Robert Orr, MD, CM
AAME Board of Reference

Dr. Orr received his MD, CM, from McGill University in 1966, did residency training in family medicine, and then engaged in the private practice of family medicine in Brattleboro, Vermont, for 18 years. He was named Vermont Family Doctor of the Year in 1989. A growing interest and involvement in medical ethics led him to pursue a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago (1989-1990). From 1990-2000 he was the Director of Clinical Ethics and Professor of Family Medicine at Loma Linda University in southern California. He was honored by the AMA in 1999 when they gave him the Isaac Hays & John Bell Award for Leadership in Medical Ethics and Professionalism.

In 2000 he returned to Vermont as Director of Ethics at Fletcher Allen Health Care and the University of Vermont College of Medicine where he continues to provide bedside ethics consultations and teach.

Dr. Orr has co-authored two books, co-edited 2 others, contributed 9 book chapters, and over 100 articles related to clinical ethics, the ethics consultation process, and issues in terminal care. He has lectured on these topics regionally, nationally and internationally. He chaired the Council on Ethical Affairs for the California Medical Association, and was Vice President of the American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities. He has served on the Ethics Commission of the Christian Medical-Dental Association and served as chairman of that commission from 1991-1994.

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