Marion Danis

Marion Danis is an American bioethicist and physician-scientist. She is head of the section on ethics and health policy and chief of the bioethics consultation service at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center.

Education Danis completed a B.A. at the University of Chicago and an M.D. at the Pritzker School of Medicine. Following medical school, Danis trained in internal medicine at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC).

She is particularly interested in increasing access to care and improving the health of disadvantaged populations. Toward this end, she has studied the priorities of low income urban populations regarding interventions to address the social determinants of health and reduce health disparities. In addition she has been interested in promoting approaches that bioethicists might pursue to address racism.