Carol B. Liebman
Appointments:
Founder, Mediation Clinic
Director, Negotiation Workshop
Columbia Law School
Clinical Professor of Law
Columbia Law School
Education:
BA, Wellesley College
MA, Rutgers University
JD, Boston University School of Law
Contact:
cliebman@law.columbia.edu
212.854.8557
Bio:
Carol Liebman is a nationally recognized speaker and trainer in conflict resolution, and has taught negotiation and mediation in Vietnam, Israel, Brazil and China. She has mediated cases involving medical malpractice, discrimination, family issues, public agencies, community disputes, business conflicts and educational institutions. She has designed and presented mediation training for The Certificate Program in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities; New York’s First Department, Appellate Division, Attorney Disciplinary Committee; the Association of the Bar of the City of New York; and high school students, parents and teachers. Her positions have included membership in New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board (2003-2009) and co-principal investigator for the Demonstration Mediation and ADR Project, a part of the Project on Medical Liability in Pennsylvania (http:/medliabilitypa.org) funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. She is the co-principal investigator for the Mediating Suits Against Hospitals (MeSH) study and co-authored, with Nancy Dubler, Bioethics Mediation, A Guide to Shaping Shared Solutions, (2004; Revised and Expanded Edition, Vanderbilt University Press, 2011).
Hannah I. Lipman
Appointments:
Director of Bioethics
Hackensack University Medical Center
Education:
BA, Economics, Northwestern University
MD, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons
Residency, Internal Medicine, University of Michigan
Fellowship, Cardiology, Tufts Medical Center
Fellowships in Geriatrics and Palliative Care, Mount Sinai
Contact:
hlipman@montefiore.org
718.920.4630
Bio:
Hannah Lipman specializes in ethics consultation, bioethics education and ethics issues arising in geriatrics and cardiology. She is a graduate of the Montefiore-Einstein Certificate Program in Bioethics and Medical Humanities, and as chief of the Bioethics Consultation Service leads a multidisciplinary team of professionals who help health care providers, patients and families resolve ethical dilemmas. She honed her skills in ethics education after receiving a HRSA-funded Geriatric Academic Career Award to develop geriatrics informed curricula in surrogate decision-making, and teaches bioethics to a variety of learners focusing on communication skills, conflict resolution, surrogate decision making and caring for patients without capacity who refuse treatment. She is currently piloting a multi-institutional study on the ethical implications of ICD therapy, and is also the co-chair of the system-wide work group charged with implementing the Family Health Care Decisions A
Ruth Macklin
Appointments:
Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Education:
BA, Philosophy, Cornell University
PhD, Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University
Contact:
ruth.macklin@einsteinmed.org
718.430.3574
Bio:
Ruth Macklin is an internationally recognized expert in international bioethics and global health ethics. She has been teaching and doing research in bioethics since 1971 and has been a member of the Einstein faculty since 1980. She is author or editor of eleven books and has published more than 200 articles in scholarly and professional journals. She is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science, and serves on two committees at the World Health Organization: the HIV Vaccine Advisory Committee and the Research Proposal Review Panel in the Department of Reproductive Health and Research. For the past ten years she has been director or co-director of an NIH Fogarty International Center training program in research ethics in Latin America. She is a past president of the International Association of Bioethics, and past chair of the Ethics Review Committee at UNAIDS and the external Ethics Committee at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
