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Bruce Jennings, MA
Senior Consultant

Bruce Jennings is senior consultant at The Hastings Center. He served as the Center's executive vice president from 1991 through 1999 and as senior research scholar from 2000 through 2005. In addition to his work with The Hastings Center, Mr. Jennings teaches at the Yale University School of Medicine in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health.

He has lectured and written widely, editing fifteen books and publishing over 100 articles on social, educational, and public policy issues related to bioethics. He has directed several research projects on the care of the dying, health policy, chronic illness and long-term care, and ethical issues in human genetics. His work on access to hospice and palliative care received a special recognition award from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization in 2004. He served as Associate Director of a project that produced the widely cited and influential Guidelines on the Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment and the Care of the Dying (Indiana University Press, 1987). With Mildred Z. Solomon of the Education Development Center in Newton, Massachusetts, he is cofounder of the Decisions Near the End of Life Program, a hospital based educational program for physicians and other health professionals that has been used in over 200 hospitals in thirty states nationwide and is now being revised and translated for use in Germany.

Mr. Jennings has served as a consultant to several governmental and private organizations, including the American Hospital Association, the Education Development Center, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He has served on the boards of directors of several national and professional organizations. He also serves on advisory committees for The Alzheimer's Association, The Episcopal Church of the United States, The March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, and The Huntington's Disease Society of America.

Mr. Jennings received an MA in political science from Princeton University in 1973, and a BA in political science from Yale University in 1971.

Last Updated: 15 June 2006