August 16-22, 2010
Vail Marriott Mountain Resort & Spa
Vail, Colorado
Scott Kim, MD, PhD
Scott Kim, MD, PhD is an associate professor of psychiatry and a core faculty member of the Bioethics Program and
an investigator at the Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine at the University of Michigan. He is
a graduate of Harvard Medical School, received his PhD in philosophy (ethical theory) from the University of Chicago,
and trained in psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital. His primary area is research ethics, with special focus
on empirical studies that shed light on potential bioethics policies. He works on the ethics of research involving the
decisionally impaired, on surrogate consent for dementia research, on the ethics of gene transfer research for neurodegenerative
disorders, including the ethics of sham surgery trials. He uses a variety of methods, including experimental surveys,
decision analyses, qualitative interviews, and deliberative democratic methods. His research has been supported by grants
from the NIH (NIMH, NINDS, and NIA), the Michael J. Fox Foundation, the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, and
the Greenwall Foundation.
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Supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke |
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