Daniel Davis

Daniel Davis, Ph.D.
Dan Davis is Geisinger's chief bioethics officer and director of the system's fledgling bioethics center. A native of West Virginia, he earned his Ph.D. degree in the philosophy and ethics of medicine from Georgetown University in May 1996. He also worked at Georgetown for more than 20 years, serving as director of strategic planning for the medical center (from 1988 to 1997) and then as associate dean for educational planning and evaluation at the medical school (from 1997 to 2005). At Georgetown's Center for Clinical Bioethics, he was a senior research scholar with varied responsibilities for teaching and research in bioethics; he also served as a senior ethicist on the ethics consultation service at Georgetown's hospital and as chair of Georgetown's institutional review board for psychosocial and behavioral research. From January 2006 to September 2009, he served as the executive director of the President's Council on Bioethics. In October 2009, he was appointed senior advisor for bioethics and policy in the Office of the Director at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, where his portfolio included policy analysis and development in genomic ethics, biosecurity, Common Rule reform, and therapeutics development. He served in that capacity until his recruitment to Geisinger in September 2012. At Geisinger, in addition to his work in bioethics, he chairs a standing working group on patient engagement in research, discovery, and innovation and has served as the co-lead of an ad hoc working group founded in 2013 and organized around the goal of spurring Geisinger's growth as a learning health care system. His research interests include clinical ethics consultation; shared decision making, especially in the context of advanced illness; patient engagement in research and care; professional formation in the health professions; and, organizational culture and ethics in health care.

DANVILLE - Dr. F. Daniel Davis has been named director of bioethics for Geisinger Health System.
Davis came to Geisinger in September with 20-plus years of experience in theoretical and applied bioethics, most recently serving as senior adviser for bioethics and policy with the National Institutes of Health's Office of Science Policy in Bethesda, Md. At Geisinger, Davis will lead the system's bioethics initiatives, including strengthening the capacity for clinical ethics consultation, ethics education, policy development and review and ethics quality improvement. In this role, he is building an integrated ethics approach, working with clinicians at the bedside and with investigators, especially in the field of genomics. He is chairing the bioethics committee at Geisinger Medical Center and working with the ethics committees at the other hospitals in the system. He also will implement a Rural Health Bioethics program to advance ethics in the delivery of healthcare. The program will include bioethics-related research and program development in rural healthcare settings. A member of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Davis served as an associate dean at Georgetown University School of Medicine, where he chaired the institutional review board for psychosocial and behavioral research and served on the hospital ethics committee. Before taking up his post at the NIH, he served as executive director of the President's Council on Bioethics. "Dr. Davis comes to us with an impressive record of bioethics experience in the federal government and at Georgetown's Medical Center," said Dr. Albert Bothe, executive vice president and chief medical officer, Geisinger Health System.

F. Daniel Davis, Ph.D., has been named director of bioethics for Geisinger Health System.
Dr. Davis came to Geisinger in September with 20-plus years of experience in theoretical and applied bioethics, most recently serving as senior advisor for bioethics and policy with the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Office of Science Policy in Bethesda, Md. At Geisinger, Dr. Davis will lead the system's bioethics initiatives, including strengthening the capacity for clinical ethics consultation, ethics education, policy development and review and ethics quality improvement. In this role, he is building an integrated ethics approach, working with clinicians at the bedside and with investigators, especially in the field of genomics. He is chairing the bioethics committee at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville and working with the ethics committees at the other hospitals in the system. Dr. Davis will also implement a Rural Health Bioethics program to advance ethics in the delivery of healthcare. The program will include bioethics-related research and program development in rural healthcare settings. A member of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Dr. Davis served as an associate dean at Georgetown University School of Medicine where he also chaired the institutional review board for psychosocial and behavioral research and served on the hospital ethics committee. Before taking up his post at the NIH, he served as executive director of the President's Council on Bioethics. "Dr. Davis comes to us with an impressive record of bioethics experience in the federal government and at Georgetown's Medical Center," said Albert Bothe, M.D., executive vice president and chief medical officer, Geisinger Health System.