Alan R. Fleischman

Alan R. Fleischman, MD, is an attending physician, Professor, Pediatrics and Epidemiology & Population Health and Senior Associate, Center for Bioethics at Montefiore Einstein. Dr. Fleischman is a pediatrician and neonatologist who focuses on bioethics, helping patients and families make hard choices for children who are critically and chronically ill.

After obtaining his Bachelor of Science from The City College of New York in 1966, Dr. Fleischman earned his Doctor of Medicine at Einstein in 1970. He then trained at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he completed his pediatric internship in 1971 and his pediatric residency in 1975. While completing his residency, Dr. Fleischman pursued a fellowship in perinatal physiology at the Pregnancy Research Branch of the National Institutes of Health, along with a Royal Society of Medicine fellowship in perinatology at Oxford University in Oxford, England, completing both in 1974.

Dr. Fleischman joined the faculty at Montefiore Einstein in 1975 where he served as Director of the Division of Neonatology in the Department of Pediatrics until 1994. In 1994, he became Senior Vice President of the New York Academy of Medicine, and in 2005 he became a Special Government Employee at the National Institutes of Health as Ethics Advisor and Chair of the Federal Advisory Committee of the National Children’s Study. From 2007 to 2012, Dr. Fleischman was Senior Vice President and Medical Director of the March of Dimes Foundation. In 2013, he returned to the faculty at Montefiore Einstein.

Dr. Fleischman’s research focuses on several areas of normative bioethics, including healthcare decision-making in perinatal and neonatal medicine, as well as research ethics. His work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, books, chapters, review articles and abstracts, and he has given many invited presentations nationally and internationally. Dr. Fleischman has been a manuscript reviewer for scientific journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Pediatric Research, the Journal of Pediatrics and Hastings Center Report.

Dr. Fleischman is a Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners and the American Board of Pediatrics as well as the Subspecialty Board in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a member of their Section on Perinatal Pediatrics and Section on Bioethics. He is also an elected Fellow of The Hastings Center and The New York Academy of Medicine. Dr. Fleischman has won numerous awards for his work, including the American Academy of Pediatrics William G. Bartholome Award for Ethical Excellence in 2006, the National Institutes of Health Award of Merit, National Children’s Study in 2007, the Einstein Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009 and the City College of New York Townsend Harris Alumni Award for Distinguished Achievement in 2021.