Mark Kuczewski, PhD, HEC-C

Professor & Director

Bio

Mark G. Kuczewski, PhD, is the Fr. Michael I. English, S.J., Professor of Medical Ethics. He is also the director of the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy. Mark is a past president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) and a Fellow of the Hastings Center. Mark is a dedicated bioethics educator. He is known for having created two of the major online graduate programs in bioethics. In the mid-1990s, his experience in providing resources to support ethics committees in community hospitals led him to explore online education. His mission has been to form a supportive learning community that enables experienced professionals to share their insights and support each other to meet their emerging clinical and administrative challenges. The graduate bioethics programs of the Neiswanger Institute are the outcome of this guiding ideal.

His current interests include attention to the role of culture and spirituality in decision making. This has led him to a particular interest in the bioethical issues related to the recent wave of immigration to the United States. He has been an articulate spokesperson for the just and equitable treatment of immigrant patients. His writings argue for a prohibition on forced medical repatriation and the severing of any relationship between health insurance and immigration status. He served as the project manager of the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine effort to include Dreamers in medical education. This resulted in Stritch becoming the first medical school in the nation to welcome applications from Dreamers of DACA status. He is also co-chair (with Bruce Boyer, JD) of the university-wide Dreamer Committee at Loyola University Chicago that seeks to foster inclusion of Dreamers in all aspects of the life of the university including its research, education, and service missions.

For this work, Mark has received numerous awards including being named co-winner of the Loyola University Chicago 2017 Faculty Member of the Year. (Read Dr. Kuczewski's remarks here.) More recently, he received the prestigious Award for Bioethics Service in the Face of Challenges from the International Association of Bioethics (IAB). Listen to his remarks here.

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Education

PhD, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA

Courses Taught

BEHL 401 Clinical Bioethics
BEHL 403 Ethics Across the Care Continuum
BEHL 412 Organizational Ethics I: Business, Professionalism, and Justice
BEHL 419 Organizational Ethics II: Ethical Leadership for a Changing Healthcare Environment

