Associate Director
Emory University Center for Ethics
Atlanta, Georgia
Kathy Kinlaw, MDiv, HEC-C is Associate Director of the Emory University Center for Ethics where she directs the Center's programming in Health, Science, and Ethics; and she directs the Ethics program, including ethics consultation services, at Emory Healthcare. She is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Emory School of Medicine; and director of the Healthcare Ethics Consortium, a network of healthcare systems and clinicians primarily in the Southeast, hosting national events. Kathy directs integration of clinical ethics into the medical school curriculum and residency programs and teaches in the university’s MA in Bioethics program. She has served as a member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) COVID-19 vaccine work group and a member of the CDC Ethics Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee to the Director. She is a Hastings Center Fellow, vice chair of the Georgia Professional Health Program, and has served as a member of the Federation of State Medical Boards’ Committee on Ethics and Professionalism and Board member of the Georgia Composite Medical Board. Kathy brings ethical analysis to public policy concerns, providing bioethics guidance to legislative issues and public policy forums. Her primary publications and scholarly interests have focused on ethics consultation and ethics committees, palliative and end of life care, perinatal and neonatal ethics, public health ethics, and ethics and medical education.
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Friday, October 24, 2025
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM Pacific Time