Linda Emanuel is a physician, bioethicist, geriatrician, and psychoanalyst. She earned a BA and MA from the University of Cambridge, a PhD from University College London, and an MD from Harvard Medical School in 1984, followed by a residency in General Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1987. She served as Buehler Professor of Geriatric Medicine and Director of the Buehler Center on Aging, Health & Society at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine from 2001 to 2016, and is now Professor Emerita in Medicine (General Internal Medicine) there. Previously, she was Vice President of Ethics Standards at the American Medical Association. In her current roles, she works as a psychotherapist (distance) at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern Medicine (2015-present), and as faculty (distance) at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute (2019-present), including service on its DEI and Continuing Education Committees (2023-present). She is also a board member of the American Board of Psychoanalysis (2023-present). Trained as a psychoanalyst over a decade ago, she maintains a general private practice via videoconference from near Boston, specializing in adults and children coping with serious illness and loss, informed by her background in palliative medicine. She is a member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute and the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute. Notable works include editing Regulating How We Die: The Ethical, Medical, and Legal Issues Surrounding Physician-Assisted Suicide (Harvard University Press, 1998) and co-editing Palliative Care: Core Skills and Clinical Competencies (Saunders/Elsevier, 2007; 2nd ed., 2011). Personally, she is the former spouse of prominent bioethicist Ezekiel J. Emanuel and was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2015, shortly before her 60th birthday.