2025 Interim Meeting Ethics Forum — Physician Unions: Exploring Ethics and Professionalism
Monday, December 8, 2025, 7:00-8:00 p.m. EST
Virtual Live Webinar
Neal Baer, MD, MA, MEd
Neal Baer, MD, MA, MEd, is an award-winning showrunner, television writer/producer, physician, author, lecturer on global health and social medicine, and the co-director of the master’s degree program in Media, Medicine, and Health at Harvard Medical
School. Dr. Baer most recently was Executive Producer and Showrunner for the third season of Designated Survivor. Previously, he was Executive Producer and Showrunner for the hit CBS television series Under The Dome, the CBS medical
drama
A Gifted Man, as well as the Executive Producer of the hit NBC television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit from 2000-2011. During his tenure on SVU, among the awards the series won include the Shine Award, People’s Choice Award,
the Prism Award, Edgar Award, Sentinel for Health Award, and the Media Access Award. Prior to his work on SVU, Dr. Baer was Executive Producer of the NBC series ER. A member of the show’s original staff and a writer and producer on the series
for seven seasons, he was nominated for five Emmys as a producer. He also received Emmy nominations for Outstanding Writing in A Drama Series for the episodes Hell and High Water and Whose Appy Now?. For the latter, he also received
a Writers' Guild of America nomination. Among the multiple awards the series garnered include the People’s Choice Award, the Peabody Award, and an Emmy for best drama series. Dr. Baer’s other television work includes Warriors, an episode of
China Beach, nominated for a Writers' Guild Award for best episodic drama, and the ABC Afterschool Special Private Affairs, which he wrote and directed. The Association of Women in Film and Television selected the program, dealing with
sexually transmitted diseases, as the Best Children’s Drama of the Year. He wrote The Doctor Corps, a feature film for Twentieth Century Fox; Outreach, a pilot for the WB Network, which he also produced; The Edge, a medical series
pilot for CBS; and The Beast, a medical series pilot for NBC, which was redeveloped in 2017 by Twentieth Century Fox Television. Dr. Baer’s first novel, Kill Switch, co-written with Jonathan Greene, was published in January 2012, and
his second novel, Kill Again, also with Jonathan Greene, was published in 2015. In January 2020, Dr. Baer attended the Sundance Film Festival, where the film he executive produced, Welcome to Chechnya, won a Special Jury Award. The film
was screened at the Berlin Film Festival and won the Teddy Award for outstanding film on LGBTQ issues. The documentary premiered on HBO in June 2020 and won the Peabody Award.
