2003 Health Care Symposium

2003 Health Care Symposium:

The Business of Medicine: Challenges to Professionalism

David C. Blake, J.D., Ph.D.

Dr Blake received his BS from the University of Scranton in 1969, his MA in Philosophy in 1974 and his PhD in Philosophy/Ethics in 1981 from the Catholic University of America. In 1992 he earned his JD from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.

Dr Blake, a member of the Los Angeles County, the California and the American Bar Associations, is the former Executive Director of the Center for Healthcare Ethics and Assistant Vice President for Ethics and Value Integration of the St Joseph Health System in Orange, California. He is also the former Director and founder of the Bioethics Institute of Saint John's Health Center and Loyola Marymount University. In addition, he has served as Philosophy department chair at LMU and an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School.

Dr Blake is currently the Vice President, Mission and Ethics/Human Resources and Organizational Responsibility Officer of Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica. He is the author of numerous articles on ethical and legal issues in health care and has presented to scores of healthcare organizations and medical staffs.