Scott Kim, MD, PhD

Scott Kim, MD, PhD, is a psychiatrist and also a core faculty member of the Bioethics Program. His work has been supported by grants from the NIH and the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, and he is currently a Greenwall Faculty Scholar in Bioethics. He studies research ethics policy, especially the ethics of involving decisionally impaired persons in research, the ethics of high-risk research, and ethical issues in industry-academia relations. Trained as a philosopher, he also thinks a lot about the relationship between normative theories and empirical realities and how they affect (and ought to affect) our policies. His recent work uses deliberative democratic consultation methods to inform policies regarding surrogate consent for research.

Recent Publications:

The views of Alzheimer disease patients and their study partners on proxy consent for clinical trial enrollment.
Karlawish JHT, Kim S, Knopman D, van Dyck CH, James BD, Marson D. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry . 16(3):240-247, 2008.

Ethics of sham surgery: Perspective of patients.
Frank S, Holloway RG, Zimmerman C, Peterson DR, Kieburtz K, Kim S. Movement Disorders . In Press, 2007.

Recent Press Coverage:

Survey looks at ethics of Alzheimer's trials
November 08, 2005

Most at risk of Alzheimer's would join research trial
November 07, 2005