Jonathan Marron

Jonathan Marron, MD, MPH, HEC-C

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Clinical Ethicist, Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Associate Director of Education, Boston Children's Hospital Center for Pediatric Bioethics
Member, HMS Center for Bioethics

Jonathan M. Marron, MD, MPH, HEC-C, is a pediatric oncologist, bioethicist, health services researcher, and educator at Boston Children's Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He received his MD at the University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine and completed his residency training in Pediatrics at Stanford University, after which he completed fellowships in Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago's MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at BCH/DFCI, and in Pediatric Health Services Research at BCH/HMS. He also received a Master's Degree in Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and served as a Post-doctoral Research Scholar at the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics. In addition to his clinical and research work, Jon teaches ethics courses in the HMS medical school curriculum and the HMS Master of Science in Bioethics (“Introduction to Clinical Ethics,” "Clinical Ethics Practice," and “Pediatric Bioethics”). He has served in various ethics leadership positions at BCH, DFCI, and HMS, including currently serving as Associate Director of Education for the BCH Center for Pediatric Bioethics. Dr. Marron's research focuses on the intersection of ethics and decision-making, with a particular interest in pediatric cancer genomic sequencing and other advanced and emerging technologies. His bioethical areas of interest include pediatric ethics, ethical issues in genomics, informed consent, healthcare disparities, and research ethics. Dr. Marron has received funding from such groups as the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the National Institutes of Health (National Cancer Institute and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences) and has published in such journals as JAMA Pediatrics, the American Journal of Bioethics, JAMA Oncology, the Journal of Clinical Oncology, and the Journal of Clinical Ethics, and Pediatrics.