Bruce Jennings is Adjunct Professor at Vanderbilt University in the Department of Health Policy and the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society. He is a former Executive Vice President and current Fellow and Senior Advisor of the Hastings Center, a nonprofit research center that studies ethical issues in society, medicine and the life sciences. In addition, he is Senior Fellow at the Center for Humans and Nature, a nonprofit research center based in Chicago that studies environmental ethics and policy. Jennings previously taught ethics at the Yale University School of Public Health. In 2011, Jennings was named Editor-in-Chief of the standard reference work in the field of bioethics, Bioethics, 4th Edition, 6 vols. He has published widely on ethical issues in hospital treatment decision making, palliative care, and hospice. Jennings served on the Board of Directors of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization and the Board of Trustees of the Hospice and Palliative Care Association of New York State, and has served as ethics consultant for numerous hospitals and nursing homes. With Mildred Solomon, he was the co-founder of the “Decisions Near the End of Life” program, an educational and practice change program that was conducted in over 200 hospitals in 20 states from 1990-1996. He is co-author of the influential Hastings Center Guidelines for Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care Near the End of Life, Revised and Expanded Second Edition.
