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Ferdinand D. (Nick) Yates, Jr., MD, MA, is the senior pediatrician and co-founder of Genesee-Transit Pediatrics, LLP. He earned Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry in 1974 and Doctor of Medicine in 1978 from The University of Virginia. He completed a residency in general pediatrics at Women and Children's Hospital in Buffalo, New York and subsequently entered private pediatric practice in 1981.  Dr. Yates graduated with Master of Arts in Bioethics cum laude from Trinity International University in 2004.
 
Dr. Yates is Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics  for which he has intermittently served on the Executive Committee for the Section on Bioethics.  In addition he is a member of the Christian Medical & Dental Associations where he has been mostly involved with the Ethics Commission.  He has also served on the Board of Directors for the American College of Pediatricians. In Buffalo, he is a member of the ethics committees for both the Catholic Health System and for the Kaleida Health System.
 
As a Medical Ethicist, Dr. Yates offers bedside ethics consultations assisting in critical care decision making at the bedside of adults and children.  In addition, he is actively involved in the education of medical students and hospital resident staff.  In the Buffalo community, Nick volunteers at Cornerstone Manor – a shelter for women and children – where he examines the children and educates parents as they reside at the shelter.
 
Nick and wife Jackie worship at Randall Memorial Baptist Church, and they are blessed with two grown daughters.
 
Articles by Nick Yates:

• What Makes an Action Moral?: Linguistics, Intentionality, and Responsibility
• Should Children Be Routinely Immunized?
• A Review of the Book Jesus, M.D.: A Doctor Examines the Great Physician by David Stevens with Gregg Lewis
• Go Home, Someone Else Will Do It
• Facing the Flu Vaccine Mess
• Who Cares for the Children?
• What Would Terri Have Said?
• Pitfalls for the Health Care Agent (and the Patient)
• End of Life Legislation (or New York's Lack Thereof
• Donor after Cardiac Death: What is the Christian Response