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Jason Karlawish, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics with tenure, Senior Fellow of the Center for Bioethics and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, and Scholar at the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the Associate Director of the Penn Memory Center and the Director of the Alzheimers Disease Center�s Education and Information Transfer Core. Doctor Karlawish�s research focuses on ethical issues in human subjects research and the care of persons with dementia. He has investigated issues in dementia drug development, informed consent, quality of life, research and treatment decision making, and voting by persons with dementia.
His current research examines elderly persons� willingness to allow family to serve as a proxy for research decision making, consent capacity, whether Alzheimer�s Disease clinical trials can be redesigned to increase family caregivers� willingness to enroll, and voting rights for persons with cognitive disability. His clinical practice focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of persons with Alzheimer�s disease and related disorders. He directs the ethics track and co-directs the aging track of Penn�s Masters in Clinical Science of Epidemiology program. | 