Emily Largent
Bioethicist, lawyer, and nurse; Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics and Associate Professor at University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, focused on research ethics and Alzheimer's disease.
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Jun 16, 2026
Terrence CaseyHOST
Creativity, connection, and the capacity to make something with other people and share it with this world.
Emily LargentGUEST
Hi, my name is Emily Largent, and I'm on faculty at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, where I'm also the chief of the Division of Medical Ethics.
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I work with Penn's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center on understanding social, ethical, legal, and clinical issues along the Alzheimer's continuum.
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In my work, I often note that what we see as new problems, other people have faced those problems or at least similar problems before.
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And we can often learn from how they handled those problems, either drawing direct lessons or drawing analogies that are informative to us now.
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And that's why I picked the article History and the Challenges of Dementia by Jesse Ballinger.
Emily LargentGUEST
Professor Ballinger's background is in history of medicine, and he has written extensively on the ethical and policy implications of dementia.