Alvin Moss, Professor of Medicine, Fellowship training in clinical medical ethics
Dr. Moss is a Professor of Medicine in the Sections of Nephrology and Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the West Virginia University School of Medicine. He is board-certified in internal medicine, nephrology, and hospice and palliative medicine. Dr. Moss founded the West Virginia University Center for Health Ethics and Law, the West Virginia Network of Ethics Committees, and the West Virginia Center for End-of-Life Care. He is the Director of the West Virginia University Center for Health Ethics and Law. He is a member of the National POLST Program and oversees the West Virginia Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment (POST) program. He serves as Chair of the Coalition for Supportive Care of Kidney Patients which is a national collaborative engaging health care professionals, payors, patients, and their families to ensure the consistent provision of individualized, patient-centered supportive care—palliative care—to those with advanced kidney disease. He led the writing of the first and second editions of the clinical practice guideline, Shared Decision-Making in the Appropriate Initiation of and Withdrawal from Dialysis. He received the Distinguished Service Award from the Renal Physicians Association in 2011 and the Medal of Excellence Award from the American Association of Kidney Patients in 2015. He is a co-principal investigator on a grant funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to integrate supportive care into the treatment of patients with advanced chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease. His research interests include shared decision-making, patient-centered care, dialysis ethics and improving care at the end of life. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Dr. Moss is married, and he and his wife Marlene have six children.