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Mark Mercurio, MD, MA
Executive Director, Center for Pediatric Bioethics
Professor in Residence, Harvard Medical School; Member of Faculty, Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
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Mark Mercurio, MD, MA
Executive Director, Center for Pediatric Bioethics
Professor in Residence, Harvard Medical School; Member of Faculty, Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Medical Services
Languages
English
Education
Undergraduate School
Princeton University
1978
Princeton
NJ
Graduate School
Brown University
2004
Providence
RI
Medical School
Columbia University College of Physicians
1982
New York
NY
Residency
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Yale New Haven Hospital
1983
New Haven
CT
Residency
Pediatrics
Yale New Haven Hospital
1985
New Haven
CT
Fellowship
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
Yale University
1988
New Haven
CT
Certifications
American Board of Pediatrics (Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine)
Professional History
Mark R. Mercurio became the inaugural executive director of the Center for Pediatric Bioethics at Boston Children's Hospital in 2025. He is also a faculty member at Harvard Medical School. He received a BA in Biochemical Sciences from Princeton University, his MD from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, and an MA in Philosophy from Brown University. He completed both his pediatric residency and neonatology fellowship at Yale New Haven Children's Hospital and Yale School of Medicine, after which he founded the Newborn Intensive Care Unit at Lawrence and Memorial Hospital in New London, Connecticut and worked as an attending physician at Yale New Haven Children's Hospital.
He spent many years on faculty at Yale, becoming professor of pediatrics, chief of neonatal-perinatal medicine, and dounding director of the Program for Biomedical Ethics. His scholarly work has primarily been in pediatric ethics, and areas of interest include end-of-life care, approaches to critical decision-making, and medical education. He has published widely, been an invited speaker in most US states and over a dozen countries, and has received numerous awards, including the William G. Bartholome Award for Ethical Excellence from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Publications
Treatment Options Offered to Infants with Single Ventricle Physiology and Genetic Aneuploidy: A Survey of US Pediatric Intensivists, Cardiologists, and Cardiothoracic Surgeons. View Abstract
Ethical challenges and justice concerns for infants and children with life-limiting conditions and significant disability, including trisomy 13 and 18. View Abstract
Infanticide and Infant Abandonment: New Directions in US Law and Policy. View Abstract
Navigating parental disagreement: ethical analysis and a proposed approach. View Abstract
The Value of Parental Judgment in the Ethical Gray Zone of Periviability: Words Matter. View Abstract
Ethical and Legal Perspectives on the Treatment of Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy in the Newborn. View Abstract
Gestational Carrier Pregnancies: Legal and Ethical Considerations for Pediatricians. View Abstract
Parental and Newborn Rights in Resuscitation Decisions: The Risk of Governmental Overreach. View Abstract
Pediatric Decision-Making: ethical aspects specific to neonates. View Abstract
"On duty, not on call: time to rethink Neonatal Intensive Care Unit attending hours". View Abstract
Pediatric Decision Making: Consensus Recommendations. View Abstract
Unique ethical considerations of the artificial womb and placenta: the threshold for patient eligibility in clinical trials. View Abstract
The common trisomy syndromes, their cardiac implications, and ethical considerations in care. View Abstract
Operationalizing neonatal palliative care. View Abstract
Editorial: Palliative and end of life care in the NICU issue I. View Abstract
Thinking Inside the Bag: Patient Selection, Framing the Ethical Discourse, and the Importance of Terminology in Artificial Womb Technology. View Abstract
Ethics at the end of life in the newborn intensive care unit: Conversations and decisions. View Abstract
Pediatricians' Reports of Interaction with Infant Formula Companies. View Abstract
The Path More Easily Reversed: Postponed Withholding at Borderline Viability. View Abstract
Priorities, Professional Humility, and Communication in the Setting of Medical Uncertainty. View Abstract
A Hub and Spoke Model for Improving Access and Standardizing Ethics Consultations Across a Large Healthcare System. View Abstract
The Case for Ethical Efficiency: A System That Has Run Out of Time. View Abstract
Does Maternal Incarceration Impact Infants with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome? View Abstract
Ethical considerations in the use of artificial womb/placenta technology. View Abstract
Neonatology's race to the bottom: RVUs, cFTEs, and physician time. View Abstract
Balancing risks and benefits of open notes for neonatology. View Abstract
Reflections on New Evidence on Crisis Standards of Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic. View Abstract
Disagreement About Surgical Intervention in Trisomy 18. View Abstract
Resuscitation policies for extremely preterm newborns: finally moving beyond gestational age. View Abstract
Critical decision-making in neonatology and pediatrics: the I-P-O framework. View Abstract
An Evidence-Based Ethical Approach to Parental Refusal of Screening Tests: The Case of Asymptomatic Neonatal Hypoglycemia. View Abstract
The Moral Status of Newborns: Before, during, and after the Pandemic. View Abstract
Professional Obligations of Clinicians and Institutions in Pediatric Care Settings during a Public Health Crisis: A Review. View Abstract
Ethical Criteria for the Admission and Management of Patients in the ICU Under Conditions of Limited Medical Resources: A Shared International Proposal in View of the COVID-19 Pandemic. View Abstract
A review of approaches for resolving disputes between physicians and families on end-of-life care for newborns. View Abstract
The Ethics of Creating a Resource Allocation Strategy During the COVID-19 Pandemic. View Abstract
Parents' Perspective on Trainees Performing Invasive Procedures: A Qualitative Evaluation. View Abstract
Experimental Philosophical Bioethics. View Abstract
Developing a Triage Protocol for the COVID-19 Pandemic: Allocating Scarce Medical Resources in a Public Health Emergency. View Abstract
Variable management strategies for NEC totalis: a national survey. View Abstract
The EXTEND system for extrauterine support of extremely premature neonates: opportunity and caution. View Abstract
Management options and parental voice in the treatment of trisomy 13 and 18. View Abstract
Ethical Considerations Concerning Amnioinfusions for Treating Fetal Bilateral Renal Agenesis. View Abstract
Time Is Ethics. View Abstract
Is Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for a Neonate Ever Ethically Obligatory? View Abstract
Perpetuating Biases and Injustice Toward Preterm Infants. View Abstract
Health Care Professionals' Attitudes About Physician-Assisted Death: An Analysis of Their Justifications and the Roles of Terminology and Patient Competency. View Abstract
In what circumstances will a neonatologist decide a patient is not a resuscitation candidate? View Abstract
Pediatric obstetrical ethics: Medical decision-making by, with, and for pregnant early adolescents. View Abstract
Tough Decisions for Premature Triplets. View Abstract
Unilateral pediatric "do not attempt resuscitation" orders: the pros, the cons, and a proposed approach. View Abstract
Counselling variation among physicians regarding intestinal transplant for short bowel syndrome. View Abstract
Saving vs creating: perceptions of intensive care at different ages and the potential for injustice. View Abstract
Dyshormonia Iatrogenica: crossroads of medicine, malpractice law, and professional ethics in clinical endocrinology. View Abstract
Faking it: unnecessary deceptions and the slow code. View Abstract
Adolescent mothers of critically ill newborns: addressing the rights of parent and child. View Abstract
Age and disability biases in pediatric resuscitation among future physicians. View Abstract
Ethics for the pediatrician: physician interaction with the pharmaceutical industry. View Abstract
Adolescent parents of critically ill newborns: rights and obligations. View Abstract
Ethics for the pediatrician: autonomy, beneficence, and rights. View Abstract
Ethics for the pediatrician: imperiled newborns: limiting treatment. View Abstract
Introduction: taking the time for medical ethics. View Abstract
The ethics of newborn resuscitation. View Abstract
Attending physician work hours: ethical considerations and the last doctor standing. View Abstract
Teaching intubation with cadavers: generosity at a time of loss. View Abstract
A day too long: rethinking physician work hours. View Abstract
Hypoplastic left heart syndrome, extreme prematurity, comfort care only, and the principle of justice. View Abstract
American academy of pediatrics policy statements on bioethics: summaries and commentaries: part 3. View Abstract
Performance enhancing endocrinology: the arbitrary line of acceptability. View Abstract
Rituals of unburdening. View Abstract
American Academy of Pediatrics policy statements on bioethics: summaries and commentaries: part 2. View Abstract
An analysis of candidate ethical justifications for allowing inexperienced physicians-in-training to perform invasive procedures. View Abstract
American Academy of Pediatrics policy statements on bioethics: summaries and commentaries: part 1. View Abstract
Adolescent's refusal of treatment: principles in conflict. View Abstract
An adolescent's refusal of medical treatment: implications of the Abraham Cheerix case. View Abstract
Yellow nail syndrome in three siblings: a randomized double-blind trial of topical vitamin E. View Abstract
Physicians' refusal to resuscitate at borderline gestational age. View Abstract
The Conscientious Practice Policy: a futility policy for acute care hospitals. View Abstract
Deciding for neonates: whose authority, whose interests? View Abstract
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