Dr. Herron is a Clinical Ethicist for the Montefiore Einstein Center for Bioethics and an Associate Professor in the Department of Family & Social Medicine with a secondary appointment in the Department of Epidemiology & Population Health. He is a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Hospital Ethics and is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C.

He previously served as Director of Bioethics Education; Director of Operations and Educational Programming for Einstein's Ruth L. Gottesman Clinical Skills Center; Co-Director for the Introduction to Clinical Medicine program; and Chair of Einstein's LGBTQIA Health Curriculum Working Group. Dr. Herron completed his Doctor of Bioethics at Loyola University Chicago and his Master of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He has a Bachelor of Science in Special Education from West Chester University of Pennsylvania. 

In 2015, Dr. Herron was awarded the Vivien T. Thomas Award by Einstein's Gold Humanism in Medicine Honor Society and was selected as a faculty inductee by the student members. Dr. Herron was inducted into the Leo M. Davidoff Society in 2017 and selected by the graduating class of 2017 to receive the Samuel M. Rosen Award for Outstanding Teaching. Dr. Herron is an active member of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) and served on the Board of Directors for the Academy for Professionalism in Health Care (APHC) from 2017-2021. In 2021, he was appointed to the Advisory Board for Medical Student Pride Alliance (MSPA). 

Scholarly interests include: Medical Education; Bioethics; Clinical Ethics; Professional Identity Formation; Inter-professionalism education; Social Media and Educational Technologies; Standardized Patient Education; Cultural Competency; Sexuality Issues; Violence Prevention; LGBTQ Health; Special Education; Disability Rights and Education; Integrative Medicine; Complementary & Alternative Medicine; Clinical Prevention and Population Health; Faculty Development; Patient Advocacy; and Service Learning.

Dudla S, Herron PD, Marantz PR, Milan FB, Campbell C, Anderson BJ. Comparing scientific worldviews between allopathic medical degree and East Asian medicine degree students utilizing the thinking about science survey instrument (TSSI). BMC Med Educ. 2021 Oct 29;21(1):546. doi: 10.1186/s12909-021-02956-6. PMID: 34711228; PMCID: PMC8553399.

Herron PD. Current Perspectives on the Impact of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Stigma Regarding Men Who Have Sex with Men in the United States. HIV AIDS (Auckl). 2020 May 18;12:187-192. doi: 10.2147/HIV.S214380. PMID: 32547248; PMCID: PMC7244237.

Henderson ML, Adler JT, Van Pilsum Rasmussen SE, Thomas AG, Herron PD, Waldram MM, Ruck JM, Purnell TS, DiBrito SR, Holscher CM, Haugen CE, Alimi Y, Konel JM, Eno AK, Garonzik Wang JM, Gordon EJ, Lentine KL, Schaffer RL, Cameron AM, Segev DL. How Should Social Media Be Used in Transplantation? A Survey of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. Transplantation. 2019 Mar;103(3):573-580. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000002243. PMID: 29684002; PMCID: PMC6196114.

Herron P. A Calling to Professionalism. MedEdPublish (2016). 2017 Dec 6;6:218. doi: 10.15694/mep.2017.000218. PMID: 38406415; PMCID: PMC10885229.

Kitsis EA, Milan FB, Cohen HW, Myers D, Herron P, McEvoy M, Weingarten J, Grayson MS. Who's misbehaving? Perceptions of unprofessional social media use by medical students and faculty. BMC Med Educ. 2016 Feb 18;16:67. doi: 10.1186/s12909-016-0572-x. PMID: 26887561; PMCID: PMC4757980.

Herron PD. Ethical Implications of Social Stigma Associated with the Promotion and Use of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV Prevention. LGBT Health. 2016 Apr;3(2):103-8. doi: 10.1089/lgbt.2014.0114. Epub 2016 Feb 9. PMID: 26859191.

Herron PD. Opportunities and ethical challenges for the practice of medicine in the digital era. Curr Rev Musculoskeletal Med. 2015 Jun;8(2):113-7. doi: 10.1007/s12178-015-9264-0. PMID: 25786848; PMCID: PMC4596177.

Anderson BJ, Herron PD, Downie SA, Myers DC, Milan FB, Olson TR, Kligler BE, Sierpina VS, Kreitzer MJ. Interprofessional student education: exchange program between Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. Explore (NY). 2012 Nov-Dec;8(6):377-81. doi: 10.1016/j.explore.2012.08.012. PMID: 23141796.

Cohen MJ, Jasser S, Herron PD, Margolis CG. Ethical perspectives: opioid treatment of chronic pain in the context of addiction. Clin J Pain. 2002 Jul-Aug;18(4 Suppl):S99-107. doi: 10.1097/00002508-200207001-00012. PMID: 12479260.