Jake Greenblum, PhD, HEC-C
Jake Greenblum

Jake Greenblum, PhD, HEC-C

Jake Greenblum, PhD, HEC-C, is a certified healthcare ethics consultant (HEC-C) at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

About Jake Greenblum, PhD, HEC-C

Jake Greenblum, PhD, HEC-C, is a certified healthcare ethics consultant (HEC-C). As a clinical ethicist, Dr. Greenblum provides clinical ethics consultations, educates hospital staff, writes policies, and conducts ethics research. Dr. Greenblum received his PhD in philosophy from Syracuse University, and subsequently completed a clinical ethics fellowship at University Health System in San Antonio, Texas. Jake has also taught in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley's School of Medicine, as well as worked as a clinical ethicist at Memorial Health in Springfield, Illinois. 

Education & training

Graduate Degree

MA - Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 

PhD - Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Additional Training

HEC-C Health Care Ethics Consultant Certified

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Publications

Publications

Greenblum, J., & Hubbard, R. (2022). Why Physicians Have Authority Over Patients. Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy, 25(2), 541-544. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-022-10083-2 

Greenblum, J., & Hubbard, R. (2021). Should Employment Division v Smith be overturned? AMA Journal of Ethics, 23(11), E824-868. https://doi.org/10.1001/amajethics.2021.864 

Greenblum, J., & Kasperbauer, TJ. (2021). In defense of forgetting evil: A reply to Pilkington. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 18(1), 189-191. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-020-10078-9 

Hubbard, R., & Greenblum, J. (2020). Surrogates and artificial intelligence: Why AI trumps family. Science and Engineering Ethics, 26(3), 3217-3227. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-020-00266-6 

Greenblum, J., & Hubbard, R. (2020). On surrogates’ moral authority: A reply to Berger. The American Journal of Bioethics, 20(2), 66-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2019.1701739 

Hubbard, R., & Greenblum, J. (2019). Parental decision making: The best interest principle, child autonomy, and reasonableness. HEC Forum, 31(3), 233-240. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10730-019- 09373-9

Greenblum, J., & Hubbard, R. (2019). The common rule’s ‘reasonable person’ standard for informed consent. Bioethics, 33(2), 274-277. https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12544

Greenblum, J., & Kasperbauer, TJ. (2018). Forget evil: Autonomy, the patient-physician relationship, and the duty to refer. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 15(3), 313-317. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-018-9854-9 

Greenblum, J. (2018). Public reason and the limited right to conscientious objection: A response to Magelssen. Journal of Medical Ethics ,44(3), 206-209. https://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2017- 104237 

Greenblum, J. (2010). Distributive and retributive desert in Rawls. Journal of Social Philosophy, 41(2), 169-184. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9833.2010.01485.x