David Doukas

David J. Doukas (Col ’79 CM) was awarded the title Professor Emeritus at Tulane University after a distinguished four-decade career in medical ethics and family medicine. His scholarship focuses on the areas of professionalism, primary care bioethics, genetics and end-of-life care decision-making. He is the originator of the concept termed the Family Covenant (1991) and the co-developer/author of Values History (1988). He held the James A. Knight Chair of Humanities and Ethics in Medicine at Tulane from 2017 to 2024 and was founding director of the Program in Medical Ethics and Human Values at Tulane University’s School of Medicine. Doukas was also the past executive director of the Master of Science in Bioethics and Medical Humanities at Tulane. He previously worked at the University of Louisville, serving as the William Ray Moore Endowed Chair of Family Medicine and Medical Humanism, the director of the Division of Medical Humanism and Ethics, and founding co-director of the Interdisciplinary Master of Arts in Bioethics program from 2004 to 2013.