- Medical School - Indiana University School of Medicine
- Internship - UT Southwestern Medical Center (1980-1981), Psychiatry
- Residency - UT Southwestern Medical Center (1981-1984), Psychiatry
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John Sadler, M.D.
- Distinguished Teaching Professor
- Daniel W. Foster, M.D., Professorship in Medical Ethics
- Psychiatry
Biography
John Z. Sadler, MD, Director of the Program in Ethics in Science & Medicine and Chief of the Division of Ethics in the Department of Psychiatry is internationally acclaimed for his work in the fields of Philosophy and Ethics of Psychiatry. He is co-founder and treasurer of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy & Psychiatry, an organization dedicated to exploring conceptual issues at the interface of psychiatry and philosophy, and is on the Executive Board of the International Network of Philosophy and Psychiatry. Dr. Sadler is co-editor of an international journal, Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, the Current Opinion in Psychiatry section on History & Philosophy, and the Oxford University Press book series, “International Perspectives on Philosophy and Psychiatry”, which currently has published 50 volumes. Dr. Sadler’s work prompted the Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians to award their Psychiatric Excellence Award to him in 2001. Dr. Sadler’s ongoing work in the education of medical students, residents, and practitioners has earned him several teaching awards, including the Nancy C.A. Roeske Certificate of Excellence in Medical Education from the American Psychiatric Association, appointment as a UT System and UT Southwestern Distinguished Teaching Professor, election to membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society anno domini, and an inaugural recipient of the UT Health Science System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award in 2012. In 2014 he was awarded the Distinguished Clinical Science Educator Award from the UT Southwestern Academy of Teachers, and in 2014 he was designated a Distinguished Life Fellow from the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Sadler has edited or co-edited several books, several special issues of professional journals, and authored Values and Psychiatric Diagnosis (Oxford University Press, 2005). In collaboration with philosopher Jennifer Radden, he co-authored The Virtuous Psychiatrist: Character Ethics in Clinical Practice. In 2013 Dr. Sadler was a co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry, and in 2015 he was the lead editor of the 2-volume, 1700 page Oxford Handbook of Psychiatric Ethics, the definitive reference work in the field. Dr. Sadler has published dozens of articles and chapters in the area of clinical psychiatry, psychiatric education, bioethics, and the philosophy of psychiatry. Since 1985, he has served on the Parkland Hospital & Health System Institutional Ethics Committee and since 1989 has served as its co-chair and the clinical ethics consultant to the hospital. Dr. Sadler received his medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine and trained in psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center before joining the faculty in 1984.
In 2018, he was named a Super Doctor by Texas Monthly.
Education & Training
Professional Associations & Affiliations
- North Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians
- Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians
- American Psychiatric Association
- American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
- Association for the Advancement of Philosophy & Psychiatry
Honors & Awards
- Psychiatric Excellence Award 2001, Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians
- UT System Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award 2012, Recipient
- Alpha Omega Alpha 2008, Medical honorary fraternity
- Charter Member 2006, The UT Southwestern Academy of Teachers (SWAT)
- Distinguished Life Fellow, American Psychiatric Association 2015
- Distinguished Clinical Science Educator Award, UT Southwestern Medical Center 2013-2014
- Member 2006, The University of Texas Academy of Health Science Education
Books & Publications
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Books
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Values and Psychiatric Diagnosis
Sadler, J.Z. (2005), Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press -
Philosophical Perspectives on Psychiatric Diagnostic Classification
Sadler, J.Z., Wiggins, O.P., and Schwartz, M.A. (1994), Baltimore, MD, The Johns Hopkins University Press -
Descriptions and Prescriptions: Values, Mental Disorders, and the DSMs
Sadler, J.Z. (2002), Baltimore, MD, The Johns Hopkins University Press -
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry
Fulford, KWM, Davies, M, Gipps, RGT, Graham, G, Sadler, JZ, Stanghellini, G, Thornton, T (2013), Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press -
Nature and Narrative: An Introduction to the New Philosophy of Psychiatry
Fulford, K.W.M., Morris, K., Sadler, J.Z., and Stanghellini, G. (2003), Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press -
The Virtuous Psychiatrist: Character Ethics in Psychiatric Practice
Radden, J.H., and Sadler, J.Z. (2010), New York, NY/Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press -
The Oxford Handbook of Psychiatric Ethics
Sadler, J.Z., Van Staden C.W., Fulford, K.W.M. (2015), Oxford/New York, Oxford University Press
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Values and Psychiatric Diagnosis
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Publications
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Launching the social philosophy of psychiatry.