Publications/Research Listings

PUBLICATIONS

Kuczewski M, Saadi A. (2024) Medicine Must Plan to Protect Immigrant Patients and Their Families: With an Election Looming, the Time Is Now. JAMA Internal Medicine. Published online October 28, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.6178
Kuczewski M (2024) When Worlds Collide: The Problem of Health Inequities and Anti-Immigrant Politics. American Journal of Bioethics 24(11): 1-3
Solis Solis J, Wattananimitgul N, Kuczewski M. UnDACAmented and Forgotten: The Need for Pediatric Advocacy for Undocumented Youth. Academic Pediatrics 24(5), Supplement, pp. 65-66, July 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acap.2023.03.003
Girtain K, Shah S, Monterrey AC, Gutierrez JR, Kuczewski M, Linton JM. (2023) Moving Toward Inclusion: Access to Care Models for Uninsured Immigrant Children. Milbank Quarterly https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0009.12665
Kuczewski MG. When Nonprofit Health Care Behaves Badly: The Case for Mission Leaders as Ombudsmen. Health Affairs Forefront. December 16, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1377/forefront.20221214.501421
Montelongo Hernandez C, Ramirez Alvarado S, Suarez J, Kuczewski MG. (2022) Report Card Time: How Has the Biden Administration Addressed the U.S. Hispanic Community’s Social Determinants of Health? American Journal of Bioetihcs AJOB 2022 MK
Kuczewski M, Wasson K, Hutchison P, Dilling D. Putting Ethics and Clinical Decision Making before Politics: Requiring COVID-19 Immunization for Solid Organ Transplantation (SOT) Candidates and Their Support Team. Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 41(1):17-19 Published October 21, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healun.2021.10.001
Kuczewski MG (2021) Addressing Systemic Health Inequities Involving Undocumented Youth in the United States. AMA Journal of Ethics 23(2): E134-143
Kuczewski MG, Blair A. (2021) How Should the History of Physician Involvement in the Holocaust Inform How Physicians Approach Employers? AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(1):E12-17. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.12.
Kuczewski M. (2020) If Congress Doesn’t Save DACA, 62,000 Healthcare Professionals Could Be Deported. The Hill, 5/29/20,
Kuczewski MG (2019). But We Can Do Something! Caring for the Ongoing Needs of an Undocumented Patient. [Case Commentary] American Journal of Bioethics 19(1): 82-83
Wasson K, Chaidez C, Hatchett L, Garcia Manrique B, Garcia Nieto E, Kuczewski MG. (2019) "We have a lot of power...": A Medical School's Journey Through Its New Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Initiative. Cureus 11(10): e6037. doi: 10.7759/cureus.6037
Kuczewski MG, Meijas-Beck J, Blair A, Fitz M. (2019) Limbo Really Exists: Undocumented Youth at Risk. Health Progress 100(4): 10-15.
Kuczewski M. (2019) Health Insurance for Undocumented Immigrants? It’s Only Fair to All of Us. The Hill 7/8/19
Kuczewski MG, Mejias-Beck J, Blair A, Fitz M. (2019) Limbo Really Exists: Undocumented Youth at Risk. Health Progress 100(4): 10-15, July-August
Talamantes E, Bribiesca Y, Rangel-Alvarez B, Viramontes O, Zhou M, Kanzaria H, Kuczewski MG, Moreno G. (2019) The Termination of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and Medical Education in the U.S. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health First Online April 23, 2019.
Kuczewski, MG. (2019) Clinical Ethicists Awakened: Addressing Two Generations of Clinical Ethics Issues involving Undocumented Patients. American Journal of Bioethics 19(4): 51-57 and Don't We Need Something More in These Extraordinalry Times? Response to the Commentaries. W10-W12.
Kuczewski MG, Mejias-Beck J, Blair A. (2019). Good Sanctuary Doctoring for Undocumented Patients. AMA Journal of Ethics 21(1): E78-85. https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/good-sanctuary-doctoring-undocumented-patients/2019-01
Wasson K, Adams WH, Berkowitz K, Danis M, Derse AR, Kuczewski MG, McCarthy M, Parsi K, Tarzian AJ (2019). What Is the Minimal Competency for a Clinical Ethics Consult Simulation? Setting a Standard for Use of the Assessing Clinical Ethics Skills (ACES) Tool. AJOB Empirical Bioethics, DOI: 10.1080/23294515.2019.1634653.
Kuczewski M, Pinkus RL, Wasson, K. An Ethics Casebook for Hospitals: Practical Approaches to Everyday Ethics Consultations, 2nd Ed. Georgetown University Press, 2018.

PODCASTS

"Nonprofit Healthcare, Virtue, and Mission" Bioethics in the Margins (April 2024
“What Should Health Professions Students Know About How Immigration Status Affects Health?” AMA Journal of Ethics (August 2022)
"Undocumented Patients: Two Journeys," with Johana Mejias-Beck, MD, Ethicslab Podcasts (February 2020)
“Immigrant Youth at Risk,” Catholic Health Association podcasts, Episode 17 (July 2019)
“Ethics Talk: Compassionate and Respectful Care for Undocumented Immigrants,”AMA Journal of Ethics (January 2019)
"Medical Myths: Undocumented Immigrants and Healthcare" Medicus Podcasts Episode 40 (March 27, 2020)

BLOGS

Bioethicists and Health Care Institutions Must Act Against Florida’s Anti-Immigrant Law. Hastings Bioethics Forum May 24, 2023
DACA at 10: More, Please. Hastings Bioethics Forum June 14, 2022
Making Vaccine Appointments is Tearing Us Apart. Hastings Bioethics Forum March 17, 2021
Deny Vaccination to Undocumented Immigrants? Who Might Benefit? Bioethics.Net Blog January 7, 2021
Measure Twice and Cut Once: The Value of Health Care Ethicists in the Pandemic. Hastings Bioethics Forum June 10, 2020
When DACA Recipients Seek to Match: Some Tips from the Trenches. Kuczewski M, Sayed A, Aramburo R, Michelfelder A. AM ROUNDS, April 2, 2019.