Jed Adam Gross is a member of the Department of Clinical & Organizational Ethics at University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto, Canada, where his consultation practice is focused on challenges arising around organ donation, perfusion, allocation, transplantation. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (BA) and Yale University (JD, MPhil). A member of the Massachusetts bar, he practiced healthcare law at Ropes & Gray in Boston before completing a transplant ethics fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic and joining UHN in 2017.
In addition to brining a deep knowledge of transplant-related issues to clinical and research ethics consults, Mr. Gross is an active member of the Ajmera Transplant Centre’s Executive Board, UHN’s Surgical Innovation Committee, and its Oncology Research Ethics Board. Between 2015 and 2018, he participated in a National Institutes of Health-funded working group convened at the University of Maryland to develop recommendations regarding regulation in the field of microbiota transplantation. He presently co-chairs the Canadian Society of Transplantation’s Ethics Committee and advises multiple provincial and national organizations engaged in transplant governance, including Trillium Gift of Life Network and CSA Group.
Mr. Gross’s research and scholarship in the medical humanities bring comparative, historical, and legal insights to bear on the policy challenges associated with biomedical innovation. His contributions to knowledge have spanned a multidisciplinary range on publications, including the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, American Journal of Bioethics, Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics, Quinnipiac Health Law Journal, American Journal of Transplantation, and Current Transplant Reports, and chapters in edited volumes from academic presses. Recurring themes in this work include the interplay between technological innovation and social regulation and the roles of institutional architecture in enabling individual human flourishing.