Director, The Ohio State University Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities
Hagop S. Mekhjian, MD, Chair in Medical Ethics and Professionalism
Dr. Ryan R. Nash, MD,
MA is the Director of The Ohio State University Center for Bioethics and
Medical Humanities. He is an Associate
Professor of Medicine and holds the Hagop Mekhjian, MD, Chair in Medical Ethics
and Professionalism at the College of Medicine. In addition to practicing Palliative Medicine,
Dr. Nash is a Clinical Bioethics consultant and Healthcare Ethics Advisor for
the OSU Medical Center. He is an active
educator and administrator. He is the
editor of the Ohio State University Press book series on Bioethics and Medical
Humanities. He serves on editorial
boards of the journals HealthCare Ethics Committee Forum (Springer) and
Christian Bioethics (Oxford University Press).
In addition, he serves on the editorial advisory board for the Journal
of Pain and Symptom Management (Elsevier) and the Journal of Medicine and
Philosophy (Oxford University Press). He
has published one book, three book chapters, and several essays related to
bioethics and has presented numerous scientific papers and invited lectures at
national and international meetings. In
addition, Dr. Nash currently serves on the Ethics Committee for the American
Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
Dr. Nash came to the OSU from the University of Alabama at Birmingham
School of Medicine (UAB), where he served as the Director of Ethics Education,
Chair of Clinical Ethics, and Director of the Palliative Care Leadership Center
(a partnership between the Center to Advance Palliative Care and the UAB Center
for Palliative and Supportive Care). While in Alabama, Dr. Nash also served as
Chief of Staff of the Jefferson County Health System and Cooper Green Mercy
Hospital. He is also currently an adjunct Professor of Bioethics at Trinity
Graduate School, Trinity International University in Illinois.
Dr. Nash received his medical degree from the University of
Texas Medical School at Houston and his master's degree in Bioethics from
Trinity International University. He completed an internal medicine residency
at the University of Texas Medical School, a fellowship in palliative medicine
at the University of Alabama School of Medicine and was a fellow and visiting
scholar at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of
Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine. Dr. Nash has been recognized as a Fellow
of the American College of Physicians, Fellow of the American Academy of
Hospice and Palliative Care, and Fellow in the Academy of Fellows of the Center
for Bioethics and Human Dignity. He has
repeatedly been named to the “America’s Best Doctors” and “World’s Best
Doctors” lists.
Brief Bio R. Nash.pdf
R. Nash - Director
