Overview

Dr. Dickert is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology and the Thomas R. Williams Professor of Medicine. He also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health, is a Senior Faculty Fellow at the Emory Center for Ethics, and is a member of the Emory Clinical Cardiovascular Research Institute. Dr. Dickert is Interim Director of the Emory Health Services Research Center (https://med.emory.edu/departments/medicine/research/centers-institutes/health-services-research/index.html), and he leads the Network Capacity Core and Recruitment Center for the Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance. Dr. Dickert is a board-certified cardiologist whose clinical work is primarily in cardiac critical care and echocardiography. He completed medical school at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a PhD in health policy and bioethics and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He completed an internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins and a cardiology fellowship at Emory. Dr. Dickert joined the faculty at Emory in 2012.

Research
Dr. Dickert's research focuses on ethical issues relevant to cardiology practice and clinical research. In particular, he is actively engaged in research projects addressing the conduct of clinical research in acute care contexts where informed consent is either impossible or very difficult. Dr. Dickert is also interested in and has published work regarding investigators' responsibilities to provide ancillary care to research participants, the process of shared decision-making for clinical care and research participation, and the role of incentives for research recruitment.

Academic Appointment

• Thomas R. Williams Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
• Associate Professor with Tenure, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
• Senior Physician, Emory University School of Medicine
• Senior Faculty Fellow, Center for Ethics, Emory University
• Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health

Education

Research