Ryan Nash, MD

About Me

Dr. Ryan R. Nash, MD, MA is the Hagop S. Mekhjian, MD, Endowed Chair in Medical Ethics and Professionalism and the Director of The Ohio State University Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities. He is also Director & Associate Professor with Tenure in the Division of Bioethics, Department of Biomedical Education & Anatomy in the College of Medicine. He is the Chair of the OSU Wexner Medical Center Ethics Committee. In addition to serving as a healthcare ethics and clinical bioethics advisor and consultant, Dr. Nash continue to be active in Palliative Medicine caring for patients primarily with advanced cancer. Dr. Nash is an active educator and administrator. He is the Editorial Review Group Chair for Medical Ethics and Bioethics for Doody Enterprises. He serves on editorial board or editorial advisory board of the journals HealthCare Ethics Committee Forum (Springer), Christian Bioethics (Oxford University Press), and the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (Oxford University Press). He continues to serve as a reviewer for numerous other journals and book series. Along with numerous other service roles with national and regional organizations, he previously served on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (Elsevier) and the ethics committee and public policy committee of the AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine). Dr. Nash’s scholarship focuses on practical, procedural, and policy issues related to Medicine, Clinical Bioethics and Palliative Medicine. He also explores ethics foundations at the nexus of medicine, ethics, theology, religion, and culture. Dr. Nash is an Orthodox Christian. He is the grateful husband of Sarah and proud father of four daughters. He occasionally helps them run their small farm north of Columbus.

Procedures and Conditions I Treat

• Advance Care Planning
• Patient-Centered Care
• Hospice Care
• Palliative Care