Michael Rubin, M.D. Titles and Appointments Associate Professor School Medical School Department Neurology | Neurological Surgery You have reached the Academic Profile. For more information on the doctor and patient care, please visit the clinical profile. Biography Joined UT Southwestern: 2013 Michael Rubin, MD, MA is a critical care neurologist and neuroethicist. He has a scholarly interest in death determination, coma, shared decision-making, and the ethics of invasive brain research. After completing his critical care training at Washington University in St Louis, he completed a master's in bioethics and health policy from Loyola Chicago. He serves as the Director of Clinical Ethics at UT Southwestern and is the co-director and creator of NOMAD - Navigating Our Multifacted Acute Aistress - a hospital staff peer support system. Furthermore, he is a UTSW Certified Professional Coach. He is a national leader in neuroethics, including an authorship on ethics position statements for the American Academy of Neurology. Education Medical School Texas Tech Health Sciences Center School of Medicine (2004) Internship John Peter Smith Hospital (2005), Transitional Year Residency UT Southwestern Medical Center (2008), Neurology Fellowship Washington University School of Medicine (2010), Neurocritical Care Graduate School Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine (2012), Bioethics Research Interest Clinical Neuroethics; brain death, coma, prognosis and decision-making Medically Ineffective and Potentially Inappropriate Treatments Quality and Safety and the Professional Experience Publications The physiology of dying Rubin MA, Kirschen MP Nature medicine 2025 Oct 31 3256-3257 Caring for Coma after Severe Brain Injury: Clinical Practices and Challenges to Improve Outcomes: An Initiative by the Curing Coma Campaign Author Collaboration CC, Murtaugh B, Olson DW, Badjatia N, Lewis A, Aiyagari V, Sharma K, Creutzfeldt CJ, Falcone GJ, Shapiro-Rosenbaum A, Zink EK, Suarez JI, Silva GS, Zink E, Zimmerman L, Ziai W, Zhang B, Zammit C, Zahuranec D, Zafonte R, Zafar S, Young M, Yeager S, Yakhkind A, Witherspoon B, Whyte J, Weaver J, Wainwright M, Wahlster S, Wagner A, Waak M, Vox F, Voss H, Videtta W, Vespa P, Varelas P, Udy A, Stokes LT, Turgeon A, Tsaousi G, Trevick S, Tosto J, Torbey M, Toker D, Tinti L, Threlkeld Z, Thompson D, Rubin M, Ray B, Pouratian N, Olson DW Neurocritical Care 2025 Apr 42 325-333 Brain Death/Death by Neurologic Criteria Guidance on Communication, Objections, Pregnancy, and Public Trust Lewis A, Russell JA, Bonnie RJ, Epstein LG, Greer DM, Rubin MA, Kirschen MP, Busl KM, Chiong W, Cruz-Flores S, Epstein LG, Giesser B, Illes J, Kirschen M, Krishnamurthy K(, Larriviere DG, Lemmon ME, Lewis A, Lin G, Mantri S, Molano JR, Perez D, Rubin M, Shevell MI, Spears R, Stern BJ, Tolchin BD Neurology 2025 105 Informed Consent Practices in Research Involving Persons with Disorders of Consciousness Author Collaboration TC, Lewis A, Ganesan SL, Jox RJ, Mazzeo AT, Rubin MA, Walter JK, Young MJ Neurocritical Care 2025 Exploring Patient Perspectives: A Structured Interview Study on Deep Brain Stimulation as a Novel Treatment Approach for Mild Cognitive Impairment Venkatesh P, Lega B, Rubin M AJOB Neuroscience 2025 16 70-81 The Necessity of Brain Blood Flow Testing in Thoracoabdominal Normothermic Regional Perfusion Lazaridis C, Badenes R, Lizza JP, Carroll E, Fan T, Roth W, Rubin MA, Parker WF, Bernat JL Transplantation 2025 Equity in Clinical Care and Research Involving Persons with Disorders of Consciousness Author Collaboration tC, Rubin MA, Lewis A, Creutzfeldt CJ, Shrestha GS, Boyle Q, Illes J, Jox RJ, Trevick S, Young MJ Neurocritical Care 2024 Oct 41 345-356 Beyond the Final Heartbeat: Neurological Perspectives on Normothermic Regional Perfusion for Organ Donation after Circulatory Death Kirschen MP, Lewis A, Rubin MA, Varelas PN, Greer DM Annals of Neurology 2024 Jun 95 1035-1039 Author Response: What Is the Ideal Brain Criterion of Death? Nonclinical Considerations: The UDDA Revision Series Rubin MA Neurology 2024 May 102 e209285 The Challenge of Framing the Discourse of Normothermic Regional Perfusion Rubin MA American Journal of Bioethics 2024 24 60-62 Results 1-10 of 45 1 2 3 4 5 Next Last Honors & Awards Texas Monthly Top Doctor (2021-2023) Neurocritical Care Society Presidential Citation (2015-2018)
