Leslie S. Rothenberg is Professor Emeritus of Clinical Medicine in the Department of Medicine of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. For over 30 years, he has been a medical ethicist, addressing ethical issues in medicine and science. He has taught physicians, nurses, and other health professionals, as well as served as an ethics consultant to patients, families, and physicians struggling to decide important questions in healthcare. He was Director of the Program in Medical Ethics at UCLA as well as the first full-time ethicist in the Kaiser Permanente health system in Southern California.

 

Originally trained in law rather than medicine, he has been both a law school professor as well as a medical school professor and is also an attorney, mediator, and arbitrator. He holds a B.S. degree from Northwestern University, an M.A. degree from Stanford University, and a J.D. (law) degree from UCLA