Mark Kuczewski, PhD, HEC-C
Mark G. Kuczewski, PhD, is the Fr. Michael I. English, S.J., Professor of Medical Ethics. He is also the director of the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy and chair of the Department of Medical Education at the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. Mark is a past president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH). He has been engaged in bedside clinical ethics issues for more than 25 years and much of that experience forms the basis for the popular text, An Ethics Casebook for Hospitals: Practical Approaches to Everyday Ethics Consultations (2nd edition, Georgetown University Press). For the last decade, he has been an articulate spokesperson for the just and equitable treatment of immigrant patients including creating with Drs. Johana Mejias-Beck and Amy Blair the Sanctuary Doctor website to assist clinicians in supporting immigrant patients. He also led the effort to make the Stritch School of Medicine the first medical school in the nation to openly welcome applicants who are DACA recipients. For his work om behalf of immigrants, Mark has received numerous awards including the Moral Courage Award from Faith in Public Life, the Carmen Velasquez Warrior Award from Alivio Medical Center, and the Strangers No Longer Award from the Archdiocese of Chicago. Mark was also named the Loyola University Chicago 2017 Faculty Member of the Year.