Sadler JZ, World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) 2024 Jun 23 2 237-238 -
Conceptual competence in psychiatric training: building a culture of conceptual inquiry.
Aftab A, Sadler JZ, Kious BM, Waterman GS, BJPsych bulletin 2024 Apr 1-6 -
How Bodily Integrity Is a Core Ethical Value in Care of Persons Experiencing Homelessness.
Wimberly JM, Sadler JZ, AMA journal of ethics 2021 Nov 23 11 E893-897 -
"He Bore it Like a Scarlet Letter": Medical Student Reflections on Substance Use Disorders.
Clark T, Camp ME, Sadler JZ, Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2020 Feb -
The Ethical Use of Telepsychiatry in the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Stoll J, Sadler JZ and Trachsel M. Frontiers in Psychiatry 2020 11 665-668 -
The Ethical Use of Telepsychiatry in the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Stoll J, Sadler JZ, Trachsel M, Frontiers in psychiatry 2020 11 665 -
Care in the time of coronavirus: Ethical considerations in head and neck oncology
Gordin, E. A., Day, A., Stankova, L., Heitman, E., & Sadler, J. Head & Neck 2020 -
Addicts and Admits: Metonymy in Medical Students' Reflective Writing.
Camp ME, Cole AG, Sadler JZ, Teaching and learning in medicine 2019 May 1-11 -
Everyone should have a physician in the family.
Sadler JZ Narrative inquiry in bioethics 2018 8 1 E3-E4 -
Medical student reflections on geriatrics: moral distress, empathy, ethics and end of life.
Camp ME, Jeon-Slaughter H, Johnson AE, Sadler JZ Gerontology & geriatrics education 2017 Oct -
Confidence of IRB/REC Members in Their Assessments of Human Research Risk: A Study of IRB/REC Decision Making in Action.
Grinnell F, Sadler JZ, McNamara V, Senetar K, Reisch J Journal of empirical research on human research ethics : JERHRE 2017 May 1556264617710386 -
Polarities in Clinical Thinking and Practice.
Sadler JZ AMA journal of ethics 2017 Feb 19 2 141-146 -
Professional Identity Formation: Creating a Longitudinal Framework Through TIME (Transformation in Medical Education).
Holden MD, Buck E, Luk J, Ambriz F, Boisaubin EV, Clark MA, Mihalic AP, Sadler JZ, Sapire KJ, Spike JP, Vince A, Dalrymple JL Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2015 Apr -
Behavioral Aspects of the Pre-transplant Assessment.
Gonzalez-Ammatuna E, Sadler JZ Texas medicine 2015 111 2 47-50 -
Risk factor medicalization, hubris, and the obesity disease.
Sadler JZ Narrative inquiry in bioethics 2014 4 2 143-6 -
History, philosophy and practical psychiatry: neither gap nor contradiction, but mutual enrichment.
Hoff P, Fulford BK, Sadler JZ Current opinion in psychiatry 2012 Nov 25 6 485 -
Community, constituency, and morbidity: applying Chervenak and McCullough's criteria.
Shivakumar G, Inrig S, Sadler JZ The American journal of bioethics : AJOB 2011 May 11 5 57-60 -
Psychiatric molecular genetics and the ethics of social promise
Sadler JZ Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 2011 8 March 27-34 -
Stuck in the middle: what should a good society do?
Brandon AR, Puzziferri N, Sadler JZ The American journal of bioethics : AJOB 2010 Dec 10 12 18-20 -
All the world's a stage.
Fulford KW, Hoff P, Sadler JZ Current opinion in psychiatry 2010 Nov 23 6 522-3 -
Dignity, arete, and hubris in the transhumanist debate.
Sadler JZ The American journal of bioethics : AJOB 2010 Jul 10 7 67-8 -
What is a mental/psychiatric disorder? From DSM-IV to DSM-V
Stein DJ, Phillips KA, Bolton D, Fulford KW, Sadler JZ, Kendler KS Psychological Medicine 2010 11 40 1759-1765 -
Nothing about us without us!
Sadler JZ, Fulford B, Hoff P Current opinion in psychiatry 2009 Nov 22 6 607-8 -
Ethical issues in perinatal mental health research.
Brandon AR, Shivakumar G, Lee SC, Inrig SJ, Sadler JZ Current opinion in psychiatry 2009 Nov 22 6 601-6 -
Points to consider: The research ethics consultation service and the IRB.
Beskow LM, Grady C, Iltis AS, Sadler JZ, Wilfond BS IRB 2009 Nov-Dec 31 6 1-9 -
History and philosophy.
Hoff P, Fulford BK, Sadler JZ Current opinion in psychiatry 2009 Nov 22 6 552-3 -
The cost of restricting knowledge.
Brandon AR, Shivakumar G, Inrig SJ, Craddock Lee SJ, Sadler JZ The Journal of clinical psychiatry 2009 Sep 70 9 1320-1 -
Stigma, conscience, and science in psychiatry: past, present, and future.
Sadler JZ Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2009 Apr 84 4 413-7 -
Can medicalization be good? Situating medicalization within bioethics
Sadler JZ, Jotterand F, Lee SC, Inrig S Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 2009 6 30 411-425 -
Validity and utility of bipolar spectrum models.
Phelps J, Angst J, Katzow J, Sadler J, Bipolar disorders 2008 Feb 10 1 Pt 2 179-93 -
Character virtues in psychiatric practice.
Radden J, Sadler JZ Harvard review of psychiatry 2008 16 6 373-80 -
Vice and the diagnostic classification of mental disorders: A philosophical case conference
Sadler JZ Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 2008 1 15 1-17 -
Issues for DSM-V: DSM-V should include a conceptual issues work group
Kendler KS, Appelbaum PS, Bell CC, Fulford KW, Ghaemi SN, Schaffner KF, Waterman GS, First MB, Sadler JZ American Journal of Psychiatry 2008 2 165 174-175 -
Diversity.
Fulford KW, Hoff P, Sadler JZ Current opinion in psychiatry 2007 Nov 20 6 570-2 -
The psychiatric significance of the personal self.
Sadler JZ Psychiatry 2007 70 2 113-29 -
Introduction to the special section: Philosophy and personality disorders.
Sadler JZ Journal of personality disorders 2006 Apr 20 2 113-5 -
Normative warrant in diagnostic criteria: the case of DSM-IV-TR personality disorders.
Sadler JZ, Fulford B Journal of personality disorders 2006 Apr 20 2 170-80; discussion 181-5 -
The rhetorician's craft, distinctions in science, and political morality.
Sadler JZ Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM 2006 1 1 E7 -
Who are we and what are we doing here?
Sadler JZ, Fulford K Current opinion in psychiatry 2005 Nov 18 6 647-8 -
Social context and stakeholders' values in building diagnostic systems.
Sadler JZ Psychopathology 2005 Jul-Aug 38 4 197-200 -
Bug-eyed and breathless: emerging crises involving values.
Sadler JZ World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) 2005 Jun 4 2 87 -
A window into Richard M. Zaner's clinical ethics.
Wiggins OP, Sadler JZ Theoretical medicine and bioethics 2005 26 1 1-6 -
Should patients and their families contribute to the DSM-V process?
Sadler JZ, Fulford B Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 2004 Feb 55 2 133-8 -
Hindsight, foresight, and having it both ways: a rejoinder to R. L. Spitzer.
Sadler JZ, Hulgus JF, Agich GJ The Journal of nervous and mental disease 2001 Aug 189 8 493-7 -
Horsefeathers: a commentary on "evolutionary versus prototype analyses of the concept of disorder".
Sadler JZ Journal of abnormal psychology 1999 Aug 108 3 433-7 -
Recognizing values: a descriptive-causal method for medical/scientific discourses.
Sadler JZ The Journal of medicine and philosophy 1997 Dec 22 6 541-65 -
Teaching ethics using small-group, problem-based learning.
Tysinger JW, Klonis LK, Sadler JZ, Wagner JM Journal of medical ethics 1997 Oct 23 5 315-8 -
The philosophy of psychiatry: who needs it?
Wallace E, Radden J, Sadler JZ The Journal of nervous and mental disease 1997 Feb 185 2 67-73 -
Rationales, values, and DSM-IV: the case of "medication-induced movement disorders".
Sadler JZ Comprehensive psychiatry 1996 Nov-Dec 37 6 441-51 -
Self-directed learning in a psychopathology course.
Crowder JD, Miller DA, Sadler JZ, Mohl PC Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 1996 Jun 20 2 101-10 -
On values in recent American psychiatric classification.
Sadler JZ, Hulgus YF, Agich GJ The Journal of medicine and philosophy 1994 Jun 19 3 261-77 -
Assessing the effectiveness of psychiatric residency training.
Miller DA, Mohl PC, Sadler JZ Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 1994 Mar 18 1 45 -
What components should be evaluated in a psychiatry residency.
Mohl PC, Sadler JZ, Miller DA Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 1994 Mar 18 1 22-9 -
Evaluations of small-group teaching.
Miller DA, Crowder JD, Sadler JZ, Mohl PC Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 1994 Mar 69 3 215 -
A value-added methodology for assessing the effectiveness of psychiatric residency training.
Miller DA, Mohl PC, Sadler JZ Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 1993 Sep 17 3 117-24 -
Critical thinking in preclinical course examinations.
Miller DA, Sadler JZ, Mohl PC Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 1993 Apr 68 4 303-5 -
The Parkland approach to demands for "futile" treatment.
Sadler JZ, Mayo TW HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues 1993 Jan 5 1 35-8 -
Psychiatry residency accreditation and measuring educational outcomes.
Mohl PC, Miller D, Sadler JZ Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 1992 Dec 16 4 186-91 -
Clinical problem solving and the biopsychosocial model.
Sadler JZ, Hulgus YF The American journal of psychiatry 1992 Oct 149 10 1315-23 -
The cognitive context of examinations in psychiatry using Bloom's taxonomy.
Miller DA, Sadler JZ, Mohl PC, Melchiode GA Medical education 1991 Nov 25 6 480-4 -
Clinical controversy and the domains of scientific evidence.
Sadler JZ, Hulgus YF Family process 1991 Mar 30 1 21-36 -
Psychiatry clerkship sites : factors that make a difference in student performance.
Miller DA, Puryear DA, Sadler JZ Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 1990 Jun 14 2 109-13 -
Knowing, valuing, acting: clues to revising the biopsychosocial model.
Sadler JZ, Hulgus YF Comprehensive psychiatry 1990 May-Jun 31 3 185-95 -
Hypothesizing and evidence-gathering: the nexus of understanding.
Sadler JZ, Hulgus YF Family process 1989 Sep 28 3 255-67 -
Ethical and management considerations in factitious illness: one and the same.
Sadler JZ General hospital psychiatry 1987 Jan 9 1 31-9 -
Secondary agoraphobia: two case reports.
Sadler JZ, Rush AJ, Caldwell T The Journal of clinical psychiatry 1984 Nov 45 11 482-3 -
Progressive supranuclear palsy presenting as pseudodementia.
Sadler JZ, Kurtz NM, Rush AJ Psychosomatics 1984 Sep 25 9 713-4
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Launching the social philosophy of psychiatry.
Research
- Psychiatric Education
- Philosophy and Ethics of Psychiatry
- Medical Ethics
- Clinical Research Ethics