Lainie Friedman Ross

Lainie Friedman Ross is an American physician and bioethicist who works at the University of Chicago.

She also serves as a member of the United Network for Organ Sharing and National Institutes of Health and have over 60 peer-reviewed articles.

Besides articles she also published two books called Children, Families and Health Care Decision Making and Children in Medical Research: Access Versus Protection both of which were published by Oxford University Press in 1998 and 2006 respectively.

[3] Ross is the Carolyn and Matthew Bucksbaum Professor of Clinical Medical Ethics; Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Medicine, Surgery and the College; and Associate Director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics.

She proposed the Constrained Parental Autonomy model for surrogate decision making in pediatrics.