Philip Fung, MD

Centennial, Colorado
Philip Fung, MD Expert Witness
Curriculum Vitae

Academic IM Hospitalist & Clinical Ethicist

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Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

General Specialties:

Hospitalist and Hospice and Palliative Care

Keywords/Search Terms:

Clinical ethics, Medical ethics, Hospital medicine, Internal Medicine, Palliative medicine, Hospice, End of life care, Power of attorney, Surrogate decision making, MOST, POLST, MOLST, Advance Directives, CPR directive, organ procurement, organ donation, Medicolegal, Organizational ethics, bioethics

Education:

MD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School

Years in Practice:

16

Additional Information

Practicing high quality adult hospital medicine and inpatient palliative and hospice medicine in high-volume academic urban teaching hospitals since 2010, including the care of incarcerated adult patients. Medical Director of Colorado Works for International Physicians - pre-residency clinical training program for international medical graduates seeking to do primary care residency in the United States. Board certified through ABIM in Internal Medicine since 2009. Founding member the Division of Hospice and Palliative Medicine at Denver Health and Hospital Authority. Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Pending dissertation in Healthcare Ethics on moral formation of physicians Performing clinical ethics consultations in academic hospitals since 2011, covering a range of topics including but not limited to capacity/competency, informed consent, withdrawal of life sustaining treatment and end-of-life-care (including medical aid in dying-MAID), posthumous gamete retrieval, organ donation/procurement, complex discharge situations, prolonged hospitalizations, and medically inappropriate treatments/futility. Former chair of ethics committee at academic urban safety net hospital and helped craft and implement COVID crisis standards of care for my institution and provided input to state committees regarding distribution of scarce resources. Over 15 years of experience creating, interpreting and implementing Medical Power of Attorney/MDPOA forms, Living Wills, CPR directives, MOST/POLST/MOLST forms and other advance directives in complex clinical and social situations. Multiple presentations on clinical ethics (topics ranging from the rights and care of incarcerated patients to EHR as a social imaginary) and philosophy of medicine topics at American Society for Bioethics and Humanities annual national meeting. Additional experience in teaching clinical ethics to trainees (students and residents). Additional experience working with international medical graduates, evaluating and enhancing their communication and clinical skills, and preparing them for apply for residency in the US. Member of American College of Physicians. Member of American Society for Bioethics and Humanities.