Alexander A. Kon, M.D.
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Clinical/Research InterestsDr. Kon cares for critically ill children in the pediatric intensive care unit at UC Davis Children's Hospital and leads the UC Davis Medical Center Bioethics Consultation Committee. His research interests include the ethics of pediatric practice with special emphasis on informed consent in the care of sick children as well as pediatric research ethics. Dr. Kon is also the Director of Bioethics for the UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center, and a national leader in the field of both Preiatric Critical Care Medicine and in Bioethics. Dr. Kon is the editor of the American Journal of Bioethics Primary Research, is a Director of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, and serves on multiple committees of the FDA, NIH, and AAMC. |
Title: |
Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Bioethics Medical Director, Clinical Bioethics Consultation Service Chair, Bioethics Consultation Committee Director of Bioethics Core, Bioethics Clinical and Translational Science Center |
Specialty: |
Pediatric Critical Care, Bioethics |
Center/Program Affiliation: |
UC Davis Children's Hospital |
Address: |
UC Davis Medical Center 2315 Stockton Blvd., Suite PICU Sacramento, CA 95817 |
Education: |
McGill University Faculty of Medicine Montreal, Quebec Canada M.D. 1994 |
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UC Berkeley Berkeley, California B.A. 1989 |
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Internships: |
Stanford University Palo Alto, California 1995 Pediatrics |
Residency: |
Stanford University Palo Alto, California 1997 Pediatrics |
Fellowships: |
University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, California 2000 Medical Ethics University of California, San Francisco and Childrens Hospital Oakland San Francisco/Oakland, California 2000 Pediatric Critical Care Medicine |
Board Certifications: |
American Board of Pediatrics, Critical Care Medicine, 2002 American Board of Pediatrics, General Pediatrics, 2000 |
Professional Memberships: |
American Academy of Pediatrics American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Society of Critical Care Medicine |
Select Recent Publications: |
Kon AA, DuBois J, Heitman E, Schilling 0, Steneck NH. Clinical Research Ethics-Educational Materials. July 2009. Kon AA. Research in the ICU: How can we Optimize the Informed Consent Process? In: Thompson DR, Kummer HB, eds. Critical Care Ethics: A Practice Guide. 2nd ed. Mount Prospect, IL: Society of Critical Care Medicine; 2009. Kon AA. What are the Ethical Implications of Giving Hope to Parents of Critically III Infants and Children? In: Thompson DR, Kummer HB, eds. Critical Care Ethics: A Practice Guide. 2nd ed. Mount Prospect, IL: Society of Critical Care Medicine; 2009. Kon AA, Ablin AR. It's not Palliative Care, It's Palliative Treatment. The Lancet Oncology 2009 10(2):106-107. Brierley J, Carcillo JA, Choong K, Cornell T, DeCaen A, Deymann A, Doctor A, Davis A, Duff J, Dugas M, Duncan A, Evans B, Feldman J, Felmet K, Fisher G, Frankel L, Jeffries H, Greenwald B, Gutierrez J, Hall M, Y. Han YY, Hanson J, Hazelzet J, Hernan L, Kiff J, Kissoon N, Kon A, Irazusta J, l.in J, Lorts A, Mariscalco M, Mehta R, Nadel S, Nguyen T, Nicholson C, Peters M, Okhuysen-Cawley R, Poulton T, Relves M, Rodriguez A, Rozenfeld R, Schnitzler E, Shanley T, Skache S, Skippen P, Torres A, von Dessauer B, Weingarten J, Yeh T, Zaritsky A, Stojadinovic B, Zimmerman J, Zuckerberg A. Clinical practice parameters for hemodynamic support of pediatric and neonatal septic shock: 2007 update from the American College of Critical Care Medicine. Critical Care Medicine 2009 37(2):666-688. Kon AA. The Window of Opportunity: Helping Parents Make the Most Difficult Decision they will Ever Face using an Informed Non-Dissent Model. The American Journal of Bioethics 2009 9(4):55-56. Kon AA. The Window of Opportunity: Helping Parents Make the Most Difficult Decision they will Ever Face using an Informed Non-Dissent Model. The American Journal of Bioethics 2009 9(4):55-56. Kon AA. It is Settled: The 'Is' Can (and Should) Inform the 'Ought'! The American Journal of Bioethics 2009 9(6-7): W4-W6. Kon AA. Ethics of Cardiac Transplantation in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. Pediatric Cardiology 2009 30(6):725-728. Kon AA. The Role of Empirical Research in Bioethics. The American Journal of Bioethics 2009 9(6-7): 59-65. |
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