Past Events

2024-2025

April 11, 2025 - Lecture & Lunch
- Title: Singing at the Bedside in Hospice and Palliative Medicine
- Speaker: Sydelle Ross, MD, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- Details: Board-certified anesthesiologist and palliative care physician; also a classical and jazz vocalist
March 31, 2025 - Lecture
- Title: Doctor, Will You Pray for Me? Medicine, Chaplains, and Healing the Whole Person
- Speaker: Robert Klitzman, MD, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
February 10, 2025 - Lecture & Lunch
- Title: Ethics for Lunch Talk
- Speaker: Lydia Dugdale, MD, MAR, Columbia University Medical Center
- Details: Hosted by Columbia’s Master of Science in Bioethics program
January 27, 2025 - Lecture & Lunch
- Title: Holocaust Remembrance Day Lecture
- Speaker: Rebecca Scott, MA, Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE)
November 13, 2024 - Lecture & Lunch
- Title: Artificial Womb Technology: Some Ethical Considerations
- Speaker: Mark R. Mercurio, MD, MA, Yale University School of Medicine
October 16, 2024 - Lecture & Lunch
- Title: All You Need Is Love: Human Connection and Health
- Speaker: Diane E. Meier, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- Details: Co-hosted by CCME — First Annual Medical Ethics Grand Rounds
October 9, 2024 - Annual Lisio Family Lecture & Reception
- Title: Using Your Stories of Suffering to Connect with Patients
- Speaker: Cortessa Russell, MD, Columbia University Medical Center

2023-2024

April 26, 2024 - Lecture (Online)
- Title: Market Medicine? How Money is Changing the Experience of Medicine, and What Practitioners and Organizations Can Do About It
- Panelists:
  - Lydia Dugdale, MD, Columbia Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
  - Jonathan Cahill, PhD, Columbia Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
  - Ian Corbin, PhD, Harvard Medical School
  - Omar B. Lateef, DO, RUSH University System for Health
- Details: Panel discussion, Harvard Medical School’s Organizational Ethics Consortia
April 8, 2024 - Book Talk & Reception
- Title: Friendship, Madness and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
- Speaker: Jonathan Rosen, MA
- Details: Co-hosted with Columbia Psychiatry
March 5, 2024 - Lecture & Lunch
- Title: What is the Role of Virtue in Good Medicine?
- Speaker: Ian Pebbles, PhD, Princeton University’s Center for Human Values
February 12, 2024 - Panel Discussion & Lunch
- Title: Inter-religious Panel on Hope in the Face of Illness
- Panelists:
  - Soren Glassing, NYP – Buddhist Perspective
  - Rev. Jon Overvold, NYP – Christian Perspective
  - Rabbi Mychal Springer, NYP – Jewish Perspective
  - Sarah Emine Unal, NYP – Muslim Perspective
- Moderator: Lydia Dugdale, MD, MAR
- Details: Co-hosted with NYP Department of Spiritual Care and Chaplaincy and the Columbia Orthodox Students Association
February 1, 2024 - Panel Discussion (USNA Chaplains Center, Annapolis)
- Title: Moral Triage: What Medical and Military Contexts Teach Us About Moral Injury, Character, and Making Decisions When Life is on the Line
- Panelists:
  - Beatriz Desanti de Oliveira, MD
  - Chaplain Timothy Mallard
  - Joseph Chapa, PhD
  - Warren Kinghorn, MD, ThD
  - Lydia Dugdale, MD, MAR
  - Marc LiVecche
- Details: McDonald Colloquium on Moral Injury in Medicine & the Military
January 26, 2024 - Lecture & Lunch
- Title: From Healers to Killers: The Role Reversal of Doctors in Nazi Germany and the Question of Professional Ethics
- Speaker: Thorsten Wagner, Executive Director for Strategy and Academics, FASPE
November 13, 2023 - Lecture & Lunch
- Title: Touching Purpose: Recovering Medicine from the Speed of Thought
- Speaker: Ashley Moyse, PhD, Columbia Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
October 17, 2023 - Lecture & Lunch
- Title: The Role of Choice and Control at the End of Life: Why, How, and to Whom Does Choice Matter?
- Speaker: Els van Wijngaarden, PhD, Radboud University Medical Center, Netherlands
October 4, 2023 - Annual Lisio Family Lecture & Reception
- Title: Meaning in Medicine
- Speaker: Kristin M. Collier, MD, FACP, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2022-2023

