Ezekiel Emanuel is vice provost for global initiatives, Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor, and chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a physician and was the founding chair of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health until 2011. From 2009 to 2011, he also served as a special advisor on health policy to the director of the Office of Management and Budget and National Economic Council.