Craig Klugman

Craig M. Klugman, PhD is Vincent de Paul Professor of Bioethics and Health Humanities. He is a bioethicist and medical anthropologist who works on end-of-life issues, digital health, public health ethics, and pedagogy. Dr. Klugman co-directs the minor in Bioethics and Society and serves on the Northwestern Hospital ethics committee. He was the recipient of the 2023 Lifetime Achievement and Service Award for the Health Humanities Consortium and inaugural recipient of the 2026 Ometz Leadership Award.

Classes Taught

• Ethics for Health Sciences (HLTH 229)
• Health Humanities (HLTH 329)
• Bioethics in Society Capstone Seminar (HLTH 339)
• Death and Dying​ (HLTH 341)
• US Health Care Policy (HLTH 250)

Select Publications

• Bracken RC, EG Lamb, CM Klugman (2026). Where are they now? A survey of health humanities program graduates. Journal of Medical Humanities. doi: 10.1007/s10912-026-10052-3
• Klugman CM, Weatherston R, Williams A, Dexter R, McCormick SE, Luck P, Berry SL, Lamb EG (2026). Discovering Consensus: A Focus Group Study of Health Humanities Education. Journal of Medical Humanities 47(1), 147-196. doi: 10.1007/s10912-025-09992-z
• Klugman CM & Levine C (2024). Diagnosing Shosha: literature as a lens to view disease and history. Medical Humanities 50(3):450-455. 10.1136/medhum-2023-012794
• Michelson K, Klugman CM, Kho A, Gerke S (2022). Ethical Considerations Related to Using Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Mortality in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Journal of Pediatrics: 247 (Aug): 125-128. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.12.069

Books

• CM Klugman and EG Lamb, Research Methods in Health Humanities (2019, Oxford University Press)
• CM Klugman, MacMillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks in Philosophy: Medical Ethics (2016, Gale Cengage Press)
• CM Klugman and P Dalinis, Ethical Issues in Rural Health (2008/2013, Johns Hopkins University Press).