David Magnus

Dr. David Magnus serves as the Thomas A. Raffin Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Ethics, as well as a Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, with a courtesy appointment in Bioengineering at Stanford University. He is the Director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics and has an influential role as a member of the Stanford Hospital and Clinics Ethics Committee. A past President of the Association of Bioethics Program Directors, he also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Bioethics and currently holds the position of Vice-Chair of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) for the NIH Precision Medicine Initiative, known as “All of Us.” His extensive experience includes membership on Stanford’s IRB and Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee, along with a strong background as a research ethics consultant. Dr. Magnus's research encompasses a diverse array of topics in bioethics, such as research ethics, comparative effectiveness research ethics, transplant ethics, genetics and genomics, as well as patient-physician communication.