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Jeremy
Sugarman
,
MD

Professor
Jeremy Sugarman

Departmental Affiliations

School of Medicine
Primary

Center & Institute Affiliations

Contact Info

1809 Ashland Avenue, Deering Hall 203
Baltimore
Maryland
US        
410-614-5360

Research Interests

Ethics; Medical Ethics; Bioethics; Research Ethics

Experiences & Accomplishments
Education
MD
MPH
Overview

Jeremy Sugarman, MD, MPH, MA is the Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Bioethics and Medicine, professor of medicine, professor of Health Policy and Management, and deputy director for medicine of the Berman Institute of Bioethics at the Johns Hopkins University. He is an internationally recognized leader in bioethics with particular expertise in applying empirical methods and evidence-based standards for evaluating and analyzing bioethical issues. His contributions to bioethics and policy include his work on the ethics of informed consent, umbilical cord blood banking, stem cell research, international HIV prevention research, global health and research oversight.

Dr. Sugarman is the author of over 400 articles, reviews and book chapters.  He has also edited or co-edited four books (Beyond Consent: Seeking Justice in Research; Ethics of Research with Human Subjects: Selected Policies and Resources; Ethics in Primary Care; and Methods in Medical Ethics).  Dr. Sugarman is on the editorial boards of several academic journals.

Dr. Sugarman consults and speaks internationally on a range of issues related to bioethics. He was senior policy and research analyst for the White House Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, consultant to the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, and Senior Advisor to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. He also served on the Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission.

He was the founding director of the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities and History of Medicine at Duke University where he was also a professor of medicine and philosophy. He was appointed as an Academic Icon at the University of Malaya and is a faculty affiliate of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University.

Dr. Sugarman was the longstanding chair of the Ethics Working Group of the HIV Prevention Trials Network. He is currently a member of the Scientific and Research Advisory Board for the Canadian Blood Service and the Ethics and Public Policy Committees of the International Society for Stem Cell Research. He co-leads the Ethics and Regulatory Core of the NIH Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory and is co-chair of the Johns Hopkins’ Institutional Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee.

Honors & Awards

Dr. Sugarman has been elected as a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation, Association of American Physicians, and the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine). He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American College of Physicians and the Hastings Center. He also received a Doctor of Science, honoris causa, from New York Medical College.

Select Publications
  • Sugarman J, Taylor HA, Bachmann LH, Barbee LA, Cahill S, Celum C, Luetkemeyer AF, Mayer KH, Mena L, Mermin J, Upshur R, Aral S. Ethical considerations in implementing doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis for the prevention of bacterial sexually transmitted infections. Sex Transm Dis 2023 Dec 7. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001907. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38079243.

  • Sugarman J, Wenner DM, Rid A, Henry LM, Luna F, Klitzman R, MacQueen KM, Rennie S, Singh JA, Gostin LO. Ethical research when abortion access is legally restricted. Science 2023;380(6651):1224-1226. doi: 10.1126/science.adh3104. PMID: 37347876.

  • Tackett S, Jenn Ng C, Sugarman J, Daniel EGS, Gopalan N, Tivyashinee, Kamarulzaman A, Ali J. A competency framework for health research ethics educational programs: results from a stakeholder-driven mixed-method process. Ethics Hum Res 2023; 45:29-39. doi: 10.1002/eahr.500166. PMID: 37167475.

  • Vayena E, Blasimme A, Sugarman J. Decentralised clinical trials: ethical opportunities and challenges. Lancet Digit Health 2023 Apr 25: S2589-7500(23)00052-3. doi: 10.1016/S2589-7500(23)00052-3. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37105800.

  • Modlin CE, DeCamp M, Barry M, Rockney D, Sugarman J. An online ethics curriculum for short-term global health experiences: evaluating a decade of use. Ann Glob Health. 2022; 88: 74. doi: 10.5334/aogh.3716. PMID: 36072830.

Projects
Masters of Health Research Ethics Program (in collaboration with Universiti Malaya); 5R25TW010891
Risks, Benefits, and Stakeholder Perspectives of Molecular Epidemiology for HIV Prevention (HIV-ME); 5R01MH124590
NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory
International Society for Stem Cell Research Ethics and Public Policy Committees