Chris Feudtner

Chris Feudtner is a Professor of Pediatrics, Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and serves as the Director of the Department of Medical Ethics at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). He holds the Steven D. Handler Endowed Chair of Medical Ethics at CHOP.

• University of Pennsylvania, MD
• University of Pennsylvania, PhD in History & Sociology of Science
• University of Washington, MPH in Health Services Research
• Lancaster University (UK), MA in History of Science
• Princeton University, AB in Molecular Biology

His research focuses on pediatric palliative care, medical ethics, health services research, and pediatric hospital medicine. He has extensively studied maternal-fetal surgery, spina bifida, and mental health conditions in hospitalized children, with over 200 publications. His work includes analyzing physician attitudes toward prenatal interventions and developing frameworks for ethical clinical decision-making.

Feudtner's scientific awards include the Stanley Stamm Role Model in Medicine Award, Leonard Tow Humanism Award, and Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Award. He has received continuous funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), NIH, and private foundations for his work on pediatric health outcomes and ethics.