Matthew Wynia

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Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH is Board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, with additional training in public health and health services research. He has worked nationally and internationally on issues related to professionalism and the social roles of physicians, often focusing on the historical roles of health professionals in the Holocaust and contemporary implications of this terrible legacy. He has worked with organizations including the American Medical Association, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, the American Board of Medical Specialties, and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and he has led national projects on medicine and the Holocaust, professionalism in medicine and public health, ethics in wartime, truth and racial reconciliation in medicine, and more. He is a member of the Lancet Commission on Medicine, Nazism and the Holocaust and he has served on numerous other major commissions. Dr. Wynia has delivered more than 2 dozen named lectures and visiting professorships and is the author of more than 230 published articles. He has served as president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH), chair of the Ethics Forum of the American Public Health Association (APHA), and chair of the Ethics Committee of the Society for General Internal Medicine (SGIM). Dr Wynia currently leads the University of Colorado’s Center for Bioethics and Humanities, where the Holocaust, Genocide and Contemporary Bioethics program spans all health sciences training programs and all 4 campuses. He is also on LinkedIn.