Margaret Wardlaw, MD, PhD

Margaret P. Wardlaw is a pediatrician specializing in sleep medicine. She received her MD and PhD in the Medical Humanities from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston where she was a founder of the C.D. Doyle Clinic, a free clinic serving the unhoused population of Austin. 

Her research interests include religion, spirituality, childbirth, disability studies, sleep medicine and pediatric palliative medicine. In addition to presenting nationally and internationally, her writing has appeared in Guernica, Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Religion and Medicine, The Persisting Osler and The American Journal of Bioethics. She loves poetry, music, old books and spending time with her husband and children.

1. Lucas M. Donovan, Ken He, Margaret Wardlaw, and Vishesh K. Kapur. Getting to the Root of the Matter. Annals of the
American Thoracic Society. 15(4) (Apr 01, 2018)
2. Margaret Wardlaw. American Medicine as Religious Practice: Care of the Sick as a Sacred Obligation and the Unholy
Descent into Secularization. The Journal of Religion and Health 50(1): 62-74.
3. Margaret Wardlaw. The Right To Die Exception: How the Discourse of Individual Rights Impoverishes Bioethical
Discussions of Disability and What We Can Do About It. The International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics.
3(2): 43-62 (2010).
4. H. Brody, Margaret Wardlaw. Two gorillas in the death penalty room. The American Journal of Bioethics. Reader response.
8(10): 53-54 (2008).
Books & Chapters
5. Maida Chen, MD, Margaret Wardlaw, MD, PhD, Mark Stein, PhD. ADHD Medications and Sleep. Sleep and ADHD: An
Evidence Based Guide to Assessment and Treatment. Elsevier (2019).
6. Katie Kucera Ray M.D., Margaret Wardlaw M.D. Ph.D. The Sacred Cord: Osler, Antivivisection and Human Subjects
Research. The Persisting Osler IV. (2011).
7. Margaret Wardlaw, MD, PhD, “What the Doctor Ordered,” Guernica, December 2019.
https://www.guernicamag.com/what-the-doctor-ordered/.
8. Margaret Wardlaw, MD, PhD, “Monsters,” Creative Nonfiction, Issue 66, Spring 2018, Grand Prize winner of Frankenstein
Bicentennial Project Essay Contest, sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
https://www.creativenonfiction.org/online-reading/dangerous-creations
9. Margaret Wardlaw, MD, PhD, “Nativity in Blue,” US Catholic. December 2017.
10. Margaret Wardlaw, MD, PhD, Religion, Emotion, and Spirituality in American Hospital Childbirth. Dissertation.
11. Margaret Wardlaw, MD, PhD, Billing the Victim: The Retooling of Endemic Poverty as ‘Lifestyle Choice.' The Virtual
Mentor: American Medical Association Journal of Ethics. John Conley Ethics Essay Contest for Medical Students. (2008)