April 28, 2023 - Lecture, Panel Discussion & Reception
- Title: Symposium on Segregated Healthcare: Redesigning Care for Equity
- Panelists:
  - Lydia Dugdale, MD, MAR
  - Robert Fullilove, EdD
  - Jean Emond, MD
  - Dr. Fleck, MD, MPH
  - Jean-Marie Alves-Bradford, MD
  - Richard Mayeux, MD, MSc
March 30, 2023 - Lecture & Reception (VEC 201)
- Title: Cancer and its Discontents: Speaking about the Unspeakable
- Speaker: Azra Raza, MD, VP&S
February 15, 2023 - Lecture & Reception
- Title: Pros & Cons of Physician-Assisted Suicide (Aid in Dying)
- Speaker: Lydia Dugdale, MD, VP&S
January 27, 2023 - Lecture & Lunch
- Title: How Physicians Partnered with the Nazi Regime: Possible Lessons for Today
- Speaker: Ken Prager, MD, VP&S
January 26, 2023 - Film Screening + Q&A
- Title: Peaceful
- Speakers:
  - Gabriel Sara, MD
  - Lydia Dugdale, MD
  - Shanny Peer
- Details: Co-hosted with Columbia Maison Française
December 1, 2022 - Lecture & Reception
- Title: Growing Good Physicians: Caretaking, Attention and Good Medicine
- Speaker: Ashley Moyse, PhD, VP&S
November 4, 2022 - Lecture
- Title: Weight Stigma and Discrimination: Impact on Patient Health and Healthcare
- Speaker: Rebecca Puhl, PhD, University of Connecticut
- Details: Co-hosted with Columbia MS Bioethics Program
October 3, 2022 - Lecture & Reception
- Title: Rethinking Sex: Better than Consent
- Speaker: Christine Emba, Columnist, The Washington Post
September 20, 2022 - Annual Lisio Family Lecture & Reception
- Title: Reading for Resilience & Resistance: How Great Books Make Better Doctors
- Speaker: Abraham Nussbaum, MD, University of Colorado, Denver Health

2021-2022

May 6, 2022 - Symposium (Vagelos Education Center, Columbia University)
- Title: Symposium on Segregated Healthcare at Columbia-NYP
- Panelists:
  - Lydia Dugdale, MD
  - Bob Fullilove, EdD
  - Lawrence Brown, MD
  - Donna Lynne, DrPH
  - Julia Iyasere, MD
  - Kamini Doobay, MD
April 18, 2022 - Meeting (Invitation Only)
- Title: Meeting on Conscience Protection
- Speaker: Melissa Moschella, PhD, Catholic University of America
February 23, 2022 - Lecture
- Title: Ethical Challenges in the Care of the Critically Ill Newborn
- Speaker: Mark Mercurio, MD, MA, Yale University
- Moderator: Elvira Parravicini, MD, VP&S, Columbia University
January 27, 2022 - Lecture
- Title: How Physicians Partnered with the Nazi Regime – Possible Lessons for Today
- Speaker: Ken Prager, MD, VP&S, Columbia University
- Moderator: Katherine Fischkoff, MD, MPA, FACS, VP&S, Columbia University
December 8, 2021 - Lecture
- Title: The Ethics of Living Organ Transplantation – "Kidney to Share?"
- Speakers:
  - Martha Gershun
  - John D. Lantos, MD, Children’s Mercy Bioethics Center
November 15, 2021 - Lecture
- Title: Vulnerable Ethics: The Role of Lead Psychiatrists in the US Eugenics and Forced Sterilization Movement and the Nazi Holocaust
- Speaker: Mark Komrad, MD, Teaching faculty at Johns Hopkins, University of Maryland, and Tulane
November 15, 2021 - Lecture
- Title: Physician Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia of Non-Terminal Psychiatric Patients – An Emerging Ethical Crisis
- Speaker: Mark Komrad, MD, Teaching faculty at Johns Hopkins, University of Maryland, and Tulane
- Details: Hosted by the Center for Law, Ethics and Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, CUIMC
October 28, 2021 - Lecture
- Title: On Beauty and Being Just: Reckoning with a Plague Year
- Speaker: Elaine Scarry, PhD, Harvard University
September 20, 2021 - Lecture (Lisio Family Lecture)
- Title: Mere Healers: What Medical Training is For and Why it Matters
- Speaker: Farr Curlin, MD, Duke University

2020-2021

June 15, 2021 - Lecture
- Title: Ethics & Racial Injustice
- Panelists:
  - Patrick T. Smith, PhD, Duke University
  - Gabrielle Daniels, MPH, MA, Equal Justice Initiative
May 20, 2021 - Panel Discussion
- Title: The Ethics of Heart Transplantation
- Panelists:
  - Lydia Dugdale, MD
  - Katherine Fischkoff, MD
  - Ken Prager, MD
  - Brendan Hastie, MD
  - Farr Curlin, MD
April 21, 2021 - Lecture
- Title: Ethics of Student-Run Clinics
- Speaker: Harriet Washington, Writer in Medical Ethics, Author of Medical Apartheid
March 10, 2021 - Lecture
- Title: Incarceration and Bioethics: Health Challenges that Need our Attention
- Speaker: Homer Venters, MD, former Chief Medical Officer, NYC jail system
- Details: In conjunction with the Columbia University Bioethics Program
March 4, 2021 - Lecture
- Title: Ethical Dilemmas in Palliative Care: The Near and The Far
- Speaker: Craig Blinderman, MD, VP&S, Columbia University
February 3, 2021 - Lecture
- Title: Intersex: Legal, Ethical and Human Rights
- Speaker: Katrina Karkazis, PhD, Yale University
January 27, 2021 - Lecture
- Title: How Physicians Partnered with the Nazi Regime: Possible Lessons for Today
- Speaker: Ken Prager, MD, VP&S, Columbia University
December 9, 2020 - Film Screening & Discussion
- Title: Belly of the Beast
- Speaker: Katherine Fischkoff, MD, VP&S, Columbia University
November 12, 2020 - Lecture
- Title: Ethics & Opioids: Part II – Racial and Socioeconomic Considerations
- Speaker: Helena Hansen, MD, PhD, NYU
- Details: In conjunction with the Columbia University MS in Bioethics Program
October 30, 2020 - Lecture
- Title: Ethics & Opioids: Part I – Ethical and Effective Responses to the Overdose Crisis
- Speaker: Sarah Wakeman, MD, Harvard University
- Details: In conjunction with the Columbia University MS in Bioethics Program
October 6, 2020 - Lecture
- Title: Ethics & Digital Technology
- Speaker: David Grande, MD, MPA, University of Pennsylvania
September 14, 2020 - Lecture
- Title: Biomedical Ethics and the Existential Threat to Persons with Disabilities
- Speaker: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, PhD, Emory University

2019-2020

June 15, 2020 - Lecture
- Title: Ethics & Racial Injustice
- Panelists:
  - Patrick T. Smith, PhD, Duke University
  - Gabrielle Daniels, MPH, MA, Equal Justice Initiative
April 1, 2020 - Discussion
- Title: Ventilator Shortages: What Do We Do? A Discussion for Medical Trainees
- Speakers:
  - Ken Prager, MD, VP&S
  - Lydia Dugdale, MD, VP&S
March 30, 2020 - Lecture
- Title: Vaccines and Ethics
- Speaker: James Colgrove, PhD, MPH, Columbia School of General Studies / Mailman School of Public Health
February 26, 2020 - Lecture
- Title: Ethics of Organ Transplantation
- Speakers:
  - Julia Wattacheril, MD
  - Akhil Shenoy, MD, VP&S
February 5, 2020 - Lecture
- Title: Designing Babies: How Technology is Changing the Ways We Create Children
- Speaker: Robert Klitzman, MD, VP&S
January 22, 2020 - Lecture
- Title: Ethical Issues in Dementia
- Speaker: Tia Powell, MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Moderator: Craig Blinderman, MD, VP&S
December 2, 2019 - Lecture
- Title: The Ethics of Drug Pricing
- Speaker: Angela Rosetti, MBA, MBE, Biopharmaceutical Executive
October 30, 2019 - Lecture
- Title: Pros & Cons of Physician-Assisted Suicide (Aid in Dying)
- Speaker: Lydia Dugdale, MD, VP&S
September 24, 2019 - Lecture
- Title: How Physicians Partnered with the Nazi Regime: Possible Lessons for Today
- Speaker: Ken Prager, MD, VP&S