Meet Our Team
Director
Lydia S. Dugdale, MD
- 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
Beatriz Desanti de Oliveira, MD
- Assistant Professor of Medicine at CUMC
- Associate Director, Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, Department of Medicine, Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
- Director, Character & Clinical Ethics Pathway, Columbia Internal Medicine Residency Program
Justin R Hawkins, MAR, PhD
- McDonald Agape Post-Doctoral Fellow in Medical Ethics, Columbia Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
- Co-Director, Columbia Character Cooperatives, 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.
Paul Rezkalla, MSc, MA, PhD
- Co-Director, Columbia Character Cooperatives, Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
- Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics (in Medicine)
Paul Rezkalla is Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics in the Center for Medical Ethics at Columbia’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and an Associate of the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion at the University of Oxford. Before coming to Columbia, he taught philosophy at the United States Air Force Academy, Baylor University, and Hillsdale College. He holds a PhD in philosophy from Florida State University, an M.Sc. in cognitive and evolutionary anthropology from the University of Oxford, an M.A. in philosophy from the University of Birmingham (UK), and an M.A. in theology from Saint John’s University (NYC). His work has been published in academic venues including the Journal of Medical Ethics, American Journal of Bioethics, Journal of Medicine & Philosophy, Oxford Studies, and Religious Studies.
Charlene Sathi, MS
- Program Manager, Columbia Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
Charlene completed her HBSc at the University of Toronto with a double major in Human Biology: Health & Disease and in Philosophy: Bioethics, prior to moving down to New York. She received her MS in Bioethics at Columbia University and proceeded to work as a Clinical Research Coordinator at Columbia’s Department of Medicine: Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, in conjunction with the NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene: Bureau of Tuberculosis, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She joined the CCME in 2020.
Eve Slater, MD
- Senior Faculty Advisor
Affiliates & Advisors
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 - 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