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Biography, portrait, and selected coverage for interviews, podcasts, and speaking engagements.
Biography
John D. Lantos is a pediatrician and bioethicist. For four decades he has worked at the intersection of clinical medicine and moral philosophy, writing about how families, doctors, and institutions decide what we owe each other when the stakes are highest. His work is increasingly focused on artificial intelligence in medicine, its promises, its hazards, and the kinds of judgment it cannot replace. His essays appear in JAMA, JAMA Pediatrics, the Hastings Center Report, the New England Journal of Medicine, and Aeon. He delivered the TEDx talk Writing Our Last Chapter.
Media features
Articles, columns, and broadcast segments quoting or about John's work.
- The Lost Aura of the Physician in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - thestreet.com
- Kidney Donors Should Be Treated Like Philanthropists, Not Like Vendors - The Hastings Center for Bioethics
- Blog - A Tribute to William Meadow, MD, PhD, 1948-2019 - Bioethics Today
- May the odds be ever in your favour? The politics of prognosis - Aeon
- Northfield Public Library to host nationally recognized pediatrician and bioethicist Dr. John Lantos - Carleton College
- Exploring the Limits of Children’s Healthcare: What’s the Reality of Providing Care to All? | Newswise - Newswise
Podcast appearances
Long-form conversations on bioethics, AI, and clinical decision-making.
- The Lost Aura of the Physician
- The Lost Aura of the Physician in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- Episode 97: Martha Gershun & John D. Lantos—Authors of Kidney to Share
- Dispute Between Physicians and Family on Surgical Treatment for an Infant with Ultra Short Gut Syndrome: The Perspective of an Ethics Committee
- Kidney to Share with Martha Gershun and John Lantos
- Raising a Child with HLHS
- Zone of Parental Discretion
- Discussion on Dysthanasia
- Recent book: "A Theory of Bioethics"
- After Hours: Government-Backed Medical Experiment on Premature Babies Gone Wrong
- 2020 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference - Professor John Lantos: Let no good pandemic go to waste
- The Ethics of Kidney Donation
- Neurologists Role in Eugenics
- Shots, Jabs, or Immunizations: Words Matter
- New Book: Catastrophic Rupture: A Memoir of Healing
- COVID Vaccines and Children
- Right to an Open Future
- Should We Send Kids to School This Fall
- Working From Home
- COVID in the UK: Where Do We Go From Here
- Ethics and Communication During a Pandemic
- COVID Vaccine Hesitancy and Public Health
- Medical Futility in Texas - Again
- COVID and Child Abuse
- Breathe, Baby, Breath: The Story of a Preemie
- Should Children Get A New COVID Vaccine
- COVID in New York City
- Premature Birth - What Does it Teach Us About Being Human
- COVID: Where Do We Go From Here
- Is Pregnancy a Disease? And Why Does That Matter
- Is the Best Interest Standard the Best Standard for Pediatric Bioethics
- School Nurses and COVID
- Balancing a Child's Interest With the Interests of Other Family Members
- A Pediatric Infectious Disease Doctor Reflects on COVID in Texas
- Planning for COVID in Washington State
- Ethical Dilemmas in Fetal Medicine
- COVID: What Have We Learned
- Abortion: Ethics, Access, and Viability
- Pandemic Ethics
- Work-Life Balance in the COVID Era: Sending Your Kids to School vs Remote Learning
- Ethics Rounds: Navigating Mismatches in Patient Preference and Staff Expertise