Bruce Randolph Tizes, MD, JD, MPH currently leads Emergency Medicine for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. Tizes received a Doctor of Medicine (MD) from the Chicago Medical School, a Juris Doctor (JD) from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, and a Master of Public Health (MPH) from the Yale School of Public Health. He completed the Harvard Medical School Fellowship in Bioethics, and served as Lead Editor for the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics. Tizes was a rostered Fulbright Specialist with the U.S. Department of State, Mentor-in-Residence at the University of Auckland Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (UK), and Fellow of the Edmund Hillary Fellowship. His bioethical areas of interest include the reconciliation of principlism as a normative ethical framework with future innovation, particularly regarding technology and life extension.
