Pete Young is a Postdoctoral Fellow working with colleagues in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, the Penn Program on Precision Medicine for the Brain (P3MB), and the Penn Memory Center. Pete is a bioethicist who uses qualitative methods along with bioethical theory to examine issues in healthcare communication and medical decision making. Much of his recent work has investigated the rollout of a new prenatal screening test, non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT), in the UK healthcare system, and, in particular, he has interrogated what decision making and the provider-patient relationship ought to look like in this area of medicine. His current work at Penn focuses on the ethics of decision making in mild stage dementia.
Pete is the director of the Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine course at the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in London, England. He has also taught medical students at the University of Oxford and has coordinated clinical ethics education at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. In 2014, he interned at the World Medical Association’s secretariat office in Ferney-Voltaire. His doctoral work in bioethics was carried out in the Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, and his Master of Bioethics is from the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine.