Dr. PHILIP FRANKLIN WAGLEY was a prominent Baltimore internist who created and taught a highly regarded course in medical ethics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. The course, which Dr. Wagley taught for 11 years before retiring in 1987, helped medical students identify and resolve such ethical problems in medicine as AIDS, abortion, health care for the elderly and health care costs. Dr. Wagley broadened the discussion of these issues by bringing lawyers, theologians, philosophers and other physicians to the class. In recognition of his pioneering efforts and commitment in the field of medical ethics, the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, with donations from Harvey Meyerhoff and family and friends of Dr. Wagley, established the Philip Franklin Wagley Chair in Medical Ethics in 1995.
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