David Steinberg M.D. is a board certified internist, hematologist and oncologist who graduated from Dartmouth College and Harvard Medical School. He is on the clinical faculty of Harvard Medical School (1973 - ). He was Chair of the Department of Hematology at Lahey Clinic (1975 to 2001). He founded and for more than 20 years was the Director of the Ethics program at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center (1991-2013). He was Editor of the Lahey Clinic Journal of Medical Ethics (1994-2016) which was widely circulated to all 50 states and 39 foreign countries. He contributed ethics articles to major ethics and medical journals and has spoken at numerous ethics meetings. He edited the book, Biomedical Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Moral Issues In Medicine and Biology (2007 University Press of New England).