Brendan Parent, JD, is director of medical ethics and associate professor in population health with joint appointment in surgery at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He directs millions of grant dollars to study ethics and regulation of transplant research, artificial intelligence in healthcare, and replacing nonhuman animals in research. Parent serves as an independent living donor advocate, an advisory board member for the National Kidney Foundation, and is an elected fellow of The Hastings Center. He provides ethics consultation for transplant programs across the globe. Parent’s current work also focuses on ethics challenges surrounding determination of death by neurologic criteria, AI-generated health misinformation, and research on the deceased. He has published academic articles in peer reviewed journals including Nature, NEJM, JAMA, and Science, spanning ethics and regulation in law, medicine, technology, science, sports, and animal welfare, and his work has been featured in the Washington Post, The NY Times, Wired, Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, and on NPR.
