Leonard Fleck
Professor of Philosophy
Leonard Fleck is an expert in health care justice, health care rationing, as well as ethical issues related to genetic technologies.
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Leonard Fleck is a medical ethicist and philosopher. He is an expert in health care justice, health care rationing and policy, stem cell research, as well as ethical issues related to emerging genetic technologies.
Fleck served as a member of the Clinton Administration’s Health Care Reform Task Force in 1993 and as a state ethicist for Michigan regarding access to health care.
Selected Press
Opinion: FDA made a mistake in approving a questionable Alzheimer's drug, but Medicare could act to reduce false hopes and unethical profits
MarketWatch | 2021-07-01
At this writing three members of the FDA Advisory Committee have chosen to resign in protest over the Food and Drug Administration's decision to approve aducanumab for the treatment of mild cognitive impairment. Their decision to resign is commendable for at least three ethical reasons. Billions of Medicare dollars will be unjustly squandered on a drug of unknown effectiveness, physicians must either facilitate this unjust squandering or deny desperate patients access to this drug, patients have false hopes cruelly legitimated when physicians prescribe aducanumab. However, more is needed than these resignations.
Michigan State looks to change rules for firing tenured professors
Lansing State Journal | 2018-06-21
In April, Michigan State University's acting general counsel, Kristine Zayko, came to the University Committee on Faculty Tenure with two proposed changes to the policy on firing tenured professors.
Leonard Fleck: Using a Medical Ethicsope
360 Perspective | 2017-08-27
As you embark on the adventure of discovery and growth that is a liberal arts education in the College of Arts & Letters here at Michigan State University, I invite you to consider for a moment what we might learn from a peculiar tree you will encounter on campus.
