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The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine is pleased to announce
Norman Fost, MD, MPH
is the recipient of the 2007 Patricia Price Browne Prize in Biomedical Ethics
Dr. Norman Fost is a graduate of Princeton (AB 1960), Yale (MD 1964) and Harvard (MPH 1973). He completed residency training in pediatrics and two years as Chief Resident at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was a fellow in the Harvard Program in Law, Medicine and Ethics 1972-73. Since 1973 he has been at the University of Wisconsin where he is now Professor of Pediatrics and Bioethics; Vice Chair of the Department of Medical History and Bioethics; Director of the Program in Medical Ethics which he founded in 1973; head of the Child Protection Team; and works as a general pediatrician and member of the Child Protection Team, which he founded and directed for 33 years. He has been Chairman of the Hospital Ethics Committee, and Chairman of the Health Sciences Institutional Review Board for 30 years. He was Director of the Pediatric Residency Training Program for 21 years and Vice Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics from 1985-1995. In 1996-97 he was the DeCamp Visiting Professor of Bioethics at Princeton.
Dr. Fost has extensive experience in ethical and legal issues in health care. He has been Chair of the University of Wisconsin Health Sciences Human Subjects Committee for 28 years. He has published numerous articles on human subjects research, genetic screening, euthanasia of handicapped newborns, access to human growth hormone, and use of performance enhancing drugs. He has taught courses on Ethical Regulatory Issues in Human Subjects Research at the FDA Staff College, and for seven years has taught a similar course at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions as part of their Graduate Program in Clinical Trials. He has served on numerous federal committees and commissions on a variety of ethical and regulatory issues, including President Clinton’s Health Care Task Force. He currently serves on the FDA’s Pediatric Subcommittee. He was a member of the National Academy of Science Committee on Guidelines for Stem Cell Research whose report was published in 2005.
Some of Dr. Fost’s numerous accomplishments, honors and committees:
- Established one of the first interdisciplinary programs in medical ethics at the University of Wisconsin, 1973 (with John Roberston, JD and two years later, with Dan Wikler, Ph.D. both of whom have become leading figures in the field, with endowed chairs.)
- One of the first physicians in the United States with formal training in bioethics via the MPH Kennedy Program in Law, Medicine and Ethics at Harvard in the early 1970’s.
- President William Jefferson Clinton Health Care Task Force, Ethics Working Group
- FDA Pediatric Drugs Advisory Committee
- FDA Pediatric Ethics Subcommittee (Chair)
- Princeton University, Board of Trustees (Elected) 1994-1998
- American Academy of Pediatrics, William G. Bartholome Award for Excellence in Ethics
- Princeton University, DeCamp Visiting Professor of Bioethics (1996-1997)
- Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Human Research Protection (Office of Human Research
Protection, US Dept of Health and Human Services, and Health Improvement Institute) 2006.
- Nellie Westermann Prize in Research Ethics
- First Place (with Richard Love, 1997)
- Honorable Mention (with Stephen Cohen, 1976)
- Honorable Mention (with Philip Farrell, 1989)
Some of Dr. Norman Fost’s distinguished students:
- Ben Wilfond, MD (newly appointed Director of the Pediatric Bioethics Center at Seattle Children’s Hospital)
- Ellen Wright Clayton, JD, MD (Endowed Professor of Law, Genetics, Health Policy and Pediatrics at Vanderbilt)
- Michael Green, MD (Associated Professor, Humanities and Medicine, Pennsylvania State University Medical Center)
- Doug Diekema, MD, MPH (Professor of Pediatrics and Interim Director, Treuman Katz Center for Bioethics, Seattle Children’s Hospital
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