Meet Our Team
Leadership
Lydia S. Dugdale, MD
- Director, Columbia Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
- Dorothy L. and Daniel H. Silberberg Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University Medical Center
- Director, Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, Department of Medicine, Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
- Co-Director of Clinical Ethics, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
Faculty and Staff
Justin R Hawkins, MAR, PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
Justin R. Hawkins received his PhD (distinguished) in ethics from Yale University in 2024. He holds an MAR in the Philosophy of Religion from Yale Divinity School and a BA in Government from Georgetown University. At Yale he was part of the teaching team for the Life Worth Living program, and received a Prize Teaching Fellowship for outstanding undergraduate teaching. His research interests include virtue ethics (especially the virtue of magnanimity), disability theory, bioethical questions related to Down Syndrome, and the dignity of persons with profound cognitive disabilities. He joined the center in 2024.
Affiliated Faculty and Staff
- Joyeeta Dastidar, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Associate Clinical Ethicist - Ruth Fischbach, PhD
Professor of Bioethics - Katherine Fischkoff, MD
Jose M. Ferrer Associate Professor of Surgery (in Anesthesia) at the Columbia University Medical Center
Chair, Quality and Patient Safety for the Department of Surgery
Chief Ethics Officer, Department of Surgery - Robin Goland, MD
J. Merrill Eastman Professorship of Clinical Diabetes
Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
Co-Director, Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center - Coordinator, Pastoral Services Milstein Hospital
Adjunct Professor, Columbia University Masters in Bioethics - Walkiria R. Jimenez-Loo, MD, MPH, MS
Assistant Professor of Medicine - Jane Kang, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Medicine
Program Director, Rheumatology Fellowship - Robert Klitzman, MD
Professor of Psychiatry
Director of the Masters of Bioethics Program
Member, Division of Psychiatry, Law and Ethics - Ryan Lawrence, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Director of the Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program - Gerald W. Neuberg, MD
Professor of Medicine
Senior Clinical Ethicist - Kristina Orfali, PhD
Professor of Bioethics - Elvira Parravicini, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Director of the Neonatal Comfort Care Program - Kenneth Prager, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Director of Clinical Ethics
Chairman of the Medical Ethics Committee - Barbra Bluestone Rothschild, MD
Lecturer, Core Faculty, Masters of Bioethics Program - Cortessa Lynn Russell, MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Director of the Physician Wellbeing Initiative in the Department of Anesthesiology - David S. Seres, MD, ScM, PNS, FASPEN
Professor of Medicine
Director of Medical Nutrition - Jeremy R. Simon, MD, PhD, FACEP
Assistant Clinical Professor of Clinical Medicine - Eve E. Slater, MD, FACC
Professor of Clinical Medicine - Rabbi Mychal Springer
Manager of Clinical Pastoral Education
Advisors
- Akhil Gupta, MBA
Former Chairman and Senior Managing Director India at the Blackstone group - Louis Kim, MBA
Tech Executive - Arnold Lisio, MD
Retired internist at Columbia University Medical Center from 1961-2015 - John Moon, PhD
Morgan Stanley
Adjunct Professor of Business, Columbia Business School - Anne Moore, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine