email: Matthew.Wynia@cuanschutz.edu
Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, FACP
Director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities
phone: (303) 724-3994 
office: Fulginiti Room 201E
Danielle Chaet-Program Coordinator/Administrative Assistant
danielle.chaet@cuanschutz.edu
(303) 724-3994
Dr. Wynia’s training is in internal medicine, infectious diseases, public health and health services research.
1986, BA, University of Oregon Honors College.
1990, MD, Oregon Health Sciences University, School of Medicine, Portland, Oregon.
1997, MPH, Harvard University School of Public Health, Dept. of Health Policy and Management.
Dr. Wynia is a clinician-researcher and leader in bioethics with a history of exploring some of the most contentious ethical issues in health care, focusing on those related to the social roles of health professionals. He is a professor of medicine and of public health at the University of Colorado, where he directs the CU Center for Bioethics and Humanities.
Prior to his current role, he spent 18 years at the American Medical Association, where he led the AMA Institute for Ethics, the Center for Patient Safety, and was Director of Patient and Physician Engagement for the Improving Health Outcomes team. While there, he co-founded the Commission to End Health Care Disparities and he led the Project on the History of African-Americans and the Medical Profession that, in 2008, prompted the AMA’s public apology for a legacy of racial discrimination and exclusion in organized medicine. He has served on advisory boards for the US DHHS Office of Minority, the Joint Commission, the American Board of Medical Specialties, American Board of Internal Medicine, and other national medical, public health and bioethics professional organizations. At the National Academies, he currently serves on the Board on Health Sciences Policy and has served on multiple consensus committees and chaired special projects on team-based care, transdisciplinary professionalism, and public health approaches to preventing targeted violence.
Dr. Wynia has delivered more than 2 dozen named lectures and visiting professorships and he is an author of over 230 academic publications. He is a Fellow of the Hastings Center, past president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH), and past-chair of the Ethics Forum of the American Public Health Association (APHA) and the Ethics Committee of the Society for General Internal Medicine (SGIM).