Mildred Solomon, EdD
Contact Information
Harvard Medical SchoolDivision of Medical Ethics
641 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Email: mildred_solomon@hms.harvard.edu
Mildred Solomon, EdD, is an associate clinical professor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where she has directed the Division of Medical Ethics’ Fellowship in Medical Ethics since 2002. Her scholarly work focuses on empirical ethics. Using quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods, Dr. Solomon has conducted research on a wide variety of ethical issues related to adult and pediatric end-of-life are, pain management, informed consent, and organ donation. An elected Fellow of The Hastings Center, Dr. Solomon’s policy work has focused on end-of-life care and organ donation. She served on the U.S. Secretary of Health’s Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation and on a National Research Council committee on biosecurity at the National Academies of Science. An accomplished ethics educator, she has developed a number of large scale ethics education programs, including one for pediatric palliative care clinicians that involved over 2,000 participants from most of the nation’s childrens’ hospitals and another on ethical issues in the life sciences, which was developed in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and has been used by 10,000 biology teachers nationally. In addition to her roles at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Solomon is Senior Director for Implementation Science at the Association of American Medical Colleges, a membership association of the nation’s medical schools, teaching hospitals and medical specialty societies. At the AAMC, she is responsible for encouraging the adoption of evidence-based health care, by helping academic medicine build its capacities in comparative effectiveness research and implementation science. She received her BA degree from Smith College and her doctorate from Harvard University.