Erin Flanagan-Klygis, MD

Erin Flanagan-Klygis, MD, is an assistant professor with conjoint appointments in the departments of pediatrics and religion, health and human values at Rush University Medical Center. She is currently medical director of the Rush Pediatric Palliative Care program, course director for the ethics in medicine curriculum for Rush Medical College, and attending pediatrician, Rush University Pediatrics. She received her undergraduate degree in philosophy with honors from DePauw University, and her medical degree with honors from Rush Medical College in 1995. She went on to complete her internship and residency in pediatrics at Children’s Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University School of Medicine. Dr. Flanagan-Klygis has completed fellowships in clinical medical ethics at the University of Chicago and general academic pediatrics at Children’s Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University, in 2002. She has completed her initial palliative care training in the Center to Advance Palliative Care course in October 2006. She is board certified in pediatrics.

Dr. Flanagan-Klygis has conducted original research on the topics of diagnosis disclosure in pediatric HIV, and vaccination refusal in pediatrics, and has authored numerous articles, and book chapters. She has presented her research at numerous national and international meetings, and has been an invited lecturer on a wide variety of topics such as pediatric vaccination refusal, ethics if innovation in pediatric surgery, the ethics of research in the developing world and pediatric palliative care.

Dr. Flanagan-Klygis serves as a consultant for the Rush and Fetal-Neonatal Medicine Program and the Rush University Ethics Consultation Service. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities.