Jack P. Freer

Jack Freer, MD, is a retired clinical professor, and, the emeritus director of the Romanell Center. He was the course director of IDM 701 (the required medical students' clinical ethics course) for 30 years. Freer organized the Romanell Clinical and Research Ethics Seminars, as well as many other conferences and lecture series over the course of his career.

Jack Freer.

Jack Freer

Working Groups

  • Autonomy, Addiction, and Accountability
  • Clinical Ethics
  • Research Ethics

Selected Publications

  • Berman H, Koch PM, Freer JP, Craenen G. . American Journal of Bioethics. 2017; 17(1).
  • Doukas DJ, McCullough LB, Wear S, (Collaborators: Braddock C, Brody H, Carrese J, Edwards K, Fins JJ, Freer J, Green M, Katz J, Lederer S, Malek J, Shapiro J, Watson K.). Acad Med. 2012; 87(3).
  • Freer JP. Virtual Mentor. 2011; 13(11).

News highlights (selected)

Pastel by Jack Freer.

Since retiring from clinical medicine, Jack Freer has been spending more time working on pastel painting. This image depicts a scene in Florence during a 1629-31 outbreak of bubonic plague.