John D. Lantos, MD is a pediatrician and bioethicist. He is the Director of Pediatric Bioethics, the Glasnapp Foundation Endowed Chair in Bioethics, and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. He is also Research Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. He completed his residency at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC, and spent years in West Virginia as a member of the National Health Service Corps, providing primary care to underserved children of the Appalachia. He served as a post-doctoral fellow in medical ethics at the University of Chicago, and as Chief of Medical Staff at La Rabida Children's Hospital. He is the author of several books, including Preterm Babies, Fetal Patients, and Childbearing Choices (MIT Press, 2015) and The Lazarus Care: Life-and-Death Issues in Neonatal Intensive Care (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001).