuel served as the Diane and Robert Levy University Professor at Penn.
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Ezekiel Emanuel holds a joint appointment at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Wharton School and was formerly an associate professor at the Harvard Medical School until 1998 when he joined the National Institutes of Health.
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On November 9,2020, President-elect Joe Biden named Ezekiel Emanuel to be one of the 16 members of his COVID-19 Advisory Board.
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Ezekiel Emanuel's father, Benjamin M Emanuel, is a Jerusalem-born pediatrician who was once a member of the Irgun, a Jewish paramilitary organization that operated in Mandate Palestine.
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Ezekiel Emanuel provided free care to poor immigrants and led efforts to get rid of lead paint that was dangerous for children; as of 2010 he lived in a Chicago suburb.
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Ezekiel Emanuel has an adopted sister, Shoshana Emanuel, who has cerebral palsy.
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Ezekiel Emanuel completed an internship and residency at Beth Israel Hospital in internal medicine.
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Ezekiel Emanuel soon moved into the public sector, and held the position of Chief of the Department of Bioethics at the Clinical Center of the US National Institutes of Health.
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Ezekiel Emanuel served as Special Advisor for Health Policy to Peter Orszag, the former Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Obama administration.
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Ezekiel Emanuel entered the administration with different views from President Barack Obama on how to reform health care, but was said by colleagues to be working for the White House goals.
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Ezekiel Emanuel said that this would allow portable health insurance even to people that lose their jobs or change jobs, while at the same time preserving the security of employer based health benefits by giving consumers the bargaining power of a large group of patients.
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Ezekiel Emanuel said that legalizing euthanasia, as was done in the Netherlands, might be counterproductive, in that it would decrease support for pain management and mental health care.
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The controversy surrounding Ezekiel Emanuel is due to claims by Betsy McCaughey and Sarah Palin accusing Ezekiel Emanuel of supporting euthanasia.
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The article, which accused Ezekiel Emanuel of advocating healthcare rationing by age and disability, was quoted from on the floor of the House of Representatives by Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota.
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Ezekiel Emanuel said that fee-for-service reimbursements encourage spending on ineffective health care.
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Ezekiel Emanuel said that while it is difficult to know when conflicts of interest exist, the fact that they do is "the truth".
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Ezekiel Emanuel mentioned the Selfox study on the use of calcium channel blockers in treating hypertension, in which authors with a financial interest in the results reported much better results than the rest.
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Ezekiel Emanuel has received multiple honors and awards, including the Toppan Dissertation Prize, the Harvard award for best political science dissertation of 1988 and the Dan David Prize for his contribution to the field of bioethics in 2018.
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Ezekiel Emanuel has received honorary degrees from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Union Graduate College, the Medical College of Wisconsin, and Macalester College.
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In 1981, while at Oxford, Ezekiel Emanuel was a participant on the BBC reality TV programme Now Get Out Of That.