Dr. Wynia’s medical training is in internal medicine, infectious diseases, public health, and health services research. He cares for patients at the University of Chicago. His work at the American Medical Association has included developing a research institute focusing on bioethics, professionalism and policy issues, he founded the AMA’s Center for Patient Safety, and he has led a variety of projects on understanding and measuring the ethical climate of health care organizations and systems, communication and team-based care, defining physician professionalism, ethics and epidemics, medicine and the Holocaust, and inequities in health and health care. He is the author of more than 130 published articles and a book on fairness in health care benefit